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Driving Corporate Performance
Summary Corporate performance is about much more than financial results. How can your organization align its structures, systems, talent, and processes to execute a winning strategy? In Driving Corporate...
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- May 2013
- Article
The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy
By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
By now most companies have sustainability programs. They're cutting carbon emissions, reducing waste, and otherwise enhancing operational efficiency. But a mishmash of sustainability tactics does not add up to a sustainable strategy. To endure, a strategy must address...
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Keywords:
Sustainability;
Innovation;
Environment;
Corporate Reporting;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Governance;
Strategy;
Value;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Performance;
Environmental Sustainability;
Innovation and Invention
Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim. "The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 5 (May 2013): 50–60.
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Sell-Side Analysts and Corporate Spinoffs
This study investigates the information content and accuracy of analyst reports written about companies that are about to undertake equity spinoffs. This research is among the first to provide a detailed look at the extent to which analysts evaluate upcoming...
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Report on Racial Inclusion in the Boardroom
While many efforts are underway to add more demographically diverse directors to boards, very few are focused on inclusion—creating an environment where differences are valued, and all members have equal opportunity to exercise influence and move into leadership...
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- June 1995
- Case
Banc One Corporation (A)
As Banc One's use of derivatives had proliferated, investors and analysts had expressed increasing concern about the size of derivative portfolios, the potential sensitivity of their value to interest rate swings, and the lack of standardized reporting on their use....
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Keywords:
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Investment Banking;
Financial Reporting;
Annual Reports;
Banking Industry
Barth, Mary E., and Dale Coxe. "Banc One Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 195-207, June 1995.
- 13 Aug 2010
- News
Corporate ethics: Moral hazards
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
it is imperative to provide an unbiased, nonpartisan, data-driven analysis of what truly ails the US economy and to offer realistic steps to restore US competitiveness. The new report is based on findings of the 2016 HBS survey on US...
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- 2015
- Book
Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy
By: Karthik Ramanna
There are certain institutions underlying our modern market-capitalist system that are largely outside the interest and understanding of the general public—e.g., rulemaking for bank capital adequacy, actuarial standards, accounting standards, and auditing practice. In...
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Keywords:
Business And Society;
Financial Institutions;
Financial Reporting;
GAAP;
IFRS;
Lobbying;
Capitalism;
Sustainability;
Accounting;
Finance;
Business and Government Relations;
Leadership;
Accounting Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States;
China;
India
Ramanna, Karthik. Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. (Reviews by Anat Admati, S.P. Kothari, Lynn Stout, Lawrence Summers, and Luigi Zingales, among others.)
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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
programs each year. Achieving this goal starts with transparency. To that end, the School’s fiscal 2015 financial results are reported in detail in the Supplemental Financial Information section. The balance of this letter is aimed at...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
annually. The model continued to gain market traction in fiscal 2018. Paid circulation grew nearly 5 percent to 320,000—the highest since publication began more than a century ago—driven by increased renewals and subscriber engagement. View Details
- 2022
- Working Paper
The Evolution of ESG Reports and the Role of Voluntary Standards
By: Ethan Rouen, Kunal Sachdeva and Aaron Yoon
We examine the evolution of ESG reports of S&P 500 firms from 2010 to 2021. The
percentage of firms releasing these voluntary disclosures increased from 35% to 86%
during this period, although the length of these documents experienced more modest
growth. Using a...
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Keywords:
Voluntary Disclosure;
Textual Analysis;
Modeling And Analysis;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
AI and Machine Learning;
Accounting
Rouen, Ethan, Kunal Sachdeva, and Aaron Yoon. "The Evolution of ESG Reports and the Role of Voluntary Standards." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-024, October 2022.
- 30 Dec 2010
- News
A New Model for Corporate Boards
- 13 Nov 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
The European Commission’s Sustainable Corporate Governance Report: A Critique
- 08 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A Functional Perspective
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by Robert Eccles & George Serafeim
- 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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Keywords:
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.
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RGE Report - Race, Gender & Equity
well-being of minorities at work. Her recent scholarship peels back the veil on how we connect across cultural barriers and can help us foster positive employee dynamics to soothe discord. [...] Read more 03 Sep 2024 Diversity Comes to View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
publishing business results exceeded our expectations for the fifth consecutive year, as four of HBP’s five market groups continued to deliver top-line growth. This growth was led by the Corporate Learning group, driven by strong demand...
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Reviving and Restructuring the Corporate Sector Post-Covid
The report commends the broad-based governmental actions initially taken to support the economy, citizens, and the corporate sector during the Covid pandemic. However, structural changes in our economies due to the pandemic, and growing corporate... View Details
- November 2011
- Article
The Role of the Board in Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting
By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
This report examines the concept of integrated reporting and its current state of adoption around the globe. It also discusses the benefits to both companies and society and recommends ways boards can help their organizations accelerate the implementation of integrated...
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Keywords:
Cost vs Benefits;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Integrated Corporate Reporting;
Social Issues;
Global Range;
Adoption
Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim. "The Role of the Board in Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting." Director Notes (The Conference Board) (November 2011).