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- December 2024
- Article
Proxy Advisory Firms and Corporate Shareholder Engagement
By: Aiyesha Dey, Austin Starkweather and Joshua White
We study how Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) affect firms’ engagement with shareholders. Our analyses exploit a quasi-natural experiment using say-on-pay voting outcomes near a threshold that triggers ISS to review engagement activities. Firms receiving ISS... View Details
- November 2024
- Case
Meghna Modi at Revlon India: Leading with a Bold Purpose
By: Aiyesha Dey, Sarah Mehta and Sarah Sasso
This case is about Meghna Modi, the head of struggling cosmetics company Revlon India, as she tries to both turn the company around and implement her personal purpose at work. Influenced by her own life struggles, Modi feels compelled to empower her frontline... View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Titan: OceanGate's Tragedy of Titanic Proportions
By: Aiyesha Dey, Joseph Pacelli, James Barnett and ZeSean Ali
In June 2023, OceanGate’s Titan submersible imploded attempting to reach the Titanic shipwreck site 3,800 meters below sea level. All five passengers aboard died, including OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush. Before the tragedy, many in the deep-sea exploration... View Details
- January 2024
- Teaching Note
Icahn Enterprises: Ponzi Scheme or Sound Investment
By: Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 124-013. View Details
- December 2023
- Teaching Note
The Rise and Fall of FTX
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 124-014. View Details
- September 2023
- Case
The Rise and Fall of FTX
In November 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried's multi-billion-dollar crypto exchange, FTX, collapsed, wiping out investors and throwing the crypto industry into disarray. As FTX's founder and CEO, Bankman-Fried developed a reputation for his unerring business sense and... View Details
- September 2023
- Supplement
Icahn Enterprises: Ponzi Scheme or Sound Investment
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Weber
Excel Supplement consists of financial statements of Icahn Enterprises and two competitors. View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements
- September 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Icahn Enterprises: Ponzi Scheme or Sound Investment
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Weber
Icahn Enterprises, a publicly traded limited partnership founded and operated by famed activist investor Carl Icahn, had earned above market returns for over a decade. Between 2018 and early 2023, it had a compound annual return of 31%. Icahn invested in undervalued... View Details
- February 2023
- Teaching Note
Bear to Bull? An Analyst’s Journey with Netflix
By: Aiyesha Dey and Joseph Pacelli
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-001. Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said “hell freezing over” was more likely than him upgrading the “sell” rating he had maintained on movie and television streaming giant Netflix since 2011, despite meteoric subscriber... View Details
- February 2023
- Teaching Note
Ginkgo Bioworks vs. Scorpion Capital: The Debate over Related-Party Revenues
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-037. View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Understanding The Value of DEI Programs: Perspectives from Corporate Leadership
By: Aiyesha Dey, Kristina M. Rennekamp and Joseph Pacelli
- October 2022 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
Ginkgo Bioworks vs. Scorpion Capital: The Debate Over Related-Party Revenues
Ginkgo Bioworks, a synthetic biology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, faced divergent views on its revenue possibilities and accounting practices. After a report emerged accusing it of fraudulent accounting and lack of innovation, its share price plunged. But... View Details
- September 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Bear to Bull: An Analyst’s Journey with Netflix
By: Aiyesha Dey, Joseph Pacelli, Jennifer G. Lawson and Tom Quinn
Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said “hell freezing over” was more likely than him upgrading the “sell” rating he had maintained on movie and television streaming giant Netflix since 2011, despite meteoric subscriber and share price growth. In 2022, however,... View Details
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When Hiring CEOs, Focus on Character
By: Aiyesha Dey
The author, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, has studied the ways in which the lifestyle behaviors of CEOs—in particular, materialism and a propensity for rule breaking—may spell trouble for a company. Her research, which includes looking at... View Details
- January 2022
- Teaching Note
Whistleblowing at Veolia: A Technology Solution
By: Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-050. View Details
- January 2022
- Teaching Note
'Why I Blew the Whistle': Mauro Botta v. PwC
By: Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-005. View Details
- January 2022 (Revised March 2022)
- Teaching Note
Financial Reporting at Mattel
By: Aiyesha Dey, Trung Nguyen and Marshal Herrmann