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- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
(and/or an expensive college lifestyle) when more affordable quality options with comparable employment outcomes are available. Putting popular fixes like free tuition aside, the facts make clear that... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
David F., Eric C. So, and Charles C.Y. Wang Publication:Journal of Accounting & Economics Abstract Firms with central or well-connected boards of directors earn superior risk-adjusted stock returns. Initiating a long position in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
entrepreneurial enterprises. And yet they are subject to exactly the same rules and conditions as large companies. A second example. There has been a lot of discussion about stock options and View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 02 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
described moments when they had to summon their resolve to fight back against, for example, short-term moves that would lift the company’s stock price at the expense or its overall health or that would cause... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Working PapersThe Long-Run Risks Model and Aggregate Asset Prices: An Empirical Assessment Authors:Jason Beeler and John Y. Campbell Abstract The long-run risks model of asset prices explains stock price variation as a response to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
organizations, Kaplan and Haas identify five common mistakes when managers attempt to cut health care costs. The mistakes are triggered, primarily, by working from the line-item expense categories on P&Ls, rather than clinically based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
continue to enjoy broad freedom to unload options, a practice that enables executives to benefit from increases in short-term stock prices that come at the expense of long-term value. That the market for... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
status quo, at the expense of searching for (and investing in) the kinds of novel breakthrough ideas that originally propelled them to the top. Atari, Wang, Polaroid, DEC, the examples are so numerous it is actually harder to point to... View Details
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
that it will require Government subsidy while providing price leadership under a nonprofit cover, will over time drive most if not all health care to the public option (as happened with home mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac),... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
that. They make sure they carry enough inventory so you can get that job done immediately. Lighting fixtures, on the other hand, are a different animal. There are hundreds of thousands of options to choose from and generally the need is... View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
the decline in the number of state-owned companies, however, is the way they are structured. "Some of the largest state-owned enterprises are becoming almost like private corporations," says Musacchio. "They are traded in stock exchanges... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions of boards. The AFL-CIO believes that such problems were... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
capital firms. 54 In addition, ARD was formed as a closed-end investment fund regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which placed limits on how those working for ARD could be compensated. Employees, for example, were not allowed to have View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
novel convertible bond dataset, I find that consumers often purchase dominated bonds—cheap and expensive versions of otherwise identical bonds coexist in the market. The empirical evidence suggests that broker incentives are responsible... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
harmonization strategies. The analysis and framework in this paper can help broaden the understanding of accounting's globalization. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1875682 Cases & Course MaterialsElizabeth Jacobs:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
the short-term have a more short-term oriented investor base. Moreover, we find that short-term oriented firms have higher stock price volatility, and that this effect is mitigated for firms with more long-term investors. We also find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Weapon", was originally published on Harvard Business Review's faculty blog on April 19, 2010.) Spring brings April showers, May flowers—and a flurry of annual reports. Mine have been arriving in the mail, and I am always interested to see what the companies I own... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
United States,” notes Khanna. “Court systems, contract law, stock markets, accounting standards, and other elements that facilitate entrepreneurship and growth are often weak, archaic, or entirely missing in these economies.” Business... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
between book and tax income, and yet this disparity has been growing. Other factors such as the peculiar accounting treatment of stock option compensation and differential treatment of overseas income,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
reputation as “the everything store” can sometimes work against it, overwhelming consumers with too many options and an impersonal experience. Convening: Indie bookstores are increasingly serving as points for convening, expanding beyond... View Details