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  • 17 Sep 2014
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills

today's complex financial environment, dealmaking is blending into a merger of negotiations and auctions. The Potential Downside of Win-Win What happens when a wonderful agreement ignores the needs of consumers? WORKING PAPERS... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2021
  • Supplement

CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France (B)

By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Tonia Labruyere and Vincent Dessain
This case is a complement to CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France (A) and describes the events after CIAM learned about a potential misuse of corporate assets at Altice/SFR. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Valuation; Investment Activism; Accounting; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; France
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  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

Authors:Mihir Desai and Li Jin Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper employs heterogeneity in institutional shareholder tax characteristics to identify the relation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Ponzi Funds

By: Philippe van der Beck, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and Dario Villamaina
Many active funds hold concentrated portfolios. Flow-driven trading causes price pressure, which pushes up the funds’ existing positions resulting in realized returns. We decompose fund returns into a price pressure (self-inflated) and a fundamental component and... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Price Bubble; Financial Reporting; Financial Liquidity
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  • 02 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

Ferri, on leave as a visiting assistant professor of accounting at NYU's Stern School of Business, sees a number of avenues for future research on executive compensation, including its influence on risk-taking and the effects of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • 25 Aug 2015
  • First Look

First Look Tuesday

short- and long-term direct monetary effects of operating a winning athletics program for an academic institution of higher education. We construct a unique panel dataset from multiple sources and utilize the latest dynamic panel data estimation methods View Details
  • April 1997
  • Case

Peoria Engine Plant (A): (Abridged)

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Amy P. Hutton
Describes the cost control system used at an automobile engine plant for labor and overhead costs. The finance staff prepares daily, weekly, and monthly variance reports against budgets. Department supervisors, finance staff, and the plant manager discuss the use and... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Cost Management; Financial Reporting; Performance Improvement; Budgets and Budgeting; Auto Industry
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  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

practices related to those tools. Our study contributes to the accounting and management literature on influence-gathering, underlining that toolmaking plays a vital role in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

(0.74%). Even after controlling for filers' demographic factors and self-revealed savings intent, the likelihood of tax-site savings was 5.5 percentage points higher at treatment sites as compared with control sites. In contrast to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 6

http://www.cengage.com/aushed/instructor.do?disciplinenumber=1028&product_isbn=9781133626701&courseid=MN05&codeid=2A3A&sortBy=copyrightYear&sortByShow=all August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

governments have started to list state-owned enterprises, have selected professional managers to run them, and have given them more financial autonomy. We argue that the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

“There are many more private equity firms than in the past, so it’s becoming difficult for them to generate returns and add value,” says Brian Baik, an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 08 Jul 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

Streeters, although comparable productivity measurements among financial service firms are hard to come up with. Good work design doesn't rely on overtime. In fact, it is just the reverse. Best places View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

education program has modest effects, increasing demand for bank accounts only for those with low levels of education or financial literacy. In contrast, small subsidies greatly increase demand. A follow-up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

capital allocation decisions over a 10-year period from 2004 to 2013, during which IBM returned more than $140B to shareholders through a combination of dividends and share repurchases. During this time, CEO... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 30

intermediary to divert consumers to its favored destinations. Applied to Internet search engines, we investigate a diversion mechanism based on Google's exclusive award of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 29

firms that are financially constrained, using three novel tests: an exogenous increase in a firm's demand for credit, exogenous variation in the supply of bank loans, and the tendency for firms to pay out... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

beliefs about the future potential of the venture. This adaptation and related entry by new financial intermediaries has led to a disproportionate rise in innovations where information on future prospects is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

David F. Hawkins, Hernan Etiennot, Gustavo A. Herrero, and Hugo PenteneroHarvard Business School Supplement 111-070 Analyst restates Aluar's financial statements to account for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2006
  • Exercise

Earnings Management Exercise

By: Malcolm P. Baker
Students act as managers or investors. Managers have the ability to manipulate reported earnings, and investors must bid for shares taking this into account. View Details
Keywords: Earnings Management; Value; Stock Shares; Opportunities; Bids and Bidding; Reports
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