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  • 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
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 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
Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education
  • 04 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

uncontaminated by the scandal and previously on a slow glide path to oblivion. The RBS brand, like the Merrill Lynch brand, is dead. We may well see RBS branches rebranded NatWest and NatWest become the dominant surviving retail brand... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Financial Services
  • 07 Mar 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?

code of ethics developed by and reviewed by a universally-recognized professional institution. The authors imply that the absence of the institutions of a profession that one finds in medicine, law, and the clergy may have contributed to the spate of large-scale View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 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
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

paper-based advertising. Yet by 2017, Recruit was a global conglomerate with $16 billion in sales. This case examines Recruit’s unique corporate culture that helped it survive a scandal so large it became a staple in Japanese textbooks,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 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 tougher following some of the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising
  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

were going to succeed and prosper needed to manage risks better, have a stronger sense of purpose to motivate their employees, and satisfy a public already agitated about scandals such as Enron in the corporate world. What I didn't see... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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