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- April 2021 (Revised January 2022)
- Case
Corporate Strategy and Governance: The Clorox Company
By: David J. Collis and Dan Simpson
Collis, David J., and Dan Simpson. "Corporate Strategy and Governance: The Clorox Company." Harvard Business School Case 721-458, April 2021. (Revised January 2022.)
- 2025
- Working Paper
Corporate Actions as Moral Issues
By: Zwetelina Iliewa, Elisabeth Kempf and Oliver Spalt
We examine nonpecuniary preferences across a broad set of corporate actions using a representative sample of the U.S. population. Our core findings, based on large-scale online surveys, are that (i) self-reported nonpecuniary concerns are large both for stock market... View Details
Iliewa, Zwetelina, Elisabeth Kempf, and Oliver Spalt. "Corporate Actions as Moral Issues." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33749, May 2025.
- December 1993 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
Marriott Corporation (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Charles A. Nichols
Marriott Corp.'s chairman and CEO must decide whether to recommend a restructuring of the company to the board of directors. The proposal he is considering would split the Marriott Corp., a premier hotel developer, owner, and manager, into two separate companies by a... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Restructuring; Governing and Advisory Boards; Decision Making; Ethics; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; Accommodations Industry
Paine, Lynn S., and Charles A. Nichols. "Marriott Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 394-085, December 1993. (Revised April 2006.)
- 08 Aug 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate Performance and Economic Growth
- Research Summary
Consumers, Corporations and Public Health
By: John A. Quelch
Professor Quelch is developing a series of case studies on the role and responsibilities of corporations in solving public health problems, both in the United States and worldwide. View Details
- winter 1988
- Article
Family Business Continuity from the Corporate Side
By: J. A. Davis
Keywords: Family Business
Davis, J. A. "Family Business Continuity from the Corporate Side." Family Business Review (winter 1988).
- April 2008
- Teaching Note
The Rise of Kmart Corporation 1962-1987 (TN)
By: John R. Wells
Teaching Note for [706403]. View Details
- Fourth Quarter 2008
- Article
HBS Focus: The Reality of Corporate Boards
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Keywords: Governance
Lorsch, Jay W. "HBS Focus: The Reality of Corporate Boards." Directors & Boards 33, no. 1 (Fourth Quarter 2008).
- September 1990
- Case
Corporate News in the Los Angeles Times
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
Greyser, Stephen A., and Norman Klein. "Corporate News in the Los Angeles Times." Harvard Business School Case 591-010, September 1990.
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
very expensive, natural garments; Ben and Jerry's, and so on. But the evidence is very mixed as to how often CSR pays off, or serves the company strategically. Most of the... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- December 1996 (Revised December 2006)
- Background Note
Introduction to Corporate Financial Engineering
By: Peter Tufano
Describes the content of the Corporate Financial Engineering (CFE) course at HBS. Used on the first day of class to let students know what the course will cover and the main ideas to be developed in CFE. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Finance
Tufano, Peter. "Introduction to Corporate Financial Engineering." Harvard Business School Background Note 297-053, December 1996. (Revised December 2006.)
- 2022
- White Paper
The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement
By: Matt Sigelman, Joseph Fuller, Nik Dawson and Gad Levanon
The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement is a new effort to give companies and other stakeholders a set of robust tools that measure how well major employers are doing in fostering economic mobility for workers and how they could do... View Details
Keywords: Upward Mobility; Career Advancement; Personal Development and Career; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Human Capital; Recruitment
Sigelman, Matt, Joseph Fuller, Nik Dawson, and Gad Levanon. "The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement." White Paper, Burning Glass Institute, October 2022 (A joint project with Harvard Business School Project on Managing the Future of Work and Schultz Family Foundation.)
- August 2014
- Case
Three Jays Corporation
By: Paul Marshall and Mark Davis
Brodie Arens is an MBA student and summer intern at Three Jays Corporation, a jam and jelly manufacturer in Michigan. Brodie's first assignment as an intern is to update the inventory and production planning system. Initially, he begins by updating the Economic Order... View Details
Marshall, Paul, and Mark Davis. "Three Jays Corporation." Harvard Business School Brief Case 915-531, August 2014.
- May 2006 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
Sharp Corporation 2004
By: David J. Collis
Presents the performance of Sharp Corp. in 2004. Illustrates Sharp's continuing leadership in the high end LCD market. View Details
Collis, David J. "Sharp Corporation 2004." Harvard Business School Case 706-508, May 2006. (Revised July 2007.)
- January 2009
- Article
Bank Debt and Corporate Governance
By: Victoria Ivashina, Vinay Nair, Anthony Saunders, Nadia Massoud and Roger Stover
In this paper, we investigate the disciplining role of banks and bank debt in the market for corporate control. We find that relationship bank lending intensity and bank client network have positive effects on the probability of a borrowing firm becoming a target. This... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Borrowing and Debt; Banks and Banking; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Governance Controls; Managerial Roles
Ivashina, Victoria, Vinay Nair, Anthony Saunders, Nadia Massoud, and Roger Stover. "Bank Debt and Corporate Governance." Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 1 (January 2009): 41–77.
- March 2014
- Article
Information Environment and the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations
By: Nemit O. Shroff, Rodrigo S. Verdi and Gwen Yu
This paper examines how the external information environment in which foreign subsidiaries operate affects the investment decisions of multinational corporations (MNCs). We hypothesize and find that the investment decisions of foreign subsidiaries in country-industries... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Multinational Firms; Cross-border Frictions; Agency Frictions; Transparency; Financial Reporting Quality; Information Quality; Information; Multinational Firms and Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment
Shroff, Nemit O., Rodrigo S. Verdi, and Gwen Yu. "Information Environment and the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations." Accounting Review 89, no. 2 (March 2014): 759–790.
- 21 Mar 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Speaking of Corporate Social Responsibility
- 2018
- Working Paper
Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality
By: Suresh Nallareddy, Ethan Rouen and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato
This paper studies the effects of corporate tax changes on income inequality. Using state corporate tax rate changes as a setting, we show that cutting state corporate tax rates leads to increases in income inequality. This result is robust to using regression and... View Details
Nallareddy, Suresh, Ethan Rouen, and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato. "Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-101, May 2018.