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    Samuel L. Hayes

    Samuel L. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School.  He has taught at the School since 1970, prior to which he was a tenured member of the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He... View Details

    • November 2010 (Revised September 2015)
    • Case

    American International Group - 2010

    By: Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa Barton
    The AIG Board underwent significant restructuring after the company was bailed out by the U.S. government in September 2008 in the midst of the financial crisis. View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Business and Government Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Restructuring; Financial Services Industry
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    • May 22, 2023
    • Other Article

    How to Manage Workforce Risk Amid Old Challenges, New Disruptions

    By: Joseph B. Fuller, Michael Griffiths, Reem Janho, Michael Stephan, Carey Oven and Keri Calagna
    C-suites and boards have an opportunity to improve management and expand governance of their workforce to mitigate related risks more effectively. View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock Options Expensing

    By: Fabrizio Ferri and Tatiana Sandino
    In this paper we examine the economic consequences of over 150 shareholder proposals to expense employee stock options (ESO) submitted during the proxy seasons of 2003 and 2004–the first case where the SEC has allowed an accounting matter to be subject to an advisory... View Details
    Keywords: Executive Compensation; Financial Reporting; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • March 2009 (Revised April 2009)
    • Case

    AFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A) (Abridged)

    By: Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
    Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest public sector workers union in the U.S., was responsible for protecting the pensions of its members. Because pensions were invested for decades, Ferlauto wanted the companies in which... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Investment; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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    • August 2012
    • Supplement

    William Jeffrey: Performance at Bay Colony (B)

    By: Lena G. Goldberg
    The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel are explored in connection with on-boarding, investigating alleged misconduct of, and terminating a company's CEO,... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Employment Law; Business or Company Management; Law; Leadership; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employment; Corporate Governance; Financial Services Industry; Massachusetts
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    • 01 Mar 2010
    • Op-Ed

    A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM

    Having weathered the 2008 crisis without U.S. government support, Ford has $23 billion in cash in the bank and a lineup of eco-friendly automobiles to which U.S. consumers are gravitating. GM only emerged... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Auto

      Ray A. Goldberg

      A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

      ... View Details

      Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine
      • 09 Apr 2019
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

      political, as they faced widespread host government hostility and expropriation. In the contemporary global economy, political risk partially declined with the spread of liberalization, although the... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • September 2011 (Revised November 2011)
      • Supplement

      Longtop Financial Technologies (C)

      By: David F. Hawkins, Annelena Lobb and Aldo Sesia
      Chinese government raises barriers to U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board auditing Deloitte's Chinese auditing firms. View Details
      Keywords: Accounting Audits; Business Ventures; Public Ownership; Government and Politics; Financial Services Industry; China
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      • 05 Feb 2019
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

      fiscal obligations under bankruptcy-like proceedings. Many stakeholders felt hopeful that the Oversight Board could help Governor Ricardo Rosselló enact reforms that would improve public services, eliminate View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • July 2016 (Revised January 2019)
      • Case

      Cyber Breach at Target

      By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and Neeraj Goyal
      In November and December of 2013, Target Corporation suffered one of the largest cyber breaches to date. The breach that occurred during the busy holiday shopping season resulted in personal and credit card information of approximately 110 million Target customers... View Details
      Keywords: Safety; Credit Cards; Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Governing and Advisory Boards; Crisis Management; Retail Industry
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        Allison H. Mnookin

        Allison Mnookin is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at the Harvard Business School.  She currently teaches the TOM and FIELD Global Immersion courses in the required MBA curriculum.  In addition, she... View Details

        • 2024
        • Working Paper

        Corporate Culture Homogeneity and Top Executive Incentive Design: Evidence from CEO Compensation Contracts

        By: Dennis Campbell, Ruidi Shang and Zhifang Zhang
        We examine how corporate cultures characterized by high degrees of homogeneity in the underlying values and beliefs of organizational members are related to the design of CEO incentive compensation contracts. We argue that culture homogeneity within firms lowers... View Details
        Keywords: Corporate Culture; Compensation Design; Accounting; Management Control; Incentive Systems; Organizational Culture; Job Design and Levels; Governance; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives
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        • 29 May 2018
        • First Look

        New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

        diversification to long-term investors do not recede when the source of increased global return correlations is correlated discount rates. Empirically, we document a secular increase in the cross-country correlations of both stock returns View Details
        Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
        • 05 Jun 2018
        • First Look

        New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

        https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54150 Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Evidence from the Massachusetts Natural Experiment By: Daines, Robert, Shelley Xin Li, and Charles C.Y. Wang... View Details
        Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
        • 05 May 2003
        • Research & Ideas

        SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”

        the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the Senate, said that the new law's value is that it helps eliminate conflicts of interest between auditors and a company's board of directors by decreeing that directors... View Details
        Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
        • 25 Apr 2011
        • Research & Ideas

        What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

        curiosity of trying to understand the life of a CEO." But what they did discover should help CEOs learn to be more effective with their time, and provide boards with a new tool to help assess the... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding
        • 06 May 2021
        • News

        Discussing The Heart of Business with Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly

        • 24 Jul 2018
        • First Look

        New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

        retirement in February 2017. The case illustrates how even companies with stellar products can underperform and how benchmarking and financial analysis can help identify drivers of firm performance. The case... View Details
        Keywords: Dina Gerdeman