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  • April 2015
  • Teaching Note

The Board of Directors at Market Basket

By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague
Teaching Note for the Board of Directors at Market Basket Case. View Details
Keywords: Board; Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Food and Beverage Industry; North America
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Lorsch, Jay, and Emily McTague. "The Board of Directors at Market Basket." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 415-074, April 2015.
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

The Invention of Corporate Governance

By: Yueran Ma and Andrei Shleifer
The analysis of corporate governance begins with a central feature of modern capitalism—the separation of ownership and control in large corporations—first empirically documented by Berle and Means (1932). Such separation entails several agency problems reflecting... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Law; Business and Shareholder Relations
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Ma, Yueran, and Andrei Shleifer. "The Invention of Corporate Governance." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33710, April 2025.
  • 01 Apr 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Opting Out of Good Governance

Keywords: by C. Fritz Foley, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein & Eric Zwick
  • 1 Mar 2002 - 3 Mar 2004
  • Conference Presentation

Does governance form matter? Evidence from stock market reactions to acquisitions and alliances

Keywords: Governance; Stocks; Alliances
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Villalonga, Belen, and Anita M. McGahan. "Does governance form matter? Evidence from stock market reactions to acquisitions and alliances." Paper presented at the Brigham Young University-University of Utah Winter Strategy Conference, March 1, 2002–March 3, 2004. (Also presented at the Strategic Management Society Annual International Conference, Paris, September 2002; MIT Organizational Economics lunch seminar, September 2002; NBER Productivity lunch seminar, Boston, April 2002; Harvard Business School Finance lunch seminar, September 2001; Academy of Management Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, August 2001; Strategy Research Forum, Northwestern University, May 2001.)
  • February 2018 (Revised October 2024)
  • Case

Hikma Pharmaceuticals Governance Journey

By: Lynn Paine, Suraj Srinivasan and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens with Said Darwazah, chairman and CEO of Hikma Pharmaceuticals, the multinational generics company, anticipating the company’s 2017 AGM and reflecting on changes made over the previous year to address concerns expressed by proxy advisors and some... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Pharmaceuticals; Remuneration; Shareholder Engagement; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Executive Compensation; Business Growth and Maturation; Emerging Markets; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Pharmaceutical Industry; Jordan
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Paine, Lynn, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Hikma Pharmaceuticals Governance Journey." Harvard Business School Case 318-108, February 2018. (Revised October 2024.)
  • 01 Jul 2025
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Accelerating decarbonization through strategic government intervention

  • December 2007 (Revised December 2008)
  • Case

China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (A)

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Xiangdong and Tracy Manty
With its dual listings on the Hong Kong stock market and New York Stock Exchange, state-owned enterprise, China Netcom was mandated to meet the listing requirements of these exchanges. From this initial step, China Netcom's Chairman, Zhang Chunjiang, began a program... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; State Ownership; Public Ownership; Financial Markets; Capital Markets; Telecommunications Industry; China
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Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Xiangdong, and Tracy Manty. "China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (A)." Harvard Business School Case 308-027, December 2007. (Revised December 2008.)
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Opting Out of Good Governance

By: C. Fritz Foley, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein and Eric Zwick
Cross-listing on a U.S. exchange does not bond foreign firms to follow the corporate governance rules of that exchange. Hand-collected data show that 80% of cross-listed firms opt out of at least one exchange governance rule, instead committing to observe the rules of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Markets; Globalization; Corporate Governance
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Foley, C. Fritz, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein, and Eric Zwick. "Opting Out of Good Governance." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19953, March 2014.
  • 2014
  • Article

The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in Hybrid Organizations

By: Alnoor Ebrahim, Julie Battilana and Johanna Mair
We examine the challenges of governance facing organizations that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Hybrid Organizations; Nonprofit; Performance Measurement; Legal Form; Agency Theory; Stakeholder Management; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Corporate Accountability
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Ebrahim, Alnoor, Julie Battilana, and Johanna Mair. "The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in Hybrid Organizations." Research in Organizational Behavior 34 (2014): 81–100.
  • January 2008 (Revised May 2008)
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China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (B)

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Yuen Manty
Supplements the A case [308027]. With its dual listings on the Hong Kong stock market and New York stock Exchange, state-owned enterprise, China Netcom was mandated to meet the listing requirements of these exchanges. From this initial step, China Netcom's Chairman,... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Corporate Governance; State Ownership; Standards; Globalized Markets and Industries; Telecommunications Industry; China
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Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, and Tracy Yuen Manty. "China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 308-091, January 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
  • January 2009
  • Article

Bank Debt and Corporate Governance

By: Victoria Ivashina, Vinay Nair, Anthony Saunders, Nadia Massoud and Roger Stover
In this paper, we investigate the disciplining role of banks and bank debt in the market for corporate control. We find that relationship bank lending intensity and bank client network have positive effects on the probability of a borrowing firm becoming a target. This... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Borrowing and Debt; Banks and Banking; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Governance Controls; Managerial Roles
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Ivashina, Victoria, Vinay Nair, Anthony Saunders, Nadia Massoud, and Roger Stover. "Bank Debt and Corporate Governance." Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 1 (January 2009): 41–77.
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

DC. Jim Aisner: The newspapers point out that a federal government shutdown has occurred 17 times before, but that really doesn't provide much solace, does it? Joe Fuller: The thing that's particularly unnerving about this shutdown is its... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
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Current Research: Issues in Corporate Governance

Effectiveness of shareholder voting
Reform of shareholder voting is a key component of legislation arising from the financial crisis of 2008. Professor Gow examines the effect of shareholder voting on corporate actions, particularly on... View Details

    Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs

    This paper proposes a new approach to social cost-benefit analysis using a model in which a benevolent government chooses risky projects in the presence of market failures and tax distortions.  The government internalizes market failures and therefore perceives project... View Details
    • November 2015 (Revised November 2021)
    • Technical Note

    A Simple Graphical Framework for Use in The Role of Government in Market Economies (RoGME)

    By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
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    Weinzierl, Matthew C. "A Simple Graphical Framework for Use in The Role of Government in Market Economies (RoGME)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 716-031, November 2015. (Revised November 2021.)
    • December 2000
    • Background Note

    Online Market Makers

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Chris Hackett
    Describes the business model for online market makers, firms that use the Internet to organize a marketplace, providing participants with a virtual "place" to trade, rules to govern their exchanges, and infrastructure to support trading. First it proposes a definition... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Web Services Industry
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    Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Chris Hackett. "Online Market Makers." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-308, December 2000.
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    Capitalism as a System of Governance

    My research interest is in further exploration of the analytic utility of an original conception of capitalism as an indirect, three level system of governance for the economic relationships within political entities, and mostly within nation states. This three level... View Details
    • 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
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    Bernstein, Shai. "The Effects of Public and Private Equity Markets on Firm Behavior." Annual Review of Financial Economics 14 (2022): 295–318.
    • September 2014
    • Module Note

    The Development of the Markets for Natural, Organic, and Health Foods in the U.S.

    By: Mukti Khaire and Eleanor Kenyon
    Discourses on the links between eating, health, and social standing in America have deep roots. As mechanisms of food production, distribution and storage were developed in the nineteenth century, Americans began receiving information about what to and not-to eat, from... View Details
    Keywords: Food Marketing; Food; Markets; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    Khaire, Mukti, and Eleanor Kenyon. "The Development of the Markets for Natural, Organic, and Health Foods in the U.S." Harvard Business School Module Note 815-054, September 2014.
    • April 2006 (Revised October 2008)
    • Case

    Marketing New York City

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Anita Elberse and Marie Bell
    New York City is a pioneer in the emerging field of municipal marketing. The city's first chief marketing officer must develop a marketing organization with a self-funded business model that creates value for the city by leveraging the city's assets, including physical... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Goals and Objectives; Marketing Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Value Creation; New York (city, NY)
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    Rangan, V. Kasturi, Anita Elberse, and Marie Bell. "Marketing New York City." Harvard Business School Case 506-022, April 2006. (Revised October 2008.)
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