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  • October 2002 (Revised January 2003)
  • Case

Hermitage Fund, The: Media and Corporate Governance in Russia

William Browder, the top executive of the Hermitage Fund, the best-performing international equity fund over the last five years, attributed much of his funds' strong returns to its focus on shareholder activism and corporate governance. In 2001, he was putting this... View Details
Keywords: Media; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Financial Services Industry; Russia
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Dyck, Alexander. "Hermitage Fund, The: Media and Corporate Governance in Russia." Harvard Business School Case 703-010, October 2002. (Revised January 2003.)
  • June 2003 (Revised June 2003)
  • Background Note

M & A Legal Context: Basic Framework for Corporate Governance

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Constance E. Bagley and James Quinn
Students are introduced to the basic framework for corporate governance. Begins by describing the complex role of the modern corporation, then proceeds by discussing the fiduciary duties to which a board of trustees is bound (duty of care, duty of loyalty, etc.), and... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Corporate Governance
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Baldwin, Carliss Y., Constance E. Bagley, and James Quinn. "M & A Legal Context: Basic Framework for Corporate Governance." Harvard Business School Background Note 803-200, June 2003. (Revised June 2003.)
  • October 14, 2019
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A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance

By: Lynn S. Paine and Suraj Srinivasan
How corporations govern themselves has become a matter of broad public interest in recent decades. Amid this many commentators and experts still disagree on such basic matters as the purpose of the corporation, the role of corporate boards of directors, the rights of... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Mission and Purpose; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Performance; Measurement and Metrics
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Paine, Lynn S., and Suraj Srinivasan. "A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 14, 2019).
  • December 2024
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Proxy Advisory Firms and Corporate Shareholder Engagement

By: Aiyesha Dey, Austin Starkweather and Joshua White
We study how Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) affect firms’ engagement with shareholders. Our analyses exploit a quasi-natural experiment using say-on-pay voting outcomes near a threshold that triggers ISS to review engagement activities. Firms receiving ISS... View Details
Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Voting
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Dey, Aiyesha, Austin Starkweather, and Joshua White. "Proxy Advisory Firms and Corporate Shareholder Engagement." Review of Financial Studies 37, no. 12 (December 2024): 3877–3931.
  • April 1995
  • Supplement

Cooper Industries' Corporate Strategy (B)

By: David J. Collis and Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Brings students up to date regarding a recent decision by the chairman. View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Decisions; Corporate Strategy
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Collis, David J., and Elizabeth Wynne Johnson. "Cooper Industries' Corporate Strategy (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 795-154, April 1995.
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality

By: Robert G. Eccles and Tim Youmans
Under the prevailing ideology of "shareholder primacy" most boards of directors believe that they are prevented from considering stakeholders other than shareholders in determining material issues and materiality for strategy and reporting. New research is showing that... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations
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Eccles, Robert G., and Tim Youmans. "Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-023, September 2015.

    The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership

    Agency theory, a new model of governance promulgated by academic economists in the 1970s, is behind the idea that corporate managers should make shareholder value their primary concern and that boards should ensure they do. The theory regards shareholders as... View Details
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Corporate Leaders Say They Are for Stakeholder Capitalism—But Which Version Exactly?: A Critical Look at Four Varieties

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    The past few years have seen an outpouring of articles and statements heralding the arrival of a new and more inclusive form of capitalism often called stakeholder capitalism. The new capitalism promises to strengthen companies, improve outcomes for their... View Details
    Keywords: Stakeholder Capitalism; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Economic Systems; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    Paine, Lynn S. "Corporate Leaders Say They Are for Stakeholder Capitalism—But Which Version Exactly? A Critical Look at Four Varieties." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-008, August 2023.
    • January 2013 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    Beth Stewart: Navigating the Boardroom

    By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell
    After rising through the ranks of Corporate America, Beth Stewart has become a corporate director on the board of General Growth Properties. Stewart is struggling with how to address her mounting concerns over the financial health of the growing large publically traded... View Details
    Keywords: Career Management; Women Executives; Women And Leadership; Boards Of Directors; Board Dynamics; Career Planning; Independent Directors; Leadership; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Interpersonal Communication; Leadership Style; Personal Development and Career; Work-Life Balance; Real Estate Industry; United States
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    Groysberg, Boris, and Deborah Bell. "Beth Stewart: Navigating the Boardroom." Harvard Business School Case 413-094, January 2013. (Revised March 2013.)
    • 04 Feb 2013
    • News

    Breyer elected to Harvard Corporation

    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 02 Jun 2011
    • News

    HBS Alum Joins Harvard Corporation

    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 06 Jan 2012
    • Op-Ed

    Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

    News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing
    • 12 Feb 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns

    Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services
    • 21 Nov 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The Geography of Corporate Giving

    and nonprofits positively influence corporate philanthropy. Interviewees in one of the cities we studied described how institutions such as the local community foundation and boards of companies and... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Mar 2020
    • News

    Becoming a Better Corporate Citizen

    • November 1996
    • Case

    Del Webb Corporation (C), The

    By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff
    Dion and the other Del Webb directors were open to having Industrial Equity Pacific (IEP) and Webcott Holdings representation on the board. The IEP representative was perceived as reserved and lacking in sophistication. Cotter of Webcott, however, struck the directors... View Details
    Keywords: Crisis Management; Management Succession; Strategic Planning; Governing and Advisory Boards; Horizontal Integration; Conflict Management
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    Lorsch, Jay W., and Samanta Graff. "Del Webb Corporation (C), The." Harvard Business School Case 497-019, November 1996.
    • 30 Jul 2001
    • What Do You Think?

    What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

    parentheses are mine.) Shann Turnbull suggests that the world of corporate governance will benefit from the establishment of "a new type of corporate information and control architecture." In fact,... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 2005
    • Chapter

    The Professionalization of Corporate Directors

    By: Martin Lipton and Jay W. Lorsch
    Keywords: Management Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards
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    Lipton, Martin, and Jay W. Lorsch. "The Professionalization of Corporate Directors." In Restoring Trust in American Business, edited by Jay W. Lorsch, A. Zelleke, and Leslie Berlowitz. Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005.
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    Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report

    Events Recap Lex Schroeder Author tag Board Diversity HBS Alums on the Future of the Board Room (and How to Get There) Joining a corporate board... View Details
    • May 2011
    • Article

    Race at the Top: How Companies Shape the Inclusion of African Americans on Their Boards in Response to Institutional Pressures

    By: Clayton S. Rose and William T. Bielby
    Drawing on institutionalist theory, we conceptualize the racial composition of the boards of directors of large American companies as shaped in response to social and political norms. We use new longitudinal and cross-sectional data to test hypotheses about factors... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Governing and Advisory Boards; Race; Mathematical Methods; Government and Politics; Public Ownership; United States
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    Rose, Clayton S., and William T. Bielby. "Race at the Top: How Companies Shape the Inclusion of African Americans on Their Boards in Response to Institutional Pressures." Social Science Research 40, no. 3 (May 2011): 841–859.
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