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- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
Barclays plc admitted that it had manipulated LIBOR-a benchmark interest rate that was fundamental to the operation of international financial markets and that was the basis for trillions of dollars of financial transactions. Between 2005...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
transparency over its state-contingent payoffs. The contractual nature of the put options in the benchmark portfolio allows us to evaluate appropriate required rates of return as a function of investor risk preferences and the underlying...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
proportional to dividend yields. Portfolio strategies differ in the pace of capital gains realization. We use the federal tax codes from 1926 through 2007 to construct the after-tax returns that individual investors, corporations, and broker-dealers would have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
default. Over the two years preceding default, we find that ratings grow increasingly pessimistic relative to a standard benchmark rating model prediction, while optimism remains for similar firms that do not default. Further, we find...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
between the Institutional Shareholder Services and management regarding the appropriateness of the CEO's compensation plan. Was ISS right that Qualcomm CEO's pay was inflated and justified by benchmarking to aspirational peers? Or was...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
retirement in February 2017. The case illustrates how even companies with stellar products can underperform and how benchmarking and financial analysis can help identify drivers of firm performance. The case describes how boards and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
adherence to the informativeness principle. However, 40% of firms—those that choose index-based benchmarks—retain substantial systematic noise in their rTSR metrics, which they could have substantially corrected by using their self-chosen compensation-benchmarking...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
investors. We find that solo investments by institutions outperform co-investments and a wide range of benchmarks for traditional private equity partnership investments. The outperformance is driven by deals where informational problems...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
are talking with women friends. You have to think strategically about your social network. McGinn: Part of looking at benchmarks is recognizing that both men and women have socio-emotional support networks. It just happens that men's...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
(the “supply chain economy”) in national performance. Using the 2002 Benchmark Input-Output Accounts, we introduce a new industry categorization that separates supply chain (SC) industries (i.e., those that sell their goods and services...
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- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
important for innovation: they produce specialized inputs, have more downstream links with other industries, and benefit especially from co-locating with their customers creating externalities. Using the 2002 Benchmark Input-Output...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
leverage and financial fragility for emerging market firms following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators during the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
the increasingly competitive and cutthroat context in the third phase of the industry's evolution. Founded 10 years before deregulation, Southwest's tightly integrated and aligned operational model established a new benchmark for success...
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- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
when the ECB's Governing Council reconvened on April 10, 2008. Given both the market turmoil and the evident inflationary pressure, members of the ECB's Governing Council would have to weigh the available data extremely carefully as they decided whether to raise,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
haunting benchmark not only for Exxon-Mobil but for global corporations at large, which have since become keenly aware of their exposure to this type of episode. Shell was also deeply affected by the 1995 dispute with Greenpeace over...
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