Options - Publications - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School

Filter Results: (1,555)

Filter Results: (1,555)

Show Results For

← Page 8 of 1,555 Results →

Sort by

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web

January 2013 (Revised April 2017)
Supplement

Maxum Petroleum, Inc.

By: W. Carl Kester

Maxum seeks an oil-price hedging strategy that yields substantial cash during oil price spikes, is affordable under ordinary circumstances, and is easily managed. It is striving to avoid a repeat of the challenging situation encountered in 2008 when spiking oil prices... View Details

Keywords: Hedging; Options; Commodities; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Risk Management; Futures and Commodity Futures; Financial Strategy; Volatility

winter 2004
Article

Transferable Stock Options (TSOs) and the Coming Revolution in Equity-Based Pay

Keywords: Stock Options; Equity; Compensation and Benefits

April 1978
Article

The Returns and Risk of Alternative Call Option Portfolio Investment Strategies

By: Robert C. Merton, Myron S. Scholes and Matthew L. Gladstein

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Investment; Strategy

Find at Harvard

January 2, 2020
Article

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace

The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare program. Perhaps most alarming: The US ranks lowest among... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Public Option; Medicare; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost Management; Problems and Challenges; United States

November 2013
Teaching Note

Larry Steffen: Valuing Stock Options in a Compensation Package (Brief Case)

By: William E. Fruhan and Craig Stephenson

1986
Other Unpublished Work

Capital Flight, Policy Credibility, and the Option Value of Foreign Exchange

By: K. A. Froot and S. van Wijnbergen

Keywords: Trade Policy; Capital Controls; Liberalization; Currency; International Finance; Capital

Article

A Proposal for Expensing Employee Compensatory Stock Options for Financial Reporting Purposes

By: Peter Hancock, Roberto G. Mendoza and Robert C. Merton

Find at Harvard

02 Dec 2002
What Do You Think?

How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

options should be rethought in many organizations. First, there is the issue of whether options are the best means of promoting shareholders' best interests in established companies. While making an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Research Summary

Do Stock Options Generate Incentives for Earnings Management? Evidence from Accounting Restatements

Co-authored with Natasha Burns View Details

08 Feb 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Platform Systems vs. Step Processes—The Value of Options and the Power of Modularity

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin

2001
Working Paper

Executive Compensation Using Relative-Performance-Based Options: Evaluating the Structure and Costs of Indexed Options

November 2013
Supplement

Larry Steffen: Valuing Stock Options in a Compensation Package, Spreadsheet for Students (Brief Case)

By: William E. Fruhan and Craig Stephenson

2001
Working Paper

Restoring the Link Between Pay and Performance: Evaluating the Costs of Relative-Performance-Based (Indexed) Options

March 2001
Background Note

Valuing the Option Component of Debt and Its Relevance to DCF-Based Valuation Methods

The flows-to-equity or equity cash flows valuation method is a discounted cash flow method used to estimate the equity portion of the capital structure. It is closely related to the venture capital/buyout valuation method, which estimates the IRR of the stream of cash... View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Valuation; Equity

2007
Working Paper

The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock Options Expensing

By: Fabrizio Ferri and Tatiana Sandino

In this paper we examine the economic consequences of over 150 shareholder proposals to expense employee stock options (ESO) submitted during the proxy seasons of 2003 and 2004–the first case where the SEC has allowed an accounting matter to be subject to an advisory... View Details

Keywords: Executive Compensation; Financial Reporting; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations

November 2013
Supplement

Larry Steffen: Valuing Stock Options in a Compensation Package, Spreadsheet for Instructors (Brief Case)

By: William E. Fruhan and Craig Stephenson

May 1976
Article

The Impact on Option Pricing of Specification Error in the Underlying Stock Price Returns

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Price; Stocks

Find at Harvard

2008
Chapter

The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

This paper summarizes the empirical evidence on how defaults impact retirement savings outcomes. After outlining the salient features of the various sources of retirement income in the U.S., the paper presents the empirical evidence on how defaults impact retirement... View Details

Keywords: Saving; Financial Condition; Retirement; Investment Funds; Microeconomics; Outcome or Result; Government and Politics; Financial Institutions; Macroeconomics; United States

Find at Harvard

2001
Working Paper

The Efficiency of Equity-Linked Compensation: Understanding the Full Cost of Awarding Executive Stock Options

April 2013
Teaching Note

Konys, Inc. (TN)

By: Deishin Lee and Tunay Tunca

This case describes the sourcing policy for a consumer electronics company. The company must decide how to structure contracts with their supplier—using a purchase contract, an option contract, or combination of the two. The company can also buy from the spot market.... View Details

Keywords: Contracts; Option Contract; Uncertainty; Sourcing; Supplier Relationship; Supply Chain

←
8
9
…
77
78
→