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Educators

Third Quarter 2022
Article

How Global Upheaval Influences Board Decision-Making: What Is the Effect of Cold War II on Corporate Governance?

By: Michael Montelongo

What should boards and companies do or not do when confronting the impact of geopolitical crises? It may be helpful to consider the broader context giving rise to these issues, namely why we’re in the situation, the lessons we’re learning about geopolitical risk in... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; International Relations; Globalization; Decision Making

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November 2010
Teaching Note

Citigroup 2007: Financial Reporting and Regulatory Capital (TN)

By: Edward J. Riedl, Suraj Srinivasan and Sharon Katz

Teaching Note for 111041. View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Capital; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Services Industry

Article

Least-Cost Avoiders in Online Fraud and Abuse

By: Benjamin Edelman

Web users face considerable fraud, malfeasance, and economic harm that system operators could prevent or mitigate. Although the legal system can respond, regulations have mixed results. I examine the applicable legal rules that constrain online fraud and the economic... View Details

Keywords: Online Technology; Crime and Corruption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Economics; Law

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February 1999
Teaching Note

Singapore Unlimited: Building the National Information Infrastructure, Teaching Note

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Teaching Note for (9-196-012). A rewritten version of an earlier teaching note. View Details

Keywords: Information Management; Infrastructure; Policy; Government Administration; Information Industry; Singapore

17 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

the global economy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-037.pdf Management and the Financial Crisis (We have Met the Enemy and He Is Us ) Author:William A. Sahlman Abstract The financial crisis of 2008-2009 has revealed that our broad model of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

the case that the Clinton and Bush administrations and members of Congress of both parties pursued an extreme affordable-housing agenda that led to the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If Fannie and Freddie had not failed, requiring View Details

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

economic inequality worrisome. They see that US corporations are skittish about making investments in a time of uncertainty about government policy, taxes, and regulations. They hear too many American CEOs talk about choosing to postpone... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

and the government invested dramatically in building a scientific and technical infrastructure needed to fuel growth. That was the national strategy, but it was not industrial policy. There's an important need today for having a... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

Profile

Catherine Neale

into construction management, dealing with subcontractors, inspectors, materials and utilities." In her final year with the organization, Catherine served as liaison for the executive director, managing government and international... View Details

24 Jul 2018
News

How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft

to take an ax to corporate policies governing things like travel and purchasing, Brad Smith suggested she trim about 20 percent of the 1,800 policies. Hood told Smith he was letting the team off easy. She asked for 50 percent. Link... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

India Research Center: Connecting HBS to South Asia

benefit of strengthening HBS’s connections to the business community. More broadly, through the “Best of Harvard in India” series of events, the IRC fosters dialogue among HBS faculty, alumni, business leaders, government officials, and... View Details

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

for the rescue of Bear, without which Bear would be forced to seek bankruptcy protection when markets opened on Monday. Late on Sunday afternoon, March 16, Bear's board accepted Morgan's offer to purchase Bear for $2 per share, an offer that would not have been made... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July–August 2015
Article

The Secret of Singapore: Why Cuba Should Look to Lee Kuan Yew's Thriving City-State for Economic Inspiration

By: Debora L. Spar

Between 1965 and 1991, Singapore grew at an astonishing compound annual growth rate of nearly 14%. Critics of the island's performance accused its celebrated leader, Lee Kuan Yew, of thinly veiled tendencies toward communism and authoritarianism; they argued that the... View Details

Keywords: Economic Models; Communism; Economic Policy; Economic Reform; Angel Investors; Authoritarianism; Economic Systems; Economy; Policy; Government and Politics; Singapore; Cuba

April 2020 (Revised August 2020)
Case

WeWork—November 2018

By: Paul A. Gompers, Patrick Sweeney and Alex Gachanja

In May 2017, SoftBank announced the official launch of the Vision Fund — which promptly became the largest technology-focused investment fund in the world, with nearly $100 billion in capital under its management. Reports from a few months prior hinted that SoftBank... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Valuation; Corporate Governance

Educators

2017
Article

New Venture Milestones and the First Female Board Member

By: Alicia DeSantola, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Julie Battilana

We explore the antecedents of the addition of the first woman to the boards of directors of entrepreneurial ventures. Building on research on resource dependency, we propose that new ventures are most likely to add the first woman to their boards at three developmental... View Details

Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Diversity; Technology Industry; United States

February 1991
Supplement

Raymond Jackson (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and James E Sailer

Explains Jackson's reasons for his decision and describes the result of the proxy fight for control of the board. View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Conflict and Resolution

01 Jan 2005
News

Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

Chairman & Managing Director, Bajaj Auto Ltd. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION St. Stephen's College (Delhi), 1958 B.A., Economics The Government Law College (Bombay), 1960 LL.B. LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS... View Details

04 Jun 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Political Influence and Merger Antitrust Reviews

Keywords: by Mihir N. Mehta, Suraj Srinivasan, and Wanli Zhao

2008
Working Paper

Investable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit

By: Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala and Monica Singhal

The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) represents a novel tax expenditure program that employs "investable" tax credits to spur production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Housing; Renting or Rental; United States