Giving shareholders a say may not have as much impact on executive compensation as investors would like.
“Did you know Alan Greenspan was a great saxophone player?” said Professor Julian Yeo. “He toured with Henry Jerome and his orchestra after high school.”
Do laws or the marketplace motivate firms to release information about their behavior?
Doron Nissim and Stephen Penman explain why a new market-based approach to valuation may not be the best one for all industries.
As many companies file their financial results this year, they will face the challenge of implementing FASB’s new 800-pound gorilla: recording assets and liabilities at fair value.
Stephen Penman explains how shareholder value accounting, an approach designed to accurately track the value of shareholders’ assets and liabilities, differs from traditional accounting methods.
Donald Lehmann discusses Managing Customers as Investments, a new book in which he and coauthor Sunil Gupta explain how to calculate and apply customer lifetime value.
The no-arbitrage principle implies that expected real cash flows — not earnings estimates — should determine asset prices. So why do earnings announcements move markets, while cash flow news is all but ignored?
This is a test.
Forecast U.S. earnings are the closest proxy for share price when compared with actual financial statement variables. But do earnings beat forecast cash flows and dividends in an international sample?
After conducting a survey of very large corporations around the world, I discovered that a standard of best practices for employing risk management within a governance structure does not yet exist.
Risk disclosure decisions can have a direct impact on a firm’s cost of capital. When is it in managers’ best interests to voluntarily reveal information about firm-specific risk?
By adding quantitative discipline to their number crunching, financial analysts may avoid the psychological biases that can lead to judgment errors.
Dean Glenn Hubbard examines effects of the corporate tax on the economy. Read more...
Doron Nissim, associate professor of accounting, has won Baruch College’s Stan Ross Department of Accountancy Prize for Outstanding Academic Contribution to Practice. Read more...
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On Thursday, October 11, 2007, the Center on Japanese Economy and Business and the Japan Business Association of Columbia Business School cosponsored a zadankai (roundtable discussion) entitled “Issues in Japanese Pension Fund Management” Read more...
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Prof Julian Yeo was selected as one of the finalists for the 2007 Presidential Awards for Outstanding Teaching. Read more...
Professor Bjorn Jorgensen was recipient of the 2005-2006 Faculty Mentoring Award for the affiliated schools in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, representing the best in PhD sponsorship. Read more...
Professor Sudhakar Balachandran was recipient of the 2006 Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in a Core Course. Read more...
Professor Andrew Schmidt wins Outstanding Tax Dissertation Award Read more...
Prof. Doron Nissim has won the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy Prize Read more...
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Fair Value Project Roundtable Discussion Read more...
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Ethical Corporation conference in New York, May 2006 Read more...
The Center for Excellence in Accounting and Security Analysis (CEASA) released its inaugural white paper on accounting for employee stock options and stock-related claims. Read more...
Commissioners Paul Atkins and Harvey Goldschmid of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) join Dean Hubbard in a panel discussion. Read more...
A number of organizations presented CBS faculty members with awards in recognition of achievement within their fields. Read more...
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