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- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron’s board of directors have failed to detect the business, ethical,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20
Business School Case 413-126 "Hess Corporation On January 29, 2013, Elliott Management, a hedge fund run by Paul E. Singer, which owned 4.5% of Hess Corporation stock, put forward a slate of five... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
period has a significant persistent effect on post-colonial outcomes. Cases & Course MaterialsBaosteel Group: Governance with Chinese Characteristics Harvard Business School Case 309-098 The new outsider-dominated board View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
S. Grossman, and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 512-026 When Diane Paulus, artistic director and CEO of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) first started in 2008, she attracted media coverage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
809-073 The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is one of the largest and fastest-growing pools of investment capital in the world and follows an unusually active program... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008
(forthcoming) Abstract This paper analyzes the association between ownership, top management incentives, and expenditures on accounting information. We argue that organizations with privately appointed boards View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
business holdings. The traditional Argentine newspaper La Nación provides an example of such a shift, when in 1996 a change in ownership of the controlling stake led to the appointment View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
lower risk levels for banks that employ bank managers with higher equity stakes. Our evidence also suggests that external shareholders affect risk taking via directors representing their interests. We also demonstrate that regulation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
fighting what appeared to be a losing battle against an impossible business dilemma. In the midst of their aimless wandering, Grove asked Moore, "If the board kicked us out and brought in new management,... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
stake of 9.5% in Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company. Third Point believed that Ligand had a strong drug portfolio and pipeline but that it was highly undervalued due to poor management. After gaining View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24
the dimensions of human behavior, decision making, and judgments in carrying out the work of the modern corporation. A most fortuitous event in starting the project was the engagement View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
personal interests (at the expense of public shareholders) and bail out Tesla. Concerns were raised over possible conflicts of interest, given that Musk owned over 20% of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
on practical measures that businesses can implement to create shared value. Originally published in an online forum hosted by Harvard Business Review, it offers valuable advice about how CEOs, other senior executives, and boards View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
Author:Stephen P. Kaufman Publication:Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008) Abstract After Kaufman became a CEO, he was struck by how perfunctory the board was in its feedback on his performance. The chair View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
Programs at Harvard Business School. She and Bohnet, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School who serves as director of its Women and Public Policy Program, have extensively studied gender gaps and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25
she plans for the next year and tries to manage a difficult board of directors in the challenging entertainment industry. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
incentivized boards of directors may have played a role in protecting the interests of outside investors. Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
information to shareholders). FANUC’s CEO, Yoshiharu Inaba, and his board must decide if and how to respond. One the one hand, the firm had been very successful having built leading global market shares in each View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
corporate governance, such as the presence of engaged independent board members and other measures, is vital for this separation to work well. “But if management is not under shareholders’ control,”... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
with a request for proposal, the company's largest customer performs a routine evaluation and ranks PV Technologies third behind two key competitors. The director of sales and marketing must weigh the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne