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  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

gives firms discretion to manage impairments. We test this argument in a sample of firms with market indications of impairment (firms with book goodwill and market-to-book ratio below one). We find that the frequency of non-impairment in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

proposals on material versus immaterial issues affect firms’ subsequent ESG performance and market valuation. We find that 58% of the shareholder proposals in our sample are filed on immaterial issues. We document that filing shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

about 400 such systems with a total of 150,000 subscribers. Thus, cable TV was born of necessity very shortly after the mass market for television broadcasting began to grow. 3 The first CATV systems carried only three channels, which... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Business at the Summit

Depression. As 2,000 alumni convened on campus Monday, October 13, the U.S. stock market soared to its biggest one-day numerical gain since 1933, following on the heels of an 18 percent decline the previous... View Details
Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management
  • 22 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing

Manufacturers generally classify products in terms of broad product lines, developing a single marketing strategy and production plan for each line. That makes sense for marketing, but it's a mistake for production. Different SKUs... View Details
Keywords: by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond & David Weil; Consumer Products
  • 24 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

and environmental standards. Natura began to seek international markets in 1982, but experienced many setbacks until surviving the economic crisis in Argentina in 2001. The company opened operations in France and Mexico in 2005, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

author Bob Leppo an edge in stock market investing, commodity futures, and the wild world of venture capital. Part memoir, part tale of discovery and rebirth, The Speculator’s Mosaic is a no-nonsense guide... View Details
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

profitability. There are at least two antidotes to this scenario. One involves serial acquisitions. But research has suggested that most acquisitions destroy value. This helps explain why the stock of acquiring firms is often discounted... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

that corporate and capital market short-termism are related. Moreover, consistent with analytical models that emphasize the costly nature of short-termism, we find that short-term oriented firms exhibit lower future accounting and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

their attendant risk. The case then describes the pain inflicted by raising foreclosures, as well as the financial market ramifications of the rise in mortgage delinquencies. It also chronicles the response of the U.S. and European... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

and about 60% of stock market capitalization. Several companies that we visited – including LEGO Group, Maersk, and Novo Nordisk – are foundation owned, which makes it easier to set ambitious sustainability... View Details
  • 03 Nov 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?

it, "We cannot look at investor losses as the only benchmark to evaluate the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley. One must also consider the cost of capital if confidence in the markets does not return…Unfortunately, you cannot legislate... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

Publications Market Reaction to and Valuation of IFRS Reconciliation Adjustments: First Evidence from the UK Authors: Joanne Horton and George Serafeim Publication: Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

work in exploring the forces that govern the process of CEO change. I have conducted research in four interrelated areas: factors that lead to vacancies in the CEO position; factors that affect the choice of successors; the role of market... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

increase in the cross-country correlations of stock and government bond returns since the late 1990s. We show that for global equities this increase has been driven primarily by increased cross-country correlations of discount rate... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

Malloy, and Felicia Marston Abstract Comparing two snapshots of the historical I/B/E/S database of research analyst stock recommendations, taken in 2002 and 2004 but each covering the same time period 1993-2002, we identify 54,729 ex-post... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

international awards. How could the company capitalize on this success? Should Grace expand its operations to multiple Chinese provinces? Should Grace continue as a premium boutique winery serving a growing but ultimately limited niche View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

  Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

questions. The calls are high stakes — a top executive with a murky message can cause share demand to dry up, or worse, a drop in the stock price, faster than you can say, "Outlook is uncertain." Imagine, then, the challenge for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman