Corporate Structure - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 May 2014
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How Separate Should a Corporate Spin-Off Be?

Keywords: spin-off; corporate strategy; organizational structure

19 Sep 2014
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Alibaba IPO: Corporate Structure Is Huge Investment Risk

18 May 2020
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Big Structural Change

15 Sep 2016
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US 'tangled up' in tax structure

22 Aug 2017
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Governance through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior in Japan

02 Jan 2014
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Holocracy: How Zappos could change corporate America

15 Jun 2017
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Uber: 14 Bosses, One Corporate ‘Game of Thrones?’

01 Jun 2003
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New Course on Leadership, Values, and Corporate Accountability

After nearly two years of review and deliberation about the structure and content of the MBA required curriculum, in February Senior Associate Dean and MBA Program Chair W. Carl Kester announced several changes that will be implemented... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit

investors and our society. This is what Michael Porter refers to as ‘shared value.’ I believe in the power of capitalism and the power of human ingenuity to get us out of the holes we’ve dug for ourselves.” Another B Lab–inspired idea that Coupounas propounds is a... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations

03 Dec 2017
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GE Struggles To Show It Still Has Magic Touch

16 Nov 2014
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GOP leaders set sights on tax reform but fret over newly combative Obama

03 Jul 2017
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Will shareholder pressure reshape company policies?

20 Sep 2017
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Japan Is Counting on Shareholder Activism to Improve Its Economy

01 Dec 2023
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The Imposter Among Us

significant number of corporate clients. —Ellie Luce (PMD 30, 1975) The Right Answer I had been working for Helene Curtis for one year right out of college when they promoted me to the company headquarters in Chicago, to rapidly build up... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Aug 1998
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Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

and real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation - now NationsBank - in the early 1980s. With the enrollment of his two... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

Indeed, Chandler concluded, by the mid-2oth century, the multiunit, multifunctional enterprise administered by salaried managers had become the “most powerful institution in the American economy.” In his 1962 book Strategy and Structure, which helped spawn the field of... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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End Game

Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

the country have different cost structures and regulatory requirements when it comes to waste reduction, diversion, and disposal,” he says. “It doesn’t make sense for us to build a $50 million recycling facility in a market where there’s... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

the facts as they were known a week after the incident occurred and raises a wide range of questions regarding consumer behavior, corporate responsibility, and competitive reaction. I recall only two cases that we spent more than one... View Details