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    Michael E. Porter

    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

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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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
    • May 2011
    • Article

    The Growing Power of Non-financial Reports

    By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
    We are exploring the value of forcing corporations to issue sustainability reports, which provide information about corporate performance in terms of social, environmental and governance issues. In a breakthrough study they asked, what is the effect of mandatory... View Details
    Keywords: Value; Reports; Performance; Management Practices and Processes; Globalization; Power and Influence; Natural Environment; Governance; Social Issues
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    • 09 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

    2010) and Karen Dillon, the book uses meaningful corporate and personal anecdotes to extoll the value of theory in finding and creating happiness. "You'll see that without theory, we're at sea without a... View Details
    • Research Summary

    CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:

    Corporate Restructuring and Governance in East Asia

    Economic Development and Political Change in China: village elections, grassroots governance, and township finance and fiscal politics View Details

      Cynthia A. Montgomery

      Professor Montgomery's research centers on strategy and corporate governance. Of particular interest are the unique roles leaders play in developing and implementing strategy; the means organizations use to create value across multiple lines of business; and issues... View Details

      • 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
      • 15 Feb 2012
      • News

      Will Business Step Up or Step Out?

      • 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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      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      ESG: Hyperboles and Reality

      By: George Serafeim
      ESG has rapidly become a household name leading to both confusion about what it means and creating unrealistic expectations about its effects. In this paper, I draw on more than a decade of research to dispel several myths about ESG and provide answers to important... View Details
      Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Reporting; ESG Ratings; Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Performance; Corporate Disclosure; Reports
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        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

        • February 2014
        • Teaching Note

        Olympus (A)

        By: Jay W. Lorsch and Suraj Srinivasan
        As 2012 approached the woes of the financial crisis seemed to be fading, companies were resuming business as usual and some of the scrutiny on corporate governance practices began to recede as well. That is until another major financial scandal emerged in Japan in the... View Details
        Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Electronics Industry; Japan
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        • April 2011 (Revised June 2012)
        • Background Note

        Note on U.S. Pension Accounting

        By: Robert C. Pozen and Brij Khurana
        The purpose of this note is to describe the manner in which publicly traded corporations and local governments in the United States account for their pension plans. View Details
        Keywords: Retirement; Accounting; United States
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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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        • 30 May 2019
        • Working Paper Summaries

        US Antitrust Law and Policy in Historical Perspective

        Keywords: by Laura Phillips Sawyer; Education
        • January 2019 (Revised February 2020)
        • Case

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

        By: Rebecca Henderson, George Serafeim, Josh Lerner and Naoko Jinjo
        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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        • 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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