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- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
a bit more tumultuous than usual, but what nonprofits need to do is what they always need to do: learn and adapt. Q: The issue of financial oversight for nonprofits seems to be facing increasing regulatory... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Silvers Illustration by Jeff Smith Damon Silvers (MBA ’95) tried to put his whirlwind day on hold just long enough to answer my queries about labor’s wish list for the new Congress and his role as a member of the Congressional Oversight... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
accountants should audit the public option’s financial statements to certify that its administrators stated expenses accurately, just as they do for private insurers. Unlike Medicare, this version of the public option would break even,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
Komatsu and Dresser created a fifty-fifty joint venture (Komatsu Dresser Corporation, or KDC), merging manufacturing, engineering, and finance operations. The joint venture maintained equal management representation on the six-person View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
opportunities for executives to reap enormous personal gains from gaming accounting and SEC rules. If Enron-type breakdowns are to be avoided in the future, corporate boards need to keep in mind seven propositions that collectively address the potentially perverse... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
versus customer B. My experience on boards of directors and in work with leadership teams is that “vision” discussions are fun, and quarterly financial results are tracked closely. But despite much talk about big data, the customer... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
with practitioners. BEI-affiliated faculty explore topics ranging from regenerative agriculture, resilient infrastructure, and sustainable electricity, to transportation modes, waste reduction, and the risks and opportunities in the global View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
is organizational behavior/leadership. Part of the problem is the current corporate climate, in which questions of governance and financial purity dominate CEOs' and boards' attention. Additionally, boards, and even CEOs, have been lulled... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
oversight and better corporate governance. The next step in improving CEO succession—and ultimately in improving financial performance and long-term returns to shareholders—seems more likely to come from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
wagon, so what?" Fumbling the Future was published in 1988, and the impact of this book reverberated throughout Xerox, stimulating many responses. As the story was recounted in the business and financial press, PARC's technological... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
be actually brought home to the investor." Most of our social contracts are built on the assumption that individual accountability influences human behavior. Indeed, the recent move by the SEC to require CEOs to personally attest to their companies' View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
don’t feel particularly comfortable with that characterization, except as follows. On the quiet side, I’ve always felt that one’s actions should speak louder than one’s words. As for the crusader part, yes, when I came into this job I was upset by the fraudulent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
five-year stint managing the multibillion dollar United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, Cohen was tapped by National Trust for Historic Preservation head Michael Ainslie (MBA ’68) to be the nonprofit’s senior View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Invention of Data Privacy in the United States and France Author:J. Gunnar Trumbull Publication:In The Voice of the Citizen Consumer, edited by K. Bruckweh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Lessons from the Crisis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
be smaller for them, they will also need to be even more conservative with cash. Underrepresented founders often will be held to a higher standard in terms of financial progress and are likely to be faced with more board View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
lost market share. However, in recent years, concerns about investor protection has increased financial sector regulatory oversight specifically in the asset management and life insurance space and changed... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
book deals with two of the biggest problems in business: Why do sane, smart leaders often refuse to accept the facts that threaten their companies? And how do they find the courage to resist denial when facing new trends, changing markets, and tough new competitors?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
investors, falsified information, and pretended to create value when value hadn't really been created. If inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
they are based in politically important states. Large employers also face fewer enforcement actions if they are based in high-unemployment states during elections of senators who serve on SEC oversight committees. Large employers based in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman