Publications

Andy Zelleke is the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. A member of the General Management unit, he is the Faculty Chair of HBS’ Middle East & North Africa Research Center.

Since Spring 2021, Dr. Zelleke has taught “Unpacking... View Details

Keywords: federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government

February 2009 (Revised March 2009)
Supplement

AFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (B)

By: Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber

Union seeks to protect its pension funds through shareholder activism focused on corporate governance and executive compensation. The (B) case updates the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Executive Compensation; Labor Unions; Corporate Governance

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03 Jul 2017
News

Will shareholder pressure reshape company policies?

28 May 2020
News

Have we reached ‘the beginning of the great change?’ This professor is hopeful we have

April 2001 (Revised August 2003)
Case

Vodafone AirTouch's Bid for Mannesmann

Vodafone's bid for Mannesmann was the largest ever cross-border hostile bid. This case examines the economic, financial, and corporate governance issues in the deal. View Details

Keywords: Horizontal Integration; International Finance; Valuation; Corporate Governance; Acquisition; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Telecommunications Industry

June 1997 (Revised November 1998)
Case

Sky Air, Inc.

By: Paul A. Gompers

Concerns a fictitious airline company and examines the moral hazard situation that results within a firm. Provides an opportunity to discuss corporate governance and contracting under uncertainty. View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Corporate Governance; Contracts; Risk and Uncertainty; Air Transportation Industry

10 May 2015
Conference Presentation

Building a Competitive Jerusalem

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels

Jerusalem 2020 is a five-year growth plan for Jerusalem's economic development based on Professor Michael E. Porter's theory of competitive advantage. The plan was presented to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the goal of significant investment by the... View Details

Keywords: Israel; Economics; Israel

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February 2011
Case

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

By: William E. Fruhan

This case allows instructors to explore shareholder value creation and transfer opportunities in merger and acquisition transactions. It also invites an examination of corporate governance issues surrounding CEO compensation. This case is quite brief (a total of 4... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

was no less emphatic. "This is an unprecedented preemption of state corporate law that will turn boards of more than 15,000 publicly traded companies into political bodies and threaten their ability to function," said Roundtable... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

Fall 2013
Article

In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms

By: Mariana Pargendler, Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini

A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political problems. Less theory and evidence, however, have been generated about the reasons why state-owned enterprises listed in stock markets... View Details

Keywords: State-owned Enterprises; Oil Companies; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; Brazil; Mexico; Norway

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Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

Keywords: state government; state government; state government; state government; state government; state government; state government; state government; state government

24 Feb 2012
News

Long-term investments in Facebook could be a bad bet, experts warn

Teaching Interest

Overview

By: Lynn S. Paine

Ms. Paine currently teaches Boards of Directors and Corporate Governance in the second-year MBA program. She also co-chairs the HBS flagship programs for corporate directors Making Corporate Boards More Effective, Advanced Corporate Director Seminar, as well as its... View Details

19 Feb 2019
News

Bank Boards: What Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis?

James W. Riley

James Riley is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Riley is an economic sociologist. He conducts ethnographic research to... View Details

2011
Other Unpublished Work

Pioneers in Finance: An Interview with Michael C. Jensen - Part 2

By: Michael C. Jensen and Ralph A. Walkling

This interview is Part 2 of a two-part series in which Professor Ralph Walkling, the Stratakis Chair in Corporate Governance and Executive Director of the Center for Corporate Governance at Drexel University, interviews Professor Michael C. Jensen, Jesse Isidor Straus... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Ethics; Research; Markets; Leadership

April 2002 (Revised October 2002)
Case

The Blair Wealth Project: Antecedents and Prospects

By: Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel

Discusses the macroeconomic and political situation in the United Kingdom from the end of World War II through 2001. Focuses on the interactions among macroeconomic performance, labor relations, the corporate governance system, and social services. In particular,... View Details

Keywords: Welfare; Corporate Governance; Labor and Management Relations; Government and Politics; Macroeconomics; United Kingdom

2020
Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 3 Transaction Free Zones

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

In Chapter 2 we saw that the most economical locations for transactions in a task network are the so-called thin crossing points—places where transfers are easy to define, count and pay for. However, in many places in the task network, transfers of material, energy,... View Details

Keywords: Modularity; Information Technology; Organizations