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- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
1920s to 8.5 percent in 1932. 18 Brands were built up by spending heavily on advertising. As a percentage of sales, advertising averaged 25 percent between 1921 and 1933, thereby funding a series of noteworthy campaigns conceived by J. Walter Thompson. This View Details
- 13 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?
Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
or fail to analyze the utter breakdown in board governance and Enron's internal controls, and the failure of credit rating agencies to blow the whistle," he says. "They also overlook the collusion... View Details
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
refugees were shamed on social media after being photographed with smartphones, and federal agencies have reprimanded how lower-income individuals spend relief funds after natural disasters. Even groceries aren't safe, Hagerty and Barasz... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
men to the bench. “There was plenty of evidence showing Trump wasn’t particularly pro-diversity,” says Chang, noting that Trump had issued a memo telling federal agencies to halt diversity trainings because they were “un-American.” “It... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
is an arrangement in which the seller is paid based on the actual performance of its product or service. It is becoming much more popular. In the advertising industry, agencies had been traditionally paid 15 percent of the cost of the... View Details
- 20 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think
with Lehman's books because noticing was not in Ernst & Young's interest. We can tell the same story with the security rating agencies and their role in our recent financial collapse. Q: The book is a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
to shareholders. So any attempt to cut labor expense could well have provoked a public backlash—especially since at the time the company's home city of Schweinfurt had an unemployment rate of 16 percent. For publicly traded companies, the... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Fukuyoshi and Yoshiki Ishikawa had helped to improve cancer screening rates in Japan. Between 2005 and 2007, awareness of breast cancer in Japan rose from 55% to 70%, but the incidence of breast cancer screenings remained constant. Jun... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
materiality remains unclear. Using a series of vignettes based on actual private investor meetings, I investigate how managers and regulators understand Reg FD. I find considerable uncertainty and disagreement among both managers and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11
country densely populated by Muslim residents, such as in Michigan, New Jersey, and New York, among other regions. The study suggests the agency put these areas under greater scrutiny due to the involvement of Islamic extremists in the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Empirically, we find that an author's connection to the media outlet is related to the outcome of the review decision. When a book's author also writes for a media outlet, that outlet is 25% more likely to review the book relative to other media outlets, and the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Default and Recovery Rates By: Bonsall, Samuel B., IV, Kevin Koharki, Karl A. Muller III, and Anywhere Sikochi Abstract—This study investigates whether rating agencies apply... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing
from one of the three major credit reporting agencies over several years. This offered an in-depth look at borrowers that either used a fintech company or a bank to obtain a personal loan. (A personal loan is an unsecured loan that is... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
faster than your family or business consumes them. Of course, growing families and businesses are both good at consuming assets. For many family companies we have researched, their sustainable real growth rate is 6 percent. That might... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
changes in the minimum wage at the city level. The evidence suggests that higher minimum wages increase overall exit rates for restaurants. However, lower quality restaurants, which are already closer to the margin of exit, are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
houses these days. Why don't you just check off this box here, if you ever fall behind on your payments?" And the bank adds, "We almost never do this . . . but it allows you our best rate. If you can't check off the box for some obscure personal reason, then... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
recorded voice thanked me for cooperating and assured me that the poll would take only two minutes. The first question was, "On a scale of 1 (low) and 5 (high) how would you rate your overall experience?" I pressed the "1" on my phone.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett