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- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
valuable than the individual components of the portfolio.” In other words, it's a classic case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand...
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by Michael Blanding
- August 2000
- Supplement
The Atchison Corporation (C)
By: Joseph L. Bower
Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement.
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Bower, Joseph L. "The Atchison Corporation (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 301-022, August 2000.
- August 2000 (Revised August 2018)
- Supplement
The Atchison Corporation (B)
By: Joseph L. Bower
Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement.
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Bower, Joseph L. "The Atchison Corporation (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 301-021, August 2000. (Revised August 2018.)
- 1991
- Book
Rebirth of the Corporation
By: D. Q. Mills
Keywords:
Corporate Entrepreneurship
Mills, D. Q. Rebirth of the Corporation. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1991.
- November 1996
- Case
Del Webb Corporation (A), The
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff
Begins with a company history, tracing the tenures of founder Del E. Webb and his successor as chairman and CEO, Robert H. Johnson. Johnson inherited a diversified company that was involved in construction, real estate development (including the famous Sun City), and...
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Management Style;
Conflict Management;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Management Succession;
Crisis Management
Lorsch, Jay W., and Samanta Graff. "Del Webb Corporation (A), The." Harvard Business School Case 497-016, November 1996.
- October 2013
- Article
Corporate Venturing
By: Josh Lerner
For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure to rein in costs and produce results, companies are investing in promising start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is...
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Venture Capital;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Corporate Strategy;
Research and Development;
Business Startups;
Innovation and Invention
Lerner, Josh. "Corporate Venturing." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 10 (October 2013): 86–94.
- Research Summary
The "New" Corporate Communications
Stephen A. Greyser continues to explore the issues and problems
organizations face as they attempt to communicate effectively with a
variety of constituencies. Greyser's work and the course to which it
contributes are structured around the business-media-publics...
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- August 2000 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
The Atchison Corporation (A)
By: Joseph L. Bower
A new general manager uses a profit-center-based system to shake up an old line company. He then faces the task of placating a board member upset by the human consequences. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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Transformation;
Profit;
Human Resources;
Change Management;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Organizational Design
Bower, Joseph L. "The Atchison Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 301-020, August 2000. (Revised August 2018.)
- December 1999 (Revised October 2006)
- Case
Praedium Corporation
By: Henry B. Reiling and Catherine M. Conneely
George Hicks and Patricia Ferrey, primary shareholders of the Praedium Corp., faced a dilemma that could dissolve their real estate management company. Praedium received an attractive offer to lease one of its properties, however, Hicks did not want to terminate the...
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- 2021
- Article
The Sustainable Corporate Governance Initiative in Europe
By: Mark Roe, Holger Spamann, Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
In July 2020, the European Commission published the “Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance” by EY. The Report purports to find evidence of debilitating short-termism in EU corporate governance and recommends many changes to support sustainable...
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Short-termism;
Hedge Funds;
Shareholder Activism;
Securities Regulation;
Agency Costs;
Political Economy;
Payouts;
Repurchases;
Corporate Governance;
Investment Funds;
Investment Activism;
Research and Development;
Investment;
European Union
Roe, Mark, Holger Spamann, Jesse M. Fried, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "The Sustainable Corporate Governance Initiative in Europe." Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin 38 (2021): 133–153.
- September 2011
- Teaching Note
The Allstate Corporation (TN)
By: John R. Wells
Teaching Note for 708485.
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- December 2018
- Case
Corporate Transformation at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Amy C. Edmondson, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Tonia Labruyere
When Stefan Oschmann became CEO and chairman of the executive board of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, in 2016, the company had started its transformation from a mid-tier traditional German industry player to a global modern science and technology player. The...
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Corporate Governance With Family Ownership;
Transformation;
Change Management;
Restructuring;
Corporate Governance;
Family Ownership
Fuller, Joseph B., Amy C. Edmondson, Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Tonia Labruyere. "Corporate Transformation at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany." Harvard Business School Case 319-072, December 2018.
- Article
The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership
By: Joseph L. Bower and Lynn S. Paine
Agency theory, a new model of governance promulgated by academic economists in the 1970s, is behind the idea that corporate managers should make shareholder value their primary concern and that boards should ensure they do. The theory regards shareholders as owners of...
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Bower, Joseph L., and Lynn S. Paine. "The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 3 (May–June 2017): 50–60. (Reprinted in HBR’s 10 Must Reads: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review 2019, Boston, Mass: Harvard Business Review Press, 2019, pp. 165-192.)
- Research Summary
The Corporate Governance Role of Taxes
Dyck introduces evidence that private benefits of control are higher in countries with poor tax enforcement and in ongoing work explores further this correlation using both theory and empirical work from the United States and Russia. This work illustrates that the...
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- 16 Apr 2012
- News
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
- September 1967 (Revised May 1984)
- Case
Individual and the Corporation
Matthews, John B., Jr. "Individual and the Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 368-018, September 1967. (Revised May 1984.)
- October 2007 (Revised January 2009)
- Case
The Hertz Corporation (B)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Douglas Scott
Luehrman, Timothy A., and Douglas Scott. "The Hertz Corporation (B)." Harvard Business School Case 208-031, October 2007. (Revised January 2009.)
- December 1992 (Revised June 1996)
- Case
Siemens Corporation (A): Corporate Advertising for 1992
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
Describes the approach of the German-based multinational company, Siemens Corp., to establishing an identity in the United States. The specific goals for the 1991-92 corporate advertising campaign are described. Examples of print and television messages are included,...
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Keywords:
Advertising Campaigns;
Trade;
Marketing Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Performance Evaluation;
Germany;
United States
Greyser, Stephen A., and Norman Klein. "Siemens Corporation (A): Corporate Advertising for 1992." Harvard Business School Case 593-022, December 1992. (Revised June 1996.)
- April 2008
- Teaching Note
The Progressive Corporation (TN)
By: John R. Wells
Teaching Note for [707433].
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- June 1995
- Article
Building the Entrepreneurial Corporation
By: S. Ghoshal and C. A. Bartlett
Ghoshal, S., and C. A. Bartlett. "Building the Entrepreneurial Corporation." European Management Journal 13, no. 2 (June 1995): 139–155.