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  • 16 Sep 2015
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The Real Duty of the Board of Directors

    William R. Kerr

    William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the... View Details

    Keywords: communications; computer; consulting; high technology; information technology industry; management consulting; manufacturing; telecommunications; venture capital industry
    • Forthcoming
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    From Bupkis to Sechel in Health Care

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer
    Fifty years ago, famed economist Milton Friedman declared that “The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.” This free market manifesto was adopted by the healthcare industry as well. But transactional has evolved into transformational with the... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Customer Focus and Relationships; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Industry
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    Herzlinger, Regina E., and Richard Boxer. "From Bupkis to Sechel in Health Care." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association (forthcoming).
    • 10 Jan 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

    society through a cultural change that had solidarity as its core value. In our sample alliances, this motivation was associated with a specific company type: family-owned businesses. These are companies controlled by an individual or a family, despite the existence of... View Details
    Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
    • 21 Feb 2007
    • Op-Ed

    What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

    poverty line. And yet, more than a trillion dollars has been spent by bilateral and multilateral organizations since World War II to try to alleviate this problem. The funds that were supposed to help improve people's lives have often been lost to View Details
    Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
    • November 2012 (Revised August 2013)
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    A Politician in a Leather Suit and the Paradox of Japanese Capitalism

    By: Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer
    Two lost decades later, capitalism in Japan embodies peculiar contradictions—preserving wealth and social stability in the face of declining economic power. Scant transparency in Japanese corporate practices plays an important role in this phenomenon. Sometimes... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Economic Systems; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Civil Society or Community; Japan; Tokyo
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    Ramanna, Karthik, and Matthew Shaffer. "A Politician in a Leather Suit and the Paradox of Japanese Capitalism." Harvard Business School Case 113-026, November 2012. (Revised August 2013.)

      Ray Kluender

      Ray Kluender is an associate professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Berol Corporation Fellow at Harvard Business School, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an invited researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel... View Details

      • 12 Oct 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: October 12, 2006

        Working PapersDo Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance? Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations'... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 2010
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      Law and Finance c. 1900

      By: Aldo Musacchio
      How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature argues that legal origins have persistent effects that explain clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world... View Details
      Keywords: Law; Finance; Corporate Governance; Practice; Growth and Development
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      Musacchio, Aldo. "Law and Finance c. 1900." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16216, July 2010.
      • Career Coach

      Betsy Edwards

      Betsy (HGSE, '12) is a Corporate Relations Director in HBS Career & Professional Development with over ten years of coaching experience.  Her focus is on supporting students and alumni seeking an impact-oriented career primarily in... View Details
      Keywords: Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government
      • July–August 2013
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      Building Sustainable Cities

      By: John D. Macomber
      By 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details
      Keywords: Growth Management; Urban Development; Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; City
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      Macomber, John D. "Building Sustainable Cities." Harvard Business Review 91, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2013): 40–50.
      • 01 Oct 2024
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      How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

      Political polarization has seeped so deeply into US society that it shapes who Americans befriend, date, and marry, where they live, raise their families, and retire—and how they run their businesses. A recent paper illustrates how the partisan divide permeates View Details
      Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

        Forest L. Reinhardt

        Forest L. Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and HBS’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure.

        Professor Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket... View Details

        Keywords: federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government

          John F. Batter

          John Batter is a retired Litigation Partner in the Boston Office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where his practice focussed on on the defense of public and private companies and their directors and management against breach of fiduciary duty claims and... View Details

          • 2016
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          What Factors Drive Director Perceptions of Their Board's Effectiveness?

          By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Richard Ellis Crum
          We use a survey of directors to collect data on their ratings of board effectiveness as well as board internal dynamics and key processes. Controlling for many of the governance metrics examined by prior research, we find that directors’ ratings of their boards’... View Details
          Keywords: Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Performance Effectiveness; Perception; Risk Management
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          Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Richard Ellis Crum. "What Factors Drive Director Perceptions of Their Board's Effectiveness?" Working Paper, February 2016.
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          Cross-Sector Partnering

          By: James E. Austin
          This on-going research project is examining the motivations, dynamics, and effectiveness determinants of partnering between nonprofit organizations, businesses, and government entities. The first major output of the research focusing on nonprofits and businesses was... View Details
          • December 2012
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          Estimating the Value of Connections to Vice-President Cheney

          By: Rakesh Khurana, Raymond Fisman, Julia Galef and Yongxiang Wang
          We estimate the market valuation of personal ties to Richard Cheney. Our proxies for personal ties are based on corporate board linkages that are prevalent in the network sociology literature. We consider a number of distinct political and personal events that either... View Details
          Keywords: Event Analysis; Political Economy; Corruption; Networks; United States
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          Khurana, Rakesh, Raymond Fisman, Julia Galef, and Yongxiang Wang. "Estimating the Value of Connections to Vice-President Cheney." B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 13, no. 3 (December 2012).
          • January – February 2011
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          Creating Shared Value

          By: Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer
          The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business has been criticized as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies are widely thought to be prospering at the expense of their communities. Trust in business has fallen to new... View Details
          Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Trust; Human Needs; Welfare; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation
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          Porter, Michael E., and Mark R. Kramer. "Creating Shared Value." Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2011): 62–77.
          • August 2006 (Revised October 2009)
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          Acquisitive Reorganizations - Triangular Mergers

          By: Henry B. Reiling and Kevin Wall
          Discusses the reasons and uses of triangular or three-party mergers to complete a business acquisition or tax-free corporate reorganization. View Details
          Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Taxation; Organizational Structure
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          Reiling, Henry B., and Kevin Wall. "Acquisitive Reorganizations - Triangular Mergers." Harvard Business School Background Note 207-009, August 2006. (Revised October 2009.)
          • 31 Jul 2013
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          Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

          Keywords: by Eric D. Werker
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