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  • 12 May 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Financing Payouts

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely & Martin C. Schmalz
  • 10 Feb 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Investing in Improvement: Strategy and Resource Allocation in Public School Districts

Keywords: by Stacey Childress; Education
  • March 2012
  • Article

Does America Really Need Manufacturing?

By: Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih
Too many U.S. companies base decisions about where to locate production largely on narrow financial criteria. They don't consider whether keeping manufacturing at home makes more sense strategically or take into account the impact it might have on their ability to... View Details
Keywords: Production; Geographic Location; Innovation and Invention; Competitive Advantage; Product Design; Risk Management; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • August 2013
  • Article

Corporate Ownership Structure and the Choice Between Bank Debt and Public Debt

By: Chen Lin, Yue Ma, Paul Malatesta and Yuhai Xuan
This paper examines the relation between a borrowing firm's ownership structure and its choice of debt source using a novel, hand-collected data set on corporate ownership, control, and debt structures for 9,831 firms in 20 countries from 2001 to 2010. We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Ownership; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance
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  • October 2011 (Revised May 2015)
  • Case

The American Repertory Theater

By: Rohit Deshpande, Allen S. Grossman and Ryan Johnson
When Diane Paulus, artistic director and CEO of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) first started in 2008, she attracted media coverage around an aesthetic that aimed to give the audience more ownership over the theater experience, excited theatergoers by... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Arts; Business Model; Leading Change; Media; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Competitive Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; North and Central America
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  • 24 Mar 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality

Keywords: by Mozaffar Khan, George Serafeim & Aaron Yoon; Financial Services

    Robert J. Dolan

    Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details

    • Web

    Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

    segments both reflected and shaped Microsoft’s strategy, culture, and financial communication. The case provides rich quantitative exhibits (segment revenue, operating income, margins, cloud KPIs) and qualitative material (CEO commentary,... View Details
    • 08 Nov 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Nov. 8

    just after the SEC's announcement. Our results are consistent with the view that financial markets placed a positive value on shareholder access, as implemented in the SEC's August 2010 rule. Download the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • December 1996 (Revised October 1999)
    • Case

    Kidder, Peabody & Co.: Creating Elusive Profits

    By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
    On April 17, 1994, Kidder, Peabody & Co. announced a $350 million charge against earnings resulting from the discovery of false trading profits. That same day, the termination of Joseph Jett's employment with the company was made public. By illustrating the mechanics... View Details
    Keywords: Bonds; Governance Controls; Crime and Corruption; Financial Reporting; Profit; Financial Strategy
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    • 03 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

    of university around the same time held jobs that have the same seniority level that also belonged to the same industry as the entrepreneurs before they started their VC-backed companies. Leapfrogging on the corporate ladder The results... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • January 2009
    • Supplement

    The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B1)

    By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane
    Bear Stearns & Co burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Banks and Banking; Governance; Crisis Management; Failure; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Balance and Stability; Valuation; New York (state, US)
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    • March 2011 (Revised March 2012)
    • Case

    Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany

    By: Diego A. Comin, J. Gunnar Trumbull and Kerry Yang
    Fraunhofer is one of the largest applied research organizations in the world. With 17,000 employees and a 1.6 billion euros budget, Fraunhofer has 60 institutes in Germany that cover most fields of science. The case examines the consequences that Fraunhofer has for the... View Details
    Keywords: Economy; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets; Government and Politics; Labor; Markets; Outcome or Result; Research and Development; Competitive Strategy; Germany
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation

    By: Karen Gordon Mills and Brayden McCarthy
    Small businesses were among the hardest hit in the Great Recession, accounting for more than 60% of the total jobs lost. The economic crisis was one focused on the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses,... View Details
    Keywords: Small Business; Financing and Loans; Financial Crisis
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    • 15 Jul 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: July 15, 2008

    decrease them during the downturn. Both results are in line with the behavior of inexperienced investors in experimental asset markets. The economic significance of young managers' actions is amplified by large inflows into their funds... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 13 Jan 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Forward Guidance in the Yield Curve: Short Rates versus Bond Supply

    Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, and Dimitri Vayanos; Financial Services
    • 24 Feb 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?

    all, if the government charges the right price for bearing the credit risk of its guarantee, the effect on mortgage rates is likely to be small. Second, the government guarantee proposals that involve private financial firms are likely to... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
    • 2010
    • Article

    Estimating the Attributable Cost of Physician Burnout in the United States

    By: Shasha Han, Tait D. Shanafelt, Christine A. Sinsky, Karim M. Awad, Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Lynne C. Fiscus, Mickey Trockel and Joel Goh
    Background: Although physician burnout is associated with negative clinical and organizational outcomes, its economic costs are poorly understood. As a result, leaders in health care cannot properly assess the financial benefits of initiatives to remediate... View Details
    Keywords: Physicians; Burnout; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Employees; Cost; Programs; Policy; Health Industry
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      Are the 'Best and Brightest' Going into Finance? Skill Development and Career Choice of MIT Graduates

      Abstract

      Using detailed data on recipients of bachelor's degrees from MIT between 2006 and 2012, I examine the selection of students into finance or science and engineering (S&E). I find that academic achievement in college is negatively correlated with... View Details

      • 19 Mar 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Use of Broker Votes to Reward Brokerage Firms’ and Their Analysts’ Research Activities

      Keywords: by David A. Maber, Boris Groysberg & Paul M. Healy; Financial Services