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      Measuring Audit Quality
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      • January 2021
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      Measuring Audit Quality

      By: Shivaram Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan and Xin Zheng
      In this paper, we document 45 specific allegations related to audit deficiencies based on GAAS, as detailed in 141 AAERs and 153 securities class action lawsuits over the violation years 1978–2016. Next, we use these allegations to validate existing popular proxies of...  View Details
      Keywords: Audit Quality; Audit Deficiency; Aaer; Securities Class Action Lawsuits; Enforcement; Accounting Audits; Quality; Measurement And Metrics
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      Rajgopal, Shivaram, Suraj Srinivasan, and Xin Zheng. "Measuring Audit Quality." Review of Accounting Studies (January 2021).
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      In the Red: Overdrafts, Payday Lending and the Underbanked

      By: Marco Di Maggio, Angela Ma and Emily Williams
      The reordering of transactions from “high-to-low” is a controversial bank practice thought to maximize fees paid by low-income customers on overdrawn accounts. We exploit multiple class-action lawsuits resulting in mandatory changes to this practice, coupled with...  View Details
      Keywords: Overdraft; Payday Loans; Excessive Fees; Underbanked; Underserved; Banks And Banking; Financing And Loans; Customers; Income; Business Processes
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      Di Maggio, Marco, Angela Ma, and Emily Williams. "In the Red: Overdrafts, Payday Lending and the Underbanked." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28242, December 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Financing the Litigation Arms Race

      By: Samuel Antill and Steven R. Grenadier
      Using a continuous-time model of litigation, we show that the increasingly popular practice of third-party litigation financing has ambiguous welfare implications. A defendant and a plaintiff bargain over a settlement payment. The defendant takes costly actions to...  View Details
      Keywords: Litigation Financing; Dynamic Bargaining; Real Options; Law; Finance; lawsuits And Litigation
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      Antill, Samuel, and Steven R. Grenadier. "Financing the Litigation Arms Race." Working Paper, November 2020.
      • October 2020 (Revised February 2021)
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      SenseAim Technologies: Pricing to Win

      By: Elie Ofek, Eyal Biyalogorsky, Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg
      This exercise serves to help students understand the proper role and use of costs in a firm’s pricing decisions. The exercise is designed such that the learning of students evolves across a classroom session, starting from understanding which costs are relevant when...  View Details
      Keywords: Pricing Decisions; Cost; Information; Price; Decision Making
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      Ofek, Elie, Eyal Biyalogorsky, Marco Bertini, and Oded Koenigsberg. "SenseAim Technologies: Pricing to Win." Harvard Business School Exercise 521-049, October 2020. (Revised February 2021.)
      • September 2020 (Revised December 2020)
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      Artea: Designing Targeting Strategies

      By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
      This collection of exercises aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic bias in marketing—implications, causes, and possible solutions. Part (A) focuses on A/B testing analysis and targeting. Parts (B),(C),(D) Introduce algorithmic bias. The...  View Details
      Keywords: Algorithmic Data; Race And Ethnicity; Experimentation; Promotion; "marketing Analytics"; Marketing And Society; Big Data; Privacy; Data-driven Management; Data Analytics; Data Analysis; E-commerce; E-commerce Strategy; Discrimination; Targeted Advertising; Targeted Policies; Targeting; Pricing Algorithms; A/b Testing; Ethical Decision Making; Customer Base Analysis; Customer Heterogeneity; Coupons; Marketing; Race; Gender; Diversity; Customer Relationship Management; Marketing Communications; Advertising; Decision Making; Ethics; Retail Industry; Apparel And Accessories Industry; United States
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      Ascarza, Eva, and Ayelet Israeli. "Artea: Designing Targeting Strategies." Harvard Business School Exercise 521-021, September 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
      • September 2020
      • Exercise

      Artea (B): Including Customer-level Demographic Data

      By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
      This collection of exercises aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic bias in marketing—implications, causes, and possible solutions. Part (A) focuses on A/B testing analysis and targeting. Parts (B),(C),(D) Introduce algorithmic bias. The...  View Details
      Keywords: Race; Gender; Marketing; Diversity; Customer Relationship Management; Demographics; Prejudice And Bias; Retail Industry; Apparel And Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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      Ascarza, Eva, and Ayelet Israeli. "Artea (B): Including Customer-level Demographic Data." Harvard Business School Exercise 521-022, September 2020.
      • September 2020
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      Artea (C): Potential Discrimination through Algorithmic Targeting

      By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
      This collection of exercises aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic bias in marketing—implications, causes, and possible solutions. Part (A) focuses on A/B testing analysis and targeting. Parts (B),(C),(D) Introduce algorithmic bias. The...  View Details
      Keywords: Race; Gender; Marketing; Diversity; Customer Relationship Management; Prejudice And Bias; Retail Industry; Apparel And Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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      Ascarza, Eva, and Ayelet Israeli. "Artea (C): Potential Discrimination through Algorithmic Targeting." Harvard Business School Exercise 521-037, September 2020.
      • September 2020
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      Artea (D): Discrimination through Algorithmic Bias in Targeting

      By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
      This collection of exercises aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic bias in marketing—implications, causes, and possible solutions. Part (A) focuses on A/B testing analysis and targeting. Parts (B),(C),(D) Introduce algorithmic bias. The...  View Details
      Keywords: Race; Gender; Marketing; Diversity; Customer Relationship Management; Prejudice And Bias; Retail Industry; Apparel And Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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      Ascarza, Eva, and Ayelet Israeli. "Artea (D): Discrimination through Algorithmic Bias in Targeting." Harvard Business School Exercise 521-043, September 2020.
      • September 2020 (Revised December 2020)
      • Teaching Note

      Artea (A), (B), (C), and (D): Designing Targeting Strategies

      By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
      Teaching Note for HBS No. 521-021,521-022,521-037,521-043. This collection of exercises aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic bias in marketing—implications, causes, and possible solutions. Part (A) focuses on A/B testing analysis and...  View Details
      Keywords: Targeted Advertising; Targeting; Race; Gender; Diversity; Marketing; Customer Relationship Management; Prejudice And Bias; Retail Industry; Apparel And Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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      Ascarza, Eva, and Ayelet Israeli. "Artea (A), (B), (C), and (D): Designing Targeting Strategies." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 521-041, September 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
      • September 2020 (Revised December 2020)
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      Spreadsheet Supplement to Artea Teaching Note

      By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
      Spreadsheet Supplement to Artea Teaching Note 521-041. This collection of exercises aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic bias in marketing—implications, causes, and possible solutions. Part (A) focuses on A/B testing analysis and...  View Details
      Keywords: Race; Gender; Diversity; Marketing; Customer Relationship Management; Prejudice And Bias; Retail Industry; Apparel And Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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      Ascarza, Eva, and Ayelet Israeli. "Spreadsheet Supplement to Artea Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 521-705, September 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
      • August 2020
      • Case

      This Old House of Worship: St. Anthony Shrine (A)

      By: Ryan Raffaelli
      This multimedia case asks students to consider how leaders of non-profit organizations manage difficult financial, operational, and cultural turnarounds. Since its founding in 1947, St. Anthony Shrine had been a central partner in serving the Downtown Boston community....  View Details
      Keywords: Leadership And Change Management; Turnarounds; Non-profit Management; Leadership; Change Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; Religion; Mission And Purpose; Transformation; Organizational Culture; United States
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      Raffaelli, Ryan. "This Old House of Worship: St. Anthony Shrine (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 421-701, August 2020.
      • February 2020
      • Case

      Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (B)

      By: Nien-he Hsieh, Christina R. Wing and John Masko
      This supplemental case tracks the results of the Colman and Taubman-Dye class action suit against Theranos as well as Theranos’ other legal challenges and chronicles the final demise of the company in 2019.  View Details
      Keywords: Health Testing And Trials; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Misleading And Fraudulent Advertising; Crime And Corruption; Entrepreneurship; lawsuits And Litigation; Business Exit Or Shutdown; Medical Devices And Supplies Industry; California; United States
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      Hsieh, Nien-he, Christina R. Wing, and John Masko. "Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (B)." Harvard Business School Case 320-091, February 2020.
      • September 2019
      • Case

      It's All About Family: Esas Group

      By: Christina R. Wing and Alpana Thapar
      This case describes how Ali Sabancı and his sister Emine Sabancı Kamışlı, shareholders of Esas Group, one of Turkey’s largest family-owned investment firms, worked to grow and professionalize the business. While their father Şevket Sabancı, played an instrumental role...  View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Governance; Growth And Development Strategy; Turkey
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      Wing, Christina R., and Alpana Thapar. "It's All About Family: Esas Group." Harvard Business School Case 620-010, September 2019.
      • August 2019 (Revised April 2020)
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      Transforming Hindustan Unilever

      By: Krishna G. Palepu and Rachna Tahilyani
      In October 2013, when Sanjiv Mehta had taken over the reins of Unilever’s business in India and the larger South Asia region, Hindustan Unilever (HUL) had been going through a difficult time. Caught in the midst of a weakening economy, falling consumer spending, and...  View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Leading Change; Performance Improvement; Consumer Products Industry; India
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      Palepu, Krishna G., and Rachna Tahilyani. "Transforming Hindustan Unilever." Harvard Business School Case 120-022, August 2019. (Revised April 2020.)
      • February 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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      Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A)

      By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Christina R. Wing, Emilie Fournier and Anna Resman
      This case covers the rise and fall of Theranos, the company founded by Elizabeth Holmes in 2004 to revolutionize the blood testing industry by creating a device that could provide from a small finger prick the same results and accuracy as intravenous blood draws. As...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Testing And Trials; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Misleading And Fraudulent Advertising; Crime And Corruption; Ethics; Entrepreneurship; lawsuits And Litigation
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      Hsieh, Nien-hê, Christina R. Wing, Emilie Fournier, and Anna Resman. "Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 619-039, February 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
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      Good Markets (Really Do) Make Good Neighbors

      By: Scott Duke Kominers
      This article gives a (very) brief exposition of what market design is, along with four examples of market design in action. Loosely themed after Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall,” the examples demonstrate ways in which market design can break barriers—physical,...  View Details
      Keywords: Market Design; Economics; Theory; Change; Society
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      Kominers, Scott Duke. "Good Markets (Really Do) Make Good Neighbors." ACM SIGecom Exchanges 16, no. 2 (June 2018).
      • January 2018
      • Supplement

      BeiGene Supplemental PowerPoint

      By: Willy C. Shih and Jimmy Zhang
      BeiGene was a biopharmaceutical company founded on exploiting a temporal regulatory policy discontinuity. Because of regulatory challenges in China, most innovative new drugs launched there four to six years after their initial U.S. launches. This gave BeiGene a window...  View Details
      Keywords: Biotechnology; Pharmaceutical Company; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceuticals; China; Regulatory Environment; Business Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Situation Or Environment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; China
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      Shih, Willy C., and Jimmy Zhang. "BeiGene Supplemental PowerPoint." Harvard Business School PowerPoint Supplement 618-043, January 2018.
      • November 2017
      • Case

      BeiGene

      By: Willy Shih and Jimmy Zhang
      BeiGene was a biopharmaceutical company founded on exploiting a temporal regulatory policy discontinuity. Because of regulatory challenges in China, most innovative new drugs launched there four to six years after their initial U.S. launches. This gave BeiGene a window...  View Details
      Keywords: Biotechnology; Pharmaceutical Company; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceuticals; China; Regulatory Environment; Business Strategy; Business Startups; Innovation Strategy; Situation Or Environment; Pharmaceutical Industry; China
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      Shih, Willy, and Jimmy Zhang. "BeiGene." Harvard Business School Case 618-033, November 2017.
      • December 2016 (Revised February 2019)
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      Kurt Summers: Investing in Our Chicago

      By: Joshua Margolis and Michael Norris
      In 2016, Kurt Summers, the Chicago City Treasurer, faced a decision with potential personal and political ramifications: whether or not to ask the city’s Mayor to join a class action antitrust suit against the city’s creditors for actions they took during the Global...  View Details
      Keywords: Personal Development; Career Journey; Leadership Development; Leadership; Career; Leadership; Government And Politics; Personal Development And Career; Public Administration Industry; United States; Chicago
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      Margolis, Joshua, and Michael Norris. "Kurt Summers: Investing in Our Chicago." Harvard Business School Case 417-023, December 2016. (Revised February 2019.)
      • 2015
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      "Level II" Negotiation Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their Internal Problems

      By: James K. Sebenius
      Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and constituencies on his or her own side. Far less familiar are the many valuable...  View Details
      Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Deal
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      Sebenius, James K. "Level II" Negotiation Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their Internal Problems. In Negotiating in Times of Conflict, edited by Gilead Sher and Anat Kurz, 107–124. Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, 2015. Electronic.
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