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- March 2022
- Module Note
Corporate Governance in Business Analysis and Valuation
Wang, Charles C.Y. "Corporate Governance in Business Analysis and Valuation." Harvard Business School Module Note 122-073, March 2022.
- 2001
- Working Paper
A Note on Governance and Corporate Control
- March 2020
- Article
Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior
By: Akash Chattopadhyay, Matthew D. Shaffer and Charles C.Y. Wang
After decades of deprioritizing shareholders' economic interests and low corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's "best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable of its large and liquid...
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Keywords:
JPX-Nikkei 400 Index;
Status Incentives;
Return On Equity;
Capital Efficiency;
Social Norms;
Index Inclusion;
Reputation Incentives;
Motivation and Incentives;
Corporate Governance;
Behavior;
Investment Return;
Status and Position;
Japan
Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior." Journal of Financial Economics 135, no. 3 (March 2020): 704–724.
- October 1991 (Revised December 1992)
- Background Note
Note on Corporate Governance Systems: The United States, Japan, and Germany
By: W. Carl Kester and Robert W. Lightfoot
Describes and compares the corporate governance systems commonly found in the United States, Japan, and Germany.
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Kester, W. Carl, and Robert W. Lightfoot. "Note on Corporate Governance Systems: The United States, Japan, and Germany." Harvard Business School Background Note 292-012, October 1991. (Revised December 1992.)
- June 2019
- Article
Social Risk, Fiscal Risk, and the Portfolio of Government Programs
We develop a model of government portfolio choice in which a benevolent government chooses the scale of risky projects in the presence of market failures and tax distortions. These two frictions generate motives to manage social risk and fiscal risk. Social risk...
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Hanson, Samuel G., David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam. "Social Risk, Fiscal Risk, and the Portfolio of Government Programs." Review of Financial Studies 32, no. 6 (June 2019): 2341–2382. (Internet Appendix Here.)
- April 2011 (Revised February 2013)
- Background Note
How Government Debt Accumulates
By: Dante Roscini and Jonathan Schlefer
This note discusses the economics of government-debt accumulation. Fiscal deficits are only part of the picture; other factors include the level of debt as a percent of nominal GDP; the interest rate; the inflation rate; the growth rate; and changes in the exchange...
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Roscini, Dante, and Jonathan Schlefer. "How Government Debt Accumulates." Harvard Business School Background Note 711-087, April 2011. (Revised February 2013.)
- 29 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Surfacing the Submerged State with Operational Transparency in Government Services
- April 17, 2012
- Blog Post
Learning and the Disappearing Association between Governance and Returns
By: Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Charles CY Wang
Bebchuk, Lucian A., Alma Cohen, and Charles CY Wang. "Learning and the Disappearing Association between Governance and Returns." Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (April 17, 2012). https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/04/17/learning-and-the-disappearing-association-between-governance-and-returns/.
- Sep 08 2015
- Testimonial
Gaining Perspective on Corporate Governance
- February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
- Supplement
CalSTRS and Relational Challenge Occidental's Governance (C)
By: George Serafeim
Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and Sarah E. Farrell. "CalSTRS and Relational Challenge Occidental's Governance (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 113-098, February 2013. (Revised March 2013.)
- February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
- Supplement
CalSTRS and Relational Challenge Occidental's Governance (B)
By: George Serafeim
Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and Sarah E. Farrell. "CalSTRS and Relational Challenge Occidental's Governance (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 113-097, February 2013. (Revised March 2013.)
- February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
CalSTRS and Relational Challenge Occidental's Governance (A)
By: George Serafeim
Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and Sarah E. Farrell. "CalSTRS and Relational Challenge Occidental's Governance (A)." Harvard Business School Case 113-090, February 2013. (Revised March 2013.)
Summit TV, South Africa
Bob Eccles and George Serafeim Harvard Business School on their investigation into the King Code of Governance and how it has impacted the way corporates do business in South Africa.
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- October 2021
- Article
Board Design and Governance Failures at Peer Firms
By: Shelby Gai, J. Yo-Jud Cheng and Andy Wu
Our study introduces board committees as a crucial determinant of board actions. We examine how directors who structurally link different board committees—referred to as multi-committee directors (MCDs)—explain why some board actions are merely symbolic while others...
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Keywords:
Board Committees;
Board Monitoring;
New Director Nomination;
Peer Financial Restatements;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Corporate Governance;
Performance Effectiveness
Gai, Shelby, J. Yo-Jud Cheng, and Andy Wu. "Board Design and Governance Failures at Peer Firms." Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 10 (October 2021): 1909–1938.
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
SUMMING UP Would More Women in Leadership Help Mitigate #MeToo Concerns? If a good case study is one that splits a class down the middle on an important issue while surfacing creative responses, this month's column on how best to encourage corporate View Details
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by James Heskett
- August 2006 (Revised July 2007)
- Background Note
Fundamentals of Family Business System Governance
By: John A. Davis
Reviews the purposes and ingredients in the governance (or steering) of a family business system. Explores at a high level the governance of the family business, its owners, and the family. Focuses on how these governance structures, processes, plans, and agreements...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Family Ownership
Davis, John A. "Fundamentals of Family Business System Governance." Harvard Business School Background Note 807-019, August 2006. (Revised July 2007.)
- 2014
- Working Paper
Opting Out of Good Governance
By: C. Fritz Foley, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein and Eric Zwick
Cross-listing on a U.S. exchange does not bond foreign firms to follow the corporate governance rules of that exchange. Hand-collected data show that 80% of cross-listed firms opt out of at least one exchange governance rule, instead committing to observe the rules of...
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Foley, C. Fritz, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein, and Eric Zwick. "Opting Out of Good Governance." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19953, March 2014.