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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019
School’s faculty and staff, as well as higher compensation costs, resulted in a higher salaries and benefits expense. Depreciation expense was up substantially, reflecting the opening of Klarman Hall. Increases in professional services...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
the School’s total expenses. As expected, the School’s expense in fiscal 2017 for these assessments increased by $2 million from the prior year to $24 million. Depreciation The School computes depreciation...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
million from the prior year to $22 million. Depreciation The School computes depreciation using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets. View Details
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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
item is the most notable outcome of our move to full Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) reporting during the year, along with the first-ever inclusion of depreciation expense, which was approximately flat year-over-year at...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
School’s total expenses. As expected, the School’s expense in fiscal 2018 for these assessments was flat with the prior year at $24 million. Depreciation The School computes depreciation using the...
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2020
charged to HBS in any given year is primarily calculated as a percentage of the School’s total expenses. As expected, the School’s expense in fiscal 2020 for these assessments remained flat from the prior year at $26 million, amounting to 3 percent of total operating...
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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
making good money in developing markets, but those opportunities are now considerably diminished due to depreciating currencies in the face of high commodity prices, specifically energy prices, which are dollar denominated. Meanwhile,...
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by Jim Aisner
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
would gradually replace fossil fuels, and consumers might begin to refuse to buy them. However, the trouble lies with huge fossil fuel assets that aren’t fully depreciated and that we need to stop operating,” she said. Therefore, it is...
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- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
12-month contracts, where the lessor pays for fuel and insurance and the owner pays for the crew (about $6,000 a day), along with maintenance and depreciation expenses. Owners charter their ships for an average of 357 days a year, docking...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
computer or a piece of equipment, it doesn’t depreciate it over a number of years. Year four, extend all tax cuts scheduled to expire in the next ten years. Isn’t getting the federal deficit under control more important than enacting more...
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Government
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
depreciation schedules for investment can be different for tax and accounting purposes, creating a tool for fiscal stimulus. I think this rationale has outlived its usefulness for several reasons. For starters, these different definitions...
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by Ann Cullen
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
Saint-Etienne saw the interest rates on one of its major loans rise from 4 percent to 24 percent in 2010, due to the depreciation of the pound sterling. In total, losses on toxic loans doubled the city's debt levels. More than 72% of the...
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- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
addition, fiscal 2014 marked the first year of higher depreciation expense associated with Tata Hall and related Executive Education facilities recently constructed by the School. Executive Education rose to these challenges, and...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
currency), the asset valuation effects occasioned by currency depreciation (or appreciation) act to absorb global shocks and render consumption smoother. In this setting, countries do not accumulate high levels of reserves to be depleted...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
probability of default causes a 6% decline in the value of Argentine equities and a 1% depreciation of a measure of the exchange rate. We examine the channels through which a sovereign default may affect the economy. Harvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
during the AFC. Regression estimates suggest that the relationship between leverage, exchange rate depreciations, and corporate financial distress is time varying. Also, a central finding is that firm size is correlated with corporate distress and, further, that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
offshorability and wage level, where Blinder found no correlation. While Blinder found a slight wage penalty for the most offshorable jobs, the student data exhibited no evidence of wage depreciation from job contestability due to...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
currency manipulation. In the first phase of the crisis, between mid-2007 and mid-2008, the dollar depreciated roughly 25 percent against the currencies of its major trading partners, including 9 percent against the renminbi. Because this...
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