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- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
activist SEC filings between 1993 and 2006, focusing on instances where the target of the activism is a U.S. firm. In total, our database contains almost 1,000 events. Our main result is that targets of investor activism earn high returns... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
panelists at a Global Alumni Conference session addressing the topic "Global Brands: Connecting with Consumers across Boundaries," chaired by HBS associate professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of the forthcoming book Brand New: How... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
information flow to the market through their specific organization and choreographing of earnings conference calls, report Lauren Cohen, Dong Lou, and Christopher Malloy. View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
account for transactions under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) while reducing transparency and aggressively maximizing earnings and debt. Creative accounting is part of the competition among auditors that has led to lower... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
comment-letter reviews (CLs) on firms’ financial reporting. We exploit a major change in the SEC’s disclosure policy: in 2004, the SEC decided to make its CLs publicly available. Using a novel dataset of CLs, we analyze the capital-market responses to firms’ quarterly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
abnormal returns associated with routine traders are essentially zero. Further, opportunistic insiders predict future firm-specific news, as well as announcement returns around future analyst forecasts, management forecasts, and earnings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
order to protect the groups earning the least. Nevertheless, opponents claim that a flat tax is likely to redistribute more of the tax burden from the rich to the middle classes. The fairness issue is very important in this case. It is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- March 2025 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News
By: Vincent Pons, Jesse M. Shapiro, Bharat Anand and Susan Pinckney
The case examines the Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News defamation settlement based upon statements made on air in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. View Details
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- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
to avoid intense price competition for the larger segment. A firm that conducts market research may therefore invest less in R&D and earn lower post-launch profits than a rival that has forgone such research. Backlash to Arbitration:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
Frei. Their customers are better off and the organizations earn a disproportionate share of the profits over their competitors. Frei, who spoke with HBS alumni on June 4 in a session titled "Capitalizing on the Power of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
it time to give up? It took a while for the magic to materialize. The Farm Boy pilot broke down on the third day, as most customers went directly to the in-store kiosk without downloading the app. The resulting congestion of regular shoppers and kiosk customers View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan between 2006 and 2010, we find no evidence that total 401(k)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
unprofitable, non-dividend-paying, extreme growth, and distressed stocks earn relatively higher subsequent returns. When sentiment is high, the aforementioned categories of stocks earn relatively lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
versus American ideology, Holt said. Even though the allegory has changed over time, the brand's consistency in supporting a certain kind of identity has earned it cultural authority. For identity brands, brand strategy, as we conceive of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
probability of a crash; (3) attributes of the price run-up, including volatility, turnover, issuance, and the price path of the run-up, can all help forecast an eventual crash and future returns; and (4) some of these characteristics can help investors View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?
information from the participants' individual workstations, the researchers could figure out who had understated their earnings or overstated their commuting costs. Again, the results were significant in indicating the efficacy of a... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
year, will eventually earn them a decent funeral by the time they die. The problem, though, is that if they miss even two weeks' worth of payments, they forfeit everything they've contributed to date. Big Demand According to Joseph L.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
Michelin operations in Brazil and overseen the integration of the Goodrich-Uniroyal acquisition, Ghosn earned the nickname "le cost killer" for his role in the Renault turnaround. His Nissan revival plan included cutting... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
relationships with people well before I had launched my business. Start planning early. Save money. And go back to your community." Feeling profitable, McMillan said, is not only about economics—it's about earning respect from... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
obtaining full disclosure, and in general exercising oversight in such relationships. Coase's ideas were thought to be so valuable that they earned him the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1991. One of the most important phenomena of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett