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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity... View Details
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
kind that comes from years spent sitting in a plastic-and-bamboo shelter with no end in sight. Each day is the same, giving these migrants too much time to ruminate about the horrific violence they survived, View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
With the sale of the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos, the newspaper enters a crucial phase in its 136-year history amid disruptive changes in communications, technology, and reader habits. According to HBS professors Bharat Anand and David... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
scored much higher. "The finding there is not so much that family ownership per se is associated with lower scores, but rather family View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
of value investing? Jay Lorsch: Getting Boards Up to Speed Under the present system of corporate boards, independent part-time directors are not sufficiently familiar with the business — they have to be... View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
and face the dire condition of the US government's finances. In fact, it's time to press snooze. First, the fiscal stress on the United States is not imminent. Borrowing costs for the government are at historic lows. Bond markets, which... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
recently went by with no new bank charters issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the first time that happened in the agency's 80-year history. Perhaps the most compelling cyclical... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
FDI are raising concerns that there might be bidding wars: This means governments throwing a lot of money to foreign investors. This weakens corporate finances and can also start the reallocation of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
Corporate Performance By: Brochet, Francois, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using conference call transcripts to measure the time horizon that senior executives emphasize when they communicate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
that arise within the multinational firm, and include: How do I value a firm with assets around the world that are exposed to different country risks and currencies? When should I share ownership View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
as a “golden leash” incentive structure—a significant amount of incentive payment from the investor if the company performed well. Supporters and critics had weighed in on the pros and cons of such incentive schemes for corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog
Family Business Strategy Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 OWN: The Power of Company Ownership Strategy Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 John Batter Law, Management and Entrepreneurship General Management, Entrepreneurial Management... View Details
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Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under Accounting & Management) Robert Simons Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors (also listed under Organizational Behavior) Lynn... View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
wrongdoers is consistent with their judgments, and we offer preliminary evidence on how to reduce these biases. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-020.pdf Stock Price Fragility Authors:Robin Greenwood and David Thesmar... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
Plus, in many countries, government and businesses collude to change the framework, allowing companies to set their own boundaries. A new social contract needs to be developed, because especially in the last few years, business has made... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
a small sampling of the twenty-three companies pitched: Michele Honomichl GPSLink. The average corporation uses up to ten systems to manage the human resources process in moving its executives and their View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
corporate disclosures overseen by the SEC. The benefits of national comparisons are compelling and will unleash a tidal wave of improvements in quality and efficiency. An obvious—and relatively uncontroversial—starting point would be to... View Details
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
capable of countering the power of the executive and exercising better governance in companies even as large as Chrysler. Another phenomenon may provide a different kind of response to the challenge. Flush View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
crash coincided with a decline in WDC profits, and its board was consistently ranked as one of the worst in corporate America. In December 2003, nearly twenty years after lobbying to hire Eisner, Gold and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
years at the School. He has produced over one hundred articles and ten books on corporate governance, energy, and international business. Stobaugh's current work focuses on how boards of directors can improve their performance. His... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage