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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability

By: Russell Lundholm, George Serafeim and Gwen Yu
We study how the availability of domestic credit influences the contribution that financing activities make to a firm's return on equity (ROE). Using a sample of 51,866 firms from 69 countries, we find that financing activities contribute more to a firm's ROE in... View Details
Keywords: Domestic Credit; Return Of Equity; Corporate Performance; Financial Statement Analysis; Financial Statements; Valuation; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Economic Growth
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  • September 2003 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

PolyMedica Corporation (A)

By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
The Securities and Exchange Commission and investors question PolyMedica Corp.'s practice of capitalizing rather than expensing of direct-response advertising. View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Business Earnings; Advertising; Private Sector; Budgets and Budgeting; Cost Management; Capital Markets; Marketing; Private Equity; Pharmaceutical Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

  PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Tipping Point

drivers. It is a model customers are familiar with.” And it’s a model she believes could also transform the coffee industry and other commodity supply chains. Courtesy Margaret Nyamumbo “The economics of coffee are some of the most... View Details
Keywords: April White; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

data, 3. drives costs to transactions and orders using specific characteristics of particular orders, 4. can be run monthly to capture the economics of the most recent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

the result will be continuing downward pressure on prices. Economic recovery will not allow producers to let up on tightening cost controls and improving productivity. Know your lead indicators. Every good... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

think several factors are at work. First, financial engineering increasingly allows for cheap recharacterizations of income for tax and book purposes, making tax obligations easily disappear. Second, the growing global reach of companies and falling View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

Question: What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an ever-more View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
  • 02 Apr 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

entrepreneurship " Peter McCann pointed out that things are déjà vu all over again. "There will be increased productivity but the day of zero marginal cost for more than a small set of goods and services is not even on the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

economies. The conclusion is that it has created jobs on both sides of the border while sharpening the ability of Mexican companies to compete. The Mexican business community is learning to cope not only with foreign competitors, but also with rising labor View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Alumni Books

of Corporate Boards Is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions by John Gillespie (MBA ’83) and David Zweig (MBA ’83) (Free Press) The authors expose the flaws in the dysfunctional corporate board system: directors who are... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value

A classic business problem from the 1950s illustrates the tension between inventory costs and missed sales. A newspaper vendor must decide how many papers to buy each day based on typical demand. His profit is optimized, the solution... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 26 Nov 2019
  • News

Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream

is highlighted in her new book: Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream. KEY THEMES Small business is critical to the American economy. Artificial intelligence and big data will transform financial services, particularly small business lending. During the View Details
Keywords: fintech; Artificial intelligence; Small business
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

affairs in our chapter in The Support Economy called "The Transaction Crisis." Cost reduction has continued to be the dominant strategy under managerial capitalism because new sources of wealth... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

The key to managing innovation starts, and probably ends, with incentives. In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations, Harvard Business School Professor Josh Lerner puts it this way:... View Details
Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

point repeatedly stressed by transaction cost economics is that the more specific the asset, the more likely is vertical integration to be optimal. In spite of the profusion of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 15

  Publications August 2013 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Business Model Evaluation: Quantifying Walmart's Sources of Advantage By: Brea-Solís, Humberto, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Emili Grifell-Tatjé Abstract—We develop an analytical framework on the basis of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

transactions quickly and economically have spurred organizational and strategic transformation. Customers' expectations and demands are escalating, as well. As Schwab's Goldman says, "What people expect... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

Illustration by Jon Krause When trying to explain how blockchain works, it helps to have a mass-culture analogue. Mike O’Grady (MBA 1992), president of Chicago-based Northern Trust, uses social media: Blockchain, he says, is a transaction... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

and Erik Stafford Periodical:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines institutional price pressure in equity markets using market prices of mutual fund transactions caused by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace