government - Publications - Faculty & Research

Program

Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance

Summary As the focus on corporate governance and oversight has grown, so has the complexity of regulatory challenges facing audit committees. This corporate governance strategy program explores the best... View Details

05 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction

Activist corporate governance reformers are spending too much time—and capturing too much of the media's attention—on fringe issues. One current initiative, for example, focuses on promoting "majority voting" for directors, a... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey

07 Nov 2023
Cold Call Podcast

How Should Meta Be Governed for the Good of Society?

Keywords: Re: Jesse M. Shapiro; Technology; Communications

Mar 05 2023
Testimonial

Building New Governance Frameworks in Nigeria

10 Jul 2020
News

Economy and Government from Harvard ManageMentor

29 Nov 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Surfacing the Submerged State with Operational Transparency in Government Services

Keywords: by Ryan W. Buell, Ethan Porter, and Michael I. Norton

March 2020
Case

Brazil: Contesting the Rules of Government

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Jonathan Schlefer

Brazilian factions so fiercely opposed one another that for a century and a half they had contested not just state policies but the rules and structure of the state itself. Was this politics, so unlike the Western political ideal, sign of an immature or failing... View Details

Keywords: Governance; Policy; Government Administration; Government and Politics; Social Issues; Brazil

Citation

Educators

Purchase

August 2003
Article

Notes on Governance and Corporate Control

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Keywords: Governance

Citation

Find at Harvard

2007
Chapter

Governance in the Global Information Economy

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Keywords: Governance; Globalization; Information; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry

Citation

autumn 1992
Article

Industrial Groups as Contractual Governance Systems

By: W. C. Kester

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Governance

Citation

Find at Harvard

28 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

businesses. But small business credit was hit hard during the recent recession and has been slow to recover. Beginning in early 2009, the federal government acted quickly to unfreeze credit markets with programs ranging from loan... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking

13 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

sector's tilt toward short-term financing was merely the industry responding to a lack of available government debt instruments, such as short-term risk-free Treasuries, that were much in demand by investors during the global savings... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services