Shareholders - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

their most important responsibilities, substituting "executive search" for succession planning and development? What, if anything, can CEOs, directors, and shareholders do about this? What do you think? To Read More: Joseph L.... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

07 Sep 2007
What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

students attending such programs or to the firms hiring their graduates. This raises other interesting questions. To what extent is today's business school contributing to the deprofessionalization of management? Should it foster greater balance between managerial and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Governance in India and Around the Globe

corporate governance in India and, indeed, in Asia. In our research, we ask why it is that Infosys developed a reputation for being committed to shareholder value creation in a country, India, where corporate governance has, historically,... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu; Technology

25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in Japan. When there... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

twenty years now in Latin America. Known as the Latin American Agribusiness Development Corporation (LAAD), its shareholders include sixteen major finance and agribusiness companies, including Cargill, Monsanto, Borden, Gerber Products,... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

defendants. The likelihood of being named is greater for audit committee members and directors who sell stock during the class period. Named directors receive more negative recommendations from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

how companies create value for customers and shareholders. The BSC measures the customer value proposition, and links critical processes and intangible assets to customer and shareholder value creation. Thus, ABC provides a model of cost... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library

Photographic Process,” Journal of the Optical Society of America 37, no. 2, 1947, 61–77. The “special experiment” before SX-70 had been SX-69. back to text “Land 1966 Shareholders Meeting Dub, 1966.” (¼ Inch Open Reel Audio)... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

Failde (MBA 1985) and May Chao (MBA 1985) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Beliefs, Behaviors, and Results: The Chief Executive's Guide to Delivering Superior Shareholder Value by Scott Gillis (MBA 1988), Lee Mergy, and Joe... View Details

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

their businesses to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends rather than invest for the long term, undermining job growth and putting the country’s economic future at risk, often pointing to the high ratio of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

social value, rather than personal or shareholder wealth. Our definition of social entrepreneurship extends beyond more narrow definitions of social entrepreneurship that simply apply business expertise and market-based skills to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

The Center runs roundtable discussions that give faculty an opportunity to meet with the business community.— Anders Sjöman Another trend, just as in the U.S., is shareholder activism and corporate governance rules, which have been made... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Mar 2004
News

Ron Shaich’s Café Society

in shareholder value in the last few years. This value creation is simply a by-product of figuring out what consumers really want and delivering it. Tell us about Panera. It’s real food, served by real people in an engaging environment.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Mar 2011
News

The Path to Economic Revival

in the standard of living. An individual company, though, can move assets anywhere. So companies can reward their shareholders regardless of what happens to the national economy. As a result, the interest of companies and the country have... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

15 Jun 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

business is to make money and maximize shareholder value. She shows that we have failed to reimagine capitalism as not only an engine of prosperity, but also a system in harmony with environmental realities, striving for social justice... View Details

24 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

What's good for General Motors may no longer be good for the country. In its place must arise a new model of the company, one that serves society as well as rewarding shareholders and employees, Kanter argues in her new book, SuperCorp:... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006

restructuring that left the Panigoros with a 34.1 percent equity stake in Medco. Two other large shareholders are now looking to sell their combined stake of 50.9 percent, and have selected Temasek, the Singapore government's investment... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

the investors might get stuck as minority shareholders if it became difficult to sell. In this case, a deal structure with a note convertible to common would allow the investors to convert if the company sold or went public, thus getting... View Details

Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

February 2012
Article

Management Practices across Firms and Countries

By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen

For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Competency and Skills; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Sectors; Performance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Private Equity; Multinational Firms and Management; United States; Germany; Japan; China; India

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09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9

equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of higher quality than earnings of private equity firms due to... View Details