Governance Controls - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

starts a premium vodka business, bringing in his cousin at an early stage, but with no initial discussion of the eventual split of equity or managerial control between the two. The article offers each man's case for his ownership stake in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

codes in the treatment and control regions; these procedures have been developed by scholars in other fields to approximate datasets that would have resulted from random experimentation. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2022 (Revised August 2022)
Case

Conflicts of Interest at Uptown Bank

By: Jonas Heese

In 2013, two employees debated whether to blow the whistle on their employer, Bell Bank, after completing an internal review that revealed undisclosed conflicts of interest. Bell Bank’s Asset Management business disproportionately invested clients’ money in Bell Bank’s... View Details

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01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards

that I don’t have complete control of. The notion that there would be very intelligent people doing very complicated things six and a half days a week, and I would come in on a periodic basis and tell them how to do it better, I don’t... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

The AIDS epidemic is especially dire in Zambia, where some 14.3 percent of adults (ages 15-49) were infected with HIV in 2010, according to government data. And HIV/AIDS is spreading fastest among married heterosexual couples. Ashraf... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

and the distribution of farm sizes remained extremely unequal. We identify two primary causes for the slow progress of reform: first, the high cost of implementing these programs was a major factor in reducing take-up. On the other hand, the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2005
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The World in Your Palm?

have added phones and other functions. But no cameras, Tyneski said. RIM's primarily business users can't take cameras into many business and government sites. The architecture of a device needs to represent the function, Tyneski... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

August 2018
Supplement

Garanti Payment Systems: Digital Transformation Strategy (B)

By: Shelle M. Santana and Esel Çekin

Supplements the (A) case. Işıl Akdemir Evlioğlu, executive vice president of marketing at Garanti Payment Systems (GPS), a subsidiary of Garanti Bank, is grappling with three questions. First, should GPS create its own mobile app for credit card customers or leverage... View Details

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23 Feb 2021
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COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

due to the fact that US OSHA hasn’t developed standards to govern these issues. [US President Joseph] Biden has just tasked OSHA with doing just this, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories

10 May 2017
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Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

substantially between 2006, when AWS was introduced, and 2010, especially for those firms that could most take advantage of cloud services. For the control group of companies in industries such as aerospace and medical devices,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology

03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3

Specifically, we examine the impact of the annual July turnover of residents in American teaching hospitals on levels of resource utilization and quality relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. We find that, despite the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator A ccording to business journalist Udayan Gupta, "[ARD] was an attempt to design a tool that would finance business development, especially in the unchartered waters of high technology–without View Details

18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit

engaged, which led him to exploring government contracts. First came several contracts with the US Postal Service to produce lobby desks, which were followed by several deals to build waterproof plywood shipping containers for gas masks... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Mar 2005
News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

assessing needs and identifying financially viable opportunities in this market, we defined an acquisition and property control strategy, secured public/private funding partnerships, and structured responses to competitive pressures. The... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

PublicationsFamilienunternehmen in Westdeutschland. Corporate Governance und Gesellschafterkultur seit den 1960er Jahren (Family business in West Germany since the 1960s) Authors:Christina Lubinski Publication:Vol. 21, Schriftenreihe... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel government programs are encouraging firms... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2015
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extraordinary government support to help stabilize the funding of global financial institutions. In light of the problems that emerged during the crisis, a number of MMF reforms have been proposed, which we analyze in this paper. We... View Details

03 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

know how companies that use affiliate marketing should set the policies that govern the gray areas where bad practices flourish. They studied three popular models for managing affiliate networks: doing it in-house; outsourcing to a vendor... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing

01 Apr 2002
News

Q&A - Mark Fields

Concluding a successful tenure at Mazda, Mark Fields was appointed on April 19 to head the Premier group, a London-based unit of Ford Motor Company, which controls Mazda. The Premier group, a $23 billion company, includes brands such as... View Details

Keywords: auto; Mazda; Ford; Mark Fields; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

commodity boom that had asymmetric effects among states. These two effects generated variation in revenues per capita at the state level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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First Look: February 26, 2008

Conflicts of Interest at Uptown Bank

M.I.A. Boards

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

First Look: September 3, 2008

The World in Your Palm?

Garanti Payment Systems: Digital Transformation Strategy (B)

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

First Look: June 3

DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Pioneer Spirit

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

First Look: September 28, 2010

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The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

Q&A - Mark Fields

First Look: Jan. 12