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  • 2025
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The Invention of Corporate Governance

By: Yueran Ma and Andrei Shleifer
The analysis of corporate governance begins with a central feature of modern capitalism—the separation of ownership and control in large corporations—first empirically documented by Berle and Means (1932). Such separation entails several agency problems reflecting... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Law; Business and Shareholder Relations
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Ma, Yueran, and Andrei Shleifer. "The Invention of Corporate Governance." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33710, April 2025.
  • 06 Oct 2017
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Innovative Finance for the Common Good

Whether it's a vaccine or green bond, drought insurance, pay-as-you-go financing for solar electricity in Kenya, or discounted metro cards in New York, innovative finance is as much about incentives and sound decision making as it is about money; when it works,... View Details

    Mihir A. Desai

    Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard... View Details

    • November 2011 (Revised June 2013)
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    Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd: Linking Compensation to Sustainability Metrics

    Robert Venter, second-generation Chief Executive (CE) of family-owned Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd (Altron), considered the pros and cons of more clearly linking the firm's compensation system to sustainability performance. In June 2011, Altron, a conglomerate... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Environmental Sustainability
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    Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, Shelley Xin Li, and Alan Knight. "Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd: Linking Compensation to Sustainability Metrics." Harvard Business School Case 412-075, November 2011. (Revised June 2013.)
    • November 2007
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    AXA MONY

    By: Lucy White and Andre F. Perold
    AXA's friendly bid for MONY is contested by activist hedge funds suspicious of management's generous change in control contracts. Votes trade after the record date. AXA financed the bid using an unusual conditionally convertible bond which may have affected incentives... View Details
    Keywords: Bonds; Ethics; Bids and Bidding
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    White, Lucy, and Andre F. Perold. "AXA MONY." Harvard Business School Case 208-062, November 2007.
    • 2000
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    Do Executive Stock Options Encourage Risk-Taking?

    By: Randolph B. Cohen, Brian J. Hall and Luis M. Viceira
    Executive stock options create incentives for executives to manage firms in ways that maximize firm market value. Since options increase in value with the volatility of the underlying stock, executive stock options provide managers with incentives to take actions that... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Motivation and Incentives; Stock Options; Executive Compensation
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    Cohen, Randolph B., Brian J. Hall, and Luis M. Viceira. "Do Executive Stock Options Encourage Risk-Taking?" 2000.
    • 26 Feb 2008
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    First Look: February 26, 2008

    similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 26 Feb 2019
    • Blog Post

    Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

    incentives for future work. Decades of research does confirm that financial incentives can boost effort and performance. But there’s a downside; when an employee’s pay is... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • January 2017
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    Innovation Under Regulatory Uncertainty: Evidence from Medical Technology

    By: Ariel Dora Stern
    This paper explores how the regulatory approval process affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. Prior studies have found early mover regulatory advantages for drugs. I find the opposite for medical devices, where pioneer entrants spend 34% (7.2 months)... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    Stern, Ariel Dora. "Innovation Under Regulatory Uncertainty: Evidence from Medical Technology." Journal of Public Economics 145 (January 2017): 181–200.
    • 2011
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    Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts

    By: Bo Becker and Per Stromberg
    We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in firms incorporated in that state.... View Details
    Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Capital Structure; Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Laws and Statutes; Conflict and Resolution; Welfare or Wellbeing; Delaware
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    Becker, Bo, and Per Stromberg. "Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-070, February 2010. (Revised June 2011, November 2011.)
    • 20 Feb 2008
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    financial gain, and (b) inducing them to act as agents of the stockholders by devising incentives that minimize the difference between the financial returns to stockholders and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • July 2009 (Revised June 2010)
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    Executive Pay and the Credit Crisis of 2008 (B)

    By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
    As the recession lingered on into 2009, the U.S. government sought to limit executive pay and excessive risk. The debate raged over what constituted excessive risk and how best to mitigate it. This case describes the government restrictions on executive pay for TARP... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Business and Government Relations; Motivation and Incentives; United States
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    Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "Executive Pay and the Credit Crisis of 2008 (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 110-005, July 2009. (Revised June 2010.)
    • 2013
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    The Most Successful CEOs Come from Within

    By: Joseph L. Bower

    The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing shareholder value. Corporate leaders understood that reform was needed and that they needed to commit... View Details

    Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Business and Community Relations; Management Teams
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    Bower, Joseph L. "The Most Successful CEOs Come from Within." In How CEOs Can Fix Capitalism, edited by Raymond V. Gilmartin and Steven E. Prokesch, 124–127. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013. Electronic.
    • October 2012 (Revised July 2014)
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    The Role of the Government in the Early Development of American Venture Capital

    By: Josh Lerner and Tom Nicholas
    Whether the government or markets, or a mixture of both, can provide efficient and effective incentives for encouraging entrepreneurial activity and new venture financing is an age-old question. Public promotion efforts are controversial and in most cases they tend to... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Business and Government Relations; United States
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    Lerner, Josh, and Tom Nicholas. "The Role of the Government in the Early Development of American Venture Capital." Harvard Business School Background Note 813-096, October 2012. (Revised July 2014.)

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      Keywords: health care
      • October 2013 (Revised November 2018)
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      Note on the Leveraged Loan Market

      By: Victoria Ivashina
      This note provides an introduction to the process of loan syndication and the evolution of the leveraged loan market. The note emphasizes the role of banks as loan originators and the evolution of the institutional investors' entry into the leveraged loan market. In... View Details
      Keywords: Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking
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      Ivashina, Victoria. "Note on the Leveraged Loan Market." Harvard Business School Background Note 214-047, October 2013. (Revised November 2018.)
      • January 2025 (Revised April 2025)
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      Blue Frontier: Disrupting Air Conditioning

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
      Serial entrepreneur Daniel Betts founded Blue Frontier in South Florida to offer a climate-friendly solution to increase air conditioning efficiency and dehumidify using new technology he developed. Backed by significant venture capital, Blue Frontier had to choose... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Technological Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Performance Efficiency; Business Strategy; Florida
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Jacob A. Small. "Blue Frontier: Disrupting Air Conditioning." Harvard Business School Case 325-088, January 2025. (Revised April 2025.)
      • 2014
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      Payout Policy

      By: Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely and Martin Schmalz
      We survey the literature on payout policy, with a particular emphasis on developments in the last two decades. Of the traditional motives of why firms pay out (agency, signaling, and taxes), the cross-sectional empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency... View Details
      Keywords: Finance; Investment; Financial Services Industry
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      Farre-Mensa, Joan, Roni Michaely, and Martin Schmalz. "Payout Policy." In Annual Review of Financial Economics, Volume 6, edited by Andrew W. Lo and Robert C. Merton. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, 2014.
      • 02 Jun 2009
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      technology, file sharing has not undermined the incentives of authors to produce new works. We argue that the effect of file sharing has been muted for three reasons: First, the cannibalization of sales that is due to file sharing is more... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
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