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  • February 2009 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

AFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A)

By: Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
Union seeks to protect its pension funds through shareholder activism focused on corporate governance and executive compensation. The case uses Countrywide Financial as an example. Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Mortgages; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Labor Unions; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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    Das Narayandas

    Das Narayandas is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His academic credentials include a Bachelor of Technology degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), a Post-Graduate... View Details

    Keywords: industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods
    • 21 May 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: May 21

      Publications 2006 Harvard Business Review Press Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics By: Davenport, Thomas H., and Jinho Kim Abstract—Managers today need to be able to analyze and make sense of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Mar 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

    inequality affects behaviour towards the rich and poor. In Experiment 1, participants who became aware that wealthy individuals donated a smaller percentage of their income switched from rewarding the wealthy to rewarding the poor. In Experiments 2 and 3, participants... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

      Howard H. Stevenson

      Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

      Keywords: industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods; industrial goods

        MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

        Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent... View Details

        • 07 Oct 2019
        • Sharpening Your Skills

        How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers

        collection of research and readings about head-on collisions between corporations and consumers, how to think through potential problems in advance, and course-correcting when the inevitable disaster occurs. A Good Place to Start... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Air Transportation
        • Article

        Heuristics Guide the Implementation of Social Preferences in One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma Experiments

        By: Jillian J. Jordan, Valerio Capraro and David G. Rand
        Cooperation in one-shot anonymous interactions is a widely documented aspect of human behavior. Here we shed light on the motivations behind this behavior by experimentally exploring cooperation in a one-shot continuous-strategy Prisoner’s Dilemma (i.e. one-shot... View Details
        Keywords: Human Behavior; Social Evolution; Behavior; Cooperation; Decision Making; Game Theory
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        • Career Coach

        Alyssa Wilson

        Alyssa wants to help students decide if a career in investing is a good fit for their interests and skillset as well as work through practical recruiting advice and tactics. Alyssa can provide insight on how different firms recruit as... View Details
        • 27 Feb 2013
        • Working Paper Summaries

        In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms

        Keywords: by Mariana Pargendler, Aldo Musacchio & Sergio G. Lazzarini; Banking; Financial Services
        • June 2024
        • Article

        Oral History and Business History in Emerging Markets

        By: Geoffrey Jones
        This article describes the motivation, structure and use of the Creating Emerging Markets (CEM) oral history-based project at the Harvard Business School. The project consists of lengthy interviews with business leaders from emerging markets. By June 2024 183... View Details
        Keywords: Emerging Economies; Oral History; Emerging Markets; Business History; Research
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        • 09 Sep 2015
        • HBS Seminar

        Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University

        • 01 May 2006
        • Research & Ideas

        What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

        interests of the employer. Why? Financial disclosures are read by labor markets, that is, potential future employers. An executive who has an interest in career advancement may take actions that look good in mandated disclosure but might... View Details
        Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
        • 14 Jul 2008
        • Research & Ideas

        HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

        and running in that direction and is good at it.) It turns out that its vision is "excellent public schools for every child in New Orleans." Every child, not just the children in charter schools.... View Details
        Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
        • October 2023 (Revised February 2024)
        • Case

        Bizongo and e-B2B in India

        By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Radhika Kak
        Bizongo, an Indian e-B2B platform was co-founded by three college graduates in 2015 with the goal of creating the "Alibaba of India" when the B2B e-commerce landscape was practically non-existent. The founders saw a significant opportunity in connecting mid-sized... View Details
        Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; E-commerce; Business Strategy; India
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        • 02 Aug 2006
        • Research & Ideas

        Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

        characters, and its resolution was not really satisfying, given that the Czech public ended up paying (literally) for the weakness of their country's property and contract laws. How did you become interested in this story, and what... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
        • 25 Jan 2013
        • Research & Ideas

        Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela

        up here. Prof. Greg Greenough of the Harvard School of Public Health is directing researchers interested in everything from the pH of the Ganga to the quality and quantity of toilets to the structure of the medical response teams in... View Details
        Keywords: by John D. Macomber; Construction; Real Estate
        • 16 Mar 2003
        • Research & Ideas

        At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

        economy. I know that a lot of things have been done to address these problems already, but my own sense is that what we've seen is incomplete. Too much of our public discussion has operated on the surface of the problems. We need to go a... View Details
        Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
        • Article

        The Critical Role of Second-order Normative Beliefs in Predicting Energy Conservation

        By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Oliver P. Hauser, Julia D. O'Brien, Erin Sherman and Adam D. Galinsky
        Sustaining large-scale public goods requires individuals to make environmentally friendly decisions today to benefit future generations. Recent research suggests that second-order normative beliefs are more powerful predictors of behaviour than first-order personal... View Details
        Keywords: Climate Change; Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Household; Behavior; Values and Beliefs; Forecasting and Prediction
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        • 20 Apr 2010
        • First Look

        First Look: April 20

        examination of the business history of commodity chains: it is a first step in this direction through an analysis of the relationship between two nodes of the rubber chain. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-089.pdf View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace