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Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items

By: Edward J. Riedl and Suraj Srinivasan

This paper investigates whether managers' presentation of special items within the financial statements reflects economic performance or opportunism. Specifically, we assess special items presented as a separate line item on the income statement (income statement... View Details

Keywords: Managerial Roles; Financial Statements; Economics; Performance; Research; Opportunities; Business Earnings; Motivation and Incentives

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Pricing and Financial Resources: An Analysis of the Disk Drive Industry, 1980-88

By: J. Lerner

Keywords: Price; Information Infrastructure; Money; Computer Industry

February 2004 (Revised June 2004)
Case

Freeport Mine, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, The: "Tailings & Failings" - Stakeholder Analysis

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Arthur McCaffrey

Chronicles the development of Freeport's nearly 30 years of mining operations in Indonesia. Building on a mining concession awarded by the country's government, headed by General Suharto, in 1973, Freeport steadily built its mining output to nearly 200,000 cubic... View Details

Keywords: History; Situation or Environment; Private Sector; Economic Growth; Power and Influence; Business and Government Relations; Growth and Development Strategy; Mining Industry; Indonesia

Educators

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Fair Siting Procedures - An Empirical Analysis of Their Importance and Characteristics

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Bruno S. Frey

2020
Working Paper

Anchors Aweigh: Analysis of Anchor Limited Partner Investors in Impact Investment Funds

By: Shawn A. Cole, T. Robert Zochowski, Fanele Mashwama and Heather McPherson

This note describes results from a survey of “anchor investors” in impact funds. Anchor investors are described as “generally the first investor to make a substantial capital commitment to a fund,” (according to the Global Impact Investing Network, “GIIN”) and their... View Details

Keywords: Impact Investment Funds; Anchor Investors; Investment; Surveys; Analysis

Fall 2017
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An Empirical Analysis of Investment Return Dispersion in Emerging Markets Private Equity

By: Josh Lerner and Mark Baker

The authors use transaction-level data to compare the dispersion of private equity (PE) returns in emerging markets (EMs) to the same in developed markets (DMs). They regress within-market absolute deviation from the mean on an EM indicator and controls. They find... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Emerging Markets; Investment Return; Analysis

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May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
Case

Hubei Lantian (A)

By: David F. Hawkins, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Nancy Hua Dai

Emily Wang, an analyst with Future Securities, a Shanghai-based investment firm, is given the task of making stock purchase recommendations to her supervisor from a number of Chinese common stocks. One stock in particular, Hubei Lantian Co., Ltd. (Hubei Lantian),... View Details

Keywords: Financial Analysis; Ratio Analysis

Educators

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Other Unpublished Work

Comet Energy (B) DoD Incentive Contracting - HBS Analysis and Decision Case

By: J. Ronald Fox and Louis B. Smith

Keywords: Contracts; Business and Government Relations; National Security; Decision Making

1992
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Troubled Debt Restructurings: An Empirical Analysis of Private Reorganization of Firms in Default

By: S. C. Gilson, J. Kose and L.H.P. Kang

Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Restructuring

2001
Chapter

Your Contribution Counts! An Empirical Analysis of the Decision to Support Solar Energy

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee

June 2008
Supplement

Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds - Duration Analysis - courseware for instructors

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Bonds; Theory; Education; Information; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

winter 1992
Article

Challenging Conventional Explanations of Cooperation: Negotiation Analysis and the Case of Epistemic Communities

By: James K. Sebenius

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Cooperation; Negotiation; Civil Society or Community

1965
Book

Economic Analysis of the Proposal to Increase Copyright License Fee for Phonograph Records

By: David Hawkins and John D Glover

Keywords: Theory; Media; Money

September 2004
Article

Relative Explanatory Power of Agency Theory and Transaction Cost Analysis in German Salesforces

By: Manfred Krafft, Sönke Albers and Rajiv Lal

Keywords: Theory; Cost; Sales; Employees; Germany

April 2014
Teaching Note

Jiangxi Agribusiness: (TN)

By: David F. Hawkins

[TN for 114-039] Emily Wang, an analyst with Future Securities, a Shanghai-based investment firm, is given the task of making stock purchase recommendations to her supervisor from a number of Chinese common stocks. One stock in particular, Jiangxi Agribusiness... View Details

Keywords: Financial Analysis; Ratio Analysis