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  • 20 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business with Structured Finance

the value of the assets." In their paper, the authors recount how, over the past decade, risks have been repackaged to create triple-A-rated securities. By mid-2007, they write, 37,000 structured finance issues in the United States... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
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Overview

My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
  • Research Summary

Overview

My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law

    George Serafeim

    George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, and serves on the faculty steering commitee of Harvard University's Salata Institute. He... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology
    • September 2010 (Revised July 2012)
    • Case

    Citigroup 2007: Financial Reporting and Regulatory Capital

    By: Suraj Srinivasan, Edward J. Riedl and Sharon Katz
    This case introduces 1) financial statements for banks, 2) basic regulatory capital calculations, and 3) actions Citigroup must consider under a scenario of continued losses/fair value declines in 2008 (leading to potential violation of regulatory capital). View Details
    Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Financial Crisis; Capital; Financial Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Banking Industry; United States
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    • 09 Jun 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: June 9, 2015

    helps bridge the gap between people's moral values and their actual behavior. Combined, the REVISE framework guides the design of policy interventions to defeat dishonesty. Publisher's link:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Feb 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: February 7

    fairness within the industry. Coordinating conflicting programs requires a careful balance between equity and efficiency. In our work, we first develop a fairness metric to measure deviation from... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2024
    • Book

    The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal ... And What to Do About It

    By: Malcolm S. Salter
    What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? In this book, I address how we can rekindle the fading light of democratic capitalism as an... View Details
    Keywords: Government and Politics; Power and Influence; Economic Systems; Culture
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    • January 2021 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and the Cost of Capital (Abridged)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
    In 2000, Eaton Corporation was a broadly diversified industrial conglomerate. But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed to... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Cost of Capital; Corporate Finance; Value; Valuation; Industrial Products Industry; United States; Denmark; Republic of Ireland
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    • January 2021 (Revised June 2021)
    • Supplement

    Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital (Abridged)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
    In 2000, Eaton Corporation was a broadly diversified industrial conglomerate. But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed to... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Cost of Capital; Corporate Finance; Value; Valuation; Industrial Products Industry; United States; Denmark; Republic of Ireland
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    • Web

    Marketing - Doctoral

    Past Experiments for Intervention Personalization; Communicating with Consumers: How Firms’ Responses to Societal Change Influence Consumer Behavior; Three Essays on Cost-benefit Trade-offs in Individual and Organizational Decision-Making; Who Deserves What? How... View Details
    • 24 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

    Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52122 January 2017 Strategic Finance Managing Healthcare Costs and Value By: Kaplan, Robert S., Michael E. Porter, and Mark L. Frigo Abstract—Rising health care costs are a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Placement - Doctoral

    Dissertation: Who deserves what? How beliefs about fairness and inequality influence social judgment Advisors: Michael I. Norton (Chair), Kate Barasz , and Debora Thompson Byungyeon Kim Marketing, 2022 Placement: University of Minnesota,... View Details
    • 30 Jan 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Joachim Henkel
    • 15 May 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

    productive. That’s a missed opportunity. Questioning is a powerful tool for unlocking value in companies: It spurs learning and the exchange of ideas, it fuels innovation and better performance, and it builds trust among team members. And... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 11 Sep 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

    for idiosyncratic products that features the optimal stopping structure and a seller that learns about item-specific demand through the selling process. The model is estimated using novel panel data of a leading used-car dealership. Policy experiments are conducted to... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Giving - Alumni

    charitable income tax deduction for its mean fair market value on the date of the gift and avoid capital gains tax. To ensure proper crediting of your gift, please use our online form to notify us of your... View Details
    • January 2017 (Revised March 2018)
    • Case

    United Housing—Otis Gates

    By: Steven Rogers and Mercer Cook
    Otis Gates, the only African-American in his HBS graduating class, is an entrepreneur from greater Boston area and has built a successful affordable housing firm. Along the way, he and his partners have contributed countless hours of community service to the... View Details
    Keywords: Affordable Housing; Real Estate; Community Engagement; Social-good; Request For Proposal; Diversity; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Moral Sensibility; Fairness; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Housing; Business and Community Relations; Real Estate Industry
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    • 11 Apr 2023
    • Op-Ed

    The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

    motivate other younger executives who will feel inspired by the possibility of promotion under your leadership. My advice is always to avoid, if possible, hiring your old cronies from previous companies before you’ve given the incumbents a View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch
    • May 1996
    • Case

    First Capital Holdings Corp.

    By: Stuart C. Gilson, Harry DeAngelo and Linda DeAngelo
    The manager of a money-management firm considers whether to invest in the securities of a large, financially troubled, California-based life insurance holding company that holds 40% of its assets in high-yield junk bonds. Over the past year, the value of its portfolio... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Debt Securities; Bonds; Valuation; Investment Return; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Institutions; Insurance Industry
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