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November 2011
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Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors

We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms.... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Retention; Policy; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Mergers and Acquisitions; Wages; United States

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Switching Costs and Bidding Parity in Government Procurement of Computer Systems

By: Luis Cabral and Shane Greenstein

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April 2019 (Revised July 2019)
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Innovation and Business in Emerging Markets

By: Geoffrey Jones, Tarun Khanna, Nataliya Langburd Wright and Morgan Spencer

The case is built around video clips from top business leaders in emerging markets who were interviewed for Harvard Business School’s innovative Creating Emerging Markets oral history project. The case is focused on the issue of innovation in emerging markets from a... View Details

Keywords: Oral History; Innovation and Invention; Business Ventures; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges

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Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing?

By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

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25 Jan 2019
News

Returning Government Workers Likely to Confront Glitches

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An Appraisal on 'Teaching the Early History of IB at Harvard Business School'

By: Geoffrey Jones

This chapter reviews new research about the origins of International Business as an academic discipline. Contrary to conventional wisdom that it originated in economics departments in the 1960s, this research highlights the importance of teaching at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Harvard Business School; International Business; Business Education

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The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports

driving revenue and success in today's entertainment environment. Through an up-close examination of why some creative businesses thrive while others fail to survive, you will learn when to make smaller... View Details

Keywords: Media & Entertainment; Media & Entertainment

July 1995
Background Note

Managerial Duties and Business Law

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem

Consists of excerpts from Principles of Corporate Governance, a set of legal guidelines that enumerates the principal duties of corporate managers and directors, including fiduciary duty, duty of care, and duty of fair dealing. Also addresses legal obligations relating... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Corporate Governance; Retention; Common Law; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Managerial Roles

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18 Sep 2015
News

Why the U.S. Government Is Embracing Behavioral Science

June 2024 (Revised December 2024)
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Climate Governance at Linde plc (A)

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

Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry; United States; Germany; Europe; North America; London

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The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Keywords: Economic History; Economy; Governance; United Kingdom

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04 Nov 2009
What Do You Think?

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

a world, it is absurd to talk about 'free' competition—it is inherently unstable, but for the good efforts of government." Alan Ecclesston added, "Let's not confuse 'free market' with freedom from rules and oversight."... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

2016
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Capital Requirements, Risk Choice, and Liquidity Provision in a Business Cycle Model

By: Juliane Begenau

This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model in which households' preferences for safe and liquid assets constitute a violation of Modigliani and Miller. I show that the scarcity of these coveted assets created by increased bank capital... View Details

Keywords: Capital Requirement; Bank Regulation; Demand For Safe Assets; Business Cycles; Bank Lending; Risk Management; Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Capital; Banks and Banking

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14 Sep 2017
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Study: US Government Its Own Worst Enemy

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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

infrastructure, input availability, and the like. The active engagement of corporations is essential to mobilizing these elements. new stakeholder roles & relationships Government View Details

2015
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The Optimal Maturity of Government Debt

By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Gregory Hanson, Joshua S. Rudolph and Lawrence Summers

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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

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2010
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Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors

By: Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan

We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms.... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Retention; Managerial Roles; United States

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