Professor Charles Williams - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Mar 2016
First Look

March 8, 2016

Cohen, Alma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—In a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) in 2013, we provided evidence that market participants perceive staggered boards to be on average value reducing. In a recent... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

to William Lever. After his death, the Overseas Committee became the institutional embodiment of this paternalistic oversight role. Philips too conformed to this model: the Philips family dominated the company's top management until well... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

Research Summary

Corporate Governance

By: Charles C.Y. Wang

The characteristics and structure of boards of directors have important implications for firm performance. Professor Wang has found that firms with well-connected boards whose members have strong network connections provide economic benefits that are not immediately... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

what set of no-deal alternatives face the participants. Its most familiar element involves what each party will do if there is no deal — in other words, "the best alternative to negotiated agreement" or BATNA (a term coined by Harvard Law School View Details

Keywords: by Anita M. Harris

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

Inflation Reduction Act This bonus episode features the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program’s CleanLaw podcast, where professors Jody Freeman (Harvard) and Greg Dotson (University of Oregon) talk about the US Inflation... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Events - Business History

the book on the Oxford University Press website. Apr 3 03 Apr 2023 Seminar Hybrid Seminar: William Kirby (HBS), "Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China" William... View Details

04 Oct 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go

When does a company founder have to go? In the frenzied, early months of a new venture's launch, few entrepreneurs anticipate a future beyond their role as company leader. In the case study "Founder–CEO Succession at Wily Technology," HBS assistant View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Technology

15 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

Business Administration at HBS and a member of the Forum's faculty steering committee. Other committee members include William W. Chin, Executive Dean for Research at HMS; Richard G. Hamermesh, MBA Class of 1961 View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

31 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

When Not to Trust Your Gut

land, construction, hiring, and so on. Yet overconfidence remains the norm; in a study by Arnold Cooper of Purdue University, Carolyn Woo of Notre Dame University, and William Dunkelberg of Temple University, more than 80 percent of... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra

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Life at Harvard - Doctoral

Roche Strategy Professor Charles Wang Accounting & Management Professor Andy Wu Strategy Caleb Kwon Technology & Operations Management Professor... View Details

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Impact - Health Care

areas. Impact Stories Health Minute: Good Management Can Save Your Life Professor Raffaella Sadun Health Minute: How Can Companies Bring "Missing Drugs" to Market? Professor Amitabh Chandra Health Minute:... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

handle on what you’re going to do. If you stick with that timeframe, you won’t risk being out of sight and out of mind and can look forward to starting fresh in your new role. John Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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Student Research - Doctoral

Finance 1 results Peter Tufano General Management 1 results Charles C.Y. Wang Accounting and Management 1 results Ashley V. Whillans Negotiation, Organizations & Markets 3 results Emily Williams Finance 1... View Details

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Howard E. Cox | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Howard E. Cox Greylock Michael Danzi US Labs William Donaldson Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Timothy C. Draper Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) William H. Draper, III Draper Richards, L.P. T. J. Dermot Dunphy... View Details

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

T. Pittinsky. Harvard Business School Press, 2009 Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size Authors: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Publication: Journal of the European Economic Association (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006

competitiveness of individual firms. Harvard Business School and Harvard University jointly created the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness in 2001. It is led by Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Carnegie Mellon University and the Distinguished Teaching Award at Stanford University. He is a co-author (with Professors Charles T. Horngren and George Foster) of the leading cost accounting textbook,Cost... View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

CA 25 of 65 Carol Green Dennis The Harker School San Jose, CA CA 26 of 65 Lionel Green Renaissance Valley Academy Hemet, CA CA 27 of 65 Willa Greenstone Westridge School Pasadena, CA CA 28 of 65 Charles Hanson Menlo School Atherton, CA... View Details

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Eyoel, leader of New Profi... HBS Alumni for Social Impact: Education Where Does Higher Education Go From Here? In a recent virtual program from the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, HBS Professor Emeritus View Details

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Team - Case Method Project

Case Method Project. He received his A.B. in history from Williams College and his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. He has served as Lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard, Professor of... View Details

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