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- June 2001
- Case
NESWC (A)
Documents attempts to restructure a public-private partnership between the operator of a $200 million trash-to-energy cogeneration plant and a consortium of two dozen Massachusetts municipalities. Describes the process that led to a one-sided agreement, as well as the...
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Private Sector;
Public Sector;
Energy Generation;
Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Negotiation Deal;
Negotiation Process;
Partners and Partnerships;
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Energy Industry;
Massachusetts
Wheeler, Michael A. "NESWC (A)." Harvard Business School Case 801-067, June 2001.
- Web
Activating a Legion of People | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
fundraising activities, corporate outreach, and an emerging area, conservation finance, which includes growing sustainable revenue streams through mechanisms such as carbon offsets. Impact Much of my work at the United Way focused on...
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- March 2024
- Teaching Note
SolarWinds Confronts SUNBURST
By: Frank Nagle and David Lane
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 723-357 & 723-368.
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- January 2023
- Technical Note
LCA Action Planning: Responsibility and Accountability
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Marilyn Morgan Westner
LCA action plans integrate responsibility and accountability into decision-making and planning. This module note was designed for the LCA course and reviews six steps leaders can follow to develop a practical LCA action plan for their business. It shows how integrating...
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Responsibility;
Accountability;
Management Challenges;
Corporate Accountability;
Leadership;
Planning;
Decisions;
Strategy
Sucher, Sandra J., and Marilyn Morgan Westner. "LCA Action Planning: Responsibility and Accountability." Harvard Business School Technical Note 323-060, January 2023.
- March 2014 (Revised September 2019)
- Teaching Note
Say on Pay: Qualcomm, Inc. Shareholders Vote 'Maybe'
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Charles C.Y. Wang
This case centers around Qualcomm shareholders' 2012 Say-on-Pay vote and the dispute between the Institutional Shareholder Services and management regarding the appropriateness of the CEO's compensation plan. Was ISS right that Qualcomm CEO's pay was inflated and...
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- Profile
Durdana Achakzai
Fulbright Scholar from Pakistan to attend HBS. "I've always wanted to go to Harvard," she says. When she was four, her father attended the Kennedy School of Government on a government scholarship....
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- January 1991 (Revised March 2010)
- Case
Westchester Distributing, Inc. (A)
By: Robert L. Simons and Robert Boxwell
Focuses on the three-way interaction among internal controls, employee behavior, and incentives. Salesmen are illegally providing kickbacks to customers of this beer-distribution firm. In turn, salesmen are reimbursing themselves by filing fraudulent expense reports....
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Keywords:
Financial Reporting;
Crime and Corruption;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Salesforce Management;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives;
Distribution Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
Simons, Robert L., and Robert Boxwell. "Westchester Distributing, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 191-118, January 1991. (Revised March 2010.)
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
(www.globalreporting.org), which Massie and CERES have been working on for years. “Everybody was talking about reporting, but something concrete needed to happen,” Massie says. “And with GRI, we're about to unveil some well-researched work on View Details
- March 2018
- Supplement
China Vanke: Battle for Control (D)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Charles C.Y. Wang, Dawn H. Lau and Anthony K. Woo
In the battle for control over China Vanke, the Chinese securities regulator steps in to censure Vanke and Baoneng for acting against the interests of the market and minority shareholders. The Chinese insurance regulator also finds Baoneng to be in violation of...
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Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Conflict and Resolution;
Real Estate Industry;
China
Paine, Lynn S., Charles C.Y. Wang, Dawn H. Lau, and Anthony K. Woo. "China Vanke: Battle for Control (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 318-120, March 2018.
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Harvard alumni living in Mexico and elsewhere and the other half from corporate donations, mainly from Mexican companies. Harvard provided matching funds to the first $1 million, as part of an initiative to strengthen its international...
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April White
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
diaspora networks historically provided (e.g., information about potential workers, monitoring, and reputation foundations). Download the paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43327 Cases & Course MaterialsBoardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
remain the company's executive chairman.) Harvard Business School professor Joseph L. Bower, the Donald Kirk David Professor of Business Administration, is an expert on corporate strategy, organization, and leadership. He discusses the...
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- July 2001 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Policy Management Systems Corp.: The Financial Reporting Crisis
Tim Williams, the new CFO of a publicly-traded enterprise software company, attempts to rebuild his company's reputation for reliable financial reporting following a highly visible financial reporting crisis. The crisis begins with an earnings shortfall warning, which...
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Keywords:
Accrual Accounting;
Revenue Recognition;
Capital Markets;
Policy;
Corporate Governance;
Accounting Audits;
Technology Industry
Hutton, Amy P. "Policy Management Systems Corp.: The Financial Reporting Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 102-013, July 2001. (Revised October 2001.)
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
economic inequality worrisome. They see that US corporations are skittish about making investments in a time of uncertainty about government policy, taxes, and regulations. They hear too many American CEOs...
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by Nitin Nohria
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Harvard MBAs Rule?
strengths has been to furnish corporate America with executive leadership at the highest levels. Seeking perspective on this flurry of HBS alumni promotions, the magazine asked Continental Airlines president Gregory Brenneman (MBA 1988)...
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- Fast Answer
Historical Research - India
Service (FBIS) FBIS is a United States government agency which translates the text of daily radio and television broadcasts, newspapers and periodicals, government statements, books, and other sources...
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- October 2017 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Snap Inc. Goes Public (A)
By: Lynn Sharp Paine and Will Hurwitz
Snap Inc.’s chairman must decide how to address investor concerns about the company’s unprecedented plans to issue only non-voting shares in its upcoming IPO. The case is set in early 2017 following the public availability of Snap’s IPO filing with the U.S. Securities...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Capital Structure;
Corporate Accountability;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Corporate Governance;
Going Public;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Leadership;
Management;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Venture Capital;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
United States;
California
Paine, Lynn Sharp, and Will Hurwitz. "Snap Inc. Goes Public (A)." Harvard Business School Case 318-042, October 2017. (Revised April 2024.)
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
http://www.amazon.com/Land-Bargains-Chinese-Capitalism-Politics/dp/1107539870/ May 2015 Journal of Economic Perspectives Bitcoin: Economics, Technology, and Governance By: Böhme, Rainer, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman, and Tyler Moore...
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Sean Silverthorne