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- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
year filled with fast-moving developments in generative AI, the incorporation of the tools into search and shopping functions sheds light on just how powerful AI-enhanced search engines like Microsoft Bing could become. For instance, Alphabet View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
meet the quarterly earnings targets of increasingly short-term–oriented investors. Reality: Companies that pursue major sustainability initiatives, and publicize them in integrated reports and other communications with investors, have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
equity inflows have a more negative announcement effect on equity returns than those on debt inflows. Real investment falls in the three years following the controls. Overall, the findings have implications for macro-finance models that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster By: Rahmandad, Hazhir, Rebecca Henderson, and Nelson P. Repenning Abstract—Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"—delivering quarterly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Procter & Gamble (P&G) announced headline double-digit earnings per share growth for the year ended June 30. A closer look at the numbers suggested a less healthy picture. Sales, volumes, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
consortium inhibited competition. The FCC finally approved the new cable in July 1999, and also announced that it would launch a broad inquiry into the undersea-cable business. Global Crossing's carefully constructed lobbying campaign...
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- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
customers' college-savings accounts. Firms like Salomon Smith Barney that manage these new so-called "529" savings plans would invest the rebates and maintain records showing enrolled families how much they had earned toward...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
bloggers about whether Amazon's profits will ever live up to its promise are predictable every time its earnings announcements come around. Of course, Bezos's strategy hasn't hurt the company. Its current...
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- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
returns earned in the process, and the fact that this motivation (closing a valuation gap) was completely distinct from any other motivations that I had seen. Ultimately, I realized that all these things were of a piece. That is, these...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
share price, (2) where announced earnings are particularly likely to be an important source of information about managerial ability and effort, and (3) before the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley made...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
the early years of the 21st century. From a state-owned enterprise earning 97% of its revenue from television sets and other analog consumer electronics, Thomson had become a publicly traded company providing digital video services and...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
period." Subsequently, Walgreens halted expansion of its Theranos blood-testing centers, and in early November, Safeway announced dissolution of its partnership. A famous quote says: “You can fool all the people some of the time, and...
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by Bill George
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14087 Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
recently joined with the private company Celera Genomics to announce the cracking of the human genetic code.) Increasing interest in such research has led to complex legal tangles. Patent attorney Brenda Herschbach Jarrell of Choate, Hall...
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- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
lower than expected revenues and earnings for the second quarter of 2012. In response to the announcement, its stock price fell 29% (its stock price had fallen from $77 to $11 in the past 18 months). The weakening financial performance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
toward lower-uncertainty periods. We document that the resulting opportunistic earnings management is concentrated in CEOs, firms, and periods where such incentives are likely to be strongest: (1) where CEO wealth is sensitive to change...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on October 4, 2010, when the SEC...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
screening ability since the returns were higher than those that earned from investing in analysts' top stock picks that were not selected by the committee. Finally, we find that abnormal announcement returns...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
banking analysts issue early in the year relatively more optimistic and later in the year more pessimistic forecasts for banks that could be their future employers. This pattern is not observed when the same analysts forecast earnings of...
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