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Summit TV, South Africa
Bob Eccles and George Serafeim Harvard Business School on their investigation into the King Code of Governance and how it has impacted the way corporates do business in South Africa.
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- February 1990
- Article
Inflation and Taxation with Optimizing Governments
By: J. J. Rotemberg and James Poterba
Rotemberg, J. J., and James Poterba. "Inflation and Taxation with Optimizing Governments." Journal of Money, Credit & Banking 22 (February 1990): 1–19.
- 03 Mar 2015
- News
Corporate Governance 2.0
- 2014
- Chapter
Business History and the Impact of MNEs on Host Economies
By: Geoffrey Jones
Business history has long been recognized as providing an important dimension in international business studies. Much of this historical work has focused on mapping historical growth patterns of multinationals and exploring the determinants of their growth. However,...
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Keywords:
Multinational;
International Business;
Business History;
Culture;
Globalization;
History;
Africa;
Asia;
Europe;
Latin America;
North and Central America
Jones, Geoffrey. "Business History and the Impact of MNEs on Host Economies." In Multidisciplinary Insights from New AIB Fellows. Vol. 16, edited by Jean J. Boddewyn, 177–198. Research in Global Strategic Management. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2014.
- 2014
- Article
Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis in Italy
By: Dante Roscini
The financial crisis hit Italy harder than many other Eurozone countries. In part this was due to the fact that the crisis came upon a system that was weakened by years of sub-par economic growth. One of the several endogenous factors that explain the stagnation of the...
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Roscini, Dante. "Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis in Italy." Journal of Modern Italian Studies 19, no. 4 (2014): 389–395.
Case: Governing PG&E
The five commissioners of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) listened intently at a public forum in April 2019 as PG&E Corporation's out-going chairman Richard Kelly described the company's proposed new board. PG&E, which provided...
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- 12 Feb 2015
- Video
The Men Behind the Mayors: How Business Can Impact Government
- October 2011
- Article
Concentrating on Governance
By: Dalida Kadyrzhanova and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model that integrates agency costs and bargaining benefits of management friendly provisions, we identify the economic determinants of the resulting trade-offs for shareholder value....
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Kadyrzhanova, Dalida, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Concentrating on Governance." Journal of Finance 66, no. 5 (October 2011): 1649–1685.
- 10 Oct 2013
- News
How a Prolonged Government Shutdown Will Impact the Business World
- 31 Oct 2013
- News
Have corporate and government leaders lost accountability?
- August 2013
- Teaching Note
Strategy and Governance at Yahoo! Inc.
By: Krishna Palepu and Suraj Srinivasan
- August 2017 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Ardian: Portfolio Company Governance
By: Lynn S. Paine, Emer Moloney and Tonia Labruyere
Leaders of the mid-cap buyout group at Ardian, the Paris-based private equity firm led by Dominique Senequier, have been asked to review and assess the governance model the firm uses for majority-owned companies in its portfolio. The case describes the governance model...
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Paine, Lynn S., Emer Moloney, and Tonia Labruyere. "Ardian: Portfolio Company Governance." Harvard Business School Case 318-017, August 2017. (Revised April 2024.)
- 03 Jan 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation
- December 2014
- Background Note
Note on Agriculture in Argentina
By: David E. Bell and Mary Shelman
This note describes the history of Argentinian agriculture and how it has been affected by government policies and new technologies.
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Keywords:
Argentina;
Farming;
Agriculture;
Business And Government;
Government Agricultural Policy;
Agribusiness;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Argentina
Bell, David E., and Mary Shelman. "Note on Agriculture in Argentina." Harvard Business School Background Note 515-069, December 2014.
- 2009
- Chapter
Government as Risk Manager
By: Tom Baker and David Moss
We explain the four basic ways to manage risk: prevention, risk shifting, risk spreading, and loss control. We set out five principles of effective government risk management gleaned from extensive historical study: (1) link responsibility and control, (2) manage moral...
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Baker, Tom, and David Moss. "Government as Risk Manager." Chap. 4 in New Perspectives on Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino, 87–109. Cambridge, MA: Tobin Project, 2009.
- September 8, 2009
- Article
The New Governance Paradigm
By: Nathaniel Foote and Michael Beer
Boards members of failed banks in 2008 or of the many companies like Enron who were caught up in scandals are by and large honorable, well intentioned, and competent people. So what went wrong and what can be done about it. This article argues that the problem lies in...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Competency and Skills;
Banks and Banking;
Failure;
Goals and Objectives;
Leadership;
Management Practices and Processes;
Ethics;
Performance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Crime and Corruption
Foote, Nathaniel, and Michael Beer. "The New Governance Paradigm." Directorship (September 8, 2009).
- 2018
- Working Paper
Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970
By: Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
This working paper provides a new perspective on how businesses have responded to political risk in South Asia and Latin America over the last half century. The existing business history literature on political risk is focused on the experiences of Western...
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Keywords:
Business and Government Relations;
Risk Management;
Government and Politics;
Business History;
South Asia;
Latin America
Jones, Geoffrey, and Rachael Comunale. "Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-102, May 2018.
- 2010
- Journal Article
Competitiveness: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation and Internationalization
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on competitiveness by using the business model concept and to understand the need to adapt business models to changes in the environment.
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Keywords:
Modeling Innovation;
Business Improvement;
Spain;
Competitive Strategy;
Business Model;
Change;
Globalization;
Innovation and Invention;
Situation or Environment;
Competition
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Joan E. Ricart. "Competitiveness: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation and Internationalization." Management Research 8, no. 2 (2010): 123–149.
- 04 Oct 2022
- Cold Call Podcast