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- March 2018
- Supplement
China Vanke: Battle for Control (D)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Charles C.Y. Wang, Dawn H. Lau and Anthony K. Woo
In the battle for control over China Vanke, the Chinese securities regulator steps in to censure Vanke and Baoneng for acting against the interests of the market and minority shareholders. The Chinese insurance regulator also finds Baoneng to be in violation of...
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Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Conflict and Resolution;
Real Estate Industry;
China
Paine, Lynn S., Charles C.Y. Wang, Dawn H. Lau, and Anthony K. Woo. "China Vanke: Battle for Control (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 318-120, March 2018.
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Family Control of Firms and Industries
We test what explains family control of firms and industries and find that the explanation is largely contingent on the identity of families and individual blockholders. Founders and their families are more likely to retain control when doing so gives the firm a...
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Family Business;
Cost vs Benefits;
Governance Controls;
Family Ownership;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Competitive Advantage
Villalonga, Belen, and Raphael Amit. "Family Control of Firms and Industries." Financial Management 39, no. 3 (Fall 2010): 863–904. (Lead article.)
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
organizations, Nolan says, technology has so thoroughly penetrated every aspect of the business that its activities, strategies, and functions have become transparent, thereby circumventing any possibility of the disorienting dot vertigo (symptoms of which include lack...
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- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
institutional theory, managers, and policymakers. What Good Are Shareholders? Authors:Justin Fox and Jay W. Lorsch Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2012) Abstract The article looks at the role outside View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets
define corporate transparency as the quantity and quality of information a company provides its various constituents including shareholders and other capital providers, suppliers, customers, employees, etc. In this paper, we measure this...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- January 2004
- Teaching Note
Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement (TN)
Teaching Note to (9-703-034).
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- March 1995 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
UAL Corporation
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jeremy Cott
In the largest attempted employee-buyout in history, a large U.S. commercial airline seeks substantial wage concessions from its employees in return for 53% stake in the airline's commmon stock and guaranteed seats on the board of directors. Management must convince...
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Restructuring;
Corporate Governance;
Labor;
Wages;
Management Teams;
Employee Ownership;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Strategy;
Value;
United States
Gilson, Stuart C., and Jeremy Cott. "UAL Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 295-130, March 1995. (Revised April 1995.)
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
to their shareholders and consumers, but haven't identified the technologies to deliver on them yet," Ive says. "We are going to solve the world's biggest challenges by supporting the world's best entrepreneurs," Ives believes....
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- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
more focused on maximizing shareholder value." Specifically, a class taught by Professor Josh Lerner on venture capital prompted her to write a paper on the nature of value. "I wrote a paper calling for a different kind of value...
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- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
little guidance. Executives may be tempted to take refuge in the idea that they have fiduciary obligations to maximize shareholder returns, but this is simply a myth—corporate leaders have many responsibilities, but there is no...
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by Gautam Mukunda
- 04 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CVS Health
prescriptions annually, and has supported 28 million patient visits through MinuteClinic since its inception. Ultimately, this one-of-a-kind, integrated business model is focused on creating superior value for patients, payers and providers, while driving continued...
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Health Care
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
business that can help the poor while remaining economically viable is in keeping with Ayala’s career shift away from the for-profit focus on maximizing shareholder value. In his new venture, he told BusinessWorld, “We want to maximize...
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- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409002 OppenheimerFunds and Take-Two Interactive (A) Harvard Business School Case 408-074 Describes the dilemma faced by Emmanuel Ferreira, a fund manager at OppenheimerFunds. As the largest View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
short-term profits and returns to shareholders at the expense of worker safety and health, the environment, and society in general. In this article, I argue that a very different logic informs the practices of most high-performing and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
financial environment, and possibly for firms in industries with highly liquid assets as well. This result sheds light on the link between financial and economic development. Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
as servers, consulting, and software-as-a-service) and now claimed he needed to take the company private to do so. By the summer of 2013, the Dell board and its shareholders would have to decide whether to accept his offer to take the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
can induce a controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Board Diversity: Pressure Leads to Action - Blog: RGE Report
women sit on their boards. Where Do I nstitutional Investors Stand? Institutional investors and proxy advisers have actively encouraged board diversity. The giant shareholders Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street all have diversity...
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- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
Sapphire Made Credit Cool for Millennials The Chase Sapphire Reserve card was one of the hottest product launches in 2016. But what would be JP Morgan's next act be? State Street’s SHE: Investing in Women Leaders Index funds are the major View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
Steve Rattner, who chaired the government task force, found the initial assessments of their needs woefully understated and badly documented, reflecting decades of lost market share and destroyed shareholder value. The deal that was...
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