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Short-Termism and Capital Flows

By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
During 2007–2016, S&P 500 firms distributed to shareholders $7 trillion via buybacks and dividends, over 96% of their aggregate net income, prompting claims that "short-termism" is impairing firms' ability to invest and innovate. We show that, when taking into account... View Details
Keywords: Short-termism; Quarterly Capitalism; Share Buybacks; Open Market Repurchases; Dividends; Equity Issuances; Seasoned Equity Offerings; Equity Compensastion; Acquisitions; Payout Policy; Capital Flows; Capital Distribution; Working Capital; Business and Shareholder Relations; Acquisition
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  • March 2019 (Revised May 2019)
  • Case

Growth Investing at Totem Point

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Charles C.Y. Wang and Jonah Goldberg
The case describes the investment of hedge fund, Totem Point Management in Analog Semiconductors (ADI) as a way to discuss forecasting and valuation in growth companies. In June 2016, hedge fund Totem Point invested in ADI at around $55 a share. In general, Totem Point... View Details
Keywords: Growth Investing; Investment; Strategy; Forecasting and Prediction; Valuation
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  • 02 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 2

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41870 Expected Returns Dynamics Implied by Firm Fundamentals By: Lyle, Matthew R., and Charles C.Y. Wang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 25

Provide Wisdom? By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We compare the performance of a comprehensive set of alternative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Governance Transparency and Firm Value: Evidence from Korean Chaebols

By: Akash Chattopadhyay, Sa-Pyung Sean Shin and Charles C.Y. Wang
We examine Korean business groups' transition from circular-shareholding structures to (relatively simple) pyramidal-shareholding structures between 2011 and 2018. When firms were removed from ownership loops, chaebol families' control or incentive conflicts in them... View Details
Keywords: Business Groups; Cross Shareholding; Circular Shareholding; Pyramidal Ownership; Governance Transparency; Ownership Transparency; Earnings Response Coefficient; Business Conglomerates; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Business Earnings
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  • Winter 2021
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Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Causal Evidence from Massachusetts

By: Robert Daines, Shelley Xin Li and Charles C.Y. Wang
We study the effect of staggered boards (SBs) using a quasi-experiment: a 1990 law that imposed an SB on all Massachusetts-incorporated firms. The law led to an increase in Tobin's Q, investment in CAPEX and R&D, patents, higher-quality patented innovations, and... View Details
Keywords: Staggered Board; Entrenchment; Life-cycle; Tobin's Q; Innovation; Profitability; Investor Composition; Governing and Advisory Boards; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Institutional Investing; Value
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  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

focuses on a board director of a diversified holding company. The CEO is raising the idea of joining with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to spin off part of the business as a separate company. The board director must consider how to respond.” Misaki... View Details
  • February 2022
  • Case

Business Roundtable 2019 Statement: A New Paradigm or Business as Usual?

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Amram Migdal
This note focuses on the antecedents of, reactions to, and clarifications about The Business Roundtable’s August 19, 2019, “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation.” The note includes background information on corporate governance as practiced in the United States in... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Business History; Mission and Purpose; Agency Theory; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
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  • 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

Value Approach By: Lyle, Matthew R., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We provide a tractable model of firm-level expected holding period returns using two firm... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

in conjunction with debt, to be the best policy alternative under real external shocks for emerging nations. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44340 How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a Natural Experiment By: Cohen,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We argue, from an extensive literature review, that in the vast majority of research settings, biases in alternative expected-return proxies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2021
  • Article

The Sustainable Corporate Governance Initiative in Europe

By: Mark Roe, Holger Spamann, Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
In July 2020, the European Commission published the “Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance” by EY. The Report purports to find evidence of debilitating short-termism in EU corporate governance and recommends many changes to support sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Short-termism; Hedge Funds; Shareholder Activism; Securities Regulation; Agency Costs; Political Economy; Payouts; Repurchases; Corporate Governance; Investment Funds; Investment Activism; Research and Development; Investment; European Union
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  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

reflected in stock prices. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43177 Cost of Capital Dynamics Implied by Firm Fundamentals Authors:Lyle, Matthew, and Charles View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55322 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

of recent large-scale asset purchases by central banks. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53531 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2013
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Learning and the Disappearing Association Between Governance and Returns

By: Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang
The correlation between governance indices and abnormal returns documented for 1990–1999 subsequently disappeared. The correlation and its disappearance are both due to market participants' gradually learning to appreciate the difference between good-governance and... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Investment Return; Operations; Performance; Value; Learning; Business Earnings; Behavioral Finance
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  • March 2018 (Revised January 2021)
  • Case

China Vanke: Battle for Control (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Charles C.Y. Wang, Dawn H. Lau and Anthony K. Woo
In June 2016, the board of China Vanke, one of China’s largest and best-known private residential real estate developers, must vote on a proposed acquisition that is opposed by its largest shareholders, state-owned China Resources Co. and the lesser-known property... View Details
Keywords: China Vanke; China Resources; Hostile Takeover; Board Of Directors; Shareholding Structure; Shareholder Rights; Asset Restructuring; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Valuation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Real Estate Industry; China
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Variable Leases Under ASC 842: Evidence on Properties and Consequences

By: Jonas Heese, Albert Shin and Charles C.Y. Wang
The new lease standard (ASC 842) allows firms to keep variable leases off-balance-sheet, in part based on the assumption that future expenses are difficult to estimate reliably. We show that variable-lease expenses are both prevalent and substantial, exhibiting... View Details
Keywords: Financial Accounting; Financial Analysis; Accounting; Leasing; Financial Strategy
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Stewardship Codes and Shareholder Voting on Disputed Ballot Measures

By: Trang T. Nguyen and Charles CY Wang
This study examines the impact of stewardship codes on investor voting behavior in disputed ballot measures-- where ISS's recommendation differs from management's recommendation-- across nine countries. U.S. institutional investors' voting behavior in adopting country... View Details
Keywords: Stewardship Codes; Investment; Voting; Behavior
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  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54565 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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