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  • November 2007 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

OppenheimerFunds and Take-Two Interactive (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch, Andrew Hill and Kaitlyn Simpson
Describes the dilemma faced by Emmanuel Ferreira, a fund manager at OppenheimerFunds. As the largest shareholder and a long-time investor in software publisher Take-Two Interactive, Ferreira contemplates whether or not to get involved with other investors in trying to... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations
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Megan Gardner

Megan (HBS ’06) is an executive coach, board member and tactical advisor for CEOs and senior executives. As a founder and CEO of a technology business, she knows first-hand the value View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality
  • December 2010
  • Article

Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us...)

By: William A. Sahlman
The financial crisis of 2008-2009 has revealed that our broad model of corporate governance is broken, independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees,... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Human Capital; Ethics; Policy; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Finance; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 17 Jun 2011
  • HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

different, not by being the same. In the Harvard Business School case "Yum! China," professor David E. Bell and Agribusiness Program director and senior researcher Mary Shelman examine how Yum! Brands, the parent company View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

    Dorothy A. Leonard

    Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

    Keywords: computer; consulting; education industry; electronics; federal government; high technology; information technology industry; software; venture capital industry
    • February 2005 (Revised March 2009)
    • Case

    Arauco (A): Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion?

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Jorge Tarzijan and Jordan Mitchell
    Celulosa Arauco is a major Chilean producer of market pulp and wood products. Owning over 1.2 million hectares of forest in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, the company's key advantage is the ideal growing conditions in which the company's forests are located. As of... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Forest Products Industry; Chile
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    • 25 Aug 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Studying Japan from the Inside

    governance system from U.S. companies; banks acted as monitors for Japanese companies, and the boards of Japanese companies had been dominated by insiders. In April this year, however, the commercial code... View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • July 2003
    • Case

    De La Salle Academy

    By: Thomas J. DeLong and David Ager
    Brother Brian Carty, headmaster and founder of De La Salle Academy, a private school for academically talented, economically disadvantaged children in grades six to eight in New York City, is scheduled to meet with the school's board of directors to discuss how the... View Details
    Keywords: Middle School Education; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Design; Management Succession; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Education Industry
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      William E. Fruhan

      Professor WILLIAM E. FRUHAN, JR. is George E. Bates Professor, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He received his BS degree from Yale University, and his MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard University.  He has served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of... View Details

      Keywords: aircraft; airline; chemical; electronics; grocery; medical supplies; oil ＆ gas; pharmaceuticals; retailing; steel

        Michael W. Toffel

        Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

        • June 2004 (Revised June 2004)
        • Case

        Utah Symphony and Utah Opera: A Merger Proposal

        By: Thomas J. DeLong and David L. Ager
        Anne Ewers, general director of Utah Opera, is awaiting the decision of the members of the board of the Utah Symphony and Utah Opera about whether to merge Utah's top two arts organizations. If the vote favors the merger, Ewers will be asked to assume the helm of the... View Details
        Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Management; Fine Arts Industry; Music Industry; Utah
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          Lauren H. Cohen

          Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

          Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
          • 2013
          • Chapter

          The Most Successful CEOs Come from Within

          By: Joseph L. Bower

          The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing shareholder value. Corporate leaders understood that reform was needed and that they needed to commit... View Details

          Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Business and Community Relations; Management Teams
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            Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern (Railroads)

            Following weeks of speculation about a possible bid, Canadian Pacific (CP) made an unsolicited bid for Norfolk Southern (NS) on November 17, 2015. Norfolk Southern swiftly rejected the offer as well as a second offer made shortly thereafter.  Canadian Pacific then made... View Details
            • January 2018
            • Case

            Blue Harbour's Activism at Babcock & Wilcox

            By: Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher
            The case describes Blue Harbour Group's investment in Babcock & Wilcox and its transformation into BWX Technologies. In 2004, activist hedge fund Blue Harbour Group invested in Babcock & Wilcox, an energy and construction company. Blue Harbour developed an investment... View Details
            Keywords: Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Leading Change; Energy Industry; Construction Industry; United States
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              John F. Batter

              John Batter is a retired Litigation Partner in the Boston Office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where his practice focussed on on the defense of public and private companies and their directors and management against breach of fiduciary duty claims and... View Details

              • March 2009 (Revised April 2009)
              • Case

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

              By: Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
              Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest public sector workers union in the U.S., was responsible for protecting the pensions of its members. Because pensions were invested for decades, Ferlauto wanted the companies in which... View Details
              Keywords: Voting; Investment; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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                Case: The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A)

                In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to decide whether to seek a shareholder vote at the upcoming Annual General Meeting in April on a proposal to... View Details

                  Tsedal Neeley

                  Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research, and Faculty Chair of the Christensen Center for Teaching... View Details

                  • 28 May 2013
                  • First Look

                  First Look: May 28

                  independent views on public boards in a sample of Chinese firms. First, we ask why independent directors dissent, i.e., how they justify such dissent to public investors. We... View Details
                  Keywords: Sean Silverthorne