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Transportation - Business & Environment
business leaders that recognize shareholder value is irrelevant if the planet cannot be sustained long enough to realize financial gains. Every day, I rely on HBS frameworks for analysis and disruption toward the pursuit of transitioning... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
stock-price measure known as Tobin's Q , Kang found that three types of shareholders owning large blocks of a company's stock had a positive impact on the firm's performance: outside-director owners (shareholders who serve on the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
moments when I am a good leader and there are moments when I am not,” he admits. Having devoted his entire career to Corning—both the company and the small town where it sits on the Chemung River—Weeks’s success is hard to miss, whether measured in employee... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
trigger a crippling default on an amended loan agreement, Morton has to take a hard look at the numbers, industry trends, strategy considerations, shareholder interests, and several other financing options and come up with a plan to save... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
expectations embedded in a company's stock price. Providing a fundamentally new way to evaluate all stocks, Expectations Investing will set investors on the path to success. Managers can also use the book to devise, adjust, and communicate their company's strategy in... View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
advocates is to find a way to enact humanitarian sentiments in a world where shareholder wealth reigns.—Margolis & Walsh Closer to home, the picture may be more vivid and compelling. For twenty years, Americans have lived through a... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- Portrait Project
Sharon Liszanckie
Twist what HBS taught about aspirational marketing, NOT to sell luxury goods, but to illustrate "goods" aren't important, what you do for others is. Demonstrate that increasing shareholder return is not wholly synonymous with... View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
Publication:Harvard Business Review 86, no. 4 (April 2008): 104-111 Abstract These days, boards are working overtime to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and other governance requirements meant to protect shareholders from executive wrongdoing.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
early 2003 would have 10,000 shares today. Why would a company want to cut the trading price of its stock by so much? A: In a stock split, each share of the firm is divided into more units, but the proportional ownership of each View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just the opposite. In a recent paper... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
small group of private-equity investors, then there would have been few employee shareholders or any kind of shareholders at risk. Yes, the board failed all Enron stakeholders. Many of the private-equity... View Details
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Managing the Narrative: Investor Relations Officers and Their Interactions with Sell-Side Analysts and Institutional Investors
By: Lawrence D. Brown, Andrew C. Call, Michael B. Clement and Nathan Y. Sharp
Investor relations officers (IROs) play a central role in corporate communications with Wall Street. We survey 610 IROs at U.S. public companies and conduct 14 follow-up interviews to deepen our understanding of the role of IROs in corporate disclosure events. Three... View Details
Brown, Lawrence D., Andrew C. Call, Michael B. Clement, and Nathan Y. Sharp. "Managing the Narrative: Investor Relations Officers and Their Interactions with Sell-Side Analysts and Institutional Investors." Journal of Accounting & Economics 67, no. 1 (February 2019): 58–79.
- May 2012
- Article
Global, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment
By: Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler and Yu Yuan
We construct investor sentiment indices for six major stock markets and decompose them into one global and six local indices. In a validation test, we find that relative sentiment is correlated with the relative prices of dual-listed companies. Global sentiment is a... View Details
Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Globalization; Stocks; Markets; Capital; Financial Services Industry
Baker, Malcolm, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan. "Global, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment." Journal of Financial Economics 104, no. 2 (May 2012): 272–287.
- September 2010 (Revised July 2021)
- Case
Gone Rural
By: Andre F. Perold
Gone Rural employs 750 women in rural communities across Swaziland to produce handwoven baskets and other hand-crafted items. The women are mostly grandmothers caring for children orphaned as a result of the country's high AIDS-related death rate. The company has a... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Growth and Development; Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Finance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Swaziland
Perold, Andre F. "Gone Rural." Harvard Business School Case 211-016, September 2010. (Revised July 2021.)
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
(above: photo by Getty Images/Patrick Foto) A mathematics major, Don Carty (MBA 1971) has always seen the airline business as a huge puzzle, with the equation involving inventory and pricing, cruising allocations, weather, and holiday effects, to name just a few... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Building Trusted Organizations - Course Catalog
influencer controversy to Boeing’s horrific crashes and endless travails, trust breaches cost companies millions in lost revenues, spur dramatic declines in investor confidence and shareholder value, upend customer reliance, and unnerve... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Building on previous theories of how social activists inspire field-level change, we hypothesize that shareholder actions and regulatory threats are likely to prime firms to cooperate with shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2012
- Working Paper
Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf
Performance-based pay is an important instrument to align the interests of managers with the interests of shareholders. However, recent evidence suggests that high-powered incentives also provide managers with incentives to manipulate the firm's reported earnings. The... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Interests; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Earnings Management; Performance Evaluation; Stock Options
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Julie Wulf. "Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO ." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-056, January 2012. (Revised August 2012.)
- February 1992 (Revised October 1996)
- Case
CUC International, Inc. (A)
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Paul M. Healy
The case series examines the role of financial reporting and corporate finance policies as vehicles for communication between managers and outside investors. This case describes management's concern that the company's stock is undervalued because analysts viewed the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Stocks; Financial Management; Decisions; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Management Style; Management Practices and Processes; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Financial Services Industry
Palepu, Krishna G., and Paul M. Healy. "CUC International, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 192-099, February 1992. (Revised October 1996.)
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
GADIESH: To reap private equity returns, act more like a private equity manager COURTESY OF BAIN & CO A recent Harvard Business Review article headlined “If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business” gave many leaders of public companies a thoughtful pause: Why can’t we... View Details