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Current Research: Issues in Corporate Governance

Effectiveness of shareholder voting
Reform of shareholder voting is a key component of legislation arising from the financial crisis of 2008. Professor Gow examines the effect of shareholder voting on corporate actions, particularly on... View Details
  • 07 Oct 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Ann Majchrzak, USC Marshall School of Business

  • Web

Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging - Recruiting

people are demanding a higher degree of specificity, and provide clear metrics by race and gender,” said Eliason. Avoid reporting numbers in aggregate though; “women and people of color” is too broad of a data point whereas "number of... View Details
  • 2012
  • Article

Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

By: Alvin J. Silk
What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts of interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Agency; Competitors; Marketing Services Industry; Structural Changes; Agency-client Relationships; Hybrid Conflict Policies; Safeguards; Advertising; Advertising Industry; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

By: Malcolm S. Salter
This paper describes how the gaming of society's rules by corporations contributes to the problem of institutional corruption in the world of business. "Gaming" in its various forms involves the use of technically legal means to subvert the intent of society's rules in... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Trust; Law; Performance; Investment Funds; Private Sector; Behavior; Relationships; Goals and Objectives
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  • 25 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

Why did you come in late on Tuesday? Did you really need an hour and a half for lunch on Wednesday? Why wasn't that report done by Thursday? For most of us, justifying our schedules is an expected part of the job. But what employee hasn't... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 30 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

filings in November 2020. This requires corporations to provide a section in their annual report disclosing features of their “human capital” that they deem material to their performance. To gauge the extent that job hunters are drawn to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

here and there, but a Luddite mentality still dominates the industry. When a dealership hit on the idea of using texting to keep customers up to date on work being done in the service department, the “innovation” was reported in an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto
  • January 2024 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Silicon Valley Bank: Gone in 36 Hours

By: Jung Koo Kang, Krishna G. Palepu, Charles C.Y. Wang and David Lane
This case examines factors contributing to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March 2023, an event as unpredicted as it was quick. SVB funded nearly half of all U.S. venture-backed startups and at the end of 2022 held $173 billion in deposits, largely... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Standards; Bank Runs; Financial Accounting; Financial Reporting; Social Media; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Investment Portfolio; Interest Rates; Debt Securities; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Statements; Risk Management; Failure; Fair Value Accounting; Credit; Corporate Governance; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

rather than medical specialties Optimize costs through accurate measurement and reporting Apply the concept of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) to measure health care costs and outcomes Design and implement a bundled payment... View Details
  • 07 Jun 2021
  • Book

9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'

and projects as you refine your pitch and develop more confidence. 7. For major solicitations, you should prepare a detailed call report shortly after the visit. Prospective donors have quirks and preferences that are really important for... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 31 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

publishes various "top 10" lists in numerous fields, ranked according to how many times the paper has been viewed, downloaded, or cited elsewhere on SSRN. Some scholars paid a lot of attention to the reported download counts of their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Aug 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster

In 2009, technology researchers at Forrester published a report entitled We Are All Media Companies Now, that looked at how publishing firms were dealing with the shift from a distribution paradigm to one based on consumption. By 2014,... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton
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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

important new direction in economic policy, building on earlier efforts in macroeconomic stabilization, privatization, market opening, and reducing the costs of doing business. Cluster Mapping Jun 2017 Cluster Mapping as a Tool for Development by Christian H.M. Ketels... View Details
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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

5). Figure 4: Will any of the Following Intermediaries be at the Center of a Financial Crisis, Within 10 Years? Figure 5: Most State Pensions are Underfunded Sources: Data from Pew Charity Trusts review of financial reports and public... View Details
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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

direct reports, clients, or managers, for the assessment. Upon successful completion of the LPT—which requires obtaining ratings from at least two colleagues (and ideally at least six)—you will receive a detailed report that provides... View Details
  • 12 Dec 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

or have seen, they'll give you a negative reaction just because it's unfamiliar to them," Ofek says. History shows us that Nanda took a cue from iRobot and decided to market Tocky. Ofek remains in touch with Nanda, reporting that she... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
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Global Activities 2020

and research pursuits have markedly increased the internationalization of the School. This report features a selection of stories that highlight the School’s influence and impact around the world during the 2019–2020 academic year. Global... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures

Journal reporter Geeta Anand. An early version of the story is also told in the HBS case, “A Father’s Love: Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,” by HBS professor Richard Bohmer and Bradley Campbell (MBA ’02). Crowley gave the film “two thumbs... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information
  • 24 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

data based on online prices that produces inflation indices for more than 20 countries. Cavallo admits with a shrug that the revelation Argentina was only reporting about a third of its actual inflation rate didn’t hurt the government... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail