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  • November 2020
  • Article

When the Boss Comes to Town: The Effects of Headquarters' Visits on Facility-Level Misconduct

By: Jonas Heese and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos
We study the effects of headquarters’ visits on facility-level misconduct. We use the staggered introduction of airline routes to identify exogenous travel-time reductions between headquarters and facilities and test whether such reductions affect facility-level... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Visits By Management; Flight Routes; Control Systems; Compliance Programs; Performance Pressure; Business or Company Management; Management Systems; Governance Controls; Governance Compliance; Performance Expectations
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  • 15 Feb 2012
  • News

Will Business Step Up or Step Out?

    Jay W. Lorsch

    Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details

    • 14 Feb 2007
    • News

    Board Silly

    • November 2013
    • Case

    GlaxoSmithKline in China (A)

    By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
    Four GlaxoSmithKline employees were accused of bribing Chinese health care workers to prescribe the company's drugs. The accusations brought to light the questionable incentive structures of the Chinese health care system and the pressure on companies to adhere to... View Details
    Keywords: Public Health; Pharmaceuticals; China; Bribery; CSR; Hong Bao; Health Care; Drug; GlaxoSmithKline; GSK; Witty; Government; Marketing; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Ethics; Pharmaceutical Industry; China; United Kingdom; United States
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    • January 2019 (Revised February 2020)
    • Case

    Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World? Inside GPIF's Embrace of ESG

    By: George Serafeim
    In the fall of 2018, Hiro Mizuno, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of GPIF, the Japanese Government Pension Fund, was reflecting on his efforts to integrate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues into every aspect of GPIF’s portfolio. His efforts ranged... View Details
    Keywords: Pension Funds; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment Funds; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Governance; Leading Change; Economy; Performance Improvement; Japan
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    • June 2013
    • Teaching Plan

    Citigroup-Wachovia-Wells Fargo

    By: Guhan Subramanian and Charlotte Krontiris
    This case follows the events of a crucial week in the 2008 financial crisis, when the federal government orchestrated the sale of Wachovia Bank first to Citigroup and then, in a surprise move, to Wells Fargo. We examine the extraordinary relations between government... View Details
    Keywords: Citigroup; Wachovia; Wells Fargo; FDIC; Acquisition; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; United States
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    • 20 Aug 2014
    • News

    Hertz Investor Fir Tree Urging Board to Replace CEO

    • 15 Jan 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: January 15

    paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2190963 Which Does More to Determine the Quality of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies, Firms or Countries? Authors:Hugill, Andrea, and Jordan Siegel Abstract Scholars... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 1999
    • Book

    The Financing of Catastrophe Risk

    By: Kenneth A. Froot
    Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Banking And Insurance; Hedging; Banking; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Insurance; Policy; Risk Management; Natural Disasters; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Insurance Industry
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    • November 2023 (Revised January 2024)
    • Case

    Votorantim: Uniting Family and Business Across Generations

    By: Christina R. Wing, Carla Larangeira and Pedro Levindo
    Over a 105-year span, the Ermírio de Moraes family built Votorantim, one of Latin America’s largest industrial conglomerates, and among Brazil’s topmost businesses, also credited for helping “build” the country over decades. By early 2023, Votorantim included... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Family Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Family and Family Relationships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; Mining Industry; Financial Services Industry; Latin America
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    • 1999
    • Chapter

    The Limited Financing of Catastrophe Risk: An Overview

    By: K. Froot
    Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Cost Of Capital; Banking And Insurance; Asset Pricing; Hedging; Banking; Natural Disasters; Insurance; Risk Management; Financial Markets; Policy; Insurance Industry
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    • June 2013 (Revised November 2016)
    • Case

    Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Elliot R. Benton
    This case considers the strategies of Charles W. Engelhard, an American mining magnate who made large investments in apartheid-era South Africa. Engelhard was widely believed to have been the model for the James Bond villan Auric Goldfinger. During the 1950s and 1960s... View Details
    Keywords: Political Economy; Business History; FDI; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; South Africa; Mining; Ethics; Globalization; Government and Politics; History; Mining Industry; Africa; South Africa
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    • 01 Jul 2013
    • News

    Directions for Directors

      Jonas Heese

      Jonas Heese is a Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting & Management (A&M) Unit at Harvard Business School.He serves as a course head of Financial Reporting and Control in the MBA core curriculum and teaches The Anatomy of... View Details

      • February 2005 (Revised April 2006)
      • Case

      Richard Grasso and the NYSE, Inc. (A)

      By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
      In 2003, the New York Stock Exchange faces heated controversy over the pay of Chairman Richard Grasso. Traces Grasso's development and his success serving stakeholders while transforming operations at the world's largest exchange. Describes how Grasso's compensation... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Markets; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Leadership; Performance; Financial Services Industry; New York (state, US)
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      • July 1982 (Revised August 2006)
      • Background Note

      Tax Factors in Business Combinations

      By: Henry B. Reiling
      Discusses the theory and rules governing the taxation of business combinations (mergers and acquisitions). Related information from state corporate law, federal securities law, accounting, and finance is also provided. A rewritten version of an earlier note. View Details
      Keywords: Taxation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Law
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      • May 2015
      • Case

      Venture Republic, 2011

      By: W. Carl Kester and Mayuka Yamazaki
      In December 2011, the founders of Venture Republic, a Japanese developer and operator of on-line search engines for shopping and travel, faced a decison about whether or not to take the company private in a management buyout transaction just three years after an... View Details
      Keywords: Management Buyout; MBO; Valuation Methodologies; Financing Decisions; Conflicts Of Interest; Governance; Japan; Search Engines; Going Private; Conflict of Interests; Internet and the Web; Valuation; Privatization; Financing and Loans; Corporate Governance; Web Services Industry; Japan
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      • January 2016
      • Case

      Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
      This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
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      • March 2009
      • Case

      Aderans

      By: Robin Greenwood, Rakesh Khurana and Masako Egawa
      Steel Partners is a U.S.-based hedge fund that has made a large investment in Japan-based wigmaker Aderans. The case is set at the close of the annual meeting in May 2008, when shareholders have voted against all incumbent board members. Steel Partners must act... View Details
      Keywords: Voting; Investment; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Japan
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