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    Carliss Y. Baldwin

    Carliss Y. Baldwin is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She studies the process of design and its impact of design architecture on firm strategy, platforms, and business ecosystems. With Kim Clark, she authored... View Details

    Keywords: computer; electronics; software
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    What Factors Drive Director Perceptions of Their Board's Effectiveness?

    By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Richard Ellis Crum
    We use a survey of directors to collect data on their ratings of board effectiveness as well as board internal dynamics and key processes. Controlling for many of the governance metrics examined by prior research, we find that directors’ ratings of their boards’... View Details
    Keywords: Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Performance Effectiveness; Perception; Risk Management
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    • 07 Apr 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

    its citizens, including its corporations, on their domestic or worldwide income. The United States taxes its citizens and corporations on worldwide income. As a result, when engine maker Cummins, for example, makes profits in Germany, its... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Mar 2019
    • News

    The Dual-Purpose Playbook

    • 03 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

    and the normative orientation of medical professionals. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54600 Summer 2018 California Management Review CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics By: Lyon,... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 06 Mar 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

    provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Sep 2016
    • News

    US 'tangled up' in tax structure

    • March 1998 (Revised April 1998)
    • Case

    Lehigh Steel

    By: V.G. Narayanan and Laura Donohue
    Lehigh Steel is a specialty steel manufacturer that plummeted from record profits to record losses in less than three years, driven by an inability to distinguish between profitable and unprofitable business. The scale and growth of service activities and overhead... View Details
    Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Product; Cost; Activity Based Costing and Management; Profit; Accounting; Corporate Finance; Steel Industry
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    • February 2022
    • Case

    Paul Polman

    By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Youngme Moon and Susie Ma
    Over his 40-year career, Paul Polman had led some of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, making his biggest mark as CEO of Unilever—a multi-national corporation that produced everything from soap to soup. Polman was also well-regarded as a leader in corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Personal Development and Career; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Social Issues; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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    • 30 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Entering the Age of Alliances

    The twenty-first century will be the age of alliances. In this age, collaboration between nonprofit organizations and corporations will grow in frequency and strategic importance. Collaborative relationships will increasingly migrate from... View Details
    Keywords: by James Austin
    • May 2000 (Revised June 2000)
    • Case

    German Financial System in 2000, The

    Describes the evolution and current situation of Germany's financial system. Based on a discussion of the German economy in the postwar period, the case highlights the impact of financial globalization and EU policies on Germany's domestic system of banking and... View Details
    Keywords: Globalization; Corporate Governance; Banks and Banking; Germany
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      David B. Yoffie

      Professor David B. Yoffie is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, Professor Yoffie received his... View Details

      Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; financial services; information; information technology industry; internet; retail financial services; semiconductor; soft drink; telecommunications; video games
      • 07 Oct 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Profits of Power: Commercial Realpolitik in Eurasia

      Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal; Energy; Utilities
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      Fabrizio Ferri's research focuses on a number of corporate governance issues, with particular emphasis on executive compensation and shareholder activism. His dissertation investigates the determinants and consequences of firms' decision to reprice... View Details

      • 01 May 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

      sensitive and important issue in practice, as evidenced by corporate pushback to recent proposals for additional mandatory disclosures. For example, the SEC has proposed mandatory disclosure of certain compensation information; however,... View Details
      Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
      • 17 Feb 2017
      • News

      The cost of silence: Why more CEOs are speaking out in the Trump era

      • 28 Jun 2016
      • First Look

      June 28, 2016

      businesses. The strategy literature uses real option theory to explain the transition to scale, but does not consider the complex relationships between corporate ventures and their parent organizations. By... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

        Building Sustainable Cities

        By 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details

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        Business Economics - Doctoral

        Business Economics From corporate finance, industrial organization, and international business, to markets, competition, and government regulation, HBS doctoral students in Business Economics delve into some... View Details
        • Program

        Women on Boards

        contributing to corporate governance at the highest level. Details Build your readiness for a board position Explore how different types of corporate boards function Examine... View Details