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- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
top management level." Mikes began her research in 2005 in England, where she earned her PhD from the London School of Economics. (Hall and Millo are both employed there.) Within five years, she had interviewed 60 risk management...
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- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
even more effective, she adds. Even when people are given incentives to tell the truth, though, John is surprised at their willingness to admit to dubious acts. "I am constantly surprised at research...
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- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
uncertain. The errors are especially severe when the two effects interact. We show that indicators of missing negative opinions predict earnings surprises and announcement day returns, and can be used to...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
enable groups to deviate from classical mirroring as seen within firms. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51030 What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
January 2017 Review of Financial Studies Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns By: Chang, Tom Y., Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
document that firms report more negative discretionary accruals when financial markets are less certain about their future prospects. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are moderated when firm-level...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
mutual funds and the income the funds earned from securities lending. Securities lending involved temporarily transferring securities from mutual funds managed by Star Advisor to short sellers and other investors. Income from these loans...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
GordonHarvard Business School Case 810-066 In May 2007, Amgen Inc. (Amgen) received disappointing news from the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) that its drug Vectibix, developed to fight metastatic colorectal cancer, had been rejected. This was especially View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
agreement to give ownership of the Canal back to Panama in the 1970s was not a gesture of magnanimity, but because the strategic and economic value of ownership had since disappeared. In a surprise to those who argued that it was...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
February 2018 Journal of Public Economics The Impact of a Surprise Donation Ask By: Exley, Christine L., and Ragan Petrie Abstract—Individuals frequently exploit "flexibility" built into decision environments to give less. They...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
external factors play a surprising role in strategy formulation and execution. As Gilbert explains, "A lot of our book is about understanding (a) that realized strategy is often different from intended strategy, and (b) there are...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
firm's future value, the firm reports more negative discretionary accruals. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are moderated when firm-level uncertainty is high, consistent with performance being...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
line. Not surprisingly, therefore, the class has no shortage of members involved in the sort of entrepreneurial ventures that demand innovative thinking. While many classmates started out in more traditional settings, within a decade of View Details
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by Susan Young
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
novel convertible bond dataset, I find that consumers often purchase dominated bonds—cheap and expensive versions of otherwise identical bonds coexist in the market. The empirical evidence suggests that broker incentives are responsible for the inferior investments, as...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
controls for sustainability performance ratings, analyst forecasts, insider trading, institutional ownership, earnings quality, and other voluntary disclosure activity. Changes in material sustainability disclosure are followed by changes...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage
year, whereas England's was only 66.67 gallons of wine or 90 yards of cloth per worker per year. Given Portugal's absolute advantage in both industries, why would the Portuguese ever choose to buy either wine or cloth from England? Ricardo's View Details
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Re: David A. Moss
- 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007
in business, Bill George—the highly respected former CEO of Medtronic and current Harvard Business School professor—describes how anyone can become an authentic leader. In this leadership tour de force, George presents many surprising...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
In Blockbusters, I describe that markets for creative talent are highly concentrated, and that the top actors, musicians, authors, athletes, and other creatives can earn huge amounts of money. Content producers can see great advantages...
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- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
paper. Lost customers lead to untapped dollars. A McKinsey report estimated that reducing churn could increase earnings of a typical US wireless carrier by as much as 9.9 percent. It's no surprise then that...
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- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
For the longest time nobody thought malls would be seriously hurt by ecommerce but now we have enough evidence to believe that the tsunami is actually coming. If you are not careful about thinking through the implications, you will be caught by View Details