Corporate Law - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2010
News

Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business

ascendancy to the chairmanship of a powerful committee, the average firm in his state cuts back capital expenditures by roughly 15 percent, according to the trio's working paper, "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" The... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

corporate culture— and not against the law in Germany until 1999. The competitive environment and permissive culture both played a role in the future bribery scandal. "There are three elements that lead... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Oct 2017
News

Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

list began in 1955. The figures are only slightly better beyond the corner office. According to a 2016 report on corporate diversity, black men and women account for 4.7 percent of executive team members in the Fortune 100, a percentage... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Feb 2002
News

Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty

scoop: Naomi Wolf and the alpha male The Better Half 12/28/98 Hillary Clinton shines as husband declines Let's Play Doctor 7/13/98 Politicians and health care Why Subsidies Survive 3/25/96 Congress and corporate welfare Man with a Vision... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

19 May 2015
News

Getting Ready for Success

social entrepreneurial skills to a corporate board that wants a unique perspective. “I would love to see the day where we don’t have to talk about achievement gap, technical divide, or schools-to-prisons pipelines, because they don’t... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Services

10 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

corporate confessions presents something of a behavioral paradox. Tasked with monitoring the legality of its own operations, why would firms that identify violations turn themselves in to regulators rather than quietly fix the problem?... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2015
News

The Military and the MBA

their peers,” he says. For Army Colonel Everett Spain (DBA 2014), who served in Kosovo and Iraq, it’s equally clear why military veterans are attracted to business school: “In business, you can continue to be a leader of character in an investment bank or a Fortune 500... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; National Security and International Affairs; Government

April 2012
Article

The Impact of Relative Standards on the Propensity to Disclose

By: Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John and George Loewenstein

Two sets of studies illustrate the comparative nature of disclosure behavior. The first set investigates how divulgence is affected by signals about others' readiness to divulge. Study 1A shows a "herding" effect, such that survey respondents are more willing to... View Details

Keywords: Rights; Surveys; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Judgments; Consumer Behavior; Standards

27 Oct 2020
News

HBS Votes

detailed 17 different ways that companies can help American vote safely. David Gilmour (MBA 1984), Business for America’s Director of Corporate Civic Responsibility (and Managing Director of Blyth Capital Partners) noted in a December... View Details

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

based at HBS, Christensen's influence and legacy extend well beyond the banks of the Charles and transcend the study of business administration. When he received the School's Distinguished Service Award in 1993, Christensen was honored not only for his pioneering work... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

Publications August 2013 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law Delaware's Choice By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2012
News

Letters to the Editor

of the tax system (including the corporate side) is patently unfair and riddled with special benefits for those with access to decision makers. Unfortunately, it is this latter point that makes reform of the system so difficult and makes... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

06 Dec 2021
News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

and corporate and real estate taxes. According to Genta, Monaco’s business model is based mainly on real estate—among the most expensive in the world—representing 20 percent of the country’s GDP. EMBRACING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION READ MORE... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

multinational firms requires a similar fortitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-107.pdf Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Abstract We test for evidence of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

women grew 67 percent between 2007 and 2012, more growth than women-owned businesses as whole saw (Nielsen Report, 2017). In light of these advances, a recent study by Ernst and Young (2017) found that one-third of Americans surveyed said that the View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

08 Jan 2001
What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

Summing Up "What we are looking at is a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about which corporate structures work," commented Daniel Hayes in response to the recent piece on the future bounds of the organization. Raman... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Nov 2018
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

renting than any time in the last five decades, and Davis knew there was a market opportunity here. Yet Davis moved in the opposite direction of many real estate investors. He didn’t target big states with large suburban populations and View Details

Keywords: April White; Real Estate

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

In the aftermath of such highly public and grossly damaging business debacles as Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom, much attention and plenty of criticism have been directed at those companies' corporate boards. Traditionally, board... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

25 Aug 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?

strongly pro-Trump Fox News) wrote to all employees that he was donating $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League in reaction to the president’s statements. This issue raises the question, where does a CEO's responsibility lie when business and government clash? Are... View Details

Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda

June 2001
Case

GE's Early Dispute Resolution Initiative (A)

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris

GE's chief litigation counsel sought to rationalize litigation flow by viewing it as a manufacturing process. By applying the principles of Six Sigma, P.D. Villareal created an Early Dispute Resolution (EDR) system that enabled both lawyers and managers to work... View Details