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- 11 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP and the Bonus of Climate Educator Collaboration
the corporate world works together to tackle the climate crisis. Not only is it more productive to share ideas and collaborate, but, frankly, it just makes our jobs so much...
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- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
leaders for an increasingly volatile and uncertain world where the only true differentiation is the quality of leadership of all." Polman is paving the way for other View Details
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by Bill George
- 2008
- Working Paper
Do Legal Origins Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900
By: Aldo Musacchio
How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature argues that legal origins have persistent effects that explain clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world...
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History;
Law;
Development Economics;
Investment;
Corporate Governance;
Finance;
Business and Government Relations
Musacchio, Aldo. "Do Legal Origins Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-030, January 2008.
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
What happens when giant multinational corporations acquire relatively small companies that enjoy iconic status as socially progressive brands? According to recent research out of Harvard Business School, such marriages can be good for...
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- Winter 2015
- Article
When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management
By: Anette Mikes and Robert S. Kaplan
Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial component of contemporary corporate governance reforms, with an abundance of principles, guidelines, and standards. This paper portrays ERM as an evolving discipline and presents empirical findings on its current...
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Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan. "When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 27, no. 1 (Winter 2015): 37–40.
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
Summing Up What Isn't Off Limits When it Comes to Transparency? The discussion of this month's column on corporate transparency to employees made it clear that we have reached a point at which disclosure of...
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by James Heskett
- August 2021
- Article
Business Education as If People and the Planet Really Matter
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Mounting concern over capitalism’s inability to address systemic challenges in our natural world (i.e. climate change) and social world (i.e. income inequality) is prompting reexamination of capitalism within business groups. This article argues that a concurrent...
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Climate Change;
Equality and Inequality;
Corporate Governance;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Issues;
Business Education;
Transformation
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Business Education as If People and the Planet Really Matter." Strategic Organization 19, no. 3 (August 2021): 513–525.
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
most important person in my life meant so much to me! *** Name: Ashley Chang Child: Jonas (almost 6 years) and Clement (2.5 years) Student Status: EC Where are you from? Taiwan Professional pathway pre-HBS: I was a product manager in the...
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- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
industries that can be anybody, anywhere. While some observers have dismissed the phenomenon as exclusive to "a few crazy Internet companies in California," the reality is this: View Details
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by Staff
- 2013
- White Paper
Building and Governing a Democratic Federation: The ActionAid International Story
By: Sherine Jayawickrama and Alnoor Ebrahim
This report examines the governance model and reform process of an international nongovernmental organization (INGO), ActionAid International (AAI). It describes the evolution of AAI's governance model and draws key lessons for peer INGOs. The paper is based on a...
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Governance;
NGO;
Accountability;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Non-Governmental Organizations
Jayawickrama, Sherine, and Alnoor Ebrahim. "Building and Governing a Democratic Federation: The ActionAid International Story." White Paper Series, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, June 2013.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From observers to active participants in the global economy
By investing in African countries, moving them beyond subsistence, Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972) fuels some of the world’s potentially fastest-growing markets. As deputy vice president for the Millennium...
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- June 2008 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Rachel Galper
Barry Nalls describes lessons learned during his 25-year career—his rise at GTE and shorter-lived ventures—and how these prepared him to found MASERGY, a telecommunications start-up. Even as a young boy in a family of entrepreneurs, Nalls had a reputation as a hard...
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Business Startups;
Experience and Expertise;
Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Personal Development and Career
Wasserman, Noam T., and Rachel Galper. "Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls." Harvard Business School Case 808-167, June 2008. (Revised October 2012.)
- July 2022
- Supplement
General Mills: Responding to the Killing of George Floyd (B)
By: Debora L. Spar and Alicia Dadlani
Jeff Harmening, CEO of General Mills, one of the world's largest manufacturers of breakfast cereals and packaged foods, was deeply disturbed and instantly aware that he and General Mills would need to respond. George Floyd, an African-American man who had been accused...
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Race;
Decisions;
Social Issues;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Consumer Products Industry;
Minneapolis;
Minnesota;
United States
Spar, Debora L., and Alicia Dadlani. "General Mills: Responding to the Killing of George Floyd (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 323-020, July 2022.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Rights and Private Litigation in Public Regulation, 1880s to 1930s
By: Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Laura Phillips Sawyer
Scholars have long recognized that the states’ authority to charter corporations bolstered their antitrust powers in ways that were not available to the federal government. But they have also argued that the growth of large-scale enterprises operating in national and...
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Voting Trusts;
Antitrust;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
History;
United States
Lamoreaux, Naomi R., and Laura Phillips Sawyer. "Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Rights and Private Litigation in Public Regulation, 1880s to 1930s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-109, May 2019.
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
Summing Up Don't throw out alignment while fighting greed and ignorance in corporate governance Respondents to this month's column have spoken: The cause of investor mistrust of management is not View Details
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by James Heskett
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
Part of it is this unconscious bias. But we just need more women to feel comfortable writing checks.” Dan Morrell: Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) has spent much of her career as an entrepreneur and tech executive and was well aware of the...
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- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
2018, I left my corporate job and decided to explore opportunities with a social impact-driven food organization, particularly one focused on food access and hunger relief. What made the Greater Boston Food...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
psychology, and neuroscience are integrated and applied to problems in human resource management, labor economics, organizational behavior, finance, governance, and corporate control. Jensen taught the first...
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Susan Young