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      • April 2023
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      The Stock Market Valuation of Human Capital Creation

      By: Ethan Rouen and Matthias Regier
      We develop a measure of firm-year-specific human capital investment from publicly disclosed personnel expenses (PE) and examine the stock market valuation of this investment. Measuring the future value of PE (PEFV) based on the relation between...  View Details
      Keywords: Intangibles; Valuation; Human Capital; Investment Return
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      Rouen, Ethan, and Matthias Regier. "The Stock Market Valuation of Human Capital Creation." Art. 102384. Journal of Corporate Finance 79 (April 2023).
      • March 2023
      • Case

      Ownership Works: Scaling a Profitable Social Mission

      By: Ethan Rouen, Dennis Campbell and Andrew Robinson
      Pete Stavros was on a high after his latest experiment with employee ownership. As the head of industrial investments for KKR, Stavros orchestrated the sale of CHI Overhead Doors, which turned into KKR’s best investment in more than two decades and created $360 million...  View Details
      Keywords: Employee Ownership; Knowledge Sharing; Nonprofit Organizations
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      Rouen, Ethan, Dennis Campbell, and Andrew Robinson. "Ownership Works: Scaling a Profitable Social Mission." Harvard Business School Case 123-079, March 2023.
      • December 2022 (Revised June 2023)
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      KKR at CHI Overhead Doors (A)

      By: Dennis Campbell and Ethan Rouen
      This case examines the decision by private equity firm KKR to grant equity to every employee at portfolio company CHI Overhead Doors upon purchasing the company in 2015. The case explores whether this initiative will create shared value, growing profits through better...  View Details
      Keywords: Performance Improvement; Profit Sharing; Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Culture
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      Campbell, Dennis, and Ethan Rouen. "KKR at CHI Overhead Doors (A)." Harvard Business School Case 123-018, December 2022. (Revised June 2023.)
      • December 2022
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      KKR at CHI Overhead Doors (B)

      By: Dennis Campbell and Ethan Rouen
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      Campbell, Dennis, and Ethan Rouen. "KKR at CHI Overhead Doors (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 123-019, December 2022.
      • December 2022
      • Supplement

      KKR at CHI Overhead Doors (C)

      By: Dennis Campbell and Ethan Rouen
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      Campbell, Dennis, and Ethan Rouen. "KKR at CHI Overhead Doors (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 123-020, December 2022.
      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      The Evolution of ESG Reports and the Role of Voluntary Standards

      By: Ethan Rouen, Kunal Sachdeva and Aaron Yoon
      We examine the evolution of ESG reports of S&P 500 firms from 2010 to 2021. The percentage of firms releasing these voluntary disclosures increased from 35% to 86% during this period, although the length of these documents experienced more modest growth. Using a...  View Details
      Keywords: Voluntary Disclosure; Textual Analysis; Modeling And Analysis; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; AI and Machine Learning; Accounting
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      Rouen, Ethan, Kunal Sachdeva, and Aaron Yoon. "The Evolution of ESG Reports and the Role of Voluntary Standards." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-024, October 2022.
      • October 2022
      • Teaching Note

      Creating and Measuring Purpose at Viega

      By: Ethan Rouen and Suraj Srinivasan
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      Rouen, Ethan, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Creating and Measuring Purpose at Viega." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 123-035, October 2022.
      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Passing the Mic: Career and Firm Outcomes of Executive Interactions

      By: Wei Cai, Ethan Rouen and Yuan Zou
      We exploit a unique feature of conference calls to study one type of interaction among executives—directly inviting colleagues to respond to analysts’ questions. We find that the frequency of initiating interaction is positively associated with an executive’s ability,...  View Details
      Keywords: Conference Calls; CEO Succession; Executive Interactions; Promotion; Interpersonal Communication; Personal Development and Career; Retention
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      Cai, Wei, Ethan Rouen, and Yuan Zou. "Passing the Mic: Career and Firm Outcomes of Executive Interactions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-069, May 2022.
      • February 2022 (Revised January 2023)
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      Creating and Measuring Purpose at Viega

      By: Ethan Rouen, Suraj Srinivasan and James Barnett
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      Rouen, Ethan, Suraj Srinivasan, and James Barnett. "Creating and Measuring Purpose at Viega." Harvard Business School Case 122-028, February 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
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      Core Earnings: New Data and Evidence

      By: Ethan Rouen, Eric C. So and Charles C.Y. Wang
      Using a novel dataset, we show that components of firms' GAAP earnings stemming from ancillary business activities or transitory shocks are significant in frequency and magnitude. These components have grown over time and are dispersed across various sections of the...  View Details
      Keywords: Core Earnings; Transitory Earnings; Non-operating Earnings; Quantitative Disclosures; Equity Valuation; Big Data; Business Earnings; Financial Reporting; Valuation; Analytics and Data Science
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      Rouen, Ethan, Eric C. So, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Core Earnings: New Data and Evidence." Journal of Financial Economics 142, no. 3 (December 2021): 1068–1091.
      • November 2021
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      Education Partners: Becoming Actively Anti-Racist (B)

      By: Ethan Rouen and Carolyn Liu
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      Rouen, Ethan, and Carolyn Liu. "Education Partners: Becoming Actively Anti-Racist (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 122-049, November 2021.
      • November 2021
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      Education Partners: Becoming Actively Anti-Racist (A)

      By: Ethan Rouen and Carolyn Liu
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      Rouen, Ethan, and Carolyn Liu. "Education Partners: Becoming Actively Anti-Racist (A)." Harvard Business School Case 122-048, November 2021.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Accounting for Employment Impact at Scale

      By: Adel Fadhel, Katie Panella, Ethan Rouen and George Serafeim
      Using new data on workforce composition and wages, we systematically measure the employment impact at U.S. firms from 2008 to 2020, including 2,682 unique firms and 22,322 firm-year observations. We document significant variation across industries and firms within each...  View Details
      Keywords: Impact Accounting; ESG; Employee Turnover; Wages; Employment; Measurement and Metrics; Human Capital; Diversity; United States
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      Fadhel, Adel, Katie Panella, Ethan Rouen, and George Serafeim. "Accounting for Employment Impact at Scale." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-018, December 2021.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Employee Ownership and Wealth Inequality: A Path to Reducing Wealth Concentration

      By: Thomas Dudley and Ethan Rouen
      This paper examines the impact of an economy-wide shift to broad-based employee ownership on wealth concentration in the United States. Relying on government data, we show that if all private firms became 30% employee-owned, the wealth distribution would be profoundly...  View Details
      Keywords: Wealth Inequality; Employee Ownership; Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Analysis; United States
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      Dudley, Thomas, and Ethan Rouen. "Employee Ownership and Wealth Inequality: A Path to Reducing Wealth Concentration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-021, September 2021.
      • Summer 2021
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      Predictable Country-level Bias in the Reporting of COVID-19 Deaths

      By: Botir Kobilov, Ethan Rouen and George Serafeim
      We examine whether a country’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic relate to the downward biasing of the number of reported deaths from COVID-19. Using deviations from historical averages of the total number of monthly deaths within a country, we find that the...  View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19; Deaths; Reporting; Incentives; Government Policy; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Country; Crisis Management; Outcome or Result; Reports; Policy
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      Kobilov, Botir, Ethan Rouen, and George Serafeim. "Predictable Country-level Bias in the Reporting of COVID-19 Deaths." Journal of Government and Economics 2 (Summer 2021).
      • May 13, 2021
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      The Big Benefits of Employee Ownership

      By: Thomas Dudley and Ethan Rouen
      Wealth inequality in the U.S. has been increasing for decades: The richest 1% own a majority of all business wealth, and the top 10% own more than 90%. Companies, which have played a vital role in the growth in inequality can also play one in reducing it. One place to...  View Details
      Keywords: Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Employee Ownership; United States
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      Dudley, Thomas, and Ethan Rouen. "The Big Benefits of Employee Ownership." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 13, 2021).
      • May 2021
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      Valuing Employment Case Spreadsheet Supplement

      By: George Serafeim, Ethan Rouen and Katie Panella
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      Serafeim, George, Ethan Rouen, and Katie Panella. "Valuing Employment Case Spreadsheet Supplement." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 121-091, May 2021.
      • May 2021
      • Supplement

      Valuing Employment Teaching Plan Spreadsheet Supplement

      By: George Serafeim, Ethan Rouen and Katie Panella
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      Serafeim, George, Ethan Rouen, and Katie Panella. "Valuing Employment Teaching Plan Spreadsheet Supplement." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 121-092, May 2021.
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      Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: A Paradigm Shift

      By: Ethan Rouen and George Serafeim
      The last decade has seen an exponential increase in corporate sustainability activities and efforts by investors to use these activities in their portfolio formation, valuation, and stewardship activities. This paper explains the need for a uniform strategy to measure...  View Details
      Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Standards
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      Rouen, Ethan, and George Serafeim. "Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: A Paradigm Shift." CESifo Forum 22, no. 3 (May 2021): 20–25.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Financial Flexibility and Corporate Employment

      By: Rebecca Lester, Ethan Rouen and Braden Williams
      We study the role of financial flexibility on COVID-19 employment actions. Using daily data from March through May 2020 for 354 of the largest U.S. employers, we find that firms facing a negative demand shock were 28.8 percentage points more likely to reduce their...  View Details
      Keywords: Financial Flexibility; COVID-19; Pandemic; Employment; Health Pandemics; System Shocks; Finance
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      Lester, Rebecca, Ethan Rouen, and Braden Williams. "Financial Flexibility and Corporate Employment." Harvard Business School Series in Accounting and Control, No. 21-119, April 2021.
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