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- 03 Nov 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
The Stock Market Value of Human Capital Creation
Keywords: by Matthias Regier and Ethan Rouen
- 11 Aug 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance
Keywords: by Ethan Rouen
- 08 Aug 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate Performance and Economic Growth
- 03 Aug 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
The Accounting Rookie Job Market: A Practitioner’s Guide
- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
workers like his father a share of the profits and get them to think like owners. The case studies, written by HBS Professor Dennis Campbell and assistant professor View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 07 Jan 2020
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Capitalism Be Fixed by Making Companies More Just?
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
0.5 percent. The federal tax cut reduced rates by 14 percent, so the income-shifting motivation is likely to be much stronger.” Prior research largely focused on how personal taxes impact income inequity, View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020, Harvard Business School professor Ethan Rouen walked through Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
that CEOs take home versus average employee pay is taking on added importance in 2018, as public companies in the United States are mandated for the first time to disclose pay ratios between the CEO and employees. Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?
Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams
impact on both employees and companies, new research shows. In fact, managers who elevate others like Bradway did are more likely to hold on to valued employees, according to a study by Yuan Zou, assistant... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
Credit: iStock If you think looking for a job in your profession is difficult, try being an accounting PhD looking for work in academia. Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan Rouen advises job... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
leaders need to be brave and not afraid of criticism." The research team didn’t study data in 2021, so it’s unclear whether government officials are continuing to underreport COVID deaths. But Rouen hopes... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
productive. That’s a missed opportunity. Questioning is a powerful tool for unlocking value in companies: It spurs learning and the exchange of ideas, it fuels innovation and better performance, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
blues, and a job set up for failure. If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer Researcher Ethan Rouen discovers that rank-and-file... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- December 2019 (Revised October 2020)
- Background Note
Income Inequity and Income Inequality
By: Ethan Rouen and Akari Furukawa
This research note provides an understanding of income inequity, which is a component of broader income inequality. It begins by describing the difference between inequality and inequity before examining inequity within the workplace. Using the firm as the unit of... View Details
Rouen, Ethan, and Akari Furukawa. "Income Inequity and Income Inequality." Harvard Business School Background Note 120-062, December 2019. (Revised October 2020.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
Financial Flexibility and Corporate Employment
By: Rebecca Lester, Ethan Rouen and Braden Williams
We study the role of financial flexibility on COVID-19 employment actions. Using daily data from March through May 2020 for 354 of the largest U.S. employers, we find that firms facing a negative demand shock were 28.8 percentage points more likely to reduce their... View Details
Keywords: Financial Flexibility; COVID-19; Pandemic; Employment; Health Pandemics; System Shocks; Finance
Lester, Rebecca, Ethan Rouen, and Braden Williams. "Financial Flexibility and Corporate Employment." Harvard Business School Series in Accounting and Control, No. 21-119, April 2021.
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Ethan C. Rouen
Relying on empirical archival methodologies—as well as techniques in data science—to develop and structure new sources of data by which to approach questions of looming disclosure changes, Professor Rouen has focused on one of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Management Science The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate Performance and Economic Growth By: Khan, Urooj, Suresh Nallareddy, and Ethan View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 2017
- Working Paper
Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and its Relation to Firm Performance
By: Ethan Rouen
I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm accounting performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee... View Details
Keywords: Pay Disparity; Pay Ratio; CEO Pay Ratio; Income Inequality; Executive Compensation; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Business Ventures; Performance
Rouen, Ethan. "Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and its Relation to Firm Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-007, July 2017.