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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice

By: Francois Brochet and Kyle Travis Welch
We study the role of executive functional background in explaining management discretion in financial reporting. Taking goodwill impairment as our reporting setting, we focus on top executives (CEOs and CFOs) whose employment history includes experience in investment... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Goodwill Accounting; Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Managerial Roles; Agency Theory
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  • Research Summary

Research Focus of Chris Gordon

Chris Gordon's main area of interest and expertise is the delivery of complex capital projects. These projects can take the form of government sponsored infrastructure projects such as highways and utilities, private real estate development such as commercial and... View Details
  • June 2024
  • Case

Alignvest Student Housing: Keep Building or Time to Sell?

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Patrick Sanguineti
Sanjil Shah, Managing Partner of Alignvest Student Housing REIT (ASH), faces the most significant decision thus far in his career: is it the right time to sell the company? Together with his partner Reza Satchu, Shah had developed ASH into the largest student housing... View Details
Keywords: Exit Strategy; Real Estate; Founder; Equity Valuation; Decisions; Entrepreneurial Finance; Interest Rates; Health Pandemics; Housing; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Entrepreneurship; Business Exit or Shutdown; Canada
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    Michael E. Porter

    Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
    • September 2009 (Revised August 2011)
    • Case

    Scooter Lindley: The Formation Call

    By: Lena G. Goldberg
    Factors affecting decision making about appropriate types of business entities are explored in the context of advising a prospective investor with particular emphasis on why LLCs are increasingly "go-to" entities. The potential effect of choice of organization on... View Details
    Keywords: Business Organization; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Delaware
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    Do Appearances Matter? The Impact of EPS Accretion and Dilution on Stock Prices

    There is a widespread concern among practitioners and corporate managers that transactions which result in changes in future earnings-per-share (EPS) have real effects on stock prices, irrespective of whether these changes reflect differences in future cash flows.  As... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Non-Financial Incentives

    My research shows how firms combine many facets of internal governance to motivate managers. A perspective that underlies much of my research is that managers are not motivated by financial rewards alone: “it’s not just about the... View Details

    • 15 Jun 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market

    Keywords: by Bo Becker & Victoria Ivashina
    • October 2014 (Revised March 2015)
    • Case

    Integrated Reporting at Aegon

    By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim, Sydney Ribot and Michael Krzus
    In 2011, Aegon adopted integrated reporting—a corporate reporting approach that sought to present company performance in a holistic light by considering medium- to long-term issues, stakeholder opinions, and the relationship between material financial and nonfinancial... View Details
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    • July 2003 (Revised September 2003)
    • Case

    Refinancing of Shanghai General Motors (B), The

    By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
    This case provides the outcome to "The Refinancing of Shanghai General Motors (A)" in which the CFO of General Motors' joint venture in Shanghai, Shanghai General Motors (SGM), wants to refinance almost $900 million of project finance it raised to begin operations. The... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Joint Ventures; Financing and Loans; Auto Industry; Shanghai
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    • 11 Jun 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

    But if you ask Bob Higgins, Wyc Grousbeck, and Mark Wan—all seasoned sports team owners-—about the secret to investment success in sports, they'll tell you it has little to do with owning a team. Rather, it's all about the media... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services
    • Web

    Faculty & Research

    high-climate solution firms, whose business benefits as climate transition risks materialize, hedge investors against such risks. Featured Case Myeloma Investment Fund By: Kyle Myers and Scott Sawaya This case explores a critical decision... View Details
    • 31 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

    investing since the turn of the century. A factor that makes me optimistic about this market is that stock prices on the whole do not seem as clearly disengaged from fundamentals as they did in 1999, when... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Aisner
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Corporate Environmental Impact: Measurement, Data and Information

    By: David Freiberg, DG Park, George Serafeim and T. Robert Zochowski
    As an organization’s environmental impact has become a central societal consideration, thereby affecting industry and organizational competitiveness, interest in measuring and analyzing environmental impact has increased. We develop a methodology to derive comparable... View Details
    Keywords: Environment; Impact; Measurement; Environmental Ratings; Corporate Valuation; Financial Materiality; Sustainability; Environmental Impact; Environmental Strategy; Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Valuation
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    • 2019
    • White Paper

    Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

    By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
    Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed... View Details
    Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Statements
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    • May 2023
    • Article

    Political Ideology and International Capital Allocation

    By: Elisabeth Kempf, Mancy Luo, Larissa Schäfer and Margarita Tsoutsoura
    Does investors' political ideology shape international capital allocation? We provide evidence from two settings—syndicated corporate loans and equity mutual funds—to show ideological alignment with foreign governments affects the cross-border capital allocation by... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Flows; Syndicated Loans; Mutual Funds; Partisanship; Polarization; Elections; Political Ideology; Banks and Banking; Institutional Investing; Behavioral Finance; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?

    By: Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and Tiona Zuzul
    Two trends are likely to define the 21st century: threats to the sustainability of the natural environment and dramatic increases in urbanization. This paper reviews the goals, business models, and partnerships involved in eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Technology; Investment; City; Infrastructure; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Urban Development; Information Technology; Green Technology Industry; Real Estate Industry
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    • 11 Jun 2007
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

    You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
    • 21 Aug 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India

    Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer & Anandi Mani
    • August 2021
    • Supplement

    Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (B): Kevin Hart and Clubhouse

    By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams
    In May 2020, Andreessen Horowitz secures an agreement with Clubhouse, one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups, to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round. One of the factors that insiders saw as pivotal in the race to be Clubhouse’s VC firm of choice was Andreessen... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment; Talent Management; General Management; Inclusion; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations
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