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  • 14 Oct 2019
  • News

A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance

  • October 2019 (Revised February 2025)
  • Case

A Conversation with Ellen J. Kullman, Chairman & CEO of DuPont, 2009-2015

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Ellen J. Kullman, the retired Chairman and CEO of DuPont, describes how she guided the storied science and technology company through a contentious proxy battle with activist investor Trian Partners, which acquired DuPont shares in 2013 and sought to break up the... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Institutional Investing; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Transformation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
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    Paul A. Gompers

    Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the View Details
    Keywords: electronics; health care; high technology; information technology industry; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; venture capital industry
    • Research Summary

    The Impact of ABC on Managerial Decisions

    In this type of research, Ratna Sarkar seeks to determine whether, in fact, new cost systems such as ABC (Activity Based Costing) have a measurable effect on managerial decisions regarding product and customer mix.

    The theory of ABC is now academically established,... View Details

    • April 2025
    • Case

    Campbell's Recipe for Advancing School Nutrition

    By: Hise O. Gibson, F. Christopher Eaglin and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
    In 2021, The Campbell’s Company launched Full Futures, a collective impact initiative aimed at advancing school nutrition environments in underserved communities. The program started in Camden, NJ—home to Campbell’s headquarters—and later expanded to Charlotte, NC, and... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Education; Health; Nutrition; Social Enterprise; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Decision Making; Operations; Food and Beverage Industry; New Jersey; North Carolina; Pennsylvania
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    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Trading Volume Manipulation and Competition Among Centralized Crypto Exchanges

    By: Dan Amiran, Evgeny Lyandres and Daniel Rabetti
    How competition affects manipulation by firms of information about important attributes of their products and how such information manipulation impacts firms’ short-term and long-term performance are open empirical questions. We use a setting that is especially... View Details
    Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Financial Markets; Performance; Competition
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    'De Gustibus' and Disputes about Reference Dependence

    By: Thomas Graeber, Pol Campos-Mercade, Lorenz Goette, Alexandre Kellogg and Charles Sprenger
    Existing tests of reference-dependent preferences assume universal loss aversion. This paper examines the implications of heterogeneity in gain-loss attitudes for such tests. In experiments on labor supply and exchange behavior we measure gain-loss attitudes and then... View Details
    Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction
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    • September 2022
    • Article

    Trends in Remote Patient Monitoring Use in Traditional Medicare

    By: Mitchell Tang, Carter Nakamoto, Ariel Dora Stern and Ateev Mehrotra
    Remote patient monitoring (RPM), the collection by patients of physiological measurements that are automatically sent to their health care practitioners, has been touted as a promising tool for improving chronic disease management. Interest in RPM has grown because of... View Details
    Keywords: Medicare; Remote Monitoring; Reimbursement; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    • Article

    Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office

    By: Robert S. Kaplan, Catherine H. MacLean, Alexander Dresner, Derek A. Haas and Thomas W. Feeley
    Many health care organizations are striving to implement a value agenda that delivers better patient outcomes at lower cost, medical condition by medical condition. To accelerate the dissemination and adoption of the value agenda, across many more medical conditions,... View Details
    Keywords: Service Delivery; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    • May 14, 2014
    • Editorial

    In Terms of Social Progress, America Is Not #1—It's #16

    By: Michael E. Porter
    As Americans, we like to think of ourselves as a world leader. After all, the United States has the largest economy in the world and is near the very top in GDP per capita. We are used to thinking that we lead on social issues like education, access to information, and... View Details
    Keywords: Society
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    • May 2011 (Revised March 2013)
    • Supplement

    Marshall & Gordon: Designing an Effective Compensation System (B)

    By: Heidi K. Gardner and Kerry Herman
    CEO Kelly Browne wrestles with the design and roll-out of a new compensation system to promote the collaboration necessary for supporting her firm's new strategy. Marshall Gordon International, a global public relations (PR) firm, has recently expanded its service... View Details
    Keywords: Globalization; Executive Compensation; Management; Organizational Culture; Performance; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Corporate Strategy; System
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    • June 2007
    • Article

    What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland

    By: Josh Lerner and Feng Zhu
    Economists have debated the extent to which strengthening patent protection spurs or detracts from technological innovation. This paper examines the reduction of software copyright protection in the Lotus v. Borland decision. If patent and copyright protections are... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Patents; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry
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    • 13 Oct 2015
    • News

    The Online Ad Scams Every Marketer Should Watch Out For

    • 02 Oct 2014
    • News

    Philosopher kings

    • 28 Nov 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Paul Niehaus, University of California San Diego, Department of Economics

      Does Context Outweigh Individual Characteristics in Driving Voting Behavior? Evidence from Relocations within the U.S.

      We measure the overall influence of contextual versus individual factors (e.g., voting rules and media as opposed to race and education) on voter behavior, and explore underlying mechanisms. Using a US-wide voter-level panel, 2008–2018, we examine voters who... View Details
      • 03 Oct 2023
      • HBS Case

      Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

      consider cutting operational costs without cutting staff, through measures such as reducing inventories, payables, and supply chain costs. Labor expenses can be contained with hiring freezes, wage freezes, furloughs, and early retirement... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing
      • 15 Sep 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

      actually accomplish. Why aren't nonprofits more accountable and transparent with all this money? That's a very big issue in this sector because there is no common measure or framework to assess whether these organizations are... View Details
      Keywords: by Roger Thompson
      • January 2023
      • Article

      The Dark Side of Machiavellian Rhetoric: Signaling in Reward-Based Crowdfunding Performance

      By: Goran Calic, Rene Arseneault and Maryam Ghasemaghaei
      In this study, we explore the impact of Machiavellian rhetoric on fundraising within the increasingly important context of online crowdfunding. The “all-or-nothing” funding model used by the world’s largest crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, may be an attractive... View Details
      Keywords: Crowdfunding; Communication Strategy; Entrepreneurial Finance; Behavior
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      • 2015
      • Case

      Fine Harvest Restaurant Group (cases A and B)

      By: Clara (Xiaoling) Chen, Kenneth A. Merchant, Tatiana Sandino and Wim A. Van der Stede
      The Fine Harvest Restaurant Group cases A and B examine a company's design of a new system to evaluate the performance (and determine the bonuses) for its restaurant managers. Fine Harvest had traditionally evaluated restaurant managers based on store margins and had... View Details
      Keywords: Incentive Systems; Relative Performance Evaluation; Restaurant Industry; Accounting; Economics; Human Resources; Measurement and Metrics; Labor; Performance; Salesforce Management; Retail Industry; North and Central America
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