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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
statement, it would be an aid to decision-making. Thus, when several courses of action are possible, the board could ask, “If we did this, would it be constitutional, that is to say, consistent with our fundamental principles?” A board of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
What Makes Israel Tick?
Israel is a paradox. It’s small, lacking in natural resources, preoccupied with security, and highly diverse. Yet it generates an outsized number of start-ups, attracts huge sums of venture capital, lures View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Mendhro grew up with a desire to learn and experience the world, she had no formal opportunities to do so. “My brother and I would wake up in the morning and explore. It was self-learning,” she says. “Education became a personal goal and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
equity ownership in corporations and generally do not intervene in management. Such equity investments allow firms to alleviate capital constraints and increase capital expenditures. View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
elections, yet the new owners had promised to find a way to finance and build a new home for the team. That Baer was able to help the ownership group keep that promise has to do, in no small part, with a... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
and the corporate sector in is not easy today because there’s far more sexy stuff to work on out there. I think we have to just persist because it is such a critical area for the country, for just healthy living, clean living, and... View Details
- 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 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
and anger when the mission goes catastrophically wrong. Despite experiencing the effects of PTSD and a family tragedy, Newhall had a successful entrepreneurial career. He has come to terms with his past and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
area that has tended to be ignored is pollution. Corruption exists but numerous companies that do not succumb to it still get things done and are successful. As for corporate governance, India has historically been dominated by View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
False Claims Act, which rewards whistleblowers who report fraud against the federal government with a percentage of the money recovered. “We need to understand the costs,” explains Heese, “and how to empower... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
last five years has been nearly $1 trillion in underperforming investment in the United States alone. Although its central message is that managers need to think more coherently about their project portfolios in order to align them with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
third best reforming economy in the world for 2009 and 32nd in the world in 2010 for the ease of doing business. We are very pro-business, with 10 percent corporate and personal income tax and one-stop... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders
corruption and socially responsible behavior influence corporate profitability. He has found that bribery and corruption, while they may boost sales, lead to a loss in profits. Businesses that tackle environmental, social, and View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
served as executive director of the Corporate Responsibility Officers Association until 2013. Things didn’t turn out the way the partners had originally envisioned, but Crespin was hooked on merging business View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
of ways, but it won’t solve the tangible barriers to production and consumption that the pandemic has imposed. So it won’t be enough to turn a downward spiral into an upward spiral, as in the past. To be sure, large scale government... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
comply with international patent law by 2005, precluding production of some of Cipla’s biggest moneymakers. With time running out, what should Hamied do? Lobbying the Indian View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
groups make it clear that there are always approaches and angles to a problem that you can't think of by yourself. They make you appreciate other people's points of view. That carries over into business, where it's advantageous to surround yourself View Details