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  • 16 Nov 2022
  • News

Investing in Indigenous Sovereignty

  • Article

An Empirical Investigation of Tax Factors and Mutual Funds' Stock Sales Decisions

By: V.G. Narayanan and Steven Huddart
Keywords: Taxation; Stocks; Sales; Financial Instruments
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 2012
    • White Paper

    Robust Enforcement Should Complement Voluntary Regulation

    By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
    Spurred by the anti-regulation movement that started in the 1970s, voluntary self-regulation programs have emerged in many regulatory agencies, seeking to increase cooperation between government and industry to achieve greater and more cost-effective compliance.... View Details
    Keywords: Governance Compliance; Business and Government Relations
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    • 21 Jan 2021
    • Blog Post

    How I Used the HBS Community to Hone My Professional Goals

    development rotational program. My time at Cardinal Health exposed me to the health care world and gave me the chance to work functionally in Corporate Finance View Details
    • June 2014
    • Case

    Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 (A)

    By: Mihir A. Desai and Elizabeth A. Meyer
    By the end of 2013, Apple had $137 billion dollars in cash and marketable securities. This case explores how companies can generate such large amounts of cash and how and if they should distribute it to shareholders, especially in the face of shareholder pressure. In... View Details
    Keywords: Apple; Steve Jobs; Forecast; Forecasting; Forecasting And Prediction; Shareholder Activism; Share Repurchase; Dividends; Financial Ratios; Preferred Shares; Cash Distribution; Corporate Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Republic of Ireland
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    • September 2018
    • Supplement

    From Beirut With Love (B): The Last Judgment

    By: Christina R. Wing, Esel Y. Cekin and Samer Al-Rachedy
    Keywords: Family Business; Family Conflicts; Sibling Rivalry; Second-generation; Foundation; Trust; Governance; Work-life Balance; Leadership; Leading Change; Transformation; Succession Planning; Management; Organizational Structure; Corporate Culture; Shareholder; Board Of Directors; Retail; Real Estate; Shopping Mall; Department Store; Growth; Lebanon; Middle East; Non-executive Chairman; Sustainability
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    • November 2008 (Revised July 2019)
    • Case

    The Fall of Enron

    By: Paul Healy and Krishna Palepu
    The case traces the rise of Enron, covering the company's business innovations, personnel management, and risk management processes. It then examines the company's dramatic fall including the extension of its trading model into questionable new businesses, the... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Management Practices and Processes; Crime and Corruption; Financial Reporting; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards
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    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Opportunistic Returns and Dynamic Pricing: Empirical Evidence from Online Retailing in Emerging Markets

    By: Chaithanya Bandi, Antonio Moreno, Donald Ngwe and Zhiji Xu
    We investigate how dynamic pricing can lead to more product returns in the online retail industry. Using detailed sales data of more than two million transactions from the Indian online retail market, where price promotions are very common, we document two types of... View Details
    Keywords: Cash On Delivery; Dynamic Pricing; Online Retail; Payment Methods; Strategic Customer Behavior; Opportunistic Returns; Price; Policy; Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Retail Industry
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    • October 2004 (Revised July 2005)
    • Case

    Kinetic Concepts, Inc.

    By: Jay W. Lorsch, Dwight B. Crane and Ashley Robertson
    Raises issues about how the nature and function of a board changes as a company moves from ownership by its employees, including the founder, to ownership by a private equity firm, Fremont Partners, culminating in a highly successful IPO. Gives students the opportunity... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Initial Public Offering; Behavior; Organizations; Employee Ownership; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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    • 05 Oct 2016
    • What Do You Think?

    Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

    he said "our best policy is to promote economic liberty so that individuals and corporations can adjust to changes in society, technology, the economy, the environment and... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • February 2014 (Revised August 2016)
    • Case

    Strava

    By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Sid Misra
    Strava is a new fast-growing social network for the avid cyclist and runner. The Strava case traces the entrepreneurial journey of two serial entrepreneurs who have been co-founders in a prior venture, and who have co-founded Strava 3 years ago. The protagonists must... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Cycling; Biking; Running; Sports; Technology; Mobile App; Mobile; GPS; Motivation; Behavioral Science; Founders; Term Sheet; Investment; Terms; Silicon Valley; Lifestyle; Strava; Financing; Fundraising; Angel; Valuation; Growth; Forecast; Business Startups; Business Plan; Trends; Forecasting and Prediction; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Institutional Investing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Management Succession; Growth Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Timing; Bicycle Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry; Sports Industry; Web Services Industry; California; New England
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    • Article

    Complementarity between Audited Financial Reporting and Voluntary Disclosure: The Case of Former Andersen Clients

    By: Richard Frankel, Alon Kalay, Gil Sadka and Yuan Zou
    Prior literature presents various perspectives on the role of financial reporting. One view is that mandatory periodic reporting disciplines managers and encourages timely voluntary disclosure. We examine this "confirmation hypothesis" using the shock to financial... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Disclosure; Mandatory Reporting; Reliability; Voluntary Disclosure; Financial Reporting; Quality; Corporate Disclosure
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    • November 1988 (Revised September 1991)
    • Case

    Simmons Japan Ltd.

    By: W. Carl Kester and Richard P. Melnick
    Concerns the first leveraged buyout to occur in Japan. Analytic tasks include a valuation of the company and an assessment of its debt capacity. Also provides opportunities to discuss agency costs associated with alternative capital and equity ownership structures,... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Capital Structure; Cost; Equity; Production; Valuation; Japan; United States
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    • 2007
    • Article

    Business Methods Patents as Real Options: Value and Disclosure as Drivers of Litigation

    By: Atul Nerkar, Srikanth Paruchuri and Mukti Khaire
    This paper proposes that patents are real options that allow holders of patents the right but not the obligation to sue others. We suggest that the likelihood of a patent's being litigated is positively associated with the value of the patent and the extent of... View Details
    Keywords: Value; Corporate Disclosure; Lawsuits and Litigation; Patents; Rights; Business Processes
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    • 11 Oct 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How Firms Respond to Being Rated

    Keywords: by Aaron K. Chatterji & Michael W. Toffel
    • 07 May 2019
    • News

    Canceling student debt has an extraordinary effect on people’s income and credit worthiness

    • December 2004 (Revised December 2004)
    • Background Note

    Fiscal Policy and the Case of Expansionary Fiscal Contraction in Ireland in the 1980s

    By: Huw Pill
    Provides a brief introduction to fiscal policy, including the fiscal multiplier. Uses Ireland's experience in the 1980s to explore the possibility that fiscal contractions--tax rises and expenditure costs--can stimulate economic growth (contrary to conventional... View Details
    Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Policy; Macroeconomics; Economic Growth; Republic of Ireland
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    • September 2020
    • Article

    Medicaid Work Requirements in Arkansas: Two-Year Impacts on Coverage, Employment, and Affordability of Care

    By: Benjamin D. Sommers, Lucy Chen, Robert J. Blendon, E. John Orav and Arnold M. Epstein
    In June 2018 Arkansas became the first U.S. state to implement work requirements in Medicaid, requiring adults ages 30–49 to work twenty hours a week, participate in “community engagement” activities, or qualify for an exemption to maintain coverage. By April 2019,... View Details
    Keywords: Medicaid; Health Care Policy; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Insurance; Health Industry; Arkansas
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    • November 7, 2019
    • Article

    WeWork’s Saga Is a Cautionary Tale about Golden Parachutes and CEO Pay

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    While the WeWork saga has dealt another blow to already-low public confidence in business, it should also strengthen cries for fundamental changes to a system that offers supersized compensation for undersized performance. View Details
    Keywords: Executive Compensation; Change; Compensation and Benefits; Corporate Accountability; Initial Public Offering
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