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  • 14 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), is the Global Engagement Partner (GEP) for a large U.S. financial institution and about to take over this role for a much larger global financial institution. The GEP role is a critical one at PwC. GEPs have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

other forms of competition in strategy and organizations. Next, we organize and review the findings of three ostensibly separate theoretical perspectives that have arisen from game theory, competitive dynamics, and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

institutions in which ongoing crises of legitimacy demonstrate the need for a renewal of embedded liberalism and a revitalization of global governance. They are as follows: the activities of transnational corporations, particularly with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

lower risk levels for banks that employ bank managers with higher equity stakes. Our evidence also suggests that external shareholders affect risk taking via directors representing their interests. We also demonstrate that regulation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

national governments and international institutions would prove too weak to deal with these forces. On the positive side, many of the leaders we spoke with viewed business as part of the solution: Companies could help ameliorate the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jun 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

Summing Up Responses to this month's column devolved into a debate about the division of responsibility among institutions faced with the potential for a national bankruptcy. The majority argued that such bankruptcies shouldn't be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

ways. In the light of these wide-ranging effects, much scholarship has been devoted to specifying the responsibilities of managers of for-profit business enterprises. Much of this scholarship is framed in relation to “shareholder primacy”—the view that managers should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

is a later-stage company with revenues in excess of $100 million; the other a pre-revenue company trying to raise its first institutional round. The entrepreneurs must consider their options and the impact on their companies' growth and,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

package worth some $47 million. The move infuriated some shareholders who launched a campaign (ultimately unsuccessful) to vote out the chair of the board and the chair of the compensation committee. When... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of higher quality than earnings of private equity firms due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

respond to a revised proposal from two private equity firms to take the company private. In November of 2006, the Board had unanimously approved an offer of $37.60 per share after going through intense negotiations with numerous firms, but View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

microfinance institutions (MFIs), MIA must now define the strategy for its future growth. Facing both the need to achieve scale and profitability as quickly as possible, and increasing competition from international and local providers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26

better understand the court's reasoning. The text continues to provide additional questions, connections to the empirical literature, and cross-country comparisons. Book: http://www.aspenlawschool.com/books/allen_busorg4/default.asp   Working PapersHow Do Staggered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

politicians only provide the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections set forth in the constitution. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 28 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

suggests this positive effect may stem from a desire to avoid shame. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-073.pdf Author-Level Eigenfactor Metrics: Evaluating the Influence of Authors, Institutions and Countries within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

a proxy contest and a special shareholder meeting to vote on replacing Allergan's directors with a slate more favorable to the Valeant merger. The proposed Salix acquisition would give Allergan a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting rights, we can separately... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

discussed in terms of strategic and non-strategic linguistic cues.   Working PapersFinding the God Particle of the Sustainability Business Case: Greener Pastures for Shareholder Value Authors:Bertoneche, Marc L., and Cornis Van der Lugt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

with a good track record but an "outsider" with limited knowledge of the business. The cycle is begun again. Sound familiar? It should. It's unfolding in two of the largest financial institutions in the world, Merrill Lynch and... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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