Business and Shareholder Relations - Publications - Faculty & Research

1997
Other Unpublished Work

Maximizing Corporate Shareholder Value Using Risk Profile Dynamics

By: Marc L Bertoneche and Samir Asaf

Keywords: Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management

01 Jun 2001
News

Donella Rapier to Head External Relations

Donella Rapier (MBA ’92) has recently been appointed associate dean for External Relations at HBS, following the resignation of James C. Schroeder, who accepted a position as chief development officer at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

2007
Working Paper

The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock Options Expensing

By: Fabrizio Ferri and Tatiana Sandino

In this paper we examine the economic consequences of over 150 shareholder proposals to expense employee stock options (ESO) submitted during the proxy seasons of 2003 and 2004–the first case where the SEC has allowed an accounting matter to be subject to an advisory... View Details

Keywords: Executive Compensation; Financial Reporting; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations

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March 2014 (Revised January 2017)
Case

From Beijing Jeep to ASC Fine Wines: The Story of an American Family Business in China

By: William C. Kirby and Erica M. Zendell

In 1985, Don St. Pierre Sr. became President of Beijing Jeep, the troubled joint venture between American Motor Corporation and the Chinese government to build Jeep Cherokees in China. Just over a decade later in 1996, leveraging contacts from his time in the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; China; Joint Ventures; Wine Industry; International Entrepreneurship; International Business; Exports; Chinese Manufacturing; Business And Government Relations; Ownership Stake; Strategy; Operations; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China

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01 Sep 2006
News

Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value, Alfred Rappaport

Keywords: Alfred Rappaport

1988
Chapter

Do Target Shareholders Lose in Unsuccessul Control Contests?

By: R. S. Ruback

Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Governance

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1986
Chapter

Government Relations in the Global Firm

By: L. T. Wells Jr. and Amir Mahini

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations

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Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970

By: G. Jones and Rachael Comunale

This article contributes to the literature on political risk in business and economic history by examining both new perspectives (risk encountered by companies domestically, rather than risk for foreign investors) and new settings (emerging markets economies in Latin... View Details

Keywords: Political Risk; Emerging Market; Bribery; Business ＆ Government Relations; Turbulence; Violence; Risk and Uncertainty; Emerging Markets; Crime and Corruption; Business and Government Relations; Business History; India; Latin America

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Levitz Furniture: A Case History in the Creation and Destruction of Shareholder Value

By: W. E. Fruhan Jr.

Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Consumer Products Industry

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2019
Working Paper

Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Rights and Private Litigation in Public Regulation, 1880s to 1930s

By: Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Laura Phillips Sawyer

Scholars have long recognized that the states’ authority to charter corporations bolstered their antitrust powers in ways that were not available to the federal government. But they have also argued that the growth of large-scale enterprises operating in national and... View Details

Keywords: Voting Trusts; Antitrust; Business and Shareholder Relations; Lawsuits and Litigation; History; United States

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February 2016 (Revised June 2016)
Case

The Maggi Noodle Safety Crisis in India (A)

By: Karthik Ramanna and Radhika Kak

The local government in Delhi has ordered a ban on Nestlé's flagship product in India—Maggi Noodles—citing excessive lead content per government lab tests. Nestlé disputes the government tests, noting that internal and third-party tests show the product to be safe.... View Details

Keywords: Multinationals; Regulation; Customer Relations; Business And Government; Crisis Management; Leadership; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalization; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Safety; Customer Relationship Management; Business and Government Relations; India; Europe; Switzerland

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01 Jun 2012
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A Chapter in US–China Trade Relations

foreigners were allowed to live and to do business with the Chinese. (Peabody Essex Museum) The old Shanghai customshouse, ca. 1869. It was demolished in 1925 to make way for the current customshouse.... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions

December 1982
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Government Relations at TRW, Inc. (B)

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Business and Government Relations

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April 2012 (Revised March 2013)
Module Note

State Capitalism and State-Owned Enterprise Reform

By: Aldo Musacchio

The note examines state capitalism in the twenty-first century. It introduces a series of topics and cases related to state capitalism, such as the debate about the causes of inefficiency in state owned enterprises, possible ways of turning them around, as well as a... View Details

Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Business Government Relations; Political Economy; Turnarounds; Economic Systems; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations

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December 1982
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Government Relations at TRW, Inc. (A)

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics

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01 Sep 2004
News

Salter New Head of External Relations

J. Hill Professor of Business Administration. Salter (MBA ’64, DBA ’68), who assumed his new position July 1, joined the faculty in 1967 and has taught and helped develop a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Dec 2000
News

Stevenson Named Director of External Relations

In his recent appointment as senior associate dean and director of External Relations, Professor Howard H. Stevenson assumes the responsibility of serving as a liaison between HBS and its alumni. "I am... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

2016
Working Paper

Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation

By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Alejandro Lagomarsino

We analyze the role of people’s beliefs about the rich in the determination of public policy in the context of a randomized online survey experiment. A question we study is the desirability of government-private sector meetings, a variable we argue is connected to... View Details

Keywords: Business Legitimacy; State Capacity; Meetings; Taxes; Top 1%; Regulation; Prejudice and Bias; Values and Beliefs; Taxation; Business and Government Relations

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September 2020
Article

The Rise of the Investor State: State Capital in the Chinese Economy

By: Meg Rithmire and Hao Chen

The nature and extent of the role of the Chinese state in the economy is fundamental to many empirical and theoretical debates about that country’s political economy. We document and explain the rise of a novel form of intervention on the part of the Chinese state: the... View Details