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    Guhan Subramanian

    Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School. He is the first person in the history of Harvard... View Details

    • June 2019
    • Teaching Note

    CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap

    By: William R. Kerr and Ted Smalley Bowen
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-081. The teaching note presents background, case details, and teaching strategies, along with board plans and supporting graphics. View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Training; Demographics; Economics; Education; Energy; Jobs and Positions; Intellectual Property; Labor; Knowledge; Leadership; Management; Marketing; Organizations; Outcome or Result; Performance; Personal Development and Career; Projects; Relationships; Risk and Uncertainty; Science; Technology; Energy Industry; North and Central America
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    • November 2008 (Revised August 2010)
    • Case

    Whole Foods Acquires Wild Oats (A)

    Examines the implications of Whole Foods' CEO's anonymous message board postings including its potential impact on the company's proposed merger with Wild Oats. View Details
    Keywords: Forms of Communication; Acquisition; Communication Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 15 Sep 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality

    Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
    • 16 Feb 2011
    • News

    What to Ask Your Company's Auditors

    • June 2002 (Revised October 2002)
    • Background Note

    Argentina: Data Supplement, 1990-2002

    By: Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel
    Provides basic macroeconomic data for Argentina for the period 1990 through 2002. Covers the period from the adoption of Argentina's currency board to its ultimate demise and beyond. View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Argentina
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      Olivia S. Kim

      Olivia Kim is an assistant professor of business administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the Entrepreneurial Management course in the MBA required curriculum.

      Professor Kim's research examines how firms... View Details

      • January 2017 (Revised January 2019)
      • Case

      The Rise and Fall of Lehman Brothers

      By: Stuart C. Gilson, Kristin Mugford and Sarah L. Abbott
      With nearly $700 billion in assets, Lehman was the largest U.S. bankruptcy in history. In 2007, Lehman achieved record earnings of over $4 billion on revenues of $60 billion. By September 2008 the fourth largest investment bank in the world was bankrupt. How had a... View Details
      Keywords: Bankruptcy; Financial Distress; Accounting Policies; Business Ethics; Financial Reporting; Volatility; Judgments; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Investment Banking; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Ethics; Banking Industry; New York (city, NY)
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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
        • 30 Jun 2013
        • News

        Accounting rule change undermines US banks

        • 09 Aug 2018
        • News

        Two Million Fake Accounts: Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo

        • September 2011 (Revised November 2011)
        • Supplement

        Longtop Financial Technologies (C)

        By: David F. Hawkins, Annelena Lobb and Aldo Sesia
        Chinese government raises barriers to U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board auditing Deloitte's Chinese auditing firms. View Details
        Keywords: Accounting Audits; Business Ventures; Public Ownership; Government and Politics; Financial Services Industry; China
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          Youngme Moon

          Youngme Moon is the Donald K. David Professor of Business at Harvard Business School. Professor Moon's research sits at the intersection of brand strategy and culture, with a particular focus on the emergent AI economy. She is the author of the bestselling book, View Details

          Keywords: advertising; automobiles; automotive; clothing; communications; computer; consumer products; e-commerce industry; electronics; entertainment; fashion; high technology; home video games; information; information technology industry; internet; marketing industry; music; pharmaceuticals; toy; video games
          • Research Summary

          Corporate Governance

          By: Charles C.Y. Wang

          The characteristics and structure of boards of directors have important implications for firm performance. Professor Wang has found that firms with well-connected boards whose members have strong network connections provide economic benefits that are not immediately... View Details

          • November 1996
          • Case

          Del Webb Corporation (A), The

          By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff
          Begins with a company history, tracing the tenures of founder Del E. Webb and his successor as chairman and CEO, Robert H. Johnson. Johnson inherited a diversified company that was involved in construction, real estate development (including the famous Sun City), and... View Details
          Keywords: Management Style; Conflict Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Crisis Management
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          • 21 Aug 1991
          • News

          CEOs’ plans to reset capitalism bump into reality of pandemic

          • 26 Apr 2018
          • Video

          2018 G&WS: Sandra Finley presents "Blackwomenomics: Equity in Leadership Advancement of Modern Black Women"

          • March 2018 (Revised September 2019)
          • Case

          Chewy.com (A)

          By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble
          In late 2013, Ryan Cohen, cofounder and CEO of online pet products retailer Chewy.com, faces a “bet the company decision”—whether to stay with a third-party logistics provider (3PL) for all of its e-commerce fulfillment or to take the function in house. Cohen worries... View Details
          Keywords: Pet Food; Pet Products; Retail; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Decision Choices and Conditions; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Florida; United States
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          Risk Management for Corporate Leaders

          By: Robert Simons
          As companies adapt to the aftershocks of the global recession, senior executives and boards are discovering that risk management has never been more important. The financial crisis revealed that risk management structures break down just when... View Details
          • October 2010 (Revised October 2011)
          • Case

          Ken Langone: Member, GE Compensation Committee

          By: Suraj Srinivasan and Lizzie Gomez
          On September 2003, Richard Grasso stepped down as chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, following weeks of intense public criticism over the size of his $190 million compensation package. As chairman of the committee that oversaw Grasso's payout, Ken Langone... View Details
          Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Executive Compensation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Labor and Management Relations; Wages; Change Management; Energy Industry; New York (city, NY)
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