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Research Community - Doctoral
Roche Strategy Charles Wang Accounting & Management Andy Wu Strategy Student Research Investor Influence on Media Coverage: Evidence from Venture Capital-Backed Startups By: Brian K. Baik and Albert Shin 02 JUN 2024 | Faculty Research...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
Regulatory Approval and Expanded Market Size
By: Benjamin Berger, Amitabh Chandra and Craig Garthwaite
Regulatory review of new medicines is often viewed as a hindrance to innovation by increasing the hurdle to bring products to market. However, a more complete accounting of regulation must also account for its potential market expanding effects through quality...
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Keywords:
New Medicines;
Regulatory Approval;
Health Care and Treatment;
Research and Development;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Markets;
Expansion;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Berger, Benjamin, Amitabh Chandra, and Craig Garthwaite. "Regulatory Approval and Expanded Market Size." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28889, June 2021.
- July 2021
- Article
Information Transparency, Multihoming, and Platform Competition: A Natural Experiment in the Daily Deals Market
By: Hui Li and Feng Zhu
Platform competition is shaped by the likelihood of multi-homing (i.e., complementors or consumers adopt more than one platform). To take advantage of multi-homing, platform firms often attempt to motivate their rivals’ high-performing complementors to adopt their own...
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Keywords:
Platform Competition;
Multi-homing;
Information Transparency;
Daily Deals;
Groupon;
LivingSocial;
Digital Platforms;
Information;
Competition
Li, Hui, and Feng Zhu. "Information Transparency, Multihoming, and Platform Competition: A Natural Experiment in the Daily Deals Market." Management Science 67, no. 7 (July 2021): 4384–4407.
- January 2009
- Supplement
KPMG (B): Risk and Reform
By: Robert G. Eccles and Eliot Sherman
Under the leadership of Tim Flynn, Chairman and CEO of KPMG, the firm made a number of changes in compensation, governance, and culture in order to address the underlying reasons for actions that occurred prior to him becoming CEO that led to the accounting giant...
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Keywords:
Communication Strategy;
Ethics;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Compliance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Compensation and Benefits;
Employee Relationship Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation
Eccles, Robert G., and Eliot Sherman. "KPMG (B): Risk and Reform." Harvard Business School Supplement 409-075, January 2009.
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Audit Personnel Salaries and Audit Quality
By: Jeffrey L. Hoopes, Kenneth J. Merkley, Joseph Pacelli and Joseph H. Schroeder
This study examines the relation between audit personnel salaries and office-level audit quality. We measure audit personnel salaries at the associate, senior, and manager ranks for Big 4 audit offices from 2004 to 2013, using unique individual-auditor-level data...
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Keywords:
Audit Personnel Salary;
Audit Quality;
Salary Determinants;
Audit Fees;
Accounting Audits;
Quality;
Wages
Hoopes, Jeffrey L., Kenneth J. Merkley, Joseph Pacelli, and Joseph H. Schroeder. "Audit Personnel Salaries and Audit Quality." Review of Accounting Studies 23, no. 3 (September 2018): 1096–1136.
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Managing the Future of Work
FEB 2018 The Golden Triangle Region (GTR) is a three-county area in rural Mississippi that suffered a steep decline as manufacturing companies faced pressures from automation and overseas competition. Between the mid 1980s and late 1990s, several textile, toy, and...
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Business Insights Blog | HBS Online
Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Topics Topics Accounting Analytics Business Essentials Business in Society Career Development Communication Community ConneXt Decision-Making Digital Transformation Earning Your MBA Entrepreneurship &...
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- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
forthcoming World Scientific Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets By: Iyer, Lakshmi Abstract—Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)
skills prove essential when I try to sketch new processes and new ways of working in my current role because I have to take into account every idea, opinion, and need on subjects in which I have little knowledge or experience. Are you...
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- 23 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality?
- 2013
- Book
Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education
By: Michel Anteby
Corporate accountability is never far from the front page and Harvard Business School trains many future business leaders. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure its members embrace proper business standards? Relying on his faculty experience, Michel Anteby... View Details
Keywords:
Ethics;
Moral Sensibility;
Business Education;
Higher Education;
Education;
Education Industry;
United States
Anteby, Michel. Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education (book)
Corporate accountability is never far from the front page and Harvard Business School trains many future business leaders. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure its members embrace proper business standards? Relying on his first-hand faculty... View Details
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Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality
By: Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller and Natasha Sarin
Recent influential work finds large increases in inequality in the U.S. based on measures of wealth concentration that notably exclude the value of social insurance programs. This paper shows that top wealth shares have not changed much over the last three decades when...
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Catherine, Sylvain, Max Miller, and Natasha Sarin. "Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality." Journal of Finance (forthcoming).
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Brand Values and Capital Market Valuation
By: Mary Barth, Michael B. Clement, George Foster and Ron Kasznik
Brand value estimates are significantly positively related to prices and returns, incremental to accounting variables. Questionable brand value estimate reliability underlies lack of financial statement recognition for brands. Findings suggest estimates are relevant...
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Barth, Mary, Michael B. Clement, George Foster, and Ron Kasznik. "Brand Values and Capital Market Valuation." Review of Accounting Studies 3, nos. 1-2 (1998): 41–68.
- June 2023
- Article
Are You Listening to Me? The Negative Link between Extraversion and Perceived Listening
By: Francis J Flynn, Hanne Collins and Julian Zlatev
Extraverts are often characterized as highly social individuals who are highly invested in their interpersonal interactions. We propose that extraverts' interaction partners hold a different view-that extraverts are highly social, but not highly invested. Across six...
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Keywords:
Extraversion;
Listening;
Self-monitoring;
Sociability;
Interaction;
Interpersonal Communication;
Perception
Flynn, Francis J., Hanne Collins, and Julian Zlatev. "Are You Listening to Me? The Negative Link between Extraversion and Perceived Listening." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 49, no. 6 (June 2023): 837–851.
- July 2022
- Article
Countercyclical Prudential Buffers and Bank Risk-taking
By: Manuel Illueca, Lars Norden, Joseph Pacelli and Gregory F. Udell
We investigate the effects of countercyclical prudential buffers on bank risk-taking. We exploit the introduction of dynamic loan loss provisioning in Spain, mandating that banks use historical average loss rates in their estimation of loan loss provisions. We find...
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Keywords:
Banks;
Bank Regulation;
Macroprudential Policies;
Bank Lending;
Loan Loss Provisioning;
Risk Taking;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Risk and Uncertainty
Illueca, Manuel, Lars Norden, Joseph Pacelli, and Gregory F. Udell. "Countercyclical Prudential Buffers and Bank Risk-taking." Art. 100961. Journal of Financial Intermediation 51 (July 2022).
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The Value of Intermediation in the Stock Market
By: Marco Di Maggio, Mark Egan and Francesco Franzoni
We estimate a structural model of broker choice to quantitatively decompose the value that institutional investors attach to broker services. Studying over 300 million institutional equity trades, we find that investors are sensitive to both explicit and implicit...
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Keywords:
Financial Intermediation;
Institutional Investors;
Research Analysts;
Broker Networks;
Equity Trading;
Institutional Investing
Di Maggio, Marco, Mark Egan, and Francesco Franzoni. "The Value of Intermediation in the Stock Market." Journal of Financial Economics 145, no. 2A (August 2022): 208–233.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Contract Duration and the Costs of Market Transactions
By: Alexander MacKay
The optimal duration of a supply contract balances the costs of reselecting a supplier against the costs of being matched to an inefficient supplier when the contract lasts too long. I develop a structural model of contract duration that captures this tradeoff and...
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Keywords:
Vertical Relationships;
Transaction Costs;
Contract Duration;
Identification;
Supply Chain;
Cost;
Contracts;
Auctions;
Mathematical Methods
MacKay, Alexander. "Contract Duration and the Costs of Market Transactions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-058, December 2017. (Revised May 2020. Direct download.)
- September 2017 (Revised March 2019)
- Supplement
Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Rhodesia (B)
By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green
In 1976, United States Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger conducted a series of intricate, multiparty negotiations in Southern Africa to persuade white Rhodesian leader Ian Smith to accede to black majority rule. Conducted near the end of President Gerald Ford’s...
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Keywords:
Equality and Inequality;
Race;
Negotiation Process;
Negotiation Participants;
Negotiation Deal;
Government and Politics;
Africa;
United States
Sebenius, James K., and Laurence A. Green. "Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Rhodesia (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 918-004, September 2017. (Revised March 2019.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay
By: Matti Keloharju, Samuli Knüpfer and Joacim Tåg
This paper uses exceptionally rich data on Swedish corporate executives and their personal characteristics to study gender gaps in CEO appointments and pay. Both gaps are sizeable: 18% for CEO appointments and 27% for pay. At most one-eighth of the gaps can be...
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Keloharju, Matti, Samuli Knüpfer, and Joacim Tåg. "Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-092, February 2016.