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- October 27, 2020
- Blog Post
Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU." Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (October 27, 2020). https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/10/27/short-termism-shareholder-payouts-and-investment-in-the-eu/.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
Investor-driven “short-termism” is said to harm EU public firms' ability to invest for the long term, prompting calls for the EU to better insulate managers from shareholder pressure. But the evidence offered—in the form of rising levels of repurchases and dividends—is... View Details
Keywords: Short-termism; Quarterly Capitalism; EU; Dividends; Equity Issuances; Equity Compensastion; Capital Flows; Capital Distribution; R＆D; Innovation; Investment; Corporate Governance; Investment Return; Acquisition; European Union
Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-054, October 2020.
- July 9, 2018
- Editorial
The Real Problem with Stock Buybacks
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "The Real Problem with Stock Buybacks." Wall Street Journal (July 9, 2018).
- December 1988
- Case
Pacific Bell and the CWA (A)
By: Charles C. Heckscher and Rosabeth M. Kanter
Keywords: Telecommunications Industry
Heckscher, Charles C., and Rosabeth M. Kanter. "Pacific Bell and the CWA (A)." Harvard Business School Case 489-086, December 1988.
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn (MBA ’06), and Curtis W. Johnson (McGraw-Hill) Taking a cue from Bill Gates’s 2005 critique of the American school... View Details
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Baker Library Resources | Baker Library
Kuhn Loeb (A) and (B), TN.” HBS No. 491-098. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 1991. Meerschwam, David M. “Shearson Lehman Brothers and American Express—1987.” HBS No. 290-002. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 1989.... View Details
- August 2021
- Teaching Note
Air Products' Pursuit of Airgas
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Paul M. Healy
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 116-024, 116-025, 118-080, and 118-081. View Details
- Editorial
Le capitalisme durable menace la durabilité des entreprises
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles CY Wang
Keywords: European Union
Fried, Jesse M., and Charles CY Wang. "Le capitalisme durable menace la durabilité des entreprises." Les Echos (December 18, 2020).
- February 20, 2019
- Editorial
Senators Take Aim at the Buyback Boogeyman
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Senators Take Aim at the Buyback Boogeyman." Boston Globe (February 20, 2019).
- December 1988
- Supplement
Pacific Bell and the CWA (C)
By: Charles C. Heckscher and Rosabeth M. Kanter
Keywords: Telecommunications Industry
Heckscher, Charles C., and Rosabeth M. Kanter. "Pacific Bell and the CWA (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 489-088, December 1988.
- Web
Research in Black and White | Baker Library
experience. He liked the fact that his students had little to unlearn.” (4) William McCune, who started as a quality control officer and later became chairman of Polaroid, wrote, “So many extraordinary people who were not scientists found... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
Daniel S. Gregory, MBA 1957, Founding Partner Henry F. McCance, MBA 1966, General Partner Charles P. Waite, MBA 1959, Founding Partner (From left to right) Howard E. Cox, Jr., Charles P. Waite, Henry F.... View Details
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The Dedication - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Lawrence Lowell with the keys to the School—officially named the “Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, George F. Baker Foundation”—and was moved to tears at the crowd’s sustained applause. Dedication speakers included Bishop View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
now facing the consequences of the many failures of American and world leadership in the previous century. It appears likely that we are now in the position of standing on the deck of a sinking ship, and all we can do is argue about the colors of the missing life... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 19 Dec 2014
- News
Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
the region, as well as with HBS faculty members and administrators. The evening also featured remarks by Dean Nitin Nohria, Professor William A. Sahlman, Leo F. Mullin (MBA 1967), Lisa M. Gunther (MBA 2000)... View Details
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
worldwide, the two-day event opened with a special interactive presentation by HBS professors Joseph Fuller and William Kerr called The Future of Work—And Managing the Impact of COVID-19. Fuller and Kerr serve as co-directors of the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Bossons. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987. Merton, Robert C. "On the Mathematics and Economic Assumptions of Continuous-Time Financial Models." In Financial Economics: Essays in Honor of Paul Cootner , edited by William F. Sharpe and... View Details
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Online Harassment | About
experiences. Sincerely, Alan M. Garber President John F. Manning Provost Meredith Weenick Executive Vice President Andrea Baccarelli Dean, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Tomiko Brown-Nagin Dean, Harvard Radcliffe Institute... View Details
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The EU's Unsustainable Approach to Stakeholder Capitalism
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
A recent report by the EU claims that investor-driven short-termism is encouraging firms to return cash rather than invest it, which reduces capital available for investment in growth. The authors show that the data behind the report do not support its claims and... View Details
Keywords: Short-termism; Sustainability; Capital; Investment; Decision Making; Business and Stakeholder Relations; European Union
Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "The EU's Unsustainable Approach to Stakeholder Capitalism." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (January 29, 2021).
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Short-Termism and Capital Flows
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
During 2007–2016, S&P 500 firms distributed to shareholders $7 trillion via buybacks and dividends, over 96% of their aggregate net income, prompting claims that "short-termism" is impairing firms' ability to invest and innovate. We show that, when taking into account... View Details
Keywords: Short-termism; Quarterly Capitalism; Share Buybacks; Open Market Repurchases; Dividends; Equity Issuances; Seasoned Equity Offerings; Equity Compensastion; Acquisitions; Payout Policy; Capital Flows; Capital Distribution; Working Capital; Business and Shareholder Relations; Acquisition
Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Short-Termism and Capital Flows." Review of Corporate Finance Studies 8, no. 1 (March 2019): 207–233.