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  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

beneficiary was European banks that had big operations here. The globalization of the top end of the financial services industry means that the Fed is everyone's central banker. The reactions we've seen in developing markets recently to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 07 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

This note briefly reviews the financial crisis in central Europe in late 2008 and summarizes how four central European countries—Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia—have coped with the economic downturn. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

employees on company time, with company material and/or tools. The origin of the term is unclear but probably refers to the fact that these artifacts are brought home. In the French aeronautics plant I studied, cutlery, toys, and decorative artifacts (such as View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • 19 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

(One cure for stock option abuse, say proponents, is to change accounting rules so that option grants are reflected in a company's principal financial statements. High-tech start-ups blister at that idea, saying it would harm their... View Details
Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton
  • 30 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 30

an 85% increase in click-through rates for paid advertising and a 65% decrease in click-through rates for non-paid algorithmic search links to competing online travel agencies. As search engines increase monetization of clicks by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

wagon, so what?" Fumbling the Future was published in 1988, and the impact of this book reverberated throughout Xerox, stimulating many responses. As the story was recounted in the business and financial press, PARC's technological... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

think several factors are at work. First, financial engineering increasingly allows for cheap recharacterizations of income for tax and book purposes, making tax obligations easily disappear. Second, the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency of marketing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

this ritualistic document filled with financial information, different types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

reverse convertible note with payoffs linked to the price of Molycorp's common stock. These financially engineered securities were just one of many kinds of structured notes available in the retail market.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract It is well known that the divergence between control rights and cash-flow rights is associated with firm value. In this paper, we identify an important channel through which the divergence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

unmatched and unchecked culture of engineering ambition, of rote learning and educational experimentation, of sophisticated tastes along with basic concerns with food safety. It is a country that is at once cosmopolitan and confused about... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. "The world of business has been governed by an implicit leadership model," Beer explains. "With the exception of a minority of CEOs, however—those we interviewed and others like them—the purpose of the firm is defined by a single-minded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

contained in the mandatory transitional documents required by International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 1 (2005). We find significant negative abnormal returns for firms reporting negative earnings reconciliation. Although the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 18

account for horizontal peer comparison when designing executive wage contracts and that this comparison has productivity consequences for firms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43633 How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting "reliability" and "relevance" of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB members with backgrounds in financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

cycles The crisis demonstrates, painfully, the importance of cash. In his famous essay "The Yield from Money Held,” the economist William Hutt described cash in your pocket or on the balance sheet as “a fire engine when there are no... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
  • 17 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

when all other options have been exhausted, for it will always be a drawn-out, distracting, and financially draining process. But sometimes it is simply absolutely necessary. [A WTO appeals panel ruled last week that U.S. duties on... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • October 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Ball: EVA Driving the World's Leading Can Manufacturer (A)

By: Jonas Heese and Susan Pinckney
The case describes Ball’s multi decade history of using Economic Value Added to drive decision making and workforce compensation. In 2016, the company acquired Rexam PLC and became the world’s leading metal beverage container company. Consumer demand for varied... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Cost Accounting; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Buildings and Facilities; Green Building; Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Satisfaction; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Machinery and Machining; Asset Pricing; Corporate Finance; Capital; Cost; Financial Management; Goods and Commodities; Compensation and Benefits; Executive Compensation; Employee Relationship Management; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Arizona; California; Texas
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  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

did not allow trade unions to operate freely. Similarly, openness affects the development of markets. If a country's capital markets are open to foreign investors, financial intermediaries will become more sophisticated. That has happened... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

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