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    Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

    This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal xpenditures. In... View Details
    • April 2025
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    Corporate Ownership and ESG Performance

    By: Belén Villalonga, Peter Tufano and Boya Wang
    Using a sample of 3083 firms from 62 countries over 18 years, we analyze how the structure and identity of firms' material owners influence their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance. We find that firms with founding families or other individual... View Details
    Keywords: ESG; CSR; Family Firms; Social Responsibility; Environment; Sustainability; Ownership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Governance; Environmental Sustainability
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    Villalonga, Belén, Peter Tufano, and Boya Wang. "Corporate Ownership and ESG Performance." Journal of Corporate Finance 91 (April 2025).
    • June 2024
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    Climate Governance at Linde plc (B)

    By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain
    In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; United States; Germany; Europe; North America; London
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    Paine, Lynn S., Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud, and Vincent Dessain. "Climate Governance at Linde plc (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 324-141, June 2024.
    • 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
    • December 1993
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    Risk Management: Coordinating Corporate Investment and Financing Policies

    By: K. A. Froot, David S. Scharfstein and J. Stein
    Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Banking And Insurance; Hedging; Banking; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Insurance; Policy; Risk Management; Natural Disasters; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Insurance Industry
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    Froot, K. A., David S. Scharfstein, and J. Stein. "Risk Management: Coordinating Corporate Investment and Financing Policies." Journal of Finance 48, no. 5 (December 1993): 1629–1658. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 4084, February 1993. Reprinted in RAE-Revista de Administração de Empresas, Management Journal of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EAESP), Business School for Administration in Sao Paulo, Brazil, volume no. 48, issue no. 1 (January-March 2008): 87-118. Reprinted in Insurance and Risk Management, Volume II, Corporate Risk Management, Part I: Theory on Why and How Firms Manage Risk, Chapter 3, edited by Gregory R. Niehaus, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. (October 2008). Also in M.J. Brennan, The Theory of Corporate Finance from The International Library of Critical Writings in Financial Economics, edited by R. Roll, 1995; and in Merton Miller and Chris Culp, eds. Corporate Hedging in Theory and Practice: Lessons from Metallgesellschaft, Risk Books, 1999.)
    • 2013
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    Learning and the Disappearing Association Between Governance and Returns

    By: Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang
    The correlation between governance indices and abnormal returns documented for 1990–1999 subsequently disappeared. The correlation and its disappearance are both due to market participants' gradually learning to appreciate the difference between good-governance and... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Investment Return; Operations; Performance; Value; Learning; Business Earnings; Behavioral Finance
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    Bebchuk, Lucian A., Alma Cohen, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Learning and the Disappearing Association Between Governance and Returns." Journal of Financial Economics 108, no. 2 (May 2013): 323–348. (2013 IRRCi Investor Research Award.)

      Corporate Social Responsibility and Livelihood Creation in India

      This interview features Dr. Shah's views on the connection between Corporate Social Responsibility and Livelihood Creation in India. Through examples and anecdotes, he emphasizes how livelihood creation through skills training and social entrepreneurship can be a... View Details
      • 20 Apr 2009
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      Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank

      Keywords: by Ashwin Kaja & Eric Werker
      • July 2009 (Revised May 2010)
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      The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana

      By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
      A U.S. government agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), provides aid to developing countries, focusing on poverty reduction through economic growth. It measures results through an economic rate of return based on increases in farmer incomes anticipated... View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Investment Return; Measurement and Metrics; Welfare; Ghana; United States
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      Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana." Harvard Business School Case 310-025, July 2009. (Revised May 2010.)
      • 19 May 2020
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      Board Governance During the COVID-19 Crisis Session 1

      • 2020
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      Research on Corporate Sustainability: Review and Directions for Future Research

      By: Jody Grewal and George Serafeim
      We review the literature on corporate sustainability and provide directions for future research. Our review focuses on three actions: measuring, managing and communicating corporate sustainability performance. Measurement is the least developed of the three and... View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Management; Nonfinancial Disclosure; Nonfinancial Information; Nonfinancial Performance; Materiality; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Disclosure Metrics; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility; Accounting; Finance; Management; Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Diversity; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Disclosure; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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      Grewal, Jody, and George Serafeim. "Research on Corporate Sustainability: Review and Directions for Future Research." Foundations and Trends® in Accounting 14, no. 2 (2020): 73–127.
      • June 2002 (Revised January 2010)
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      Delphi Corporation (A)

      By: Jay W. Lorsch, Rakesh Khurana and Sonya Sanchez
      The Delphi Corp.'s board of directors faces a transition as lead director Thomas Wyman approaches mandatory retirement. Chairman and CEO J.T. Battenberg reflects on Delphi's history and its successful reinvention by Wyman and Battenberg when it separated from its... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership; Management Succession; Management Teams; Relationships; Corporate Strategy
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      Lorsch, Jay W., Rakesh Khurana, and Sonya Sanchez. "Delphi Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 402-033, June 2002. (Revised January 2010.)
      • October 2006 (Revised July 2007)
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      China Resources Corporation (A): 6S Management

      By: Dennis Campbell and David Lane
      In 2006, Jiang Wei, CFO of China Resources Corporation, was seeking to implement a variety of new management control systems in a complex diversified corporation during a period of rapid economic expansion in mainland China. Instilling efficiency, productivity,... View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Business Conglomerates; Governance Controls; Balanced Scorecard; Management Systems; Performance Improvement; Business Strategy; China
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      Campbell, Dennis, and David Lane. "China Resources Corporation (A): 6S Management." Harvard Business School Case 107-013, October 2006. (Revised July 2007.)
      • March 2004 (Revised May 2006)
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      Corporate Reform in the United States

      By: Lynn S. Paine and Kim Bettcher
      The spate of corporate misdeeds revealed to the American public in 2001 to 2002 prompted corrective action in many quarters of the U.S. economy. The note summarizes some of the steps taken by lawmakers, regulators, law-enforcement officials, companies, investors,... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Capital Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Trust; United States
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      Paine, Lynn S., and Kim Bettcher. "Corporate Reform in the United States." Harvard Business School Background Note 304-091, March 2004. (Revised May 2006.)
      • 2018
      • Working Paper

      Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality

      By: Suresh Nallareddy, Ethan Rouen and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato
      This paper studies the effects of corporate tax changes on income inequality. Using state corporate tax rate changes as a setting, we show that cutting state corporate tax rates leads to increases in income inequality. This result is robust to using regression and... View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Taxation; Income; Equality and Inequality; United States
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      Nallareddy, Suresh, Ethan Rouen, and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato. "Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-101, May 2018.
      • March 2013
      • Supplement

      HOYA Corporation (A)

      By: W. Carl Kester
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Negotiation Tactics; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation; Japan
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      Kester, W. Carl. "HOYA Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 213-721, March 2013.
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      Making Corporate Boards More Effective

      may also be interested in the related program: Making Corporate Boards More Effective—Virtual. This program is eligible for the Corporate Director Certificate. Learn More Key Benefits This View Details
      • 15 Sep 2015
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      Are corporate ethics sliding again?

      • 03 Jul 2014
      • News

      How to Hire a CEO You Won't Want to Fire

      Keywords: CEO succession; corporate governance
      • June 2024 (Revised December 2024)
      • Case

      Climate Governance at Linde plc (A)

      By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain
      In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of... View Details
      Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry; United States; Germany; Europe; North America; London
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      Paine, Lynn S., Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud, and Vincent Dessain. "Climate Governance at Linde plc (A)." Harvard Business School Case 324-140, June 2024. (Revised December 2024.)
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