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  • 24 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

managers’ contest, but the SEC does not allow exclusion, 21% go on to win shareholder or firm support suggesting that managers often seek to exclude legitimate shareholder interests from their proxy statements. Our analysis illuminates the role that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four interconnected areas of corporate impact, it not only discusses the business imperative of promoting a healthier society and improved living... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

especially as the government did not want a rate hike that could potentially hinder economic growth and increase its already large fiscal debt burden. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708017 Restructuring at Delphi... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb
  • 11 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

Source: iStock In June 2017, the US House of Representatives passed the Financial CHOICE Act, a 589-page bill designed to repeal many of the regulations in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Buried on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States reeled from the blatant failures of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

corporate profits attributable to foreign operations has escalated from 5 percent in the 1960s to 30 percent today. Second, multinational firms, once characterized as a web of autonomous subsidiaries serving local markets, are more likely... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 11 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

Editor's note: The credit crisis and subsequent recession has thrown many financial and business institutions into, if not chaos, then at least a sense that the landscape underneath has shifted significantly. One institution undergoing such self-review is the View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
  • 07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7

Describes Google's history, business model, governance structure, corporate culture, and processes for managing innovation. Reviews Google's recent strategic initiatives and the threats they pose to selected competitors. Asks what Google... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

same behaviors described as “random behaviors.” Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51401 Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System By: Begenau, Juliane, and Tim Landvoigt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

S., Mary L. Witkowski, Megan Abbott, Alexis Guzman, Laurence Higgins, John Meara, Erin Padden Abstract—The article discusses corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. In the authors' view many of these programs consist of disparate,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms that receive poor ratings, and especially those that face lower-cost opportunities to improve or that anticipate greater benefits from doing so. We test our hypotheses in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

the need for change puts itself at a distinct disadvantage to one that tracks the Four Rs along with indicators of learning and innovation. The Rise and Consequences of Corporate Sustainability Reporting Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

matters in the investment decisions made in financing a project. Could you explain this further? A: Modigliani and Miller's (M&M) "irrelevance" proposition is one of the foundations of modern finance. It states that View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

programs as a win-win-win scenario: compliance improves, regulators conserve enforcement resources, and firms save money. But this outcome can only be achieved if the self-regulatory activities of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2016
  • HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

Harvard business and public health students called Consumers, Corporations and Public Health, says food safety is more challenging than ever for three reasons: The globalization of the food business: Food products and ingredients travel... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 22 Apr 2015
  • Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

past few years (yes there are some). It is true that Greece reformed laws and regulations to make its economy more open to foreign trade and as a result more competitive. Trade (defined as the sum of exports and imports) to GDP ratio... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

  PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

supporting this model abound. While IBM concentrated on building complex and costly mainframes, for instance, Digital Equipment Corporation created the minicomputer for users with more limited needs and budgets. Minicomputers, in turn,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 10 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

motivations at the door." More Pie For Everyone In general, value creators work cooperatively with others to make the corporate pie bigger for all, whereas value claimers focus on taking more of the pie for themselves—like a thief... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman