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    Jeffrey F. Rayport

    Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology... View Details

    • October 2010 (Revised October 2011)
    • Case

    Ken Langone: Member, GE Compensation Committee

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Lizzie Gomez
    On September 2003, Richard Grasso stepped down as chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, following weeks of intense public criticism over the size of his $190 million compensation package. As chairman of the committee that oversaw Grasso's payout, Ken Langone... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Executive Compensation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Labor and Management Relations; Wages; Change Management; Energy Industry; New York (city, NY)
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    • 29 Aug 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

    the paper The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns, the three scholars found that portfolio managers placed larger bets on firms when there was an alumni connection, View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • 20 Oct 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

    rolling," said workshop co-organizer Beiting Cheng, an HBS doctoral student. Short of government mandates, how can corporations be motivated to adopt integrated reporting? Will shareholders be a driving force? What about outside... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting
    • 24 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

    https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718424-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-040 Sales Razor Technologies Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September–October 2020
    • Article

    Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value

    By: George Serafeim
    Until the mid-2010s few investors paid attention to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data—information about companies’ carbon footprints, labor policies, board makeup, and so forth. Today the data is widely used by investors. How can organizations create... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Disclosure Metrics; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; Social Impact; Impact Measurement; Social Innovation; Purpose; Corporate Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility; Strategy; Social Enterprise; Society; Accounting; Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; Chemical Industry; Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; North America; Europe; Japan; Australia
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    • July 1998 (Revised August 1998)
    • Case

    Community Wealth Ventures, Inc.

    By: James E. Austin and Meredith D. Pearson
    Share Our Strength, a successful anti-hunger nonprofit organization, created a for-profit subsidiary--Community Wealth Ventures (CWV)--to provide advisory services to companies and nonprofits on collaboration. Management is reviewing CWV's start-up experience. View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; For-Profit Firms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Consulting Industry
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    • 10 Mar 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: March 10

    Diversity and Inclusion (D&I), provided a summary of the firm's journey to date and an update on its progress. The message from Fink at the July meeting was clear: the firm needed to do more. This... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • May 2010 (Revised July 2010)
    • Case

    Bank of America Acquires Merrill Lynch (A)

    By: Robert C. Pozen and Charles E. Beresford
    On December 22, 2008, Bank of America (BofA) chairman and CEO Ken Lewis convened a special board of directors meeting to review his company's pending acquisition of investment bank Merrill Lynch. Negotiations for the acquisition had begun a few months earlier, during... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Corporate Governance; Government Legislation; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry
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      Shawn A. Cole

      Shawn Cole is the John G. McLean Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial services, impact investing, and Social Enterprise. He serves as faculty chair of the Social Enterprise... View Details

      Keywords: banking; financial services; microfinance
      • 06 Jun 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

      https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52718 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Relative TSR... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 06 Feb 2018
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

      J. Marinich, and Michael D. Shields Abstract—This study examines the effect of psychological contract breach on budgetary misreporting. Psychological contracts are mental models or schemas that govern how... View Details
      • October 2009 (Revised November 2011)
      • Case

      Citigroup-Wachovia-Wells Fargo

      By: Guhan Subramanian and Nithyasri Sharma
      In late September 2008, amidst the spiraling financial crisis, many firms on Wall Street were in a precarious position. One such institution was Wachovia, which entered acquisition talks with Citigroup and Wells Fargo. This case describes the development of these... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Managerial Roles; Banking Industry; United States
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      • 03 Mar 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

      exception. What they have in common are good reasons for foreign businesses and Western governments to cheer the changes. In Bahrain, the Khalifa family, members of Islam's Sunni sect, rules over a majority... View Details
      Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities
      • News

      How Carl Icahn Met His Match in eBay’s Donahoe

        Andre F. Perold

        André Perold is a Founder, Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of HighVista Strategies, a Boston-based investment firm. HighVista focuses on investing in structurally inefficient public and private markets, including in life sciences,  lower middle market private... View Details

        Keywords: banking; financial services; information; investment banking industry; professional services

          Test Your Board’s Readiness for the Post-Covid Era

          Research suggests that well-run boards take the process of self-evaluation quite seriously, often using a combination of director surveys and personal interviews to assess the functioning and effectiveness of the board, its committees, and its individual members.... View Details
          • 21 Sep 2009
          • Research & Ideas

          Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

          was no less emphatic. "This is an unprecedented preemption of state corporate law that will turn boards of more than 15,000 publicly traded companies into political bodies and threaten their ability to... View Details
          Keywords: by Roger Thompson
          • Web

          Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

          Self-Reflection Featured Exercises Evaluate long-versus short-term responsibilities through the lens of different stakeholder interests Reflect on the responsibilities of founders, CEOs, and boards 7-9 hrs... View Details
          • 30 Aug 2004
          • Research & Ideas

          Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

          Exchange Commission-approved NYSE and Nasdaq governance listing standards. The risk now is that boards will become overly focused on regulatory compliance View Details
          Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan