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- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
follow from that." The Root Of All Scandals In 2008, greedy bankers became high-profile value claimers and nearly took the entire world into a depression, Hall says. They were slapped with tighter financial regulations as a result.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
The scandal spawned widespread questions about the value of competitive rankings—and even about the value of competition in general. Was the officer's behavior understandable? Did intense competition naturally lead to unethical behavior?... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sports: Lessons for Managers
upswing in applications. Other universities have benefitted similarly. The reality behind the "Flutie Effect." Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal A case study looks at the behavior of teammates who were swept up... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51553 September 2016 Harvard Business Review The Scandal Effect By: Groysberg, Boris, Eric Lin, George Serafeim, and Robin Abrahams Abstract—Executives with scandal-tainted companies on their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
WorldCom, Adelphia, and other former high flyers. These scandals demonstrate not only a lapse of ethics but also a disdain for the rule of law. Enron's lawyers and auditors appeared more concerned with exploiting loopholes than ensuring... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
Citing corporate scandals of the past ten years, Andrew MacLennan said that " in the last 10 years there has been a growing recognition of the need to balance great ideas with concern for execution " Debra Farquharson commented... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Business School Case 413-040 As 2012 approached, the woes of the financial crisis seemed to be fading, companies were resuming business as usual, and some of the scrutiny on corporate governance practices began to recede as well. That is until another major financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
Widely deemed the most important piece of security legislation since formation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was born into a climate still reeling from the burst of the high-tech bubble and fraud View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
the wake of the scandals of the past few years is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Of the seventy-one sections of the Act, one probably has caused more expenditure of time and money on the part of leaders of publicly traded firms than all... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Oct 2006
- Op-Ed
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance
option practices remains unknown, this most recent scandal has deepened the sense in many quarters that option contracts given to managers distort behavior in destructive ways. The ability to play with, and respond to, the many variables... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
The Swedish Academy #MeToo Scandal and the Reputation of the Nobel Prize This case focuses on the potential for “reputational contagion” to the Nobel Prize from a scandal affecting one of its independent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
exactly that." The Big Five also spent millions of dollars urging members of Congress to threaten the SEC leadership with budget cuts if it imposed limits on auditor services. The lobbying worked. The SEC backed off, and the all-too-predictable accounting View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
The News Corporation/News of the World scandal has been described as a case study in bad management. What was there about the company's organizational culture that led to "Murdoch's Mess"? Professor Michel Anteby, who studies... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
expansion may face longer odds in getting approval. This is the result of scandals in executive compensation, many of which are associated with the fruits of large stock option awards. It is reasonable to assume that stock options, which... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
the Jack Welch-style of firing the so-called bottom 10 percent every year." Recruit developed this strategy in the wake of crisis. In the 1980s, Recruit Holdings’ CEO sold shares of a subsidy before it went public. The resulting scandal... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
public would be more receptive to the reforms you suggest and have a better understanding of the benefits associated with them? A: Investors continue to see the benefits from equity investing. However, they are feeling burned from recent corporate View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
and superfluous." And HBS professor Rakesh Khurana contends that many business schools have been complicit in creating recent corporate scandals by turning out graduates fixated on shareholder value at the expense of all other... View Details
- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
kickbacks. A corruption scandal in Lagos could harm KPMG's reputation in New York or Shanghai. Moreover, foreign firms are bound by many laws of their home country and by international laws, notably the antibribery convention of the... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
investor, I feel powerless to control or even understand how my mutual funds operate." Anupam Bordia comments, "the mutual fund scandal will shift public trust towards index funds." There is also a suggestion that the job... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
Psychological Framework of Unethical Behavior at Work By: Moore, C., and F. Gino Abstract—Many of the scandalous organizational practices that have come to light in the last decade-rigging LIBOR, misselling payment protection insurance,... View Details