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- June 18, 2019
- Article
Research: Investors Reward Companies That Talk Up Their Digital Initiatives
- 12 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns
Ashley V. Whillans
Ashley Whillans is the Volpert Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Motivation and Incentives course to MBA students. Professor Whillans earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Making the Numbers? ‘Short Termism’ & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
John Beshears
John Beshears is the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, teaching the second-year MBA course "Negotiation." He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details
- April 2009 (Revised November 2012)
- Case
Sermo, Inc.
- January 2011 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
Elizabeth Jacobs: Price-Earnings Ratios and Employee Stock Option Grants
Christopher T. Stanton
Christopher Stanton is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Professor Stanton's research streams focus on personnel economics, organizational economics, labor markets, and entrepreneurship. His MBA... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- News
Companies lose out when employees’ caregiving burdens increase
Ayelet Israeli
- October 1987 (Revised July 1991)
- Case
Tiffany & Co.
- September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
- Supplement
Genzyme Center (C)
- March 2016
- Article
Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach
Signaling with Dividends
We outline a dividend signaling model that features investors who are behaviorally averse to dividend cuts. Managers with strong unobservable cash earnings separate by paying high dividends but retain enough to be likely not to fall short next period. The model is... View Details
Jillian J. Jordan
Professor Jordan’s research investigates moral... View Details
Robert F. White
Bob White is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches courses in the MBA program (Required and Elective curricula) and the Executive Education program. Courses taught include Entrepreneurial... View Details
- September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
- Supplement
Genzyme Center (B)
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
- July 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Clair
- September 2009 (Revised September 2010)
- Case