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  • February 2009 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

AFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A)

By: Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
Union seeks to protect its pension funds through shareholder activism focused on corporate governance and executive compensation. The case uses Countrywide Financial as an example. Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Mortgages; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Labor Unions; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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    How Robust Is Your Climate Governance?

    During the past few years, as evidence of climate change and its effects has mounted, many corporate boards have added climate governance to their agendas. But the maturity of boards’ climate-oversight processes and activities varies widely. To better... View Details

    • 2001
    • Chapter

    Bankruptcy, Boards, Banks, and Blockholders: Evidence on Changes in Corporate Ownership and Control When Firms Default

    By: S. C. Gilson
    Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Ownership; Governing and Advisory Boards; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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    • 1992
    • Chapter

    Bankruptcy, Boards, Banks, and Blockholders: Evidence on Changes in Corporate Ownership and Control When Firms Default

    By: S. C. Gilson
    Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Ownership; Governing and Advisory Boards; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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    • May 22, 2023
    • Other Article

    How to Manage Workforce Risk Amid Old Challenges, New Disruptions

    By: Joseph B. Fuller, Michael Griffiths, Reem Janho, Michael Stephan, Carey Oven and Keri Calagna
    C-suites and boards have an opportunity to improve management and expand governance of their workforce to mitigate related risks more effectively. View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • 10 Jul 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Privatization and the New European Economy

    "Privatization and the Role of the Governments in a Global Economy," the prime candidates for state-run operations clustered around five sectors of the European economy— transportation,... View Details
    Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

      Ray A. Goldberg

      A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

      ... View Details

      Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine
      • 15 Sep 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      From Bench to Board: Gender Differences in University Scientists’ Participation in Commercial Science

      Keywords: by Waverly W. Ding, Fiona Murray & Toby E. Stuart; Biotechnology
      • 01 Mar 2019
      • News

      Tools and Training for a “Wicked Problem”

      Initiative. One such tactic, from HBS professor of management practice Mitchell Weiss, is “fast experimentation,” which combines the concepts of parallel processing, piloting, and learning to drive change at a faster rate, with more... View Details
      Keywords: homelessness
      • September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
      • Case

      From Beirut With Love (A)

      By: Christina R. Wing, Esel Y. Cekin and Samer Al-Rachedy
      This case describes how Robert Fadel, CEO and chairman of ABC, one of Lebanon’s leading retail and real estate groups, professionalized the family business. Robert was the second son of the company’s founder, Maurice Fadel, who had run it single-handedly. Concerned... View Details
      Keywords: Family Conflicts; Sibling Rivalry; Second-generation; Foundation; Trust; Work-life Balance; Succession Planning; Corporate Culture; Shareholders; Board Of Directors; Retail; Department Store; Shopping Mall; Real Estate; Growth; Non-executive Chairman; Sustainability; Family Business; Conflict Management; Management Succession; Governance; Leadership; Transformation; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Management; Growth and Development; Retail Industry; Real Estate Industry; Lebanon; Middle East
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      • October 2006
      • Teaching Note

      Precista Tools AG (TN) (A), (B), and (C)

      By: John A. Davis and Courtney Sampson
      Teaching Note to (488-046), (488-047), and (488-048). View Details
      Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Race; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Resignation and Termination; Conflict and Resolution; Switzerland
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        Mark N. Roberge

        Mark Roberge is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School.  He teaches Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing in the second-year MBA program in the Fall term and The Entrepreneurial Manager and Startup Bootcamp in the... View Details

        • July 2016 (Revised January 2019)
        • Case

        Cyber Breach at Target

        By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and Neeraj Goyal
        In November and December of 2013, Target Corporation suffered one of the largest cyber breaches to date. The breach that occurred during the busy holiday shopping season resulted in personal and credit card information of approximately 110 million Target customers... View Details
        Keywords: Safety; Credit Cards; Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Governing and Advisory Boards; Crisis Management; Retail Industry
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        • 14 Nov 2017
        • First Look

        New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

        industries, the authors identified four common obstacles most boards face in governing innovation: an outdated risk agenda, insufficient time, lack of expertise, and a... View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • June 2007 (Revised April 2008)
        • Case

        Say on Pay

        By: Jay W. Lorsch, V.G. Narayanan and Alexis Chernak
        Briefly describes the trend in 2006 and 2007 in the United States to give shareholders an advisory vote on executive compensation. Highlights a few examples where shareholders have successfully garnered a majority in support of an advisory vote measure on company proxy... View Details
        Keywords: Voting; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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        • 04 May 2021
        • News

        The Heart of Business with Hubert Joly

        • 30 Mar 2015
        • News

        An education reformer and social entrepreneur

        Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS), a cultural exchange organization that has served 1.5 million students worldwide. In 1987 he began working with the British government to establish charter-type schools that specialized in technology.... View Details
        • Web

        Faculty - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

        Ethics. Profile Jay W. Lorsch, Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations and Chairman of the Executive Education Program “Making Corporate View Details
        • 09 Apr 2019
        • First Look

        New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

        political, as they faced widespread host government hostility and expropriation. In the contemporary global economy, political risk partially declined with the spread of liberalization, although the... View Details
        Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
        • 01 Mar 2010
        • Op-Ed

        A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM

        Having weathered the 2008 crisis without U.S. government support, Ford has $23 billion in cash in the bank and a lineup of eco-friendly automobiles to which U.S. consumers are gravitating. GM only emerged... View Details
        Keywords: by Bill George; Auto