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  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

a sense of purpose, then it is very difficult to see beyond today's controversy. CEOs of vanguard companies know this sense of purpose helps them even when the stock price is down. They have a longer-term vision that keeps them focused... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

in the Istanbul Stock Exchange and to being the country’s largest retail company by market capitalization. Seeing an opportunity to pioneer the format internationally, the company was now also in Morocco and Egypt. While the hard-discount... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting rights, we can separately... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

entrepreneurial enterprises. And yet they are subject to exactly the same rules and conditions as large companies. A second example. There has been a lot of discussion about stock options and expensing them through regulatory action and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
  • 20 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

Total's IR organization that it may drop the stock unless the company had a good explanation of why it was in Myanmar (also known as Burma) and how this was in accordance with its ethical chart. Total subsequently adapted its IR... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

Allstate's stock price rose 45%, buoyed by Wilson's promise that return on equity would reach 13% by 2014. At the May 2012 AGM, Wilson's support from shareholders surged to 97%. By the end of 2012, revenues were up 2% to $33.3 billion... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

valuation and is commonly used in practice by stock market analysts and companies themselves. However, it is rarely taught in MBA programs or broached in valuation textbooks. Yet the application of the method raises a number of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

shareholders more than $3.95 trillion via stock buybacks and $2.45 trillion via dividends—$6.4 trillion in total. These shareholder payouts amounted to over 93% of the firms' net income. Academics, corporate lawyers, asset managers, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

stocks. Hold-to-maturity accounting of portfolio net asset value eliminates the majority of measured risk. A passive portfolio of small, low EBITDA multiple stocks with modest amounts of leverage and hold-to-maturity accounting of net... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

stores, TCS went public in late 2013. Since its IPO, same store sales have suffered, and the company's stock in early 2016 was trading well below its IPO price. As such, the company's culture and Foundation Principles were being put to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

defendants. The likelihood of being named is greater for audit committee members and directors who sell stock during the class period. Named directors receive more negative recommendations from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

and new outside investors will be one of the central tensions of our time, and not just in Germany. One of the reasons why big firms offer stock options is to make managers think like owners or to align their interests with those of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? What's the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And how exactly do hedge funds make (and lose) money? This is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

to stop chasing stock price and shareholder value. Maybe they shouldn't have as many users. Maybe they have to expunge a lot of those users and clean up their site a lot more. Kenny: You review that decision to go public. Was that a... View Details
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1960-2011, it was unusually high in the 1980s and negative in the 2000s, a period during which Treasury bonds enabled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

the worst of the crisis was over. With the global financial system no longer spiraling into an abyss, government officials, business leaders, and American taxpayers could now take stock of where they had been and where they should be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

level," says Chua. "Then you really want to reflect and systematically take stock of those experiences." Those who do that, he says, will not only be more comfortable interacting with someone from a different culture, but... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 29 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 29

  Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm payout policy. Retail investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

information advantages across delegates and delegators, (2) reports both stocks and flows in the measures of account, and (3) has a mutually agreeable due process to match across periods the actions of delegates and the outcomes of those... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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