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The Risk of Ignoring the Lesser Risk in Projects

Idea posted: February 2023

Institutions: NYU Stern School of Business    Tuck School of Business   

Business projects, opportunities, or endeavours typically involve conjunctive risk—that is, the endeavour will succeed only if multiple, uncertain events occur. If just one of these required events fail to occur,…

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Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay
Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay
Crowdfunding Still Attracts Local Investors to Local Ventures

Idea posted: April 2016

Institutions: WHU–Otto Beisheim School of Management    York University Schulich School of Business    Concordia University John Molson School of Business   

Entrepreneurs need money to fund their ideas. Many legendary start-ups received their early funding from venture capitalists. However, VC’s are now more interested in contributing to later stage companies rather…

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Stakeholder-Focused Accounting: Value Creation and Risks

Idea posted: January 2016

Institutions: Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business    University of Mexico    Monash University Faculty of Business and Economics    University of Virginia Darden Business School   

Stakeholder Theory is a view of capitalism that stresses the interconnected relationships between a business, its customers, suppliers, employees, investors, communities and others who have a stake in the organization.…

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The Connection Between Disasters and Less Risk-Averse CEOs

Idea posted: October 2015

Institutions: Singapore Management University    University of Oregon Charles Lundquist College of Business    University of Cambridge Judge Business School   

Previous research has explored the impact of life and career experiences and circumstances on CEO managerial styles. This past research shows a monotonic or unidirectional effect of a CEO’s life…

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The Rise of Integrated Corporate Reporting

Idea posted: October 2015

Institutions: International Integrated Reporting Council   

As our perception of corporate governance has evolved, the need for a new and comprehensive way to report on an organization’s performance and sustainability has become apparent. One that takes…

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Beware of Over-Optimistic Investors Skewing High-Risk Stock Prices

Idea posted: September 2015

Institutions: Warwick University Business School    UCLA Anderson School of Management    Old Dominion University   

In finance, a capital asset's sensitivity to risk is often represented by the quantity beta (β), and investment opportunities that have a high risk profile are known as ‘high beta’…

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Investors Complain Proxy Statements Unclear on Executive Pay

Idea posted: July 2015

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business   

A new survey from Stanford University’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance on how investors use information from corporate proxy statements reveals deep dissatisfaction with corporate disclosure about executive compensation. The…

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Non-Executive Board Members More Risk Averse than Executives

Idea posted: June 2015

Institutions: Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University   

Corporate board of directors are composed of executives (CEOs and CFOs) and non-executives. In the U.S. and the UK, the executives and non-executives are grouped on one board. In Europe,…

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A Lesson from China: Growth Is Not Eternal So Be Prepared

Idea posted: March 2015

Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology    Tongji University   

Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC), a company that specialized in the large-scale cranes used to load containers onto ships, burst on the heavy machinery landscape in 1992. At that time,…

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