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- 09 Mar 2017
- News
Why Politics Is Failing America
- Article
Managing Political Misfits
By: Y. Sekou Bermiss and Rory McDonald
Not all employees agree with your politics. That's OK. View Details
Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald. "Managing Political Misfits." Special Issue on HBR Big Idea: Leadership in a Hot-Button World. Harvard Business Review (website) (March–April 2018).
Case: Governing PG&E
The five commissioners of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) listened intently at a public forum in April 2019 as PG&E Corporation's out-going chairman Richard Kelly described the company's proposed new board. PG&E, which provided... View Details
- October 2022
- Case
Spaceport America, Public Sector Risk-taking, and Political Accountability (A)
By: Matthew Weinzierl, Dava Newman, Rebecca Browder and Angela Acocella
Sitting quietly in the heart of the New Mexico desert in the summer of 2014, Spaceport America (SA) housed little of the activity its supporters anticipated when opening its hangar doors in 2011. Despite $1 million in annual rent from Virgin Galactic, British... View Details
Keywords: Funding Sources; Risk and Uncertainty; Public Sector; Business and Government Relations; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Aerospace Industry; New Mexico
Weinzierl, Matthew, Dava Newman, Rebecca Browder, and Angela Acocella. "Spaceport America, Public Sector Risk-taking, and Political Accountability (A)." Harvard Business School Case 723-011, October 2022.
- 2014
- Article
Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis in Italy
By: Dante Roscini
The financial crisis hit Italy harder than many other Eurozone countries. In part this was due to the fact that the crisis came upon a system that was weakened by years of sub-par economic growth. One of the several endogenous factors that explain the stagnation of the... View Details
Roscini, Dante. "Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis in Italy." Journal of Modern Italian Studies 19, no. 4 (2014): 389–395.
- 03 Mar 2015
- News
Corporate Governance 2.0
- 2003
- Book
The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876-1929
By: Stephen Haber, Noel Maurer and Armando Razo
Keywords: Property; Rights; Government and Politics; Economics; Growth and Development; History; Mexico
Haber, Stephen, Noel Maurer, and Armando Razo. The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876-1929. Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- 31 Oct 2013
- News
Have corporate and government leaders lost accountability?
- 1978
- Chapter
Conflict Between the Political and Private Sectors
By: Michael Jensen and William H. Meckling
- 25 Nov 1991
- Lecture
Global Patterns in Corporate Governance and Regulation
By: W. Carl Kester
Kester, W. Carl. "Global Patterns in Corporate Governance and Regulation." Lecture at the Royal Institute of International Affairs and The Strategic Planning Society Conference on National versus European Regulation: Political, Economic and Corporate Strategic Dimensions, London, November 25, 1991. (Panel speaker.)
- 10 May 2023
- Video
Driving Climate Performance Through Accountability and Governance
- 17 May 2021
- News
Corporate Political Activity
- 2015
- Working Paper
Politically Connected Firms and SEC Comment Letters
By: Jonas Heese, Mozaffar Khan and Karthik Ramanna
- August 2017 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Ardian: Portfolio Company Governance
By: Lynn S. Paine, Emer Moloney and Tonia Labruyere
Leaders of the mid-cap buyout group at Ardian, the Paris-based private equity firm led by Dominique Senequier, have been asked to review and assess the governance model the firm uses for majority-owned companies in its portfolio. The case describes the governance model... View Details
Paine, Lynn S., Emer Moloney, and Tonia Labruyere. "Ardian: Portfolio Company Governance." Harvard Business School Case 318-017, August 2017. (Revised April 2024.)
- 19 Jun 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Accounting Information as Political Currency
- June 2019
- Article
Social Risk, Fiscal Risk, and the Portfolio of Government Programs
We develop a model of government portfolio choice in which a benevolent government chooses the scale of risky projects in the presence of market failures and tax distortions. These two frictions generate motives to manage social risk and fiscal risk. Social risk... View Details
Hanson, Samuel G., David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam. "Social Risk, Fiscal Risk, and the Portfolio of Government Programs." Review of Financial Studies 32, no. 6 (June 2019): 2341–2382. (Internet Appendix Here.)
- 2005
- Chapter
Nationalism and International Political Economy in Eurasia
By: Rawi Abdelal
Abdelal, Rawi. "Nationalism and International Political Economy in Eurasia." In Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World, edited by Eric Helleiner and Andreas Pickel, 21–43. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.
- October 1990
- Article
The Structure and Governance of Venture-Capital Organizations
Sahlman, William A. "The Structure and Governance of Venture-Capital Organizations." Journal of Financial Economics 27, no. 2 (October 1990): 473–521.
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Three Components of Family Governance
of statement. The rare family in business may have a more elaborate family governance structure, with a separate meeting for family-owner-managers or a separate council for family shareholders or periodic meetings between shareholders,... View Details