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- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
fundamental concepts and methods for the analysis of cost variances. It focuses on the decomposition of cost variances into price, quantity, and mix variance components, an approach that allows students to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
begun investigating the impact of accounting method choices in cross-border investments. Ann Cullen: After the scandals of the past few years, the potential for brokerage research deception is obviously something the Securities and...
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- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
estimated from a random-effects model, about 66% of the variance in effect sizes was attributable to systematic differences between studies. This result indicates that although the UTE is a real effect, it does not always occur. Several moderators were identified that...
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Carmen Nobel
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2020
months of the year. Debt Service HBS finances major capital projects with a mix of three sources of funding: gifts, unrestricted reserves of internally generated cash, and the strategic use of debt financed through the University. The HBS...
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- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon, who faces a time-varying investment opportunity set, parameterized using a flexible vector autoregression. We apply this framework to study the horizon effects in the allocations of...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
the program, on average, had a negative impact on performance. To explain this surprising finding, we use mixed methods to examine the impact of the work area's problem solving approach. Results suggest that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
forces like skill-biased technical change. Exploring movements around these long-term levels, however, this study finds mixed evidence regarding the vicious cycle hypothesis. On one hand, larger compensation differentials are accepted as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
convinced that they had been deceived by the sellers about the profitability of the company. ABRY must determine whether they were deliberately misled, what courses of action are available, and which they should pursue. Considerations include a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
to apply what they have learned in the classroom is a logical extension of the School’s vaunted case method, says Moon. “The case method is so powerful because it is such a close proxy for decision-making in the field,” she explains. “But...
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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
including a monopolist, two competing multichannel retailers, as well as a mixed duopoly. Though self-matching can negatively impact a retailer when consumers pay the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make...
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- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
2009 Abstract This casebook provides an organized treatment of the major challenges associated with managing large-scale disaster events, including discussion of systematic methods of organizing disaster response, preparing in advance for...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
method can serve as the foundation for new bundled payment reimbursement approaches. Publisher's link: http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/docview/1634452215/fulltextPDF/4F2F96135E4D4D7CPQ/6?accountid=11311 January 2015...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
management challenges. The real problem for them is doing both simultaneously. Govindarajan offers a simple, proven method for allocating an organization’s energy, time, and resources across “the three boxes”: the present (keep the...
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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. firms during the period from 1995...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
efforts, with satellite stores outside the museum and Web and catalog sales bringing in significant income. Sensory overload can easily sap a museum-goer's energy, and taking a break from the collections to eat is often an effective View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Social Psychological & Personality Science Agent-based Modeling: A Guide for Social Psychologists By: Jackson, Joshua Conrad, David Rand, Kevin Lewis, Michael I. Norton, and Kurt Gray Abstract—Agent-based modeling is a longstanding but underused View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
integrated innovation? Our model has firms with limited visibility that either control all aspects of product innovation (integrated innovation) or open their designs to components developed by other players (open innovation). We show that the desirability of each...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
of hard work, fidelity, and building the alliances necessary to achieve enduring success. John Andrew, a retired Boeing executive, offers a unique insider look at the profound changes the company experienced in the 1960s as the product View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
How can managers better identify, describe, and confront the issues of environmental and social sustainability that their companies increasingly encounter? One answer is One Report, a method of integrating information about financial and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
networks of firms participating in the chain. However, this is an untested hypothesis; in fact, little is known about whether hierarchy varies across transaction networks, and, if so, what causes such variation. In this study, we apply network-based View Details
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Sean Silverthorne