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- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
investor, I feel powerless to control or even understand how my mutual funds operate." Anupam Bordia comments, "the mutual fund scandal will shift public trust towards index funds." There is also a suggestion that the job... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
The News Corporation/News of the World scandal has been described as a case study in bad management. What was there about the company's organizational culture that led to "Murdoch's Mess"? Professor Michel Anteby, who studies... View Details
- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
kickbacks. A corruption scandal in Lagos could harm KPMG's reputation in New York or Shanghai. Moreover, foreign firms are bound by many laws of their home country and by international laws, notably the antibribery convention of the... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
- 07 Mar 2005
- What Do You Think?
Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?
code of ethics developed by and reviewed by a universally-recognized professional institution. The authors imply that the absence of the institutions of a profession that one finds in medicine, law, and the clergy may have contributed to the spate of large-scale View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
have a “guilty pleasure” author? James Michener. For some reason he captured my imagination years ago. Another guilty pleasure is Sports Illustrated. Nancy Koehn is the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration and a business historian. What’s on your list?... View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
the Jack Welch-style of firing the so-called bottom 10 percent every year." Recruit developed this strategy in the wake of crisis. In the 1980s, Recruit Holdings’ CEO sold shares of a subsidy before it went public. The resulting scandal... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
public would be more receptive to the reforms you suggest and have a better understanding of the benefits associated with them? A: Investors continue to see the benefits from equity investing. However, they are feeling burned from recent corporate View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
and superfluous." And HBS professor Rakesh Khurana contends that many business schools have been complicit in creating recent corporate scandals by turning out graduates fixated on shareholder value at the expense of all other... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
His 2002 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, for example, asked, “Why have intelligent and decent directors failed so miserably?” No doubt he had the spectacular collapses at Enron and WorldCom in mind. After every scandal there... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
to share ideas with MBA students next semester when he joins the HBS faculty to teach the new required first-year course Leadership, Governance, and Accountability. Did the recent parade of corporate scandals inspire your book? No, I had... View Details
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Crypto Is Growing Up. Are Companies Ready? | Working Knowledge
firms to adopt blockchain forensic monitoring, a move that aligns closely with the opportunities highlighted in our research. South Korea, too, has learned from past scandals like WEMIX—requiring token issuers to disclose detailed... View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making By: Bazerman, Max, and Ovul Sezer Abstract—In many of the business scandals of the new millennium, the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
Psychological Framework of Unethical Behavior at Work By: Moore, C., and F. Gino Abstract—Many of the scandalous organizational practices that have come to light in the last decade-rigging LIBOR, misselling payment protection insurance,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
opportunities, measuring and analyzing purpose inside organizations, ESG data analytics and strategies, and the role of leadership and governance in corporate scandals and misconduct. Key takeaway: “We are still at the early stages of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
by Roger Thompson A spate of business scandals — from Enron’s spectacular collapse to stock option backdating — have put business schools on the spot to explain what, if any, responsibility they might have for what’s gone wrong in... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
each complementing the other. Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Ignacio Franceschelli Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (forthcoming) Abstract : We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Tenbrunsel, and Max Bazerman Abstract—The business scandals in the past several decades led to the rising importance of ethics as a topic central to management scholarship. Behavioral scientists in particular were attracted to the topic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
of the financial scandals that propelled the recent economic collapse, Heese looked at enforcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission, asking why regulators were so amiss at monitoring firms' compliance with accounting standards.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
A pall hangs over Sochi. Not since the bribery scandal overshadowed the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City has an Olympic Winter Games been so fraught with controversy. Fears of a terrorist attack by Islamic extremists; outrage over Russia's... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
accountable? Nonprofit leaders tend to pay attention to accountability once a problem of trust arises-a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their money is being well... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace