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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform
of enormous amounts of resources. We expect something in return," Khurana told the audience. "We expect fiduciary responsibility; we expect them to behave like professionals. In other words, there's an implicitly moral and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
Board Governance and Sustainability with a Q&A led by BEI faculty chair Mike Toffel, where the role of regulation, fiduciary duty, and managing for sustainability at one of the world’s largest pension funds was discussed in detail....
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- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity industry were noticeably absent at Enron. If Enron's board (which was never charged with a breach of...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
terms of knowledge, managers need to become more legally literate so they can communicate effectively with counsel. This includes understanding their fiduciary duties and the circumstances under which companies are liable for the actions...
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Deborah Blagg
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
responsibilities traditionally have been grounded in fiduciary duties and are typically part of the common law or statutory law or are incorporated in civil codes. But, as this note will show, fiduciary...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online
types of fairness in employee-employer relationships 7-9 hrs Module 3 - 1 Week Investor Responsibilities and Fiduciary Duties Explore due diligence and how fiduciary duties influence leadership...
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- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
mission. For the new trustee, understanding these issues is the place to begin her trusteeship. The second theme is financial solvency. Chapter Four deals with the board's fiduciary responsibility and financial sustainability. Our life...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
and ability from below. We need to marry some small part of our enormous fiduciary resources to the new ideas which are seeking support." 36 Doriot continued to teach at HBS, conveying lessons learned from the early days of the venture...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
chairman of the management company and chairman of the company’s mutual funds. That means the chairman has a fiduciary obligation to both of those sets of shareholders. It’s impossible to wear those two hats. You’ve been characterized as...
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- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
corporate directors' fiduciary duties in that state. This change limited incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt. We show that, as predicted, this increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
straight and narrow. Washington looks at deregulation The research takes on added weight as Obama-administration regulation protecting financial consumers faces an uncertain future. The US Labor Department’s fiduciary rule, in the...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
these few men, proud, arrogant, and blind, drove the country to financial ruin." Like the individuals convicted of insider trading in the 1980s, some of today's business leaders appear to have forgotten that they are fiduciaries who...
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by Carla Tishler
- 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
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
knowing where the CEO and his executives were taking the corporation. We all understood our fiduciary duties and our responsibilities to the shareholders as well as to the long-term health and viability of the enterprise. The exception I...
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- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
within a set of constraints, both direct and indirect (For example) (A) recent Labor Department proposed rule just reiterated that the duty of (ERISA retirement) plan fiduciaries is to maximize investment returns.” Rather than hold CEOs...
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by James Heskett
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
Friendly and also owned a larger percentage of another restaurant company, was shifting expenses between the businesses in a way detrimental to Friendly shareholders, but personally advantageous to the CEO. Further, Blake believed that Friendly's board of directors was...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
information Leaking information about stock trades might be both unethical and illegal, Di Maggio maintains, due to a fiduciary duty called “best price execution.” As the Securities and Exchange Commission explains on its Fast Answers...
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- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
thinking. In order to assist boards in this new realm of taking into account multi-stakeholder significance, we have structured this paper in four parts and a conclusion. In Part I, we review fiduciary duty focusing on to whom this duty...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
business and its leaders can no longer afford to be one-dimensional and narrow in focus. Business executives need to broaden the definition of their fiduciary duties in their business practices and ask themselves how their products and...
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- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
American business ought to be run, including changes to fiduciary duties, legal liability, takeover rules, and business education, among many other areas." Lorsch and Khurana will air their views in more detail to an academic...
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by Roger Thompson