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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock Options Expensing

By: Fabrizio Ferri and Tatiana Sandino
In this paper we examine the economic consequences of over 150 shareholder proposals to expense employee stock options (ESO) submitted during the proxy seasons of 2003 and 2004–the first case where the SEC has allowed an accounting matter to be subject to an advisory... View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Financial Reporting; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Up on the Corner

the government of Angola on foreign direct investment. That experience, coupled with childhood memories of the painful structural adjustment programs foisted on Cameroon by the IMF (her own mother lost her... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

studies of adherence to labor codes of conduct to determine what combination of institutional conditions promotes compliance with the global labor standards embodied in codes. We find that these private transnational View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

offset by a tax on noncorporate business income and an expansion of taxable income. Topics include tax-avoidance techniques, globalization, repatriation taxes, corporate social responsibility, and U.S. workers. Graphs are included, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2022
  • Supplement

Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia
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  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Shinta Kamdani

    Keywords: Consumer Products, Energy
    • February 2004
    • Case

    Czech Mate: CME and Vladimir Zelezny (A)

    By: Mihir A. Desai, Alberto Moel and Kathleen Luchs
    This case examines how insiders can expropriate value from shareholders in emerging markets when property rights are ill-defined. As such, it provides a platform for considering how institutions and legal rules impact financing patterns and economic outcomes. CME,... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Fairness; Financial Institutions; Corporate Governance; Rights; Ownership Stake
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    • February 2017
    • Case

    Clear Channel (A): The Rise, 1972–2003

    By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
    At the end of 2003, Clear Channel Communications, Inc., a diversified media group with revenues of $8.9 billion, could claim leadership positions in all three of its main businesses. Clear Channel Broadcasting was the largest radio-station operator in the world, with... View Details
    Keywords: Clear Channel; Clear Channel Outdoor; Radio; Outdoor Advertising; Concert Industry; Lowry Mays; Federal Communications Commission; Regulation; Regulations; Regulatory Environment; JCDecaux; Media; Growth Management; Consolidation; Competitive Strategy; Fair Value Accounting; Advertising; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; For-Profit Firms; Entertainment; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Public Equity; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Business History; Laws and Statutes; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Channels; Industry Structures; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Opportunities; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Wireless Technology; Valuation; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Advertising Industry; Music Industry; United States; Texas
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    • 17 Mar 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: March 17

    Projects By: MacCormack, Alan, and Anant Mishra Abstract—Formal contracts represent an important governance instrument with which firms exercise control of and compensate partners in R&D projects. The... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Mar 2023
    • News

    Step Change

    home. That was when she decided to apply to HBS. “I was young and had more options,” Enan acknowledges. “It was harder on people with families and responsibilities.” Looking back, she says she’s grateful for... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
    • 16 Jan 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

    senior management at public firms still spends a lot of time in private powwows with hedge fund managers at corporate headquarters, road shows, or conferences—an average of 17 to 26 days per year for each... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • 20 Feb 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

    space race have been blessed somewhat by the glamour of it all. Investors enthusiastically, maybe too much so, backed a host of startups including those headed by superstar names like Sir Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk. Rich adventurers are lining up View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation
    • 08 Sep 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: September 8, 2010

    the extent of investor protections across countries, since that is the main channel through which legal origin affects financial development, and shows that all the evidence supports the idea of relative convergence in corporate View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • November 2009 (Revised August 2013)
    • Case

    IFRS in China

    By: Karthik Ramanna, G.A. Donovan and Nancy Dai
    In 2005, China announced plans to "converge with," but not completely adopt, IFRS. China also began to lobby for changes to specific IFRS provisions, such as for related party disclosures by state-owned firms, to bring them more into line with Chinese interests.... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Corporate Disclosure; Standards; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; China
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    • 23 Oct 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: October 23

    family of objectives that have been well studied in the literature for their fairness properties. We deal with the problem of selecting the appropriate objective from this family. We characterize the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Mar 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: March 2

    fostered by the established structural context of the firm. We illustrate this model of corporate intervention with a case study in which a high-performing firm seeks to shift its performance trajectory into... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 29 Aug 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

    consequences of correcting these erroneous beliefs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53126 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 Jul 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: July 24, 2007

    by calling attention to Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli's compensation package and the company's poor performance. The AFL-CIO Office of Investments advocates for improved corporate governance at public... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

    in the development of new technologies and industries during the war, the US government had assumed significant risk," HBS Professor Tom Nicholas asserts. "The fact that several of these risks paid off–in ways that Doriot had seen... View Details