Publications

02 Mar 2010
News

Alumna Appointed to National Fiscal Committee

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Government; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

February 2014 (Revised April 2014)
Background Note

Incentives at the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)

By: Nava Ashraf and Kristin Johnson

Keywords: Community Health Workers; Motivation and Incentives; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Bangladesh

Educators

29 Feb 2012
News

The Economic Impact of Congressional Committee Chairman Switches

27 Jan 2011
News

How to keep audit committees in the know

November 1993 (Revised September 2018)
Case

Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (A)

By: Linda Hill and Katherine Seger Weber

Explores the roles of CEO Rudi Gassner and the 9-person executive committee in leading BMG International. BMG International is the international music subsidiary of Bertlesmann, a German company that is the second-largest media conglomerate in the world. Describes a... View Details

Keywords: Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Decision Making; Business Plan; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Leadership Style; Organizational Culture; Business Subsidiaries; Business Conglomerates; Cost Management; Change Management; Music Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Germany

Educators

January 27, 2011
Article

How to Keep Audit Committees In the Know

By: Robert C. Pozen

Keywords: Accounting Audits; Groups and Teams

Forthcoming
Article

Catching Outliers: Committee Voting and the Limits of Consensus When Financing Innovation

By: Andrey Malenko, Ramana Nanda, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Savitar Sundaresan

We document that investment committees of major VCs use a voting rule where one partner `championing' an early-stage investment is sufficient to invest. Their stated reason for this rule is to `catch outliers'. The same VCs use a more conventional `majority' rule for... View Details

Keywords: Optimal Voting Rules; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Investment; Decision Making; Voting

SSRN

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28 Feb 2022
News

The Importance of the Governance Committee to a Successful Development Program

August 2012 (Revised May 2013)
Supplement

Milwaukee (B9): Julia Taylor, President, Greater Milwaukee Committee

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Bird

Keywords: Management; Wisconsin

20 Nov 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

In November of 2015 I sat in the upper deck of Faneuil Hall in Boston, looking on as300 people from 80 countries congregated to take their oath as the newest crop of US citizens. Among them was my girlfriend, now fiancé, who had navigated her own journey to the US as... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

March 1992 (Revised August 1993)
Background Note

Political Action Committees and the Financing of Congressional Campaigns

Article

Consequences of Financial Reporting Failure for Outside Directors: Evidence from Accounting Restatements and Audit Committee Members

By: Suraj Srinivasan

I use a sample of 409 companies that restated their earnings from 1997 to 2001 to examine penalties for outside directors, particularly audit committee members, when their companies experience accounting restatements. Penalties from lawsuits and Securities and Exchange... View Details

Keywords: Outcome or Result; Business Earnings; Financial Statements; Lawsuits and Litigation; Labor; Markets; Financial Reporting; Accounting Audits; Cost; Reputation

SSRN

November 1993 (Revised February 1996)
Supplement

Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (B)

By: Linda A. Hill

Describes the final decision by CEO Rudi Gassner and the subsequent actions taken by the members of the executive committee. View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Decisions; Music Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Germany

November 1989
Background Note

R. Fox Testimony Before the U.S. House Armed Services Committee

By: J. Ronald Fox

July 2012
Teaching Note

Johannes Linden: Managing the Global Executive Committee (Brief Case)

By: Linda A. Hill and Mark Rennella