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- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
change in the social awareness of investors in the past decade. "The number of investors who care about this kind of performance has increased dramatically in the last 10 years," Serafeim says. "Right now those investors have about $5 trillion in View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
had recently launched several lifestyle brands (using brand names it had revived), which posed brand architecture issues. Lastly, the company had just acquired a digital fitness app, RunKeeper, and was wondering how best to leverage this View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
considers how the United States attempted to reform the domestic institutions of other countries during the period from 1893 to 1941—and how that tendency continues to play itself out more broadly in the world today. You're crazy to think that creating a strategically... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Pflueger, Carolin E., Emil Siriwardane, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We propose a new measure of the economy’s risk appetite based on the valuation of volatile stocks. Unlike proxies for risk appetite derived from aggregates, our measure is strongly correlated with safe... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
store asset productivity since 2007, these issues become even more pertinent. Compounding the issue, most retailers have already reduced their in-store labor to such an extent that further cost-cutting has a negative impact, and thus the... View Details
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
wealth with them. His parents’ primary assets were their talents, energies, and aspirations to have a better life for themselves and their children. So how did Brin reach a position to cofound Google in 1998? The US educational system... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
contributed to the development of a business-oriented society with increased short-term opportunity for MNCs. "The dot-com bubble brought practices, ambitions, and goals to China that are here to stay," he added. "Increasingly, MNCs will see corporatized... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Department, must decide if this approach is still the best way to fulfill his organization's goal of protecting and increasing the pension assets of 17 million Canadians. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
implementation: (a) whether “reciprocity practitioners” can compete in a world dominated by shareholder value maximizers, and (b) if so, what asset holders and asset managers, corporate directors, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- March 2011
- Supplement
Countrywide plc (CW)
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
One of the world's leading investors in distressed companies, Oaktree Capital Management is contemplating a "loan to own" investment in the debt f Countrywide plc, a financially troubled residential real estate agent based in the U.K. Only sixteen months earlier,... View Details
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
subset of countries. This paper uses a difference-in-difference analysis that compares US equity holdings in affected and unaffected countries. The international investment responses to JGTRRA were substantial and imply an elasticity of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
often-essential government support for new development projects. With backing and financial contributions from governments, multinational corporations have it in their power to become the world's most effective means for reducing poverty. This unmatched power is based... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
but now a new challenge loomed. Globank, a large global bank, was Intelenet's largest customer. Intelenet's contract with Globank was set to expire in the next seven months, and all of Intelenet's assets and people working on the account... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
be justified as the monetization of valuable information assets that accountants have never seen fit to include as legitimate entries on balance sheets (other than as grossly misnamed "goodwill"). But wait a minute. Is there a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
complicated, hard-to-finance parcels." Given the current economic downturn, corporations that are faring poorly and need to sell off assets are another good source of bargains, said Palandjian. He also likes the high-barrier markets... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
some skepticism when potential backers realized she was a woman, Chase didn't let that faze her. "I always made it a point to fall back on skill and hard work. When they realized I knew the business inside and out, it ceased to be an issue." "My View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
these firms.” You Might Also Like: Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone' What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance? Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
supply chain system. When commodity prices became more volatile in 2007 and 2008, executives at Domino's changed the way they worked with suppliers and franchisees to manage costs and risks and better leverage the assets of the supply... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
requirements, reorienting the discussion around housing finance reform from keeping mortgage credit cheap to ensuring financial stability, and instituting measures that compel asset managers to compete on the true value of the services... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne