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  • 22 May 2011
  • News

Change the World, and Win Fabulous Prizes

  • Jan 29 2024
  • Testimonial

Driving Positive Change on Corporate Boards

  • Research Summary

Overview

Research about the design and use of internal performance measurement and control systems to implement strategies, align incentives, manage risks, and shape culture using accounting measurement and priorities. In addition, my research includes understanding how and... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Strategic Change; Accounting Red Flags; Accountability
  • 11 Mar 2011
  • News

Supporting Change Is Worth the Risk

  • 04 Jan 2017
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?

call these people ‘zombie managers.’ They keep on pushing papers round and round, and then the actual decision goes to a guy who does not understand the subject at all” Several respondents, some of whom have served in government agencies,... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Uniting business, industry, and governments to save the planet

governments like South Africa and Bhutan and even China, investing in sustainability," says Roberts, who hopes to do more to get the US government out of gridlock and into the fight to save the world from... View Details
  • January 2005 (Revised August 2005)
  • Case

Changing Times at the NBA

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Tonika Cheek-Clayton and Daniel Reed
David Stern, commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA), faces myriad challenges: globalization of product, young players entering the league, loss of fan base, etc. Stern must put together a plan for the Board of Governors that confronts these... View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Sports; Competitive Strategy
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  • 16 Jul 2020
  • News

Accounting for Real Change

of this moment echoes back to the Wall Street crash of 1929, he writes, when investors realized that they didn’t comprehend the nature of a company’s true profits. By 1933, the US government started mandating that companies adhere to... View Details
  • Web

Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog

executives, and shareholders; the changing rights and powers of shareholders; different theories of corporate governance and their practical implications; the legal, financial, managerial, and behavioral... View Details

    Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets

    Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of global GDP and more than 50% of global foreign direct investment in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk,"... View Details

    • spring 2006
    • Article

    All's Fair in Love, War, & Bankruptcy: Corporate Governance Implications of CEO Turnover in Financial Distress

    By: Ethan S. Bernstein
    Prior discussions of management turnover during financial distress have examined bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms as distinct groupings with little overlap. Separately investigating rates of turnover in-bankruptcy and out-of-bankruptcy, without a direct comparison... View Details
    Keywords: CEO Turnover; Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Shadow Of Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financing and Loans; Corporate Governance; Finance; Theory; Markets; United States
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    • spring 2006
    • Article

    All's Fair in Love, War & Bankruptcy?: Corporate Governance Implications of CEO Turnover in Financial Distress

    By: Ethan S Bernstein
    Prior discussions of management turnover during financial distress have examined bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms as distinct groupings with little overlap. Separately investigating rates of turnover in-bankruptcy and out-of-bankruptcy, without a direct comparison... View Details
    Keywords: Management Succession; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance
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    • 01 May 2020
    • In Practice

    COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

    The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change.  We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • Web

    Business, Government & the International Economy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    Business, Government & the International Economy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) Business, Government and the... View Details
    • 09 Nov 2022
    • In Practice

    COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

    The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
    Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
    • February 2016
    • Article

    Bridging Science and Technology Through Academic-Industry Partnerships

    By: Sen Chai and Willy C. Shih
    Partnerships that foster the translation of scientific advances emerging from academic research organizations into commercialized products at private firms are a policy tool that has attracted increased interest. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Development; Technological Change; Government Policy; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Information Technology; Policy; Technology Industry; Denmark
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    • 12 Mar 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds

    Keywords: by John Y. Campbell, Adi Sunderam & Luis M. Viceira
    • 25 Aug 2018
    • News

    Growth of online retail is changing inflation

    • 30 Apr 2020
    • Book

    Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

    Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy
    • 23 Feb 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

    exchange for the right to drill in developing countries. But should companies be responsible for government services? What happens when MNC investment moves on? Something has gone wrong with the spirit of corporate social responsibility... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna