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  • 05 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 5, 2016

to drive shareholder value by improving operating performance. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-043 ICICI Bank and the Issue of Long Term Bonds No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811077-PDF-ENG Braddock Industries, Inc. William E. FruhanHarvard Business School Case 211-061 This case examines the drivers of economic value creation for shareholders and how these drivers are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

external events in the late 1990s, accelerated dramatically with the accounting scandals of the Enron era plus the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, and then continued to change under the pressure of shareholder activism. There's a lot more... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

warm shareholders to the benefits of the risk management tools you suggest? A: Whenever the firm is undertaking new strategic directions, including implementing strategic risk management that may use derivatives, it is wise to communicate... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 25 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

wholesalers, and distributors. But we should also include clinical physicians and independent research scientists, who transact through knowledge markets. And we must also add shareholders and lenders, who participate through financial... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

compensation incentives for CSR. We test our predictions using novel executive compensation contract data and find that firms with more shareholder friendly corporate governance are more likely to provide compensation to executives linked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

pharmaceutical company GSK must choose how much to integrate a recently acquired biotechnology firm, Sirtris. Moncef Slaoui, GSK's global head of R&D, championed the acquisition of Sirtris to gain access to its potentially revolutionary science. Slaoui must balance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

SesiaHarvard Business School Supplement 110-050 The (B) case describes shareholder and investor reactions to the 2008 compensation awarded Aubrey McClendon, founder and CEO of Chesapeake Energy, which according to Fortune Magazine made... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807144 The New York Times Co. Harvard Business School Case 207-113 The Sulzberger family owns 20 percent of the New York Times Co. (NYT) but controls 70 percent of the board through a dual-class share... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

capital allocation decisions over a 10-year period from 2004 to 2013, during which IBM returned more than $140B to shareholders through a combination of dividends and share repurchases. During this time, CEO Sam Palmisano created,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

A share market skyrocketing. We discuss the cause and the consequence of investor sentiment on the cross-listing decision of firms and the responsibilities of corporate managers to maximize existing shareholder interests through catering... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

value creation for shareholders overall. August 2013 Quarterly Journal of Economics Last-place Aversion: Evidence and Redistributive Implications By: Kuziemko, Ilyana, Ryan Buell, Taly Reich, and Michael Norton Abstract—We present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for shareholders and society alike. That... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • June 2024
  • Supplement

Climate Governance at Linde plc (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain
In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; United States; Germany; Europe; North America; London
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  • July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
  • Case

Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett
Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater... View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Business And Community; Well-being; Wealth and Poverty; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Technology Adoption; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Change Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Partners and Partnerships; Restructuring; Welfare or Wellbeing; Business and Community Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Banking Industry; Latin America
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  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Because P&O operated some port terminals in the United States, DP World obtained clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States before P&O shareholders approved the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

controversial IPO in 2007, raising $458 million. Many, including Nobel Peace Prize–winner Muhammad Yunus, have accused CB of making a profit at the expense of the poor, passing most of the earnings on to shareholders rather than lowering... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

ways. In the light of these wide-ranging effects, much scholarship has been devoted to specifying the responsibilities of managers of for-profit business enterprises. Much of this scholarship is framed in relation to “shareholder primacy”—the view that managers should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 27

insurance against the comfort it might provide to skittish RPGXX shareholders and the increased flexibility it would allow in investing RPGXX's assets. This case provides a brief history and explanation of money market funds, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

campaign urging shareholders to vote against the merger. However, the National Pension Service (NPS)—a major shareholder of Samsung C&T—votes in favor of the deal. The case sheds lights on the political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne