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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors Course Number 2010 Professor Lynn Paine Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Who should take the course? This course should be of...
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- November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Background Note
How Government Shaped the American Diet
By: David E. Bell, Stacey J. Bell and George L. Blackburn
American eating habits have changed over time. Reviews those changes, the role of government policy in affecting those changes, and the health consequences of obesity.
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Bell, David E., Stacey J. Bell, and George L. Blackburn. "How Government Shaped the American Diet." Harvard Business School Background Note 504-064, November 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- 04 Jan 2017
- What Do You Think?
How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?
call these people ‘zombie managers.’ They keep on pushing papers round and round, and then the actual decision goes to a guy who does not understand the subject at all” Several respondents, some of whom have...
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by James L. Heskett
- 16 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Government Incentives for Entrepreneurship
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by Josh Lerner
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
- October 2016
- Teaching Note
FANUC Corporation: Reassessing the Firm's Governance and Financial Policies
By: Benjamin C. Esty
Teaching Note for HBS No. 216-042.
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- July 2010
- Teaching Note
China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (A) and (B)
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan
Teaching Note for 308027 and 308091.
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- 1983
- Chapter
Corporate Governance and 'Economic Democracy': An Attack on Freedom
By: Michael Jensen and William H. Meckling
Keywords:
Corporate Governance
Jensen, Michael, and William H. Meckling. "Corporate Governance and 'Economic Democracy': An Attack on Freedom." In Corporate Governance: A Definite Exploration of the Issues, edited by C. J. Huizenga., 1983.
- 30 Mar 2021
- News
Embrace New Solutions with Possibility Government
- February 1979 (Revised September 1980)
- Case
Gulf Oil Corp. and the United States Government (A)
By: J. Ronald Fox and Allan Grey
Fox, J. Ronald, and Allan Grey. "Gulf Oil Corp. and the United States Government (A)." Harvard Business School Case 379-048, February 1979. (Revised September 1980.)
- 2009
- Book
Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950
By: Aldo Musacchio
In Experiments in Financial Democracy, I challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals significantly different patterns of...
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Private Equity;
Investment;
Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Business History;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Brazil
Musacchio, Aldo. Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Teaching Interest
Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance
By: Paul M. Healy
The last ten years has heightened demands on audit committees. Not only are they responsible for overseeing internal and external audits to ensure that investors receive accurate and transparent information, but they must ensure compliance with new accounting and...
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- TeachingInterests
Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance
By: Suraj Srinivasan
The last ten years has heightened demands on audit committees. Not only are they responsible for overseeing internal and external audits to ensure that investors receive accurate and transparent information, but they must ensure compliance with new accounting and...
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- August 1987
- Case
Government Intervention in the European Computer and Semiconductor Industries
Salter, Malcolm S. "Government Intervention in the European Computer and Semiconductor Industries." Harvard Business School Case 388-023, August 1987.
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Dance Between Government and Private Investors: Public Entrepreneurial Finance around the Globe
By: Jessica Bai, Shai Bernstein, Abhishek Dev and Josh Lerner
This paper examines the interaction between governments and private capital investors when financing early-stage ventures. We first provide a simple conceptual framework to explore when collaboration between governments and private investors is likely to emerge. Using...
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Subsidy;
Industrial Policy;
Entrepreneurship;
Public Sector;
Financing and Loans;
Venture Capital;
Global Range
Bai, Jessica, Shai Bernstein, Abhishek Dev, and Josh Lerner. "The Dance Between Government and Private Investors: Public Entrepreneurial Finance around the Globe." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-120, April 2021. (Revised January 2022.)
- December 2014 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Bhutan: Governing for Happiness
By: Sophus A. Reinert, Thomas Humphrey and Benjamin Safran
Unique among the world’s countries, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan had abandoned the traditional policy goal of increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in favor of pursuing Gross National Happiness (GNH). Famously, Bhutan ranked highly on lists of the happiest...
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Reinert, Sophus A., Thomas Humphrey, and Benjamin Safran. "Bhutan: Governing for Happiness." Harvard Business School Case 715-024, December 2014. (Revised May 2019.)
- 2012
- Book
The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
By: Jay W. Lorsch
This book is a collection of chapters written by Harvard Business School faculty and alums who have experience with corporate boards. It will provide a uniquely HBS perspective on the future of boards.
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Boards Of Directors;
Compensation;
Succession;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Books;
Perspective;
Governance
Lorsch, Jay W., ed. The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
- 2022
- Case
Polarizing Government Work: McKinsey & Co. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
When Donald Trump announced his run for president in 2015, he placed immigration front and center in his campaign. He promised to drastically expand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and build a border...
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Hoffman, Andrew J. "Polarizing Government Work: McKinsey & Co. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)." William Davidson Institute Case 3-951-926, 2022.
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Governing International Advocacy NGOs
By: L. David Brown, Alnoor Ebrahim and Srilatha Batliwala
Brown, L. David, Alnoor Ebrahim, and Srilatha Batliwala. "Governing International Advocacy NGOs." World Development 40, no. 6 (June 2012): 1098–1108.