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  • 28 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

to 80 in 2014. Another example: Some 70 percent of auditors in 1996 were likely to settle claims with some sort of cash payment. By 2016 the percentage of paid settlements had dropped to a little over 30 percent. “Reducing the bite, the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting
  • 04 Jul 2005
  • What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

research, Paula Thornton commented that "trying to get professors to pick up studies that are needed by the business community has been frustrating." Arthur Fullerton includes on his list of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • September 2021
  • Case

Publicis Groupe 2021: Changing Nearly Everything

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tonia Labruyere and Vincent Dessain
After succeeding long-time CEO Maurice Levy as top leader of the world’s third largest advertising, marketing, and communications company, headquartered in France, Arthur Sadoun accelerates digital transformation through a new platform drawing on talent from any of the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change Management; Transition; Transformation; Leadership; Digital Transformation; Advertising Industry; France; United States
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  • 01 Oct 2013
  • News

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

  • 10 Jun 2017
  • News

How big data helped secure Emmanuel Macron’s astounding victory

  • 29 Jul 2014
  • News

Demoulas Family > King Lear: Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn On Market Basket

  • 11 Jan 2016
  • News

Startup Studio Launched in New York City

  • 2 PM – 3 PM EST, 02 Dec 2015
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Managing Family Strife: Market Baskets Lessons about Buyouts

You'd have to have been sleeping under a rock to miss the family war and media frenzy over Market Basket, the Boston-based, family-owned supermarket chain. The confrontation between two cousins (both named Arthur Demoulas) over control of the company was finally... View Details

  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • November 2010
  • Case

Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (A)

By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
On May 7, 1998, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, chaired by Brooksley Born, issued a "Concept Release" inviting public comment on the relevance and appropriateness of existing regulation of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, a market with a... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; District of Columbia
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  • 2013
  • Book

Porte à porte: Reconquérir la démocratie sur le terrain

By: Guillaume Liégey, Arthur Muller and Vincent Pons
From January to May 2012, campaign activists supporting François Hollande knocked at five millions doors, making this door-to-door effort the largest in Europe to date. This project was formed by Guillaume Liégey, Arthur Muller, and Vincent Pons, who had met at the... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Political Elections; United States; Europe
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  • 30 Mar 2021
  • Video

2021 HBS New Venture Competition Finale Show

    Eric J. Van den Steen

    Eric Van den Steen is a Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he teaches strategy. He holds the Roy Little chair, established in honor of the founder of Textron. 

    Professor Van den Steen's research studies the fundamentals of strategy and... View Details

    • 07 Apr 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

    has become one of the foremost authorities on trust in business, government, media and NGOs. Richard topped PRWeek’s list of most powerful executives (2013), was recognized as the third highest rated CEO by Glassdoor (2014) and was... View Details
    Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

      Michael W. Toffel

      Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

      • 2019
      • Book

      Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt

      By: Arthur C. Brooks
      To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?

      Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against... View Details
      Keywords: Political Participation; Political Culture; Moral Sensibility; Government and Politics; Society; United States
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      • 09 Dec 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

      bias and moderate its ill effects. Only then can we be assured of the reliability of the financial reports issued by public companies and ratified by professional accountants. Professional accountants might... View Details
      Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services
      • March 2007 (Revised October 2008)
      • Case

      The New York Times Co.

      The Sulzberger family owns 20% of the New York Times Co. (NYT) but controls 70% of the board through a dual-class share structure. At the company's April 2006 annual shareholder meeting, Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) and other investors, holding 28% of... View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Publishing Industry; New York (city, NY)
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      Business Leadership Coalitions

      By: James E. Austin
      This multiyear research project has been studying the creation and functioning of the organizations business leaders have created in order to mobilize their collective capabilities to address significant issues and problems facing them and their communities. These... View Details
      • 12 May 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      Accounting Information as Political Currency

      potentially controversial business activities—outsourcing, for example—understate their earnings if it might boost a candidate's chances of election. The research by HBS professor Karthik Ramanna and a colleague from MIT, Professor Sugata... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace