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  • 16 Mar 2020
  • News

15 Questions About Remote Work, Answered

  • June 2017 (Revised September 2021)
  • Case

Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo Community Bank

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Dennis W. Campbell, Susanna Gallani and Amram Migdal
Set in early 2017, this case examines widespread sales misconduct at Wells Fargo Community Bank. Wells Fargo's governance and controls are described in the lead up to the September 2016 announcement that Wells Fargo had settled with regulators for $185 million in... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Lawsuits and Litigation; Crisis Management; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Design; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Crime and Corruption; Business Organization; Business Model; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Governance Compliance; Policy; Compensation and Benefits; Resignation and Termination; Laws and Statutes; Legal Liability; Business or Company Management; Risk Management; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Failure; Agency Theory; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Salesforce Management; Public Opinion; Banking Industry; North and Central America
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    Innovating for Sustainability

    Every major company is grappling with the meaning and application of sustainability in relation to its geographic location, industry and business model. Similarly, more and more institutional investors are incorporating sustainability into their... View Details

    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It

    By: Malcolm S. Salter
    What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer is not entirely clear, I argue in this essay that any effort aimed at restoring... View Details
    Keywords: Government Administration; Economic Systems; Trust; United States
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    • 2016
    • Chapter

    Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912–25

    By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
    From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber’s history shows a persistent preoccupation with progressive economics and policy making. Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Fairness; Supply and Industry; Policy; Business and Government Relations; United States
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    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Oral History and Writing the Business History of Emerging Markets

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
    This working paper highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids arising from the absence of a strong tradition of... View Details
    Keywords: Oral History; Business History; Research; Emerging Markets
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Intelligent Design of Inclusive Growth Strategies

    By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat
    Improving corporate engagement with society, as advocated in the Business Roundtable’s 2019 statement, should not be viewed as a zero-sum proposition where attention to new stakeholders detracts from delivering shareholder value. Corporate programs for sustainable and... View Details
    Keywords: Inclusion; Sustainability; Performance Measures; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Strategy; Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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    • 25 Mar 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

    truth is anything but— "it's about reviving companies," says Gilson, author of the 2010 book Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups . Reviving The Economy Taking a... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
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    Non-Financial Incentives

    My research shows how firms combine many facets of internal governance to motivate managers. A perspective that underlies much of my research is that managers are not motivated by financial rewards alone: “it’s not just about the... View Details

    • 16 Sep 2015
    • Op-Ed

    The Real Duty of the Board of Directors

    We routinely hear board directors, CEOs, and CFOs of publicly-listed corporations refer to shareholders as owners of the corporation. Under this thinking, it is natural to conclude that the board’s duty is to its shareholders. Contrary to... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
    • October 2022 (Revised February 2024)
    • Case

    Masdar City: Aiming for Sustainable and Profitable Real Estate

    By: Boris Vallee and Fares Khrais
    Masdar City broke ground in 2008 and was conceived by the Abu Dhabi government to be an international beacon of innovation in sustainable energy and real estate. It was also to be a profitable investment for the government. At first glance, the two goals pulled in... View Details
    Keywords: Analysis; Business Growth And Maturation; Decisions; Public Sector; Financial Crisis; Construction; Climate Change; Green Technology; Borrowing And Debt; Corporate Finance; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Cost Of Capital; Equity; REIT; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Innovation; Growth And Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Urban Development; Middle East; United Arab Emirates; Sustainable Cities; Green Building; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financing and Loans; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Abu Dhabi
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    • July 2016 (Revised January 2017)
    • Case

    Banking on Change: Aligning Culture and Compensation at Morgan Stanley

    By: Malcolm S. Salter
    This case study was prepared as part of a research project on Culture, Conduct, and Governance in Financial Firms. The objective of this project is to compare and contrast the efforts of U.S. and European banks to induce changes in organization culture in the aftermath... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Corporate Governance; Banks and Banking; United States; Europe
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Foreign Influence in U.S. Politics

    By: Marco Grotteria, Max Miller and S. Lakshmi Naaraayanan
    This paper investigates the informational role of lobbyists in the context of foreign lobbying in the United States. Using Department of Justice data on contacts between foreign governments and US legislators, we show that exogenous shocks to these connections... View Details
    Keywords: Political Economy; Public Finance; Political Connections; Foreign Lobbying
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    • March 2022
    • Case

    Metric

    By: Christina Wallace, Rebecca Cink and Maria Lappas
    Megan Murday, the founder of Metric, an environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) analytics startup, must decide which customer segment to target as a beachhead market. She received positive feedback from a Swiss venture capital (VC) firm, indicating their... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Customers
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    • March 2010 (Revised June 2010)
    • Case

    Whose Money Is It Anyway? (A)

    By: V.G. Narayanan, Richard G. Hamermesh and Rachel Gordon
    The Brigham and Women's Physician's Organization (BWPO) and its corporate parent disagree over who has jurisdiction over significant legacy funds. Are they controlled by the BWPO or do they belong to BWPO's corporate parent? The BWPO and its corporate parent must... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Investment Funds; Governance Controls; Agreements and Arrangements; Boundaries; Health Industry
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    • 2011
    • Chapter

    The Economics of Housing Finance Reform

    By: David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam
    This paper analyzes the two leading types of proposals for reform of the housing finance system: (i) broad-based, explicit, priced government guarantees of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and (ii) privatization. Both proposals have drawbacks. Properly-priced... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Housing; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics
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    • August 22, 2019
    • Article

    CEOs Say Their Aim Is Inclusive Prosperity. Do They Mean It?

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    Earlier this week, the Business Roundtable issued a statement on corporate purpose. It is noteworthy both for its endorsement of inclusive prosperity as an ideal and for its rejection of maximizing shareholder returns as the sole corporate objective. However, the real... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Corporate Governance
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      Dutch Leonard

      Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

      Keywords: federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government
      • September 2016
      • Case

      Partners Group: Ain't No Mountain High Enough

      By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Ricardo Andrade
      Partners Group (PG), a Swiss-based PE manager, initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in 2006. A number... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Management Practices and Processes; Entrepreneurship
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      • June 2023 (Revised February 2025)
      • Case

      Doing Business in Lima, Peru

      By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Max Hancock
      This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Peru. It highlights Peru's economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2024 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case gives an overview of some of the main obstacles... View Details
      Keywords: Business History; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Strategy; Mining Industry; Peru; Latin America
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