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to the first half of the 20th century. Historic Corporate Reports Baker Library holds one of the largest collections of corporate reports in the... View Details

14 Jun 2018
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Dhivya Suryadevara Named GM’s Next CFO

Photo courtesy of GM Photo courtesy of GM The CEO of General Motors, Mary Barra, recently announced that Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003) will be named CFO. Fortune reported that as vice president of corporate... View Details

Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections

Dun & Bradstreet Corporation Records contain a vast array of materials that document the history and evolution of America’s first credit reporting firm. Coverage extends from the firm’s first iteration as... View Details

07 Aug 2019
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Vertex Appoints First Female CEO

milestone for the biotech industry, which has been slow to diversity its leadership, according to a story in the Boston Globe. The article cites a report from 2017 by the Massachusetts Biotech Council, which found that women were far... View Details

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Collection Highlights R.G. Dun & Co. Credit Report Volumes Credit reports created by America's first commercial reporting agency. This collection is an invaluable resource for... View Details

01 Sep 2012
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Rebel with a Cause

environmental sustainability efforts, serving as executive director of Ceres, a coalition of environmental groups and institutional investors; initiator of the Investor Network on Climate Risk; and cofounder of the Global Reporting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; social activism; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Sep 2006
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Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure Increased corporate financial reporting may benefit many parties but not necessarily the companies themselves. New research by Assistant Professor Romana Autrey and... View Details

July 2011 (Revised September 2011)
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CEO Compensation at GE: A Decade with Jeff Immelt

By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem

When ISS, a large shareholder advisory group, recommended a "no" vote on Jeff Immelt's award of 2 million stock options in April 2011, GE's compensation committee had to decide whether to rescind or amend the award or ignore the ISS recommendation. Was Immelt's 2010... View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Stock Options; Stock Shares; Annual Reports; Executive Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Shareholder Relations; Performance Evaluation; Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry

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24 Apr 2014
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Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development

corporate anti-corruption efforts on business performance, determining that high anti-corruption efforts pay off. Healy compares the world’s largest companies to each other on self-reported attempts to combat corruption (with collaborator... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Uncle Sam’s Business Man

Barry Johnson (MBA ’89) has over 20 years of business experience as an entrepreneur and corporate executive with media giants such as the Walt Disney Company, Bertelsmann, and Sony Music Corporation. With expertise in public-private... View Details

25 Feb 2002
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The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

collaborator John U. Farley have studied the impact of corporate culture and national culture on global marketing strategy. A few years ago they looked at the role played by these key organizational factors (innovation, market... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Information Technology

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit View Details

06 Jan 2003
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Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

It is fascinating to observe pundit after pundit come down strongly on the side of expensing stock options in the reported financial statements, as if that were the silver bullet for combating corporate... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman

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Sustainability in CPG and Retail

Background readings Consulting firm reports McKinsey: Direct Google search for the firm's reports on sustainability and packaging (e.g., Sustainability in packaging: Inside the Minds of US Consumers. October 2020). Working... View Details

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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf writes in Selling Free Enterprise , “was inculcating teachers and students in the values of business.” 41 "Steel at War" photographic exhibit. U.S. Steel Annual Report, 1944. Corporate View Details

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What are the top resources for nonprofit company/sector research?

target="new">Chronicle of Philanthropy: Our subscription to the online product includes access to articles, a jobs section, and interactive features. A Facts and Figures section includes data on donors, charities & foundations, View Details

10 May 2004
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Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

appear to be both more fragile and less rewarding. Q: What did you observe on the evolution of financial and ownership arrangements of transnational corporations in recent years? A: The quest for control of their subsidiaries reflects the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

O'Toole Abstract—In this chapter, we present the two primary functions of corporate reporting (information and transformation) and why currently isolated financial and sustainability View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2020
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How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

“It’s not about values. It's about value and how you're creating value, how you are showing that the companies in which you're investing are creating value.” However, many barriers still prevent asset managers from accurately assessing and pricing climate risk,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A Functional Perspective By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim Abstract—In this paper, we present the two primary functions of corporate View Details