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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
wounds in the balance sheet—spurring the call to Kahn—and her ultimate recommendations were a challenge to leadership. But she met considerable resistance from the parent company chiefs, including her father. "Godrej has been one of those... View Details
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Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements - Course Catalog
students' ability to apply the course skills in a practical context, they also work on a group project. The project involves a comprehensive analysis using the course framework and a stock pitch to a panel of investors. In the past,... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
analyst recommendations. Using a unique data set that discloses brokerage firms' commission income derived from each mutual fund client as well as the share holdings of these mutual funds, we find that an analyst's recommendation on a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
selection and recommendation incentives than their sell-side peers. We examine the selection and performance of stocks recommended by analysts at a large investment firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
who are increasingly willing and able to care for their own conditions. The result: changing models of health-care delivery. The Bias of Wall Street Analysts Historically, stock analysts’ recommendations... View Details
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
Cohen and his coauthors identified the name of the firm and call participants, in addition to matching analysts with the recommendations they gave before the call. Finally, they coded the entire text of each question and answer,... View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
consumers are saved unnecessarily high fees. Opponents argue the rule would create an uneven playing field between products and raise fees. Related Reading: Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients? Why White-Collar Criminals... View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
as a result of this collaborative engagement. We argue that this collaborative engagement positively influences alignment even in the absence of an overall reduction in the level of differentiation exhibited by an organization, which stands in contrast to academic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
relative to that of other corporate leaders. No stock option package can provide motivation, however, if it isn't understood. Given the complexity of these arrangements, this is often a problem, even among those who serve as chief... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 02 Sep 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Transparent Should Boards Be?
Gogula put it, "While protecting the short term interests of shareholders and avoiding a depression of stock prices may be a tempting recourse for a Board member to take, long-term shareholder interest is what the Board needs to take... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
agency logic, they produce pessimistic recommendations for firms with high CSR ratings. Moreover, we theorize that over time, the emergence of a stakeholder focus, and the gradual weakening of the agency logic, shifts the analysts'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
insider stock purchases are significantly greater after SOX than before. Abnormal trading volumes around filings of insider sales are also greater post-SOX on average, but stock returns are not more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
of an estimated secular increase in the cross-country correlations of both stock and bond returns since the late 1990s. Increased correlations of inflation shocks are also an important source of the shift in bond correlations. By... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
supposed to be bad, and there was little debate about what companies or managers could do about it. For me this just sounded too simplistic. Moreover, the focus on national laws led to policy recommendations that were sometimes too... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
stock does not go up as quickly. . . . But it doesn't go back down as quickly later, either." Damon Leavell takes a different tack, recommending that, "Rather than speculate on earnings, . . .... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
talent—which is a little like picking a stock before it goes up, she says—and then shopped their prototypes of plates and bowls, platters and vases around to gauge interest. The responses she got confirmed her hunch that chefs were eager... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
that board members of the best-performing companies frequently owned substantial amounts of stock in the firms they oversaw. In 1995, he chaired the Blue Ribbon Commission of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), whose... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American companies. In short, America is a beautiful country for stock portfolio investors and a very difficult one for direct investors. Why is it so... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
generations to come. Publisher's Link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9261.html The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:Best Paper Proceedings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace