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- summer 1995
- Article
Improving the Corporate Disclosure Process
By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and Sarah Clay Mavrinac
Keywords:
Corporate Disclosure
Eccles, Robert G., Jr., and Sarah Clay Mavrinac. "Improving the Corporate Disclosure Process." MIT Sloan Management Review 36, no. 4 (summer 1995): 11–25.
- May 1985
- Background Note
Business Segment Disclosure and Analysis
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords:
Corporate Disclosure
Hawkins, David F. "Business Segment Disclosure and Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 185-127, May 1985.
- February 1992
- Background Note
Note on Financial Instrument Disclosure
By: David F. Hawkins
Hawkins, David F. "Note on Financial Instrument Disclosure." Harvard Business School Background Note 192-085, February 1992.
- Article
Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law
By: Suzanne Scotchmer and Jerry R. Green
The stringency of the novelty requirement in patent law affects the pace of innovation because it affects the amount of technical information that is disclosed among firms. It also affects ex ante profitability of research. We compare weak and strong novelty...
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Scotchmer, Suzanne, and Jerry R. Green. "Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law." RAND Journal of Economics 21, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 131–146.
- 12 Apr 2012
- Conference Presentation
How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure
- June 2017
- Article
Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk Taking?
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Many experiments have found that participants take more investment risk if they see returns less frequently, see portfolio-level returns (rather than each individual asset’s returns), or see long-horizon (rather than one-year) historical return distributions. In...
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Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk Taking?" Review of Financial Studies 30, no. 6 (June 2017): 1971–2005.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Public Disclosure of Private Meetings: Does Observing Peers' Information Acquisition Affect Analysts' Attention Allocation?
By: Yi Ru, Ronghuo Zheng and Yuan Zou
We investigate the impact of observing peers’ information acquisition on financial analysts’ attention allocation. Using the timely disclosure mandate by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange as a setting, we find that, when analysts can observe that a firm is visited by other...
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Keywords:
Attention Allocation;
Informational Efficiency;
Corporate Site Visits;
Externalities;
Information;
Acquisition;
Corporate Disclosure;
Outcome or Result
Ru, Yi, Ronghuo Zheng, and Yuan Zou. "Public Disclosure of Private Meetings: Does Observing Peers' Information Acquisition Affect Analysts' Attention Allocation?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-064, July 2021.
- 13 Apr 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Implied Materiality and Material Disclosures of Credit Ratings
- 2011
- Chapter
How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We use an experiment to estimate the effect of the SEC's Summary Prospectus, which simplifies mutual fund disclosure. Our subjects chose an equity portfolio and a bond portfolio. Subjects received either statutory prospectuses or Summary Prospectuses. We find no...
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Keywords:
Information;
Corporate Disclosure;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Consumer Behavior;
Retirement;
Personal Finance;
Investment Funds;
Microeconomics
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?" In Explorations in the Economics of Aging, edited by David A. Wise, 75–96. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- 2007
- Article
Business Methods Patents as Real Options: Value and Disclosure as Drivers of Litigation
By: Atul Nerkar, Srikanth Paruchuri and Mukti Khaire
This paper proposes that patents are real options that allow holders of patents the right but not the obligation to sue others. We suggest that the likelihood of a patent's being litigated is positively associated with the value of the patent and the extent of...
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Nerkar, Atul, Srikanth Paruchuri, and Mukti Khaire. "Business Methods Patents as Real Options: Value and Disclosure as Drivers of Litigation." Real Options in Strategic Management. Advances in Strategic Management 24 (2007): 247–274.
- 13 Nov 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Shareholder Activism and Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks
- 2015
- Working Paper
Implied Materiality and Material Disclosures of Credit Ratings
By: Robert G. Eccles and Tim Youmans
This first of three papers in our series on materiality in credit ratings will examine the materiality of credit ratings from an "implied materiality" and governance disclosure perspective. In the second paper, we will explore the materiality of environmental, social,...
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Eccles, Robert G., and Tim Youmans. "Implied Materiality and Material Disclosures of Credit Ratings." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-079, April 2015.
- April 2015
- Case
Accor: Designing an Asset-Right Business and Disclosure Strategy
By: Mozaffar Khan and George Serafeim
Sebastien Bazin was now in charge of Accor, the world's largest French hotelier, a CAC 40 company with 3,600 hotels in 92 countries and a market cap of €10 billion. Previously as the European head of Colony Capital, one of the largest private equity groups and the...
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Khan, Mozaffar, and George Serafeim. "Accor: Designing an Asset-Right Business and Disclosure Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 115-036, April 2015.
- 27 Sep 2007
- Conference Presentation
Shamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Information Disclosure
- 25 Feb 2009
- Conference Presentation
New Research on Corporate Environmental Disclosure and Environmental Ratings
- 12 Feb 2008
- Conference Presentation
MapEcos: Facility Disclosure and Stakeholder Attention (preliminary analysis)
- Mar 2008
- Conference Presentation
Shamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Information Disclosure
- 2017
- Working Paper
Private and Public Disclosures in Countries with Weak Institutional Environments: Evidence from Shanghai-Hong Kong Connect
By: Aaron Yoon
I study firms’ use of disclosure to build investor confidence when they operate in a market where the institutions that support the supply of credible information are weak. Using the announcement of a regulation that allowed foreigners to invest in select Shanghai...
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Yoon, Aaron. "Private and Public Disclosures in Countries with Weak Institutional Environments: Evidence from Shanghai-Hong Kong Connect." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-111, June 2017.
- February 1999
- Article
User's Guide to New 1998 Operating Segment Disclosures
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords:
Information
Hawkins, David F. "User's Guide to New 1998 Operating Segment Disclosures." Accounting Bulletin, no. 75 (February 1999).
- November 1997
- Article
New International Accounting Segment Disclosure Standard Explained
By: David F. Hawkins
Hawkins, David F. "New International Accounting Segment Disclosure Standard Explained." Accounting Bulletin, no. 58 (November 1997).