Private Governance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2001
News

Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan

country but to encourage it to be more competitive,” he explains. What Saeki is bringing to Japan is Nasdaq’s emphasis on good governance and transparency. “We force issuers to disclose accurate information quarterly,” he explains. Many... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

was to improve corporate governance and restore the faith of investors, but many in the business world spoke out against SOX, viewing it as a politically motivated overcorrection that would lead to a loss of risk-taking and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

these things, people look on it as the most difficult country to change." And yet, a shift appears under way. A new reformist government has started treating agriculture as a problem to be solved by industry rather than by aid. View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government

24 Apr 2014
News

Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones

The company has raised $500,000 through private funding and government grants. “Diabetes is not just a medical problem, it’s a lifestyle and a social problem rooted in rapid urbanization, sedentary lives,... View Details

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Estate Investing Finance Dwight Angelini , W. Matt Kelly Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Real Estate Private Equity Finance, Entrepreneurial Management Nori Gerardo Lietz Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Real Property Finance John Macomber , Camille Douglas Fall... View Details

30 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 30

happiness-if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Purchase the book: http://www.amazon.com/Happy-Money-Science-Smarter-Spending/dp/1451665067/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0/181-7319636-0911428 The Role of Organizational Scope and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

information and studied three ways that managers disclose information: discretionary accruals, management forecasts, and conference call tone. In addition, they took a peek at managers’ private discretionary trades during the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

buyout raiders of the 1980s eventually morphed into the legitimate private equity business, greenmailers of a generation ago are now taken seriously as hard-nosed change agents who may be doing the right thing when they take on management... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

01 Dec 2017
News

The Power of Cultural Understanding

Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) sees the global influence of HBS as a key to creating change in the world, a view that is informed by his experiences growing up in the United Arab Emirates, his time at HBS, and his current position as CEO of Crescent... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived

percent were virtual visits. And Teladoc, the largest private sector telemedicine company, reported more than 300,000 virtual visits in the second quarter of 2017, a 55 percent increase over the same quarter in 2016. Patients are becoming... View Details

Keywords: Halle Tecco (MBA 2011), founder emeritus, Rock Health; angel investor; adjunct professor, Columbia Business School

25 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) in the United States in 1976 changed all that. After the passage of the FSIA, sovereign debtors started to waive their sovereign immunity. Private institutions could now sue foreign View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro

01 Sep 2015
News

Clubs: Capital Improvements

president and COO of global private equity firm The Carlyle Group. Youngkin, the recipient of the club’s first alumni achievement award, participated in a panel discussion on the changing face of business in DC with Jean Case, CEO of the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2011
News

Harvard Center Shanghai Names New Executive Director

Chinese institutions, student programs, faculty research, case writing, and conferences. Williams also will build relationships with key academic, business, and government leaders in China. “The center will provide a focal point to... View Details

Keywords: clubs; alumni; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2010
News

Alumni Books

Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to cripple the world financial system. They... View Details

25 Sep 2009
News

Are You Being Served?

alumni like former IRS commissioner Charles Rossotti (MBA ’64) brought customer service best practices from the private sector to government (http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/2000/april/qanda.html). Of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

21 Jul 2011
News

Social Investing’s Time Has Come

founder and CEO of Social Finance, a Boston-based nonprofit established in January to introduce SIBs to the United States. A companion organization with the same name is based in London. With governments here and abroad strapped for cash... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

contracting intensity in privately governed organizations, whereas we expect no such association for publicly governed organizations. We analyze data from California hospitals... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2000
News

Of Dugouts and Sweatshops

going to be exercising leadership in a world in which information is much easier to access than it was before," he said. "This changes the implicit rules in terms of what I call public ethics, because public judgments will happen whether you want them to or not." In... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

10 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Stretching the Inelastic Rubber: Taxation, Welfare and Lobbies in Amazonia, 1870-1910 Author:Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract This paper examines the effect of government intervention via... View Details