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- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
members to help select winning designs. Threadless encouraged community members to actively participate by critiquing submitted designs, blogging about their daily lives, posting songs and videos inspired by the designs, and, most... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
external events in the late 1990s, accelerated dramatically with the accounting scandals of the Enron era plus the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, and then continued to change under the pressure of shareholder activism. There's a lot more... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
rights and efficient debt enforcement mitigate the effect of excess control rights on loan spreads. Taken together, our results suggest that potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
governance view of taxation," suggests that tax authorities can be meaningful monitors who complement the activities of shareholders concerned with opportunistic insiders. Under the current... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Kingdom's National Health Service. We show that low levels of structural closure (i.e., structural holes) in a change agent's network aid the initiation and adoption of changes that diverge from the institutional status quo but hinder the adoption of less divergent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
supposed to be kept separate and preferably distant. And many agree with Milton Friedman who famously said that the purpose of business is to maximize returns to shareholders and compete to satisfy consumer desires in the marketplace.... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
enactment of values and a purpose to which the organization subscribes. Barnard came to define the role of the organizational leader as the creator and steward of the purpose and values, where an important aspect of the stewardship View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
shareholder funds or as trying to subvert democratic institutions, she said. She suggested, however that there are three reasons to at least explore the topic including: Growing global corruption, particularly when business gets close to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in Japan. When there... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
Easterbrook forfeited cash and stock worth $105 million. Shareholders sued the board for breach of its fiduciary duties, including its oversight duty, but the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed the suit, saying the board acted... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
strategic guidelines to shape strategies at lower levels of the organization. Board and shareholder alignment: The corporation's board of directors reviews, approves, and monitors the corporate strategy. Corporate office to corporate... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
says. The job is wide ranging, putting Gower in charge of everything from roads and cemeteries to libraries and sewerage systems. “Running a council is no different than running a global corporation. You just have a different customer base,” he says. “My customers are... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
app targeted at millennial customers that would include a novel proxy voting feature that allowed clients to vote on shareholder resolutions with a simple swipe. With this technological addition, OpenInvest was well on its way towards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
assistance, the Treasury should contribute capital by purchasing common shares. As a result, the Treasury is likely to hold a majority ownership of the bank's common shares, while the ownership interests of other shareholders will be... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
organizations. One set of activities shown to improve organizational learning of new work practices is learn-how. Learn-how refers to learning activities that combine experimentation, adaptation-in-use, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
find that MNCs expand the scale of their activities in reforming countries after IPR reform. MNCs that make extensive use of intellectual property disproportionately increase their use of inputs. There is an overall expansion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Multinational Corporations, Global Justice and Corporate Responsibility: A Question of Purpose By: Hsieh, Nien-hê Abstract—Do multinational corporations (MNCs) have a responsibility to address unjust conditions-not simply by refraining from contributing to injustice,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
capital, shareholder losses, and, in the extreme, financial crises—at the end of the day the investors by their nature have some tolerance for risk. "In an aid organization, however, the costs of misgovernance are borne not by the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
named the CEO of the new group and has been tasked with coordinating the diverse activities of the three units to achieve JLL's broader goal of "customer excellence." One of Barge's first actions is to move the account... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
downsides, including the risk of burnout—ensuring that employees aren’t working too much, and that even in a performance-driven culture that emphasizes hard work, they maintain time for activities that will ensure a healthy personal and... View Details