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  • 03 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

ultimately be bankrupt, and Americans will be forced to pay for a much higher share of their health care bills. There is a better way. The United States must make healthy living the twenty-first century equivalent of putting a man on the moon. With lifestyle choices... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health
  • March 1999 (Revised June 2005)
  • Case

Saevig Corporation

By: Henry B. Reiling and Mark Pollard
The taxpayer purchased land and later transferred it to a family controlled corporation in return for an earn out. When funds were eventually received, the IRS treated them as dividends, whereas the individual and corporate taxpayers contended they were sums paid on... View Details
Keywords: Investment Return; Debt Securities; Taxation; Outcome or Result; Financial Reporting; Family Business; Assets; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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  • February 2025 (Revised May 2025)
  • Case

Align Partners and SM Entertainment: Korean Shareholder Activism Meets K-Pop (A)

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Billy Chan
For years, institutional investors had experienced very limited success in influencing the management of listed companies through shareholder activist campaigns in Korea. The common practice of circular ownership and public resentment toward foreign shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Public Equity; Stocks; Investment Activism; Music Entertainment; Corporate Governance; Success; Business and Shareholder Relations; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; South Korea
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  • 11 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

financial chicanery or unethical dealings. “Often what you are trying to do is create a sense of loyalty or trust in the firm, but that can make people so loyal that when they see something wrong they don’t bring it up” That dichotomy... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • November 2005 (Revised November 2007)
  • Case

Meisterchef.com

By: Henry B. Reiling
Two underperforming companies are seeking to combine on terms that will preserve the net operating loss of one for use against their combined future profits or at least against the future profits of the company that generated the losses. The questions are whether the... View Details
Keywords: Code Law; Corporate Governance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost Accounting; Taxation; Corporate Strategy; Profit; Crisis Management; Financial Management; Legal Services Industry; Service Industry; United States
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  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

serving on political councils, political legacy, and financial resources-affect the likelihood of firms issuing CSR reports. Second, we focus on the symbolic nature of CSR reporting and how variance in the risk of government monitoring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 3

Abstract—Improving the way we pay for health care must be a central component in health care reform. Payment reform must link provider reimbursement and accountability to improving patient value: better health outcomes delivered at lower... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

dynamic, historical account of the events that have shaped the brand over time. Using a particular type of brand biography, "the underdog," we empirically show how managers can strategically use brand biographies in brand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

their strategy, and the business media even treat them as celebrities. In many cases, activists have courted both investors and the public with an informative and insightful approach to individual investments. They engage in considerable due diligence and propose... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Financial Services
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

which acted essentially as an in-house management consultancy and auditing firm. He personally composed the statutes as to its authority. This was one of the first offices in the world that began a task of standardizing View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

reasons, or sabbaticals to work on other projects. They shouldn’t have to change companies to meet their needs. Cross-sell to clients. Clients are less likely to follow, say, a financial adviser to NewCo if they already have mortgages,... View Details
Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel
  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

Herzlinger: I've had it. [Laughs.] Just had it! You know, I did my doctoral thesis really by accident in a hospital. That was in 1971, 36 years ago. And at the time, I was astonished at how mismanaged that hospital was and how the most rudimentary kinds of business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

sold, inventory, and gross margin (defined here as the ratio of sales to cost of goods sold) as three endogenous variables. We construct a simultaneous equations model, estimated using public financial and non-financial data, to provide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

obviously, in which the short-term uncertainty is profound. Our study traditionally has been a medium- to long-term focus. That is, looking at the determinants of high levels of living standards and sustained economic growth over a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

August 2013 Journal of Accounting Research Private Interaction Between Firm Management and Sell-Side Analysts By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—Although sell-side analysts often privately interact with managers of publicly traded firms, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by the economic forces of demand for and supply of financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

individuals, subgroups, and teams perform. Paper: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1534-0856&volume=15 The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid Author:Werker, Eric D. Publication:In Handbook of Safeguarding Global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2023 (Revised June 2025)
  • Case

Aviva plc: Examining Net Zero

By: Peter Tufano, Brian Trelstad and Matteo Gasparini
The board of Aviva Plc, one of the world’s largest insurers, must review its climate risk exposures and evaluate next steps. Risk experts at the firm have conducted a robust set of analyses prepared for its regulator, the Bank of England, simulating how various climate... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Climate Change; Insurance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Risk Management; Adaptation; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
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  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

staff—all of this costs money, Frei said. Commerce Bank pays for it by paying lower rates on deposits compared to the giant banks. "Think about it," she told the group. "Would you trade half a percentage point on your View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

accounting for both personal and social activity, and encourage customers to interact with each other postadoption. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54735 January–February 2018 Organization Science Gender... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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