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- 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
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
on how innovating organizations are using strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards in the governance process with boards of directors and even their public shareholders. So... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
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
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
2006 shows that leader characteristics at both the senior management and director levels affect corporate philanthropic contributions. We also find that organizational structure constrains the philanthropic influence View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Vancouver 2010 Olympics Harvard Business School Case 507-049 It is February 2007, exactly three years before Vancouver hosts the 2010 Winter Olympics. Judy Rogers, City Manager for the City of Vancouver and a member View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
economicus, model of human behavior that treats managers as selfish maximizers of personal wealth and power. The Homo economicus model implies that a firm's board View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
impact, those of a critical mass of like-minded institutions very well might. Over time, active investors could go a long way toward righting the imbalance in the corporate governance system. When View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
Clinton administration who now serves as director of the President's National Economic Council. While they recused themselves from the G30 deliberations, both have since voiced support for a systemic risk... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
impair goodwill when their reputation concerns are low, suggesting that those executives are subject to their own opportunistic motives. We also find that the greater propensity of former auditors and investment bankers to report goodwill... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
Limited Companies Act in order to achieve greater representation of women on corporate boards. According to the amendment, all state-owned companies and public limited companies were required to have at least 40% women on their boards.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
decision making, and judgments in carrying out the work of the modern corporation. A most fortuitous event in starting the project was the engagement of our research assistant who has a theater academic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
will want to convince your company to develop an innovative product. Perhaps you will want to convince your board of directors that it is worth developing a new market segment.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
evolution of audit committees, and the laws and regulations that have affected their role over time. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409016 Target Corporation: Ackman versus the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
couldn’t persuade his own executive team and board of directors that whatever package he ultimately agreed to with Moore was a reasonable one, even though an acquisition View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the Senate, said that the new law's value is that it helps eliminate conflicts of interest between auditors and a company's board View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
Summing Up The predominance of opinions expressed a concern about what happened in Microsoft's dispute with the Government and laid the blame at the feet of both the company's leadership and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
Danner was about to make his first presentation to the board of directors of Codon Devices, a one-year-old biotechnology start-up based in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
industries such as agriculture and biofuels. As GenapSys came closer to releasing its product, Esfandyarpour and his Senior Director of Operations and Strategy, Leila Rastegar (HBS '11), sat down to decide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
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 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
billion and more than 66,000 employees. With Chambers’s retirement imminent, Cisco’s board of directors must design a detailed succession process that will allow a smooth... View Details