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- 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
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
investment banking, also invokes the 1960s as a point of reference, specifically with regard to that era's conglomerate-building mania. "We saw huge companies of ill-fitting parts all held together by financial glue and the belief that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
for the company. It was about keeping the business unit alive and not jeopardizing thousands of jobs overnight." A financial analysis of the return on such contracts called those beliefs into question. "After completing a thorough audit... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
discuss what he considers to be the biggest practical issues facing boards today: how to get and give honest assessments without eroding collegiality and trust; how to evaluate the CEO using factors that go beyond financial results; how... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
Financial Economics, suggests that reputational bonding better explains the success and failure of cross-listings than legal bonding. This is largely due to the fact that the Securities and Exchange Commission, for a number of reasons,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 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 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Renata Lemos, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs and on whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide open, with some disastrous results. I think all the attention being paid to the current problems—particularly... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
Drug Administration is proposing the first federal oversight of the product. The very fact users could control the amount of nicotine they ingested led to worry that e-cigarettes would cause smokers to take in more nicotine, rather than... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
by a (chronic or situational) productivity orientation. Consequences and Institutional Determinants of Unregulated Corporate Financial Statements: Evidence from Embedded Value Reporting Author:George Serafeim Publication:Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
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group of senior faculty members on faculty issues and with the senior associate deans who have oversight over major areas of the School. The executive directors and heads of all administrative departments report into the Associate Dean... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
accelerate progress: Put patients at the center of care, create choice, stop rewarding volume, standardize value-based methods of payment, and make data on outcomes transparent. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51981 forthcoming Review... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
exiting shareholders receive fair value in MBOs. This article identifies four factors that create an unlevel playing field in that market check: information asymmetries, valuable management, management financial incentives to discourage... View Details
Keywords: 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
That Excel: Candid Insights and Practical Advice or Directors by Joe White (MBA 1971) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) This book argues that boards enable organizations to excel only when directors go beyond their standard duties of oversight... View Details