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- 2021
- Working Paper
Stock Investors' Returns Are Exaggerated
By: Jesse M. Fried, Paul Ma and Charles C.Y. Wang
The stock market generates less wealth than it appears. We show that total shareholder return (TSR), the standard measure of stock investor performance, substantially exaggerates returns earned by these investors in aggregate, and thus by most investors. The main... View Details
- Winter 2021
- Article
Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Causal Evidence from Massachusetts
By: Robert Daines, Shelley Xin Li and Charles C.Y. Wang
We study the effect of staggered boards (SBs) using a quasi-experiment: a 1990 law that imposed an SB on all Massachusetts-incorporated firms. The law led to an increase in Tobin's Q, investment in CAPEX and R&D, patents, higher-quality patented innovations, and... View Details
- Article
Core Earnings: New Data and Evidence
By: Ethan Rouen, Eric C. So and Charles C.Y. Wang
Using a novel dataset, we show that components of firms' GAAP earnings stemming from ancillary business activities or transitory shocks are significant in frequency and magnitude. These components have grown over time and are dispersed across various sections of the... View Details
- September 2021
- Background Note
DuPont Decomposition of Return on Equity
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Kaden Chien
- 2021
- Working Paper
Governance Transparency and Firm Value: Evidence from Korean Chaebols
By: Akash Chattopadhyay, Sa-Pyung Sean Shin and Charles C.Y. Wang
We examine Korean business groups' transition from circular-shareholding structures to (relatively simple) pyramidal-shareholding structures between 2011 and 2018. When firms were removed from ownership loops, chaebol families' control or incentive conflicts in them... View Details
- August 2021
- Teaching Note
Air Products' Pursuit of Airgas
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Paul M. Healy
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 116-024, 116-025, 118-080, and 118-081. View Details
- July 2021 (Revised February 2024)
- Teaching Note
Wirecard: The Downfall of a German Fintech Star
By: Jonas Heese and Charles C.Y. Wang
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 121-058. View Details
- July 2021 (Revised August 2023)
- Supplement
Wirecard: The Downfall of a German Fintech Star Instructor Spreadsheet Supplement
By: Jonas Heese and Charles CY Wang
- July 2021 (Revised August 2023)
- Supplement
Wirecard: The Downfall of a German Fintech Star Student Spreadsheet Supplement
By: Jonas Heese and Charles CY Wang
- July 2021
- Teaching Note
CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France
By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Tonia Labruyere and Vincent Dessain
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 120-072. View Details
- July 2021
- Supplement
CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France (B)
By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Tonia Labruyere and Vincent Dessain
This case is a complement to CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France (A) and describes the events after CIAM learned about a potential misuse of corporate assets at Altice/SFR. View Details
- June 2021
- Teaching Note
Tesla's Bid for SolarCity (A)
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 118-044. View Details