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  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

Wall Street. Though many believe this happens because firms have a "fiduciary duty" to maximize shareholder returns, U.S. executives do not, as a matter of law, have any such obligation. Yet it's hard for them to resist demands... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in countries with myriad View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

analyses indicate that "All-Star" recognition proxies for buy-side client votes on analyst research quality used to allocate commissions across banks and analysts. Taken as a whole, our evidence is consistent with analyst... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

assets in order to achieve higher yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

commitment to sustainability. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112064-PDF-ENG Ganging up on Cancer: Integrative Research Centers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (B) Heidi K. Gardner, Edo Bedzra, and Shereef M.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

Russian conglomerate that has become the third largest shareholder in SUN Interbrew, has announced its intention to take part in the company's management and attain a leading position in the Russian beer market. Is there a role for the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

in the retail industry, some shareholders claimed that the price was "grossly inadequate," making the decision whether to approve the transaction a difficult one for shareholders generally.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

anyway. On the contrary, citizens registered due to the visits became more interested in and knowledgeable about the elections as a result of being able to participate in them, and 93% voted at least once in 2012. The results suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

of the Tobin Project, a nonprofit research institute focused on catalyzing scholarship on important governmental problems. “The question is how to do that. My teacher, the Nobel economist James Tobin, told me that it’s better to build our... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

consistent with a view that cross-border social networks play an important role in helping entrepreneurs to circumvent the barriers arising from imperfect domestic institutions in developing countries. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Supplement

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal
The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Earnings Management; Environmental Accounting; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decisions; Voting; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercial Banking; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
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  • 13 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

Moss Kanter: I have for a long time been interested in all the institutions of a country that make a difference for the effectiveness of business and the prosperity of people. And I teach leadership, so I teach about running large... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

heterogeneity, we identify key country- and organization-level determinants of corporate environmental disclosure. We focus on institutional factors related to firms' global embeddedness to describe how external environmental pressures... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

microfinance banks join forces to face the new challenges of globalization, competition, and politics while common shareholder ACCÍON investments considers its options. From an initial project to share costs in the revamping of their IT... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

avoid even the most modest of practices that they considered inappropriate. Explores the practices and methods that Infosys adopted instead, considers their costs, benefits, and generalizability, and contextualizes the problem within Indian political and economic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions of boards. The AFL-CIO believes that such problems were... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

Case 319-046 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 View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Feb 2020
  • News

Phoenix Rising

great-grandfather. Macridis sat in on meetings with the SYRIZA government early in 2015 and saw the writing on the wall. “I found them unrealistic and hostile to what for-profit institutions need,” he says. Chryssafidis, one of the 10... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

the decades of research and teaching that began immediately after World War II. By the late 1960s, however, institutional interest in the subject (reflective of broader educational trends) had waned, and the School's "curriculum" in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons
  • 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

measure of carbon embedded within their institutional clients’ assets under custody to help clients understand the climate risk in their portfolios. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51261 Finding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne