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December 2019 (Revised June 2024)
Supplement

The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci

The case relates the decision made in the A case and what happened in the aftermath. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Laws and Statutes; Financial Markets; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business History; Shipping Industry; Netherlands

June 2009 (Revised October 2011)
Case

Mina O'Reilly at Logan Airport's TSA

By: Michel Anteby and Erin McFee

Mina O'Reilly, an officer at Logan Airport's Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in Boston, must discipline an employee responsible for a security breach that resulted in a 45-minute terminal closure during peak hours, a potential threat to traveler safety,... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Culture; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry; Boston

September 2004 (Revised September 2006)
Case

Harley-Davidson, Inc.: Motorcycle Manufacturer or Financing Company?

Harley-Davidson manufactures and sells motorcycles. It also provides financing for retail purchases and dealer stock. Although Harley's performance has been very strong, analysts and the press have questioned its use of a special-purpose entity to sell securities... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business or Company Management; Corporate Disclosure; Financial Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Financial Services Industry; Motorcycle Industry; Retail Industry

Article

Little Patents and Big Secrets: Managing Intellectual Property

By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao

Exploitation of an innovation commonly requires some disclosure of enabling knowledge (e.g., to obtain a patent or induce complementary investment). When property rights offer only limited protection, the value of the disclosure is offset by the increased threat of... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Management; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Rights; Value; Information; Corporate Disclosure

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June 2008
Supplement

Xerox Corporation: Anne Mulcahy, Chairman & CEO - Video

By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean

Anne Mulcahy describes the challenges she faced at Xerox during her last visit to HBS. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Leadership; Operations; Personal Development and Career; Problems and Challenges

October 2002 (Revised March 2004)
Case

Management Earnings Disclosure and Pro Forma Reporting

Introduces a discussion of management earnings disclosure and the growing use of pro forma reporting by corporations. Highlights the background of pro forma reporting, how it has been used in the past couple of years, and what the regulators at the capital markets... View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Corporate Disclosure; Financial Reporting; Management Teams

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

research. For example, the puzzles raised by the Stanley Works case opened up the line of inquiry on the corporate governance role of taxation. The Czech Mate case series prompted an academic paper that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

02 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 2

working paper shows that the costs faced by multinational corporations in managing governments and political risk grew sharply. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-003.pdf The Architecture... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 14

of the few banks that successfully weathered the 2007-2009 credit crisis, the case illustrates risk management in a corporate finance business. Chief executive Alastair Dowes has to decide whether the risk View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

reason why the government found itself forced by the fears (some fantastic but others quite justified) of the electorate to act. Firms such as Carnegie Steel, Standard Oil, and American Tobacco seemed to be monsters, archetypes of some... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

July 2009 (Revised January 2014)
Case

Sustainability at Millipore

By: Michael W. Toffel and Katharine Lee

This case describes Millipore Corporation's approach to becoming a more environmentally sustainable company. As he prepared for his quarterly meeting with the CEO, the Director of Sustainability needed to develop positions on several issues. Tactically, he needed to... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Corporate Disclosure; Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Structure; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants

24 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 24

heterogeneity, we identify key country- and organization-level determinants of corporate environmental disclosure. We focus on institutional factors related to firms' global embeddedness to describe how external environmental pressures... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 1993 (Revised September 1993)
Case

Praxair: Creating a Board (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Discusses the process a CEO/chairman goes through in creating a new board. Specifically, follows a CEO's decision-making process in selecting board members. Also includes decisions about the selection process for board members and the structure and process of board... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Decision Making; Corporate Governance; Conferences; Business or Company Management; Selection and Staffing