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  • 24 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?

disclosure of those details poses a threat to national security, the government can order the inventors to keep it secret. 11,000 secrecy applications during WWII The WWII patent secrecy policy, for example, was established in 1940. Over... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 08 Oct 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?

Street reform. In addition to the disclosure of the annual compensation of the CEO, the bill requires organizations with publicly held stock to disclose the median total annual compensation of all employees and the ratio comparing these... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • August 2011
  • Article

Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Does Voluntary Self-Reporting Indicate Effective Self-Policing

By: Michael W. Toffel and Jodi L. Short
Regulatory agencies are increasingly establishing voluntary self-reporting programs both as an investigative tool and to encourage regulated firms to commit to policing themselves. We investigate whether voluntary self-reporting can reliably indicate effective... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Programs; Governance Compliance; Corporate Disclosure; Law Enforcement
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  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Reinventing the Annual Report

"That's the report. Now, would anyone like to carp?" © James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/ www.cartoonbank.com I am always interested in reading what the companies I own stock in have to say about themselves in their ritualistic annual reports filled with... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
  • October 2022 (Revised September 2023)
  • Supplement

SolarWinds Confronts SUNBURST (B)

By: Frank Nagle, George A. Riedel, William R. Kerr and David Lane
Supplements the (A) case, describing actions taken by SolarWinds as well as by regulatory agencies in the aftermath of the immediate crisis. The case also includes reflections by SolarWinds managers on the choices they made with respect to disclosure, media relations,... View Details
Keywords: Cyberattacks; Cybersecurity; Corporate Disclosure; Crisis Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Legal Liability; Governance Compliance; Business and Government Relations; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

Author:Francois Brochet Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the information content of Form 4 filings under the more timely disclosure regime introduced by Section 403 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jan 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)

impression that a temporarily shared selfie makes does not disappear when the [photos] disappear,” says social science researcher Leslie K. John, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and co-author of the paper “Temporary Sharing Prompts... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 May 2008
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

companies with ample money to invest. Among the largest investors have been Abu Dhabi's and Kuwait's Investment Authorities and the China Investment Corporation. There have been outcries for measures requiring investors to adhere to certain practices regarding View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 04 May 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

something is wrong, but I haven't figured it out," possibly voluntarily sending you on to another doctor for his opinion. This takes time, and good doctors make time to do it. Does this sound like your doctor? Even though doctors may sometimes avoid full View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

results of additional tests are consistent with the risk of expropriation being a barrier to information disclosure about firm performance. In contrast, we find no evidence that disclosure of government... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

because it sends a message to other managers about the importance of assuming an ownership mentality toward the business and its customers. Flash forward to the recent disclosure by the leadership of Wells Fargo that it fired 5,300 of its... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

is advocating disclosure of CEO pay packages, including the value of large stock option grants which many might conclude produce similar pressures for short-term performance? What do you think? View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • September 2010 (Revised August 2011)
  • Background Note

A Chronology of Integrated Reporting

By: Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus
This technical note traces the development of integrated reporting through published materials, research, and the formation of various committees. Readers will gain an understanding of how the topics of nonfinancial information, sustainable development, corporate... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Disclosure; Product Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues
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  • 01 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

determine whether firms followed what they call the “timely disclosure hypothesis,” the idea that managers accurately release their private post-quarter information at announcement time. What they found instead was that managers were... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services
  • 30 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

between a hospital's focus on both conformance and experiential dimensions of quality and their impact on financial and clinical outcomes. Imperfect Information, Patent Publication, and the Market for Ideas Hong Luo and a colleague study the effects of an important... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 13 May 2002
  • Op-Ed

A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures

audit committee must also ensure that all analyst and press reports about the company's accounting and disclosures are reviewed. Both the management and the auditor should be required to address negative comments and the committee should... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting
  • 05 Apr 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?

promoting the best managers from each organization, (6) timed their integration activities to avoid significant disclosure prior to regulatory approval of the acquisition while doing whatever necessary to "survive" a sometimes... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

PublicationsAttracting Skeptical Buyers: Negotiating for Intellectual Property Rights Authors:James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao Periodical:International Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract An obstacle to the sale of intellectual property (IP) is that an expropriable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

Patents as Real Options: Value and Disclosure as Drivers of Litigation Authors:Atul Nerkar, Srikanth Paruchuri and Mukti Khaire Periodical:In Real Options Theory. Vol. 24, edited by Jeffrey J. Reuer and Tony W. Tong. Advances in Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

A More Perfect Union

other thing we can do is pass democracy reform legislation. If we actually ended gerrymandering, if we got more disclosure and small-donor matching on campaign finance as well as automatic voter registration—those reforms would really... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar