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- 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008
influence the companies being rated. We focus on corporate environmental ratings, the primary purpose of which is to help investors select "socially responsible" and avoid "socially irresponsible" companies. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
widespread and so toxic in Enron." Salter, a specialist in corporate strategy and corporate governance who is also writing a book on Enron, said he is trying to operate as a sort of forensic analyst.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
Garry Twite Abstract U.S. corporations hold significant amounts of cash on their balance sheets, and these cash holdings have been justified in the existing empirical literature by transaction costs and precautionary motives. An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Runner-up for the 2024 Best Paper Award from the Journal of Corporate Finance for "The Stock Market Valuation of Human Capital Creation" with Matthias Regier (April 2023). Charles C.Y. Wang : Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2024... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
by understanding the role of hormone levels. ©iStock.com/VIPDesignUSA For eons, academics have studied the forces behind unethical acts, disturbed and intrigued by scary real-world data on corporate corruption. The Association of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
corporate misconduct, pointing to cultural factors that might eventually result in scandal earlier than they would otherwise attract attention. In a business environment where ethics are paramount, the findings may offer managers and... View Details
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
Good ethical practices don’t just happen; everyone within a corporation has to continuously work on them. “People are not always comfortable talking about ethics,” Nelson says. “Some have been dismissing ethics as, ‘I don’t have to think... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
was purchased for approximately $1.1B by Ariba, where Mr. Burgstone served as Vice President and co-head of corporate development. He has also worked as a high-tech strategy consultant (semiconductor, telecom, online financial services),... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
to be coupled with very low life satisfaction. Thus, people may work hard to maintain or increase their income in part because they overestimate the hedonic costs of earning low levels of income. Capital Market Driven Corporate Finance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
valuation processes. The SEC seems concerned about conflicts of interest (such as mutual funds owning hedge funds) and possible fraud and the increasing availability of hedge funds to retail investors. The SEC may be getting ready to... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market Authors:Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina Abstract Reaching-for-yield-the propensity to buy riskier assets in order to achieve higher yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 22 Jan 2025 By Unit View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View Accounting & Management Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits The Anatomy of Fraud... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
standards). But the corporate auditing arena is a particularly fertile ground for self-serving biases. Three structural aspects of accounting create substantial opportunities for bias to influence judgment. Ambiguity. Bias thrives... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
shareholder of private companies. We conduct such a study using data for 296 publicly traded corporations in Brazil, looking at the effects of equity purchases by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) on firm... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22
gains from increasing one's reservation wage are larger than either those that people expect or those predicted by models in which job offers are stationary. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18638 Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
latest chapter of corporate fraud and the lessons for entrepreneurs operating in the murky spaces between innovation and regulation. As you look at how things fell apart at FTX, do you see anything new or is... View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
Widely deemed the most important piece of security legislation since formation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was born into a climate still reeling from the burst of the high-tech bubble and View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
False Claims Act, which rewards whistleblowers who report fraud against the federal government with a percentage of the money recovered. “We need to understand the costs,” explains Heese, “and how to empower the people who have important... View Details
- 15 Apr 2011
- News
Students Hear Wall St. Critics
cited the FCIC’s January report that found failures in financial regulations and enforcement, corporate governance, risk management, and accountability and ethics at all levels. Overarching this, Angelides said, is a climate in which “too... View Details
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
In press Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Hormones and Ethics: Understanding the Biological Basis of Unethical Conduct By: Lee, Jooa Julia, Francesca Gino, Ellie Shuo Jin, Leslie K. Rice, and Robert A. Josephs Abstract—Globally, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne