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- September 2019
- Article
The Effect of Enforcement Transparency: Evidence from SEC Comment-Letter Reviews
By: Miguel Duro, Jonas Heese and Gaizka Ormazabal
This paper studies the effect of the public disclosure of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) comment-letter reviews (CLs) on firms’ financial reporting. We exploit a major change in the SEC’s disclosure policy: in 2004, the SEC decided to make its CLs...
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Disclosure;
SEC Comment-Letter Reviews;
Public Enforcement;
Governance;
Information Publishing;
Policy;
Financial Reporting;
Capital Markets;
Organizational Change and Adaptation
Duro, Miguel, Jonas Heese, and Gaizka Ormazabal. "The Effect of Enforcement Transparency: Evidence from SEC Comment-Letter Reviews." Review of Accounting Studies 24, no. 3 (September 2019): 780–823.
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
http://intranet.hbs.edu/dept/drfd/new_publications/papers/amabile/Challenges_of_Person-Centric%20Work_Psych_Amabile.pdf Perceiving Freedom Givers: Effects of Granting Decision Latitude on Personality and Leadership Perceptions Authors:Roy Y.J. Chua and Sheena Iyengar...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
Consequences to Missing Quarterly Earnings Benchmarks Authors:Rick Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We find that missing quarterly earnings benchmarks, especially the analyst consensus...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Faculty & Research
technicolor. Journal of Development Economics 167 (March 2024) Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya By: Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Edward Miguel We study how human View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
helps explain why the owner of a proprietary platform such as Microsoft has chosen to contribute to the development of Linux. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45560 August 2013 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance A Tale of Two Stories:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52626 Harvard Business School Case 217-071 GE Capital After the Crisis Keith Sherin, CEO of GE Capital, faced a decision on which hinged billions of dollars and the fate of one of America’s...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 17 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
opportunity to recognize this issue as a pinch point, so they can do something about it.” DeCelles co-authored a September 2016 article about the two-year study in Administrative Science Quarterly called Whitened Resumes: Race and...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
requires upfront capital investments. The more developed the local financial markets, the easier it is for credit constrained entrepreneurs to start their own firms. The increase in the number of varieties of intermediate goods leads to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
behavior through reputational or status incentives. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55333 forthcoming Review of Corporate Finance Studies Short-Termism and Capital Flows By: Fried, Jesse M., and Charles...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13
Publication:MIS Quarterly Executive 11, no. 1 (March 2012) Abstract The Chinese management software and IT services industry has grown dramatically over the past two decades and today is about the size of the Indian industry a decade ago....
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Sean Silverthorne
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You’ll select your electives when you enroll and pay for the terms in which you take the electives. If you need help selecting your electives, you can reach out to a Program Advisor who can provide you with more information based on your needs. How do I pay for CLIMB?...
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- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
the capacity to curb its influence. Empire-Building or Bridge-Building? Evidence from New CEOs' Internal Capital Allocation Decisions Author:Yuhai Xuan Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet
details, including a top executive’s stake in the firm. So, the researchers turned to Pitchbook, a company that tracks buyout data for private companies. They added specific CEO data from Capital IQ, LinkedIn, press releases, and company...
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- 04 May 2021
- Book
Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
the core of the near-miraculous turnaround Joly spearheaded at the company during the 2010s. Joly stepped in as CEO of Best Buy in 2012, just after its quarterly profits plummeted by 91 percent and its stock price hit a nine-year low....
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Finance - Faculty & Research
in 1997, to John Lintner who co-created the Capital Asset Pricing Model and made significant contributions to dividend policy, and Gordon Donaldson whose work helped shape the field of corporate finance. We strive to understand how...
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- 08 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs
include at least two terms associated with the debate over immigration, such as “migrant, asylum, refugee,” and “human trafficking,” as well as “anxiety, panic, bomb, crime, terror, worry, concern,” and “violent.” Kerr and collaborators then compared the View Details
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife...
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Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
composition of a firm's investor base. Finally, firms that report more information about the different forms of capital or follow more closely the guiding principles as described in the IR Framework of the IIRC exhibit a more long-term...
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Alphas & Betas | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
current), including market capitalization rates, equity valuations, and 15-year betas. Bookmark This Alphas & Betas /find/guides/alphas-betas Alpha and beta refer to the volatility of an asset with respect to a stated benchmark (alpha)...
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Investment Banking | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
announces mergers, acquisitions, an divestitures. Provides statistical analysis of activity and data by industry and geography and includes twenty-five years of summary statistics and largest announcements in history. Check Harvard Availability S&P View Details