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- August 2012 (Revised March 2013)
- Teaching Note
Foxconn Technology Group (A) and (B) (TN)
By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
- July 2012 (Revised March 2013)
- Supplement
Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (B)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Catherine Zhang
Shanghai Diligence Law Firm continued with its approach to grow through a merger, rather than organically, and was eventually merged into a bigger law firm in China. After the merger, a refined A-B-C-D model is still in use as compensation system, although the... View Details
Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Compensation; Law Firms; Motivating Professionals; Client Management; Developing Professionals; Entrepreneurship; China; Mergers and Acquisitions; Employee Relationship Management; Compensation and Benefits; Groups and Teams; Legal Services Industry; China
Eccles, Robert G., and Catherine Zhang. "Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 413-027, July 2012. (Revised March 2013.)
- November 2011
- Article
The Role of the Board in Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting
By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
This report examines the concept of integrated reporting and its current state of adoption around the globe. It also discusses the benefits to both companies and society and recommends ways boards can help their organizations accelerate the implementation of integrated... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Social Issues; Global Range; Adoption
Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim. "The Role of the Board in Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting." Director Notes (The Conference Board) (November 2011).
- July 2011
- Teaching Note
Weber Shandwick: The Client Relationship Leader Program (TN)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Penelope Rossano
Teaching Note for 408077. View Details
- Article
Achieving Sustainability Through Integrated Reporting
By: Robert G. Eccles and Daniela Saltzman
Eccles, Robert G., and Daniela Saltzman. "Achieving Sustainability Through Integrated Reporting ." Stanford Social Innovation Review 9, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 56–61.
- 08 May 2015
- News
A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks
lending rates and economic activity. Prevailing economic theory holds that the cost-of-capital effect is negligible in an ideal market. Malcolm P. Baker, the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business... View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
article: http://hbr.org/2011/05/managing-yourself-extreme-productivity/ar/1 Working PapersSustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future? Authors:Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Overall Cost Comparison of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures with Endoscopist- or Anesthesia-Supported Sedation by Activity-Based Costing Techniques By: Helmers, Richard A., James A. Dilling, Christopher R. Chaffee, Mark V. Larson,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
Epstein, and Kristi Yuthas Publication:In Scaling Social Impact: New Thinking, edited by Paul Bloom and Edward Skloot. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming An abstract is unavailable at this time. Order this Book:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2015
- Working Paper
Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality
By: Robert G. Eccles and Tim Youmans
Under the prevailing ideology of "shareholder primacy" most boards of directors believe that they are prevented from considering stakeholders other than shareholders in determining material issues and materiality for strategy and reporting. New research is showing that... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations
Eccles, Robert G., and Tim Youmans. "Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-023, September 2015.
- Guest Column
In This Corner, DJSI; and in This Corner, Materiality. Ding!
By: Robert G. Eccles and Tim Youmans
Eccles, Robert G., and Tim Youmans. "In This Corner, DJSI; and in This Corner, Materiality. Ding!" User Views. MaterialityTracker (July 2015). (Guest Column.)
- August 2011
- Teaching Note
Exeter Group, Inc. (TN)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Penelope Rossano
Teaching Note for 409001. View Details
- July 2011
- Teaching Note
The Credit Suisse/Gerson Lehrman Group Alliance (TN)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Penelope Rossano
Teaching Note for 409046. View Details
- First Quarter 2011
- Article
Two Disruptive Ideas Combined: Integrated Reporting in the Cloud
By: Robert G. Eccles and Kyle Armbrester
Eccles, Robert G., and Kyle Armbrester. "Two Disruptive Ideas Combined: Integrated Reporting in the Cloud." IESE Insight, no. 8 (First Quarter 2011): 13–20.
- March – April 2011
- Article
Integrated Reporting: A Source of Competitive Advantage
By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
- February 2009 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (A)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Catherine Zhang
Shanghai Diligence Law Firm, started in January 2006, is a rapidly growing law firm in China's burgeoning legal services market. In addition to the usual challenges facing all professional service firms (picking and retaining talent and building a desired client... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Motivation and Incentives; Legal Services Industry; China
Eccles, Robert G., and Catherine Zhang. "Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (A)." Harvard Business School Case 409-065, February 2009. (Revised March 2013.)
- December 2007 (Revised June 2009)
- Case
KPMG (A): A Near-Death Experience
By: Robert G. Eccles and Eliot Sherman
Describes the way in which "Big Four" auditor KPMG dealt with an indictment stemming from the firm's sale of tax shelters. In 2005 Tim Flynn has been KPMG Chairman for a matter of days when he learns that the government is preparing to indict the firm on charges of... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Crime and Corruption; Taxation; Lawsuits and Litigation; Crisis Management; Partners and Partnerships; Accounting Industry; Service Industry
Eccles, Robert G., and Eliot Sherman. "KPMG (A): A Near-Death Experience." Harvard Business School Case 408-073, December 2007. (Revised June 2009.)
- 1998
- Other Unpublished Work
Pursuing Value: The Information Reporting Gap in the Italian Capital Markets
By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and Luca Lupone
- January 2013
- Supplement
Buro Happold (B)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Penelope Rossano
Eccles, Robert G., and Penelope Rossano. "Buro Happold (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 413-102, January 2013.
- 2011
- Chapter
Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting
By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
This chapter describes the concept of integrated reporting, provides a brief history of its development, reviews the current state of practice, presents a strategy for institutional change that will accelerate the adoption of integrated reporting in order to meet the... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Corporate Reporting; Business History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Practice; Adoption
Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim. "Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting." Chap. 2.2 in CSR Index, edited by Francesco de Leo and Matthias Vollbracht, 70–92. InnoVatio Publishing Ltd., 2011.