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  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

Enron’s Legacy

for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity industry were noticeably absent at Enron. If Enron’s board (which was never charged with a breach of... View Details
Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

disclosure of product outcomes, such as average APRs and default rates. Requiring disclosure of such data would empower watchdogs and the market itself to evaluate bad actors. 5. Respect fiduciary duties... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services
  • Web

Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Exercises Analyze your biases and reflect on past decisions to help identify problem areas Consider how employee rights factor into firing decisions Identify three types of fairness in employee-employer relationships 7-9 hrs Module 3 - 1 Week Investor Responsibilities... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

within a set of constraints, both direct and indirect (For example) (A) recent Labor Department proposed rule just reiterated that the duty of (ERISA retirement) plan fiduciaries is to maximize investment... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Winning Legally

terms of knowledge, managers need to become more legally literate so they can communicate effectively with counsel. This includes understanding their fiduciary duties and the circumstances under which... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • Web

ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

and ability from below. We need to marry some small part of our enormous fiduciary resources to the new ideas which are seeking support." 36 Doriot continued to teach at HBS, conveying lessons learned from the early days of the venture... View Details
  • 16 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

responsibilities traditionally have been grounded in fiduciary duties and are typically part of the common law or statutory law or are incorporated in civil codes. But, as this note will show, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Letters to the Editor

knowing where the CEO and his executives were taking the corporation. We all understood our fiduciary duties and our responsibilities to the shareholders as well as to the long-term health and viability of... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

A Community Investment

business and its leaders can no longer afford to be one-dimensional and narrow in focus. Business executives need to broaden the definition of their fiduciary duties in their business practices and ask... View Details
  • 15 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 15, 2015

thinking. In order to assist boards in this new realm of taking into account multi-stakeholder significance, we have structured this paper in four parts and a conclusion. In Part I, we review fiduciary duty... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

these few men, proud, arrogant, and blind, drove the country to financial ruin." Like the individuals convicted of insider trading in the 1980s, some of today's business leaders appear to have forgotten that they are fiduciaries who... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

corporate directors' fiduciary duties in that state. This change limited incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt. We show that, as predicted, this increased the likelihood of equity issues,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?

information Leaking information about stock trades might be both unethical and illegal, Di Maggio maintains, due to a fiduciary duty called “best price execution.” As the Securities and Exchange Commission... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 09 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

shareholder wealth maximization when fulfilling their fiduciary duty (Orts, 1992), the Delaware Court endorsed this same idea in 1989 when it allowed Time's management to reject a lucrative tender offer from... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

Number 6: Consideration of ESG factors might create a conflict with fiduciary duty for some investors. Reality: Many ESG factors have been shown to have positive correlations with corporate financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

heterogeneous telecommunication costs arising from different regulatory regimes) strengthens our results. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/rsadun/Distinct_Effects_11-023.pdf August 2013 Cambridge Handbook of Institutional Investment and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

price and work out a sensible debt schedule for the company. Students must also evaluate the effect of the transaction on the existing bonds and understand the principles governing contractual duties (and how they differ from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

founders sold their remaining shares shortly after the IPO. Two years later, Alantec was acquired for the equivalent of $70 per share. Following the sale, the founders sued, alleging that the venture capitalists had committed fraud and breached their View Details
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

case: http://hbr.org/product/andreessen-horowitz/an/814060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-067 'These People Are Fiduciaries...' The fiduciary duties of loyalty and care, the corporate opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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