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    Sylvia Escovar

    Keywords: Oil; Gas
    • August 1991 (Revised March 1993)
    • Case

    Champion International Corp.: Timber, Trade, and the Northern Spotted Owl

    By: Forest L. Reinhardt
    Champion's forest products division owns timberlands, sawmills, and plywood mills in the Pacific Northwest. The listing of the northern spotted owl as an endangered species, and restrictions on exports of logs from state-owned lands, have disrupted the stumpage, log... View Details
    Keywords: Science-Based Business; Natural Environment; Product Marketing; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Strategy; Trade; Decisions; Management Teams; Forest Products Industry; North and Central America
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    • 21 Jan 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

    can't afford to motivate their staff with monetary bonuses. Moreover, a growing body of research indicates that corporate workers are very motivated by nonmonetary incentives, such as positive recognition from their peers. (See, for... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Mar 2012
    • Article

    Choosing the United States

    share of location decisions, even for high-value business activities such as R&D that it has traditionally been able to attract. In part, this is because U.S. policy makers are not addressing weaknesses in the national business environment. There are also problems... View Details
    • Article

    Making Sense of Accountability: Conceptual Perspectives for Northern and Southern Nonprofits

    By: Alnoor Ebrahim
    Keywords: Perspective; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Accountability
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      Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

      Keywords: Biopharmaceuticals
      • February 1991 (Revised April 1991)
      • Case

      Zenith and High-Definition Television--1990

      By: Benjamin Gomes-Casseres, David B. Yoffie and Heather A. Hazard
      Describes Zenith's strategy in HDTV and high resolution monitors. Includes overview of HDTV industry with profiles of major competitors worldwide and policies of U.S., Japanese, and European governments. Focuses on competition over standards setting, industrial policy,... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Standards; Production; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Electronics Industry; Technology Industry
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      • October 1999
      • Case

      Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (A)

      By: Lynn S. Paine
      After the Brent Spar episode and the 1995 events in Nigeria, Shell undertakes an intensive review of its values and business principles. At the same time, it conducts the largest multi-stakeholder consultation in its history in an effort to better understand society's... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Transformation; Environmental Accounting; Energy Industry
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      • February 1992
      • Background Note

      Note on Financial Instrument Disclosure

      By: David F. Hawkins
      Keywords: Financial Instruments; Corporate Disclosure
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      • March 2005
      • Article

      Accountability Myopia: Losing Sight of Organizational Learning

      By: Alnoor Ebrahim
      Keywords: Organizations; Learning; Corporate Accountability
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      • 03 Mar 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: March 4, 2008

      higher quality firm governance leads to a larger effect of tax avoidance on firm value. The results are robust to a wide variety of tests for alternative explanations. Taken together, the results suggest that the simple view of View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 29 Apr 2022
      • News

      Clean Slate

      and the corporate sector in is not easy today because there’s far more sexy stuff to work on out there. I think we have to just persist because it is such a critical area for the country, for just healthy living, clean living, and... View Details
      Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
      • 20 Apr 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      Misgovernance at the World Bank

      beneficiaries," wrote Werker in an e-mail from Liberia, where he was conducting another study.   The World Bank was a necessary subject for investigating such issues, continued Werker.  "While the consequences of bad corporate... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 29 Aug 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

      consequences of correcting these erroneous beliefs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53126 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government By:... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 12 Oct 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: October 12

      prosperity. How can the future of capitalism be secured? And who should spearhead the effort? Many observers point to government. But in Capitalism at Risk, the authors argue otherwise. While they agree that governments must play a role,... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • January 2006 (Revised February 2006)
      • Case

      Deutsche Borse and the European Markets

      By: Dwight B. Crane and Monika Stachowiak
      In December 2004, Deutsche Borse proposed an offer for the London Stock Exchange. Some shareholders opposed the acquisition, leading to the offer's withdrawal and replacement of management, including the CEO and board members. Written from the viewpoint of Deutsche... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Strategy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Capital Structure; Stocks; Valuation; Corporate Governance; Price; Change Management; Commercialization; Financial Services Industry; Europe
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      • 22 Jul 2016
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?

      Keywords: by Paul Healy and George Serafeim
      • 12 Jul 2018
      • News

      In the Market for Environmental Change

      on the farm for about 10 years, and we were asking a lot of questions about what was going on in the environment. The Environmental Defense Fund has worked successfully for decades now with the corporate sector. They have had a number of... View Details
      • April 2010
      • Article

      Executive Pay and 'Independent' Compensation Consultants

      By: K. J. Murphy and Tatiana Sandino
      Executive compensation consultants face potential conflicts of interest that can lead to higher recommended levels of CEO pay, including the desires to "cross-sell" services and to secure "repeat business." We find evidence in both the US and Canada that CEO pay is... View Details
      Keywords: Compensation Consultants; Conflicts Of Interest; CEO Pay; Board Of Directors; Director Pay; Disclosure; Conflict of Interests; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Disclosure; Executive Compensation; Corporate Governance; Consulting Industry; Canada; United States
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      • 01 Dec 1997
      • News

      Growing Together

      sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just completed its eleventh contract and is... View Details
      Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry