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    The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership

    Agency theory, a new model of governance promulgated by academic economists in the 1970s, is behind the idea that corporate managers should make shareholder value their primary concern and that boards should ensure they do. The theory regards shareholders as... View Details

      Charles C.Y. Wang

      Charles C.Y. Wang is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and an associate editor of Management Science and Journal of Accounting Research,... View Details

      • May 2022
      • Case

      TikTok and National Security: Investment in an Age of Data Sovereignty?

      By: Jeremy Friedman, Sarah Bauerle Danzman and David Lane
      This case covers TikTok’s purchase of Musical.ly and the reaction of the United States government, including the review of the purchase by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and the reaction of the presidential administration of Donald... View Details
      Keywords: Data Security; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cybersecurity; Internet and the Web; International Relations; Laws and Statutes; Globalized Firms and Management
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      • 15 Aug 2016
      • News

      How to Make the Other Side Play Fair

      • February 2003 (Revised May 2006)
      • Case

      Ernst & Young LLP

      By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
      The history of Ernst & Young provides a platform to discuss the issues related to the sale of the consulting business as well as the founding of the legal unit. It dovetails with the issues raised at Arthur Andersen regarding the role of the Big Four accounting firms... View Details
      Keywords: Accounting Audits; Conflict of Interests; Accounting Industry
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      Antitrust in the new economy

      The objectives of this project are threefold: (1) identify the computational, managerial, and legal issues that interact and make antitrust compliance difficult in the context of B2B exchanges; (2) examine the computational difficulties and policy implications of... View Details
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Cultural Notes on Chinese Negotiating Behavior

      By: James K. Sebenius and Cheng (Jason) Qian
      Western businesses negotiating with Chinese firms face many challenges, from initiating and smoothing communication to establishing long-lasting relationships and mutual trust, and from bargaining and drafting agreements to securing their implementation. Chinese... View Details
      Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Style; Perception; Societal Protocols; China
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      • 24 Jan 2017
      • News

      How a former Clinton aide is rewriting Silicon Valley’s political playbook

      • 17 May 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

      your field? Aldo Musacchio: When I wrote the book, most of the discussion on corporate governance was focused on the legal system and the corporate laws of countries. The conclusions were a bit deterministic. If a country followed the... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services
      • 22 Aug 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: August 22, 2006

      empresarios y en las causas de su dilatada irresolución. Legal Origin vs. the Politics of Creditor Rights: Bond Markets in Brazil, 1850-2002 Author:Aldo Musacchio Publication:Chap. 2 in The Politics of Financial Development, edited by... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • June 2012
      • Article

      Meta-Organizational Design: Rethinking Design in Inter-Organizational and Community Contexts

      By: Ranjay Gulati, Phanish Puranam and Michael Tushman
      This paper provides conceptual foundations for analyzing organizations comprising multiple legally autonomous entities, which we call meta-organizations. We assess the antecedents of the emergence of such collectives and the design choices they entail. The paper... View Details
      Keywords: Design; Organizations; Civil Society or Community; Relationships
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      • October 2007 (Revised March 2008)
      • Case

      First National Bank's Golden Opportunity

      By: Shawn A. Cole, Peter Tufano, Daniel Schneider and Daryl Collins
      Executives at First National Bank in South Africa are considering whether to launch a potentially exciting, but rather unorthodox, new savings product. Instead of paying interest, this product gives depositors the chance to win large cash prizes each month. Michael... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Banks and Banking; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Product Launch; Demand and Consumers; Banking Industry; South Africa
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      • 30 Nov 2018
      • News

      Share Buybacks: Mismeasured and Misunderstood

      • November 2005 (Revised February 2007)
      • Case

      Governing Sumida Corporation

      By: Lynn S. Paine, Masako Egawa, Chisato Toyama and Kim Bettcher
      Describes the corporate governance changes adopted by Japan's Sumida Corp. between 1999 and 2005, setting them in the context of changes in Japan's commercial code during this period. Sumida was the first Japanese company to adopt a new U.S.-inspired "committee system"... View Details
      Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Change Management; Business or Company Management; Management Teams; Law; Japan
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      Marketing and Advertising and Society

      By: Stephen A. Greyser
      Stephen A. Greyser is continuing to write on and conduct research into the role of marketing and advertising in society. He analyzed in 'Marketing and Public Policy' the evolution of legal and consumer-based issues over recent decades and, for a Stanford University... View Details
      • June 2009 (Revised August 2010)
      • Background Note

      How Institutional Investors Think About Real Estate

      By: Arthur I Segel
      Real estate is an increasingly important component in the portfolios of institutional investors. This note discusses the issues these investors must consider when investing in real estate from the legal forms of ownership, to separate or commingled funds, to property... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Property; Financial Services Industry
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      • 24 Sep 2021
      • News

      ‘A Different Kind of Moral Hazard’: The History and Politics behind the Evergrande Debt Crisis

      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      The Project on Impact Investments' Impact Investment Database

      By: M. Diane Burton, Shawn Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Josh Lerner, Fanele Mashwama, Yue (Cynthia) Xu and T. Robert Zochowski
      Impact investing has grown significantly over the past 15 years. From a niche investing segment with only $25 billion AUM in 2013 (WEF 2013), it experienced double-digit growth and developed into a market with an estimated $502 billion AUM (Mudaliapar and Dithrich... View Details
      Keywords: Impact Investing; Investment; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis
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        Contested Meanings of Freedom

        In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying wages in company store scrip and mandated monthly wage payments. The court held that the legislature could not pre-scribe mandatory wage contracts for legally competent... View Details
        • 21 Jul 2015
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Enabling Versus Controlling

        Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Julian Wright