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  • 26 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 26

away from performance begins at age 4 (when ToM begins to develop), years before children enter puberty. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/chaplin%20norton_2de36765-4cc2-4d54-9c92-4247b2d2a189.pdf August 2014 Journal of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?

SEC within 10 days of buying a 5 percent (or greater) stake in a company. It’s a legal requirement, which, like many disclosure requirements, is meant to level the playing field. Once that form is filed, everyone knows which firm an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

Environmental, Social, and Governance [ESG]) information, including data produced by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), is growing. Using data from Bloomberg we analyze this interest from a variety of different perspectives, and in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Winter 2013
  • Article

Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and Transparency

By: Emmanuel Farhi, Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
The sub-prime crisis has shone a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too many complex securities that proved to ultimately have little value. This uproar calls attention to the fact that the literature on intermediaries has... View Details
Keywords: Debt Securities; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance
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  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance. What deters selective disclosure and leads firms to instead make disclosures more... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • January 2002 (Revised March 2004)
  • Case

Computer Associates International, Inc.

In late 2000, Computer Associates (CA) changed its business model and the way it recognized revenue, ostensibly to better serve its stakeholders. The new subscription-based license model offered customers greater flexibility. Clients could subscribe to any CA software... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Valuation; Corporate Disclosure; Revenue Recognition; Corporate Governance; Technology Industry
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  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

information in the form of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data. However, progress is contingent on collecting evidence regarding which sustainability disclosures are financially material. To... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

well-defined financial criteria. We suggest that this dynamic may have important implications for our understanding of the role of management in the modern, knowledge-based firm, and for the potential revival of manufacturing in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

of the developed West compared to the rest of the world, which is only now partially closing. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurship-Multinationals-Global-Business-Making/dp/1781951942 August 2013 The European Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

relocation of resources in affected fund families and in the asset management industry in general, as well as decline in capital of issuers borrowing from money funds. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51404 forthcoming Review of Finance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide open, with some disastrous results. I think all the attention being paid to the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

foreign-born financial specialists-immigrants-solved the fiscal crisis and set the United States on a path to long-term economic success. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas K. McCraw analyzes the skills and worldliness of Alexander... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2010
  • What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

however, attached conditions to this course of action, typically involving some kind of financial penalty. For example, Walter Blass suggested "a negotiated skipping of his bonus, or stock options " Deepa Ramamoorthy suggested... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 23 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 23, 2016

February 2016 Review of Financial Studies Industry Window Dressing By: Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, and Dong Lou Abstract— We explore a new mechanism by which investors take correlated shortcuts and present evidence that managers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

Editor's note: Even with recent disclosures about out-of-control spending on corporate perks and government agency parties, the US military is frequently held up as the exemplar of organizational largesse run wild. In the new book Defense... View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

estate firms' decisions to provide investment property fair values prior to the required disclosure of this information under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find evidence that... View Details
  • 01 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

Retail executives aren’t always giving stockholders the straight scoop about the financial standing of their companies in comments around earnings announcements—and some may be providing misleading information, potentially for their own... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

examine the legal basis of applicable rights and identify the circumstances in which such transfers are permitted. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/legal-aspects-of-transfer-of-ips-may2013.pdf 2006 Review of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0809.html#wp09-018 Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies Authors:Erin M.Reid, Michael W. Toffel Abstract The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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