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- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
the Jack Welch-style of firing the so-called bottom 10 percent every year." Recruit developed this strategy in the wake of crisis. In the 1980s, Recruit Holdings’ CEO sold shares of a subsidy before it went public. The resulting scandal... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
public would be more receptive to the reforms you suggest and have a better understanding of the benefits associated with them? A: Investors continue to see the benefits from equity investing. However, they are feeling burned from recent corporate View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
Psychological Framework of Unethical Behavior at Work By: Moore, C., and F. Gino Abstract—Many of the scandalous organizational practices that have come to light in the last decade-rigging LIBOR, misselling payment protection insurance,... View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
and superfluous." And HBS professor Rakesh Khurana contends that many business schools have been complicit in creating recent corporate scandals by turning out graduates fixated on shareholder value at the expense of all other... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
of the financial scandals that propelled the recent economic collapse, Heese looked at enforcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission, asking why regulators were so amiss at monitoring firms' compliance with accounting standards.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
A pall hangs over Sochi. Not since the bribery scandal overshadowed the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City has an Olympic Winter Games been so fraught with controversy. Fears of a terrorist attack by Islamic extremists; outrage over Russia's... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
accountable? Nonprofit leaders tend to pay attention to accountability once a problem of trust arises-a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their money is being well... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
frustrated since Richard Nixon left office in the throes of the Watergate scandal in 1974. Our so-called political leaders have just completed a grand game of chicken, and the United States is the loser. I won't dwell on the inanity of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making By: Bazerman, Max, and Ovul Sezer Abstract—In many of the business scandals of the new millennium, the... View Details
- 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
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
http://hbr.org/product/rough-justice-stuart-eizenstat-and-holocaust-era-asset-restitution-b/an/914026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-001 Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance The widespread cheating scandal that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
price of diesel fuel. Purchase the case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508074 Adelphia Communications Corp.'s Bankruptcy Harvard Business School Case 208-071 In 2002, a massive accounting fraud and corporate looting View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Tenbrunsel, and Max Bazerman Abstract—The business scandals in the past several decades led to the rising importance of ethics as a topic central to management scholarship. Behavioral scientists in particular were attracted to the topic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
Street (OWS), a prominent short selling research firm. Diamond Foods, a high flying growth company in 2011, grew from a walnut farmers' cooperative in 2005 into a branded snack foods manufacturer on the strength of a series of acquisitions. The accounting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
View Video Video by Amelia Kundhardt They keep on coming—corporate scandals involving revelations of deplorable working conditions at overseas factories. If it’s not the Foxconn factories that Apple employs in China, then it’s Gap’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
begun investigating the impact of accounting method choices in cross-border investments. Ann Cullen: After the scandals of the past few years, the potential for brokerage research deception is obviously something the Securities and... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
cascading series of scandals surrounding that same workplace culture led a group of powerful investors to seek Kalanick's resignation to protect their investment. This case presents an overview of the growth of Uber, the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
largely unregulated hedge fund, came perilously close to collapse in 1998, threatening the global financial system. The tech bubble burst in 2001. Accounting scandals destroyed Enron in 2001 and WorldCom in 2002. And the current global... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
under in the biggest corporate scandal in South African history. In one day, Sekunjalo's stock dropped 44%. Surve, already a very public figure in South Africa, had to decide what to do, especially what to tell his loyal employees who had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
concentrate on the entire organizational system—in short, the shape of the barrel—we may not find remedies. We may have a flurry of new regulations here and there, but we won't have genuine solutions for these problems that are not only causing View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons