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- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
WorldCom or Adelphia. The failures at those companies were more likely caused by a combination of fraud committed by individuals, inadequate control and governance systems that tolerated clear conflicts of interest, and a frothy market in...
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by William Sahlman
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) to prevent such failures from happening again. The new rules looked promising. The majority of a board's directors now had to be independent. And senior executives were required to conduct annual assessments of their internal View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
corporate bonds. Insurance companies have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS bonds. This behavior...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
them by favoring reform based on central government control rather than the forces of competition, meritocracy, and individual accountability. Let me be clear about one thing: the previous government, as most previous governments, failed...
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by George Serafeim
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
wrote in the forthcoming book, Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment during the Reform Era, to be published in October 2002 by Cambridge University Press, a complete picture of FDI in China needs to acknowledge how China's financial institutions have also failed to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
their funds on demand even if consumption takes place later. Capitalized institutions serving overoptimistic depositors emerge in equilibrium even if depositors and bank owners have identical preferences and investment opportunities....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
world-class business. Following modern management practices, keeping sharp attention to cost control and capital operations, making aggressive entries into international markets, and maintaining a special...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
be taken into consideration when deciding on the length of the school day and the frequency and duration of breaks throughout the day. Second, school accountability systems should control for the influence of external factors on test...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
persistent, and sometimes unexpected, impact on organizations' strategies. Cases & Course MaterialsAcciona and the Battle for Control of Endesa Belen Villalonga and Rachelle SilverbergHarvard Business School Case 210-029 Acciona,...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
closed down flows of trade and capital across borders. Yet firms were rarely able to wholly dictate events. Their ability to transfer technology was constrained by the institutional, educational, and cultural conditions of host economies....
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- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
the federal Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which was designed to protect competition by outlawing monopolistic business practices. This fear of monopoly power made Americans leery of business agreements that smacked of price-fixing. Yet Gleason, in her efforts to View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years later, both camps benefit enormously from their close ties: the mutual fund is America's investment vehicle of choice, with one in three U.S. households owning a stake in the industry's $5.5 trillion in assets. "By making the View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
in external auditing, and 6) auditing management information systems. Working PapersEmployee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior...
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Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
increased when the rules were introduced. We conclude that managerial fiduciary duties affect equity-bondholder conflicts in a way that is economically important, has impact on ex ante capital structure choices, and affects welfare. Read...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
have delayered, flattened firms can exhibit more control and decision making at the top. Managers take note. Flattening can lead to exactly the opposite effects from what it promises to do. Read the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
privatization garners attention in industries whose importance, infrastructure, and enormous capital needs once put them under the comfortable control of their governments. Historically, observed HBS...
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- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
investors than they absorb in new investment funds. From 1982-2010, repatriated earnings from foreign affiliates exceeded net capital investments by $1.1 trillion in 2010 dollars; and from 1950-2010, repatriated earnings and net interest...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607010 Note on Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Reimbursement Account Vendors Harvard Business School Note 307-034 Purchase this note:...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
development as a means of raising the lives of previously disadvantaged South Africans. By 1999, the company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, making 36-year-old Surve the youngest CEO of a listed diversified conglomerate. From its inception, Sekunjalo only...
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Martha Lagace