Corporate Governance - Publications - Faculty & Research

October 2017
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Snap Inc. Goes Public (B)

Supplements the (A) case.

Snap Inc.’s chairman must decide how to address investor concerns about the company’s unprecedented plans to issue only non-voting shares in its upcoming IPO. View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Business and Shareholder Relations; Leadership; Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; California

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04 Nov 2014
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Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years

Harvard alumni living in Mexico and elsewhere and the other half from corporate donations, mainly from Mexican companies. Harvard provided matching funds to the first $1 million, as part of an initiative to strengthen its international... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

Publications 2006 pub Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond By: Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Historic Industry & Trade Literature | Baker Library

Historic Industry & Trade Literature Baker Old Class The Baker Old Class collection is Baker Library’s first circulating collection. These materials offer a depth and breadth rarely seen in business literature collections. The extensive holdings include trade... View Details

06 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

its diaspora in the past quarter century. Supporting the efforts of such individual change-agents is a way forward. There can be corporate bridges also, to build on these interpersonal ones. Western View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

July 1999 (Revised October 2001)
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Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (D)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Katharina Pick

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Patents; Governing and Advisory Boards; Behavior; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizations; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Service Industry

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01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

Chairman & Managing Director, Bajaj Auto Ltd. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION St. Stephen's College (Delhi), 1958 B.A., Economics The Government Law College (Bombay), 1960 LL.B. LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS... View Details

02 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

This paper examines the effect of corporate governance on investor reactions to accounting choice in the context of accounting for business combinations. Using a sample of 324 recent stock swap acquisitions... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

FDI are raising concerns that there might be bidding wars: This means governments throwing a lot of money to foreign investors. This weakens corporate finances and can also start the reallocation of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2009
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Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

years, that’s an enormous technological transition. So the questions of how firms can organize themselves to do it, and what kinds of governance mechanisms will support and encourage them to do that, seem to me a natural extension of what... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jan 2003
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Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

information you have. Ultimately, this process leads you to a zone for judgment; it's a process I have used throughout my career." COMMUNITY OUTREACH Director, The Council for Excellence in Government Director, Capital Partners for... View Details

November 2013
Article

Which U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies

By: Joseph Gerakos, Joseph Piotroski and Suraj Srinivasan

This paper examines how different types of interactions with U.S. markets by non-U.S. firms are associated with higher level of CEO pay, greater emphasis on incentive-based compensation, and smaller pay gap with U.S. firms. Using a sample of CEOs of UK firms and using... View Details

Keywords: CEO Compensation; International Pay; Incentives; Cross-listing; United Kingdom; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Globalization; Corporate Governance; United Kingdom; United States

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20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

Ramanna Abstract The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

Weinberg this was an opportunity to go the other way and reach out to be helpful to the president, and he took it. In 1933 the president had him organizing the Business Advisory and Planning Council, through which corporate executives... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

(www.globalreporting.org), which Massie and CERES have been working on for years. “Everybody was talking about reporting, but something concrete needed to happen,” Massie says. “And with GRI, we're about to unveil some well-researched work on View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

diaspora networks historically provided (e.g., information about potential workers, monitoring, and reputation foundations). Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43327 Cases & Course MaterialsBoardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2025
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Public Disclosure of Private Meetings: Does Observing Peers’ Information Acquisition Affect Analysts’ Attention Allocation?

By: Yi Ru, Ronghuo Zheng and Yuan Zou

We investigate the impact of observing peers’ information acquisition on financial analysts’ allocation of attention. Using the timely disclosure mandate by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange as a setting, we find that, shortly after analysts observe that a firm has been... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Information; Financial Institutions; Accounting; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; China

July 2007
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Earnings Announcement Premia and Limits to Arbitrage

By: Daniel Cohen, Aiyesha Dey, Thomas Lys and Shyam Sunder

We examine the factors underlying the presence of earnings announcement premia. We find that the premia persist beyond the sample period examined in prior studies (ending in 1988), although they decline in magnitude after 1988. Further, premia are lower on the expected... View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Announcements; Corporate Disclosure

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December 2015
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Stephen Richards: Addressing FAQ

By: Eugene Soltes

Stephen Richards, former global head of sales at Computer Associates, addresses frequently asked questions from "A Letter from Prison." View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Managerial Roles

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March 2012
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Advertising Disclosures: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines

By: Benjamin Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist

In an online experiment, we measure users' interactions with search engines, both in standard configurations and in modified versions with clearer labels identifying search engine advertisements. In particular, for a random subset of users, we change "Sponsored links"... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Online Advertising; Measurement and Metrics; Internet; Search Technology; Education; Labels

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