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- 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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- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
environmental protection? How should we think about the notion of firms sacrificing profits in the social interest? May they do so within the scope of their fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders? Can they do so on a sustainable...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
legislation along. But we need much more than a good scolding and limits on sky-high paydays. We need to rethink how American business ought to be run, including changes to fiduciary duties, legal liability, takeover rules, and business...
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- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
price and work out a sensible debt schedule for the company. Students must also evaluate the effect of the transaction on the existing bonds and understand the principles governing contractual duties (and how they differ from fiduciary...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in that state. This change limited...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
capacities as corporate fiduciaries and citizens. The note offers a unifying framework by organizing major contemporary societal challenges into four "tragedies of the commons" and by developing the notion of a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
case: http://hbr.org/product/andreessen-horowitz/an/814060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-067 'These People Are Fiduciaries...' The fiduciary duties of loyalty and care, the corporate opportunity doctrine, and the business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
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 not meeting their fiduciary obligations to shareholders...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
reform in China, its causes and its implications, and from the perspective of one private equity play, discussed the issues of corporate governance, conflicts of interest, and the fiduciary duty of corporate managers in an emerging...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
heterogeneous telecommunication costs arising from different regulatory regimes) strengthens our results. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/rsadun/Distinct_Effects_11-023.pdf August 2013 Cambridge Handbook of Institutional Investment and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
fiduciary standards, but there are tremendous opportunities. Christopher Beall , Partner, Highstar Capital: In the US and other places in the world, there are tremendously low-cost pools of capital that we could access. It would be nice...
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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
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
Easterbrook forfeited cash and stock worth $105 million. Shareholders sued the board for breach of its fiduciary duties, including its oversight duty, but the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed the suit, saying the board acted...
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- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
delayed for 20 days a shareholder vote on the sale of Del Monte Foods Co. (Del Monte) to a consortium of three private equity firms. In his opinion, Laster was critical of Del Monte's board, noting that the directors may not have properly exercised their View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
to make long-term-oriented decisions, to put aside the short-term performance pressures and personal career or compensation considerations to do the right thing for the business. With excessive short-term pressure, even the wisest and most capable View Details
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
founders sold their remaining shares shortly after the IPO. Two years later, Alantec was acquired for the equivalent of $70 per share. Following the sale, the founders sued, alleging that the venture capitalists had committed fraud and breached their View Details