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June 2023
Exercise

Successful Governance for the Family Enterprise

By: Christina R. Wing

This exercise examines three different family enterprise scenarios to open a conversation on what makes them successful. We look at how there is no strategy that fits all for family businesses, but there are strategies that can influence both the business and the... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Strategy; Success

June 2024
Supplement

Climate Governance at Linde plc (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain

In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of... View Details

06 Aug 2019
News

When Government Spending Is a Moneymaker

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

Beginning with Chile more than twenty years ago, Latin America has experienced a wrenching yet exciting transformation of its predominantly inward-looking, state-driven economies to a robust acceptance and practice of open-market... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

18 Sep 2015
News

Why the U.S. Government Is Embracing Behavioral Science

October 6, 2020
Article

COVID-19 Is Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Governance

By: Lynn S. Paine

Boards are facing a complex new reality as a result of COVID-19. The new environment is characterized by pressures and demands from various stakeholder groups, heightened expectations for societal engagement and corporate citizenship, and radical uncertainty about the... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards

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June 2025
Teaching Note

Steem Versus Hive: Testing Blockchain Governance

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 822-075. View Details

September 2021
Teaching Note

Vignettes on Professional Service Firm Governance

By: David G. Fubini, Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni

Mar 26 2023
Testimonial

Exploring New Perspectives on Nonprofit Governance

17 Aug 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1910

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio

April 1993
Teaching Note

Note on Corporate Governance Systems: The United States, Japan, and Germany (TN)

By: W. Carl Kester

Teaching Note for (9-292-012). View Details

Keywords: United States; Japan; Germany

1986
Chapter

Government Relations in the Global Firm

By: L. T. Wells Jr. and Amir Mahini

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations

November 1999
Article

Why Governments Implement Temporary Stabilization Programs

By: Laura Alfaro

Keywords: Government and Politics

October 2024
Supplement

a16z: Governance in Decentralized Protocols (B)

By: Shai Bernstein and Liang Wu

Nov 2016
Panel Discussion

Cluster Governance and Shifts in Cluster Boundaries: Plantation Economy in Late-colonial Malay(si)a

By: Valeria Giacomin

04 Nov 2009
What Do You Think?

What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?

is purpose: What do we need governments for? as mediators between the different actors of society . What do we need economy for? value creation For those reasons we need laws and a View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

1991
Book

Facilitating Foreign Investment: Government Institutions to Screen and Monitor Investment from Abroad

By: L. T. Wells Jr. and A. G. Wint

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Investment

2022
Article

The Effects of Public and Private Equity Markets on Firm Behavior

By: Shai Bernstein

In this article, I review the theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of public and private equity markets on firm behavior, emphasizing the consequences that emerge from disclosure requirements, ownership concentration, and degree of firm standardization.... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Finance And Governance; Financing Policy; Commercialization; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Public Equity; Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention; Cost of Capital