Scandal - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

paper-based advertising. Yet by 2017, Recruit was a global conglomerate with $16 billion in sales. This case examines Recruit’s unique corporate culture that helped it survive a scandal so large it became a staple in Japanese textbooks,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

14 Nov 2019
News

Keeping Red Lobster Fresh

Walton's righthand man through the Soderquist Leadership Program to actually study those scandals and what went wrong. We got to talk to people were part of those and were affected by them and then learned what do you do to prevent those?... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

25 Aug 2015
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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

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

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

were going to succeed and prosper needed to manage risks better, have a stronger sense of purpose to motivate their employees, and satisfy a public already agitated about scandals such as Enron in the corporate world. What I didn't see... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

frustrated since Richard Nixon left office in the throes of the Watergate scandal in 1974. Our so-called political leaders have just completed a grand game of chicken, and the United States is the loser. I won't dwell on the inanity of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

01 May 2018
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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

02 Mar 2010
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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

01 Sep 2008
News

Building a Better MBA

skills tied to specific disciplinary knowledge that are increasingly vacuous and superfluous.” And HBS professor Rakesh Khurana contends that many business schools have been complicit in creating recent corporate scandals by turning out... View Details

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

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

tech bubble burst in 2001. Accounting scandals destroyed Enron in 2001 and WorldCom in 2002. And the current global financial crisis, the worst since the Great Depression, has yet to run its course. It’s no accident that all these... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

price of diesel fuel. Purchase the case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508074 Adelphia Communications Corp.'s Bankruptcy Harvard Business School Case 208-071 In 2002, a massive accounting fraud and corporate looting View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

external events in the late 1990s, accelerated dramatically with the accounting scandals of the Enron era plus the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, and then continued to change under the pressure of shareholder activism. There's a lot more... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2012
News

Rival Visions

addition, a scandalous love affair had ruined Hamilton's chances to be President (which, despite being foreign-born, he was eligible to become by law at the time). Hamilton remained in office until early 1795, implementing the legislation... View Details

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Commencement 2011 Address | About

easy to feel secure about your character. We all know it is wrong, for example, to lie, cheat, steal, or break the law. Yet I trust you have learned — through courses like LCA and through scenarios like the scandals you read about in the... View Details

29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

http://hbr.org/product/rough-justice-stuart-eizenstat-and-holocaust-era-asset-restitution-b/an/914026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-001 Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance The widespread cheating scandal that... View Details