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  • 23 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

support every low- to moderate-income family, says Tufano. Beyond valuable programs like Social Security, tax breaks for savers, or auto-enrollment initiatives, there are more innovative and exciting projects: Prize-linked savings View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 12 Oct 2017
  • News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

all residents,” he notes. Majors emphasizes that he and his colleagues are careful to “listen first and talk later.” “Each neighborhood’s context and assets are unique. There is no cookie-cutter solution. Many clients have been battling... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 06 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

It is fascinating to observe pundit after pundit come down strongly on the side of expensing stock options in the reported financial statements, as if that were the silver bullet for combating corporate malfeasance and resolving all our View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
  • 29 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

to favor this experienced view." He cited the example of several meetings in the year 2000, during which the Financial Accounting Standards Board was hashing out rules regarding mergers and acquisitions. At issue was the topic of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Accounting
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation

Wyss: Thanks the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association for presenting him with the Beatrice D. Ellerin Alumni Achievement Award. Related Links 2007 Alumni Achievement profile Hansjörg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • November 2010 (Revised August 2011)
  • Case

Australian Vintage Ltd.

By: David F. Hawkins
Following International Financial Reporting Standards guidance company records a number of significant losses and a related deferred tax asset. View Details
Keywords: Accounting; International Accounting; Financial Statements; Financial Reporting; Taxation; Business or Company Management; Asset Management; Assets; Financial Management; Standards; Australia
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  • Profile

Raja Bobbili

far? I work at a small firm with a big mandate – we have a pool of capital that we can invest in any asset class, industry and geography. I enjoy the intellectual freedom that comes with that and take pride in the sense of View Details
Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund
  • 08 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

time. (Of course, we later learned that this performance was over-stated due to accounting problems at Enron.) Unless we can ensure that analysts and professional investors use information to evaluate a company's long-term fundamentals,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 24 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

U.S.-listed foreign firm. Siegel collects evidence from a core sample of Mexican firms to show that some insiders from foreign-listed firms exploit this lax enforcement and run off with the firm's assets with impunity, while others learn... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy, published by Prentice Hall. Q: What's the context for the development of this book? Simons: My colleagues and I in the School's Accounting and Control Unit have spent a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability

By: Russell Lundholm, George Serafeim and Gwen Yu
We study how the availability of domestic credit influences the contribution that financing activities make to a firm's return on equity (ROE). Using a sample of 51,866 firms from 69 countries, we find that financing activities contribute more to a firm's ROE in... View Details
Keywords: Domestic Credit; Return Of Equity; Corporate Performance; Financial Statement Analysis; Financial Statements; Valuation; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Economic Growth
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Consolidated Balance Sheet - Annual Report 2019

Financials Consolidated Balance Sheet 1ms Assets IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year ended June 30... 2019 2018 2017 Cash $ 105 $ 89 $ 80 Current Use Reserves 129 118 145 Receivables, Loans, & Other Assets 215... View Details
  • Web

Consolidated Balance Sheet - Financial Report 2015

Financials Consolidated Balance Sheet Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Assets IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year {FY} ended June 30... 2015 2014 2013 Cash $ 62 44 38 Reserves... View Details
  • Web

Consolidated Balance Sheet - Annual Report 2017

Financials Consolidated Balance Sheet 1ms Assets IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year ended June 30... 2017 2016 2015 Cash $ 80 $ 61 $ 62 Current Use Reserves 145 103 125 Receivables, Loans, & Other Assets 177... View Details
  • Web

Consolidated Balance Sheet - Annual Report 2016

Financials Consolidated Balance Sheet 5-Year Data Summary CFO Letter Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Assets IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year ended June... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 2005
  • Working Paper

Can Mutual Fund Managers Pick Stocks? Evidence from Their Trades Prior to Earnings Announcements

By: Malcolm Baker, Lubomir Litov, Jessica Wachter and Jeffrey Wurgler
We consider measures of stock-picking skill of mutual fund managers based on the earnings announcement returns of the stocks that they hold and trade. Relative to standard approaches, this approach focuses on an especially informative subset of the returns data,... View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Asset Management; Business Earnings; Forecasting and Prediction; Competency and Skills
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  • December 2008
  • Case

Merrimack Tractors and Mowers: LIFO or FIFO?

By: William J. Bruns Jr., Sharon Bruns and Susan S. Hameling
At Merrimack Tractors and Mowers in 2008, product manufacturing costs are increasing faster than competitors' costs, and as a result earnings are likely to fall below those reported in 2007. The company president and the company controller have discussed this problem,... View Details
Keywords: International; Financial; Reporting; Standards; Inventory; Business Ethics; Assets; Valuation; Ethics; Taxation; Financial Reporting; Manufacturing Industry
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  • Web

Consolidated Balance Sheet - Annual Report 2014

Financials Balance Sheet 5-Year Data Summary CFO Letter Consolidated Balance Sheet Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Supplemental Financial Information Assets IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year {FY} ended June 30... 2014 2013 2012 Cash 44... View Details
  • 17 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

New Treasury Rules Help Long-Retirement Planning

it occurs shortly after retirement. To achieve their multiple retirement goals, workers should use part of their assets within their retirement plans to buy a deferred life annuity that starts paying out at age 75, 80, or 85. Then they... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Pozen; Financial Services