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  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

these conventions, pension assets and liabilities are not included in balance sheet calculations. The modern risk management tools of derivatives technologies can improve both corporate decision making and external analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

existed, but by 1939, there were over 88,000. Approximately half were joint stock firms, and these outperformed limited and unlimited partnerships on a return on equity basis, while also accounting for most of the aggregate profits. When the private limited View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

Relations with oil companies can also be a liability for politicians in some districts. Perhaps, contributions from financial institutions perceived to have benefited from the mortgage crisis will also be sensitive. Q: In layman’s terms,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2011
  • What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

might be threatened. Rob Houck reminds us that considerations of potential legal liability often inhibit transparency in such cases. Should the public sector wait for an "invitation" for its intervention? The sentiment here... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

While the knowledge sharing benefits of clusters takes off, the liability of institutionalization rise steadily as a function of time. These costs consist primarily of foregone flexibility resulting from persistence of established... View Details
Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • August 2002 (Revised August 2002)
  • Case

Raiser Senior Services--The Stratford (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Focuses on modifying operations to increase profitability at an upscale senior care facility in California. Jennifer Raiser, president of Raiser Senior Services, opened the Stratford in 1992 as a high-end, continuing-care retirement community. Ten years later, the... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Profit; Saving; Health Care and Treatment; Age; Management Teams; Problems and Challenges; Ethics; Legal Liability; Business Growth and Maturation; Health Industry; Service Industry; California
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  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

March 2015 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A Behavioral Model of the Popularity and Regulation of Demandable Liabilities By: Rotemberg, Julio J. Abstract—Overoptimism regarding one's ability to arrive early in a queue is shown... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

trusts through which all current and future asbestos claims will be channeled, allowing the company to survive as an ongoing business. However, the company and asbestos claimholders' committees materially disagree over the size of the company's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

firm’s book equity value and compares that to its market capitalization, or market equity value. Book value is the value of a firm’s assets, including land, equipment, and patents, and minus value of liabilities like debt—essentially an... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 20 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

and liabilities are combined through a merger or acquisition (the opposite is true when a financial firm makes these deals). According to the co-insurance theory, combined debt is safer and should reduce the yield investors demand from... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability typically enjoyed by credit officers. Second, we present direct evidence that incentive contracts distort judgment and beliefs, even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

liabilities to external "shocks." At the national level, the sectors of an economy are viewed as interconnected portfolios of assets, liabilities, and guarantees—some explicit and others implicit. Traditional approaches have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

which, as the former parent of Delphi, has agreed to fund a portion of the massive pension and retiree health care liabilities that Delphi incurred when it separated from GM in a prior spin-off. The company has also had to seek... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2020 (Revised February 2021)
  • Case

The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
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  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

It was a brief dalliance, just a few weeks in length, over text and video only. The end of the affair was nonetheless just the beginning for Stephen Easterbrook, the McDonald’s CEO who went from being hailed as the company’s “savior” by doubling its share price in less... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • July 2002 (Revised August 2003)
  • Case

Unilever Superannuation Fund vs. Merrill Lynch, The

By: Andre F. Perold and Joshua Musher
In 2001, the Unilever Superannuation Fund sued Merrill Lynch for damages of 130 million British pounds. Over the period 1977 to 1998, the Unilever Fund had significantly underperformed the benchmark, and its trustees contended that the poor returns resulted from... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Performance Evaluation; Agreements and Arrangements; Customer Relationship Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Asset Management; Risk Management; Legal Liability; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

financing decisions. The traditional DuPont framework provides for a methodical evaluation of performance for each business, but it has its limits: it does not separate operating assets and liabilities from financing assets and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We find that, on average, laws that limit the liability exposure of healthcare providers are associated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

claim." When the global stock market and interest rates began to decline in 2000, many corporations faced a double whammy when returns on pension assets were well below expectations and pension liabilities rose by much more than... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

liability for failure for all but the most glaring fraud or embezzlement. The real problems for a potential investor are not those warned of in a prospectus in such general terms as to apply to virtually any company; they are specific... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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