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?
Professor John Donaldson remembers Pandit as a PhD student here at CBS.
Applying lessons from her research on Dutch auction stock repurchases to Google's IPO, Laurie Hodrick explains why she expects to see more firms using the Dutch-auction method to issue shares.
Before working at a venture capital company, I tried for years to figure out how to quickly determine if something is a venture capital investment or a private equity investment.
Giving shareholders a say may not have as much impact on executive compensation as investors would like.
According to my new friend at Blackstone, restructuring has a short window of opportunity because, unlike the weather here in London, there are typically more sunny days than rainy days in any given market cycle.
In general, CEOs related to a founder or large shareholder of a corporation underperform their peers, but some heirs make effective leaders. Is nepotism always harmful or can it be strategically advantageous?
Alan Greenspan in Sunday’s FT said the recent financial crisis may be judged in retrospect as “the most wrenching since the end of the second world war.”
New computer and information technologies not only increase productivity, they can transform entire organizations and industries.
Charles Jones offers some simple advice for appraising the state of the ongoing credit crisis.
Gur Huberman examines why competition hasn't eliminated profits for money managers, and why mutual funds are still priced well below the value of their profits.
On March 21 I flew to Omaha — along with 150 of my classmates — to meet Warren Buffett, MS ’51, a man I have admired (some friends would say fanatically idolized) for close to 15 years.
It’s a striking claim: by giving money away, we make ourselves better off. Can this be true?
Jonathan Knee wants to bring back the traditional values of investment banking's early days -- before junk bonds, LBO funds and the Internet bubble changed everything.
Should a single day’s work be worth $200,000? New research from Professor Maria Guadalupe finds links between high pay and high performance for chief executives.
For Daniel Beunza, one thing about uncertainty is certain: nowadays, it sits at the top of every decision maker's agenda.
Do different national codes turn bankruptcy into a strategic tool for companies? And how will changes in the U.S. bankruptcy code affect companies' borrowing behavior?
Lehman Brothers defied the death knell yesterday and CBS experts believe a Bear Stearns repeat is avoidable.
Rotating loan officers makes them more likely to report bad news about their portfolios, leading to more accurate internal reporting for lenders.
When market shocks occur, firms that have the financial resources to repurchase their own shares experience less volatility.
New research suggests that high-priced talent at the top may be justified in a globalized world.
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.
By adding quantitative discipline to their number crunching, financial analysts may avoid the psychological biases that can lead to judgment errors.
If Jerry Springer had a show about business, this panel discussion might have been an early episode.
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.
Firms in developed countries can compete with those in emerging economies by specializing at the high end of the quality scale.
In March, Lukas Bauer ’09 and I worked with the First MicroFinanceBank of Tajikistan to assess the viability of providing commercial loans to small and medium enterprises.
In December, financial behemoth Citigroup named Vikram Pandit, PhD ’86, chief executive officer—a big job any time, but a particularly challenging one for the embattled firm, buffeted by credit woes.
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.
Dean Glenn Hubbard examines effects of the corporate tax on the economy. Read more...
Dean Glenn Hubbard was featured in the keynote interview at the Wall Street Journal’s first-ever Deal & Deal Makers Conference at the New York Stock Exchange on June 27. Read more...
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