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  • 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
  • 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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  • 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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    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

    • 14 Feb 2007
    • News

    Board Silly

    • 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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    Mallika Sarabhai

    Mallika, Sarabhai, co-Director of Darpana Academy of Performing Arts based in Gujarat, India, discusses why arts need financial support from governments and corporate insitutuions. View Details

      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

      • 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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      • 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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      • 30 May 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      US Antitrust Law and Policy in Historical Perspective

      Keywords: by Laura Phillips Sawyer; Education
      • 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

        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

        • 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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        • 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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        • 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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        • February 2022
        • Case

        Business Roundtable 2019 Statement: A New Paradigm or Business as Usual?

        By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Amram Migdal
        This note focuses on the antecedents of, reactions to, and clarifications about The Business Roundtable’s August 19, 2019, “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation.” The note includes background information on corporate governance as practiced in the United States in... View Details
        Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Business History; Mission and Purpose; Agency Theory; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
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          Derek C. M. van Bever

          Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details

          • 20 Aug 2014
          • News

          Hertz Investor Fir Tree Urging Board to Replace CEO