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  • February 2020 (Revised June 2020)
  • Case

Shaping the Governance Debate at ISS

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Jonah S. Goldberg and Calvin O. Liou
ISS is the world’s largest provider of corporate governance research, data, analytics, and voting services. The case uses the effort of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to impose an array of new regulations that would severely restrict the functioning of... View Details
Keywords: Proxy Advisory Services; Corporate Governance; Research; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Shareholder Relations; Institutional Investing
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  • September 2008 (Revised April 2009)
  • Supplement

Wyoff and China-LuQuan: Negotiating a Joint Venture (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Cheng (Jason) Qian
Through stalled joint venture talks between Pennsylvania-based Wyoff Corp. and Jinan-based China-LuQuan, strategic and cross-cultural negotiation challenges are explored both from American and Chinese perspectives. Wyoff, a leading U.S. chemical company, has been... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Chemical Industry; China; Pennsylvania
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  • July 2008 (Revised June 2012)
  • Case

Corruption in Germany

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella and Jonathan Schlefer
Why do managers become corrupt? Does corruption ever pay? When do friendly relations cross into bribery? How can CEOs manage and prevent outbreaks of corruption? These and other questions are raised by three short case studies of corruption in Germany: at the global... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Law; Managerial Roles; Practice; Conflict of Interests; Germany
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  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)

As a Marine, I led some of the first units in Afghanistan and Iraq. What I loved about that experience was the intersection of a mission with building and leading teams. I came to HBS to develop the tools around that work, but in a very different context. On the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 27 May 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

An Empirical Decomposition of Risk and Liquidity in Nominal and Inflation-Indexed Government Bonds

Keywords: by Carolin E. Pflueger & Luis M. Viceira
  • 2008
  • Chapter

Life-Cycle Funds

By: Luis M. Viceira
The U.S. retirement system has experienced a substantial transformation in recent years. It has evolved from a system in which employees relied mainly on Social Security and professionally managed defined benefit (DB) pension plans sponsored by their employers to... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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  • 12 Oct 2022
  • Video

Lumumba Seegars: Inequality & Agency in ERGs

  • August 2022
  • Article

The Bulletproof Glass Effect: Unintended Consequences of Privacy Notices

By: Aaron R. Brough, David A. Norton, Shannon L. Sciarappa and Leslie K. John
Drawing from a content analysis of publicly traded companies’ privacy notices, a survey of managers, a field study, and five online experiments, this research investigates how consumers respond to privacy notices. A privacy notice, by placing legally enforceable limits... View Details
Keywords: Choice; Purchase Intent; Privacy; Privacy Notices; Warnings; Assurances; Information Disclosure; Trust; Consumer Behavior; Spending; Decisions; Information; Communication
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  • Article

The Changing Landscape of Auditors' Liability

By: Colleen Honigsberg, Shivaram Rajgopal and Suraj Srinivasan
We provide a comprehensive overview of shareholder litigation against auditors since the passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA). The number of lawsuits per year has declined, dismissals have increased, and settlements in recent years have... View Details
Keywords: Auditor Litigation; Tellabs; Section 10(b); Section 11; Audit Quality; Janus; PSLRA; Class-action Litigation; Accounting Audits; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability
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  • 2013
  • Chapter

Who Chooses Board Members?

By: Ali Akyol and Lauren Cohen
We exploit a recent regulation passed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to explore the nomination of board members to US publicly traded firms. In particular, we focus on firms’ use of executive search firms versus allowing internal members (often... View Details
Keywords: Boards; Boards Of Directors; Executive Search Firms; Governance; SEC Regulation; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Executive Compensation
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  • 30 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

classes left us energized, refreshed, stronger, and ready to take on anything,” Foley explained in Peloton’s 2019 registration filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But “we were often left without time, without options, and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

find that fundamental accounting signals are stronger in-sample predictors of crises in low-precision countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-103.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsEnergy Security in Europe (A):... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

is in different areas of business—telecommunications, security, and high-end IT—and is very interested in becoming a contractor in the emerging homeland security construct in America. With Li Ka-shing, the threat to success is his... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • Web

Leadership Initiative - Leadership

Media Insight, and also serves as the Chief Product Officer of RANE, overseeing a suite of digitally delivered risk intelligence platforms which help monitor and address cyber, geopolitical and other security threats. Previously, he... View Details
  • Web

Volunteer - Alumni

volunteers are dedicated to the idea that you and your classmates have the most memorable reunion possible. You can join the effort (and fun!) of organizing your next reunion. Raise Funds for HBS By securing support from fellow... View Details
  • 22 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 22

Harvard Business School Case 313-091 The JOBS Act of 2012 This Note summarizes the potential of the Jobs Act of 2012 to change the way in which emerging growth companies, or EMGs, access capital markets. Described as among the most significant change to U.S. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

Internet boom, companies armed with nothing more than a PowerPoint presentation of a lousy idea could secure tens of millions of dollars—which sometimes gave them enough time to figure out a viable business plan through trial and error.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

through successful transformation by learning how to execute for today and innovate for tomorrow. 6 weeks, 5-7 hrs/week Enroll by March 20 $1,850 Certificate Negotiation Mastery Professor Michael Wheeler Master negotiation techniques to View Details
  • Web

Ways to Give Today - Alumni

and Discover. Online Give Online Give online via Harvard's secure donation form Online LOG IN TO GIVE Recommended for all alumni and required for international credit card gifts Give Without Login For US-based donors only—no personal... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2022
  • What Do You Think?

How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?

over, his problems even getting into the building, and what he calls “the official GE handshake.” The GE handshake was demonstrated by the head of building security who prevents Letterman from getting past the lobby of the building. Every... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Industrial Products; Media & Broadcasting; Medical Devices & Supplies; Manufacturing