Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "performance"
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Boardroom Centrality and Firm Performance
(2013)Firms with central or well-connected boards of directors earn superior risk-adjusted stock returns. Initiating a long position in the most central firms and a short position in the least central firms earns an average ... -
Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors
(Elsevier, 2011)We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix ... -
Disclosure Practices of Foreign Companies Interacting with U.S. Markets
(2004)We analyze the disclosure practices of companies as a function of their interaction with the U.S. markets for a group of 794 firms from 24 countries in Asia-Pacific and Europe. Our analysis uses the Transparency and ... -
Exploring the duality between product and organizational architectures: A test of the “mirroring” hypothesis
(Elsevier BV, 2012)A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that the organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures ... -
The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance
(INFORMS, 2014)We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched sample of 180 U.S. companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies ... -
Market Competition, Earnings Management, and Persistence in Accounting Profitability Around the World
(2014-11-25)We examine how cross-country differences in product, capital, and labor market competition, and earnings management affect mean reversion in accounting return on assets. Using a sample of 48,465 unique firms from 49 ... -
Securitization without Adverse Selection: The Case of CLOs
(Elsevier, 2013-11-25)In this paper, we investigate whether securitization was associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by examining the performance of individual loans held by CLOs. We employ two different datasets that ... -
Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items
(Canadian Academic Accounting Association, 2010)This paper investigates whether managers' presentation of special items within the financial statements reflects economic performance or opportunism. Specifically, we assess special items presented as a separate line item ... -
Sink or Swim: The Role of Workplace Context in Shaping Career Advancement and Human-Capital Development
(INFORMS, 2017-04-04)We develop and test predictions on how early-career challenges arising from the workplace context affect short- and long-term career advancement of individuals. Typically an organization’s decision to deploy a manager to ... -
Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank
(INFORMS, 2012)Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: ... -
Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance
(American Economic Association, 2012)We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how ... -
Under New Management: Equity Issues and the Attribution of Past Returns
(Elsevier, 2016-06-17)There is a strong link between measures of stock market performance, such as changes in Tobin's Q or past stock returns, and equity issues. Typically, this performance is thought to be a characteristic of the firm, not the ... -
What Factors Drive Analyst Forecasts?
(2011)A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its future performance. Yet there is little evidence on whether analysts' forecasts of firm ... -
Why We Think We Can't Dance: Theory of Mind and Children's Desire to Perform
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-11-03)Theory of Mind (ToM) allows children to achieve success in the social world by understanding others' minds. A study with 3–12 year olds, however, demonstrates that gains in ToM are linked to decreases in children's desire ...