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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
that their exclusive purpose is to produce ever-higher shareholder returns. So it is the extraordinary leader who has the courage to break out of that frame and define a higher ambition. The public company leader simply has more headwind... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
assistance, the Treasury should contribute capital by purchasing common shares. As a result, the Treasury is likely to hold a majority ownership of the bank's common shares, while the ownership interests of other shareholders will be... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Dr. Shehan Dissanayake, a managing director and board member of Bahamian investment firm The Tavistock Group (Tavistock), the largest shareholder in the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo), one of the country's largest agribusinesses,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2011
- Background Note
Corporate Reform Elements of the Dodd-Frank Act
By: Robert C. Pozen, Phillip Andrews and David Lane
This note summarizes the four major changes affecting corporate governance that were made by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010. These changes relate to: advisory notes by shareholders, refinements to board structure, non-disclosure on compensation and tightening up of certain... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Government Legislation; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
Pozen, Robert C., Phillip Andrews, and David Lane. "Corporate Reform Elements of the Dodd-Frank Act." Harvard Business School Background Note 311-091, February 2011.
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-030.pdf Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950 Author:Aldo Musacchio Abstract The early development of large multidivisional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- June 1995
- Teaching Note
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream Inc.: Keeping the Mission(s) Alive TN
By: Richard E. Walton
Teaching Note for (9-392-025). View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
the most serious governance cases filed in U.S. courts by private shareholders against foreign cross-listed firms. Second, even if the SEC had the resources required to fully investigate the potentially false disclosures and statements by... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Finding it difficult to avoid the second debate, the paper examines the extent to which prevailing accounts of corporate purpose (e.g., shareholder primacy, stakeholder theory, corporate citizenship) support attributing responsibilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
than a year in an organized sale process, the winning bidder had become increasingly difficult to work with, and the closing had been substantially delayed. Despite the late stage of the process, the selling shareholders were considering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
to create substantial wealth for the company's shareholders would be lost. As it was, the company's founder and CEO had already gambled by investing in enough production capacity for acceptance in the niche beverage market-before a market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
reduced margins and increased risks that come with entering a number of domains that already have established incumbents, and the trade-offs between maximizing shareholder return (for example through investments in full tariff power... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
and superfluous." And HBS professor Rakesh Khurana contends that many business schools have been complicit in creating recent corporate scandals by turning out graduates fixated on shareholder value at the expense of all other... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
emphasizing that the company delivered strong results despite an exceptionally challenging environment, which included a nearly 50% drop in oil prices. However, shareholders questioned the massive payout and ultimately rejected BP's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
When health insurer Cigna Corp. appeared in front of a judge for allegedly misleading shareholders on Medicare regulations this spring, plaintiffs thought they had a strong case. After all, Cigna had published its own document titled... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
shareholder returns. The Wawa associates (name for employees) have an ESOP that plays a key role in Wawa's culture of ownership. This case explores the role of incentives and levers of control to create a successful retail chain. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
greater than £25,000. Dougan and the executive team had to decide how best to fund this tax. Was it fair or appropriate to have the shareholders shoulder the burden of the tax? Similarly, was it fair to ask the U.K. employees to suffer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
52-week high; conversely, bidder shareholders react increasingly negatively as the offer price is pulled upward toward that price. Merger waves occur when high recent returns on the stock market and on likely targets make it easier for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
the nature of the organization's business and how the organization intends to succeed and outperform competitors. It articulates the critical elements for a company's growth strategy 5: Objectives for growth in shareholder value Targeted... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
compensation incentives for CSR. We test our predictions using novel executive compensation contract data and find that firms with more shareholder friendly corporate governance are more likely to provide compensation to executives linked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
pharmaceutical company GSK must choose how much to integrate a recently acquired biotechnology firm, Sirtris. Moncef Slaoui, GSK's global head of R&D, championed the acquisition of Sirtris to gain access to its potentially revolutionary science. Slaoui must balance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel