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- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
On August 31, 2016, many investors celebrated the 40th birthday of one of the world’s most successful financial instruments: the mutual index fund, created by Vanguard founder John C. Bogle. Index funds, which automatically track an index of View Details
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
contribution is positively associated with proxies for quality of accruals and governance. Next, we investigate the implications of accruals' predictive value for accrual-based market anomalies. We find that portfolios formed on stock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
of the Church to have a reserve food supply on hand at all times. Given U.S. and global food stock levels, is the Church program a good model for the country? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
that in real terms, a dollar invested in large company stocks in December 1925 was worth $24.79 by year-end 1979. Exactly twenty years later, that dollar was worth $303.09. Nevertheless, the fact that the upper echelon of society... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
household products. Steinhoff was widely known as a South African company because it first listed on the South African Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and its global headquarters was in South Africa. However, Steinhoff went on to expand... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15
Large banks—including Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase—were among the former creditors. In October 2005, Eddie Bauer stock was selling for $24 per share. Analysts were projecting target prices ranging from $22 to $35 per share.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
stores, TCS went public in late 2013. Since its IPO, same store sales have suffered, and the company's stock in early 2016 was trading well below its IPO price. As such, the company's culture and Foundation Principles were being put to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
government regulators, who repeatedly threatened to put ARD out of business. The Securities & Exchange Commission, to cite one example, ruled that ARD officers could not hold stock options in client companies, which meant Doriot could not... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
by expanding into new geographies, product categories, and distribution channels. They have also recently developed several strategic partnerships with Silicon Valley firms to expand into an array of digital products. However, after going public, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
provides a wide array of in-aisle treats and accessories to drive impulse purchases. At the same time, they've maintained a strategy of exclusivity with pet food so that they are not stocking all of the same items that Walmart and the... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
consistent with better audit quality from knowledge spillovers due to the joint offering of audit and consulting services. Events related to the repeal of these NAS disclosures in 1982 are associated with a small positive stock price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
backroom stock for sale items missing from shelves, or even to scale and price produce items or grind A&P's bean coffees. Cleanliness and courtesy standards, freshness and quality standards, shelf-stocking and checkout standards, and... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007
less-populated county suggesting a role for social factors. Additionally, stock markets respond favorably to divestitures of in-state divisions. Investigative Negotiation Authors:Deepak Malhotra and Max H. Bazerman Periodical:Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
competition if they don’t serve customer needs, there’s no higher authority lording over the political system. Though the Federal Election Commission is nominally tasked with ensuring that election and financing rules are followed, the panel is View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
Barron's Business Terms, FDI is "investment in a country by foreign citizens, often involving majority stock ownership of an enterprise." Huang is looking deeper into how and why FDI played quite different roles in these four... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Publication:Journal of Advertising Research (forthcoming) Abstract What is the payoff to enlisting celebrity endorsers? Although effects on stock returns are relatively well documented, little is known about any impact on sales—arguably a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
of Employee Stock Options Expensing Authors:Fabrizio Ferri and Tatiana Sandino Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper we examine the economic consequences of over 150 shareholder proposals to expense... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
to stop chasing stock price and shareholder value. Maybe they shouldn't have as many users. Maybe they have to expunge a lot of those users and clean up their site a lot more. Kenny: You review that decision to go public. Was that a... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1960-2011, it was unusually high in the 1980s and negative in the 2000s, a period during which Treasury bonds enabled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne