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- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
that motivates aboriginal children to attend school by harnessing their love of football. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910402-PDF-ENG The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana Harvard Business School Case...
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Martha Lagace
- July 2009 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Pfizer: Letter from the Chairman (A)
By: Robert L. Simons and Natalie Kindred
This case explores maximizing shareholder value as a goal in executive decision making. Over a period of nine years, three different Pfizer CEOs make critical decisions intended to increase shareholder value. But the results are disappointing. To allow students to...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Annual Reports;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Value Creation;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States
Simons, Robert L., and Natalie Kindred. "Pfizer: Letter from the Chairman (A)." Harvard Business School Case 110-003, July 2009. (Revised May 2010.)
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
executive branch and in Congress—who lacked the courage to risk political damage and take a stand on the issue. Sometimes, leaders actually set themselves up for predictable surprises. A classic example is the 1998 decision by a coalition of thirty-nine pharmaceutical...
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by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 13 Apr 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
The Bulletproof Glass Effect: When Privacy Notices Backfire
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they...
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by Mihir Desai
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Books
from ensured. In the face of teetering European economies, income inequality, resource depletion, mass migration from poor to rich countries, religious fundamentalism, and other threats to continuing prosperity, how can capitalism be sustained? The authors argue that...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
set in 1972, involves a Pakistani professor, a CIA spy, an American businessman, and India’s secret development of an atomic bomb. Related events include the KGB’s influence on Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government and Pakistan’s plan...
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- November 2018 (Revised January 2019)
- Supplement
The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Federica Gabrieli
Supplement to the (A) case. The case describes the events that took place in the run-up to the 2018 Annual General Meeting, the voting outcome, key perspectives on success factors, and the challenges that The Weir Group faced in the near future.
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Corporate Governance;
Human Resources;
Management;
Executive Compensation;
Europe;
United Kingdom;
Scotland
Paine, Lynn S., and Federica Gabrieli. "The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 319-047, November 2018. (Revised January 2019.)
- December 2017
- Supplement
CEO Succession at Cisco: Video Supplement
By: Boris Groysberg and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
Excerpts of videotaped class visits and an interview with former Cisco CEO John Chambers about Cisco’s CEO succession planning process. Topics include Chambers’ reflections on the process; the roles of the incumbent CEO, board of directors, executive search, and the...
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CEO Succession;
CEO Turnover;
Top Management Teams;
Board Of Directors;
Organizational Change;
Strategic Human Resource Management;
Strategy;
High Technology;
Management Succession;
Managerial Roles;
Corporate Governance;
Organizational Culture;
Change
Groysberg, Boris, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng. "CEO Succession at Cisco: Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 418-705, December 2017.
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
It is fascinating to observe pundit after pundit come down strongly on the side of expensing stock options in the reported financial statements, as if that were the silver bullet for combating corporate malfeasance and resolving all our...
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by William Sahlman
- April 2012 (Revised July 2012)
- Supplement
Man Group (B)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Thomas M. Clay
The Man Group was a huge and successful UK-based hedge fund and fund of funds manager. Through acquisitions, the company had consciously diversified its portfolio of investment products. In 2007 Man had to decide whether or not to spin off its brokerage business. Man...
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Hedge Funds;
Asset Management;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Investment Funds;
Corporate Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
United Kingdom
Pozen, Robert C., and Thomas M. Clay. "Man Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 312-129, April 2012. (Revised July 2012.)
Richard S. Reynolds, Jr.
After a successful, but brief career in investment banking, Richard Jr. joined his father's company in 1938. Under his leadership, Reynolds Corporation expanded tremendously, buying more government plants...
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Metals
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
to corporate governance and how to make it work in the real world. Women Want More: How to Capture Your Share of the World’s Largest, Fastest-Growing Market by Michael J. Silverstein (MBA ’80) and Kate...
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- June 2007 (Revised April 2008)
- Case
Say on Pay
By: Jay W. Lorsch, V.G. Narayanan and Alexis Chernak
Briefly describes the trend in 2006 and 2007 in the United States to give shareholders an advisory vote on executive compensation. Highlights a few examples where shareholders have successfully garnered a majority in support of an advisory vote measure on company proxy...
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Voting;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Executive Compensation;
Business and Government Relations;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
United States
Lorsch, Jay W., V.G. Narayanan, and Alexis Chernak. "Say on Pay." Harvard Business School Case 407-129, June 2007. (Revised April 2008.)
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
is a mistake. The issue is, to paraphrase HBS professor Michael Porter, what’s our strategy? We have to have a strategy as a nation, but not just any strategy. In 2007, 40 percent of the profits of American public corporations came from...
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Fixed Income Research: bond data, ratings, and reports
financial information on fixed-income securities, for both international and domestic markets, including credit ratings. Use the CORP or GOVT shortcut key for corporate or government securities...
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- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
the commitment and loyalty of employees who perceive themselves as the most disposable of corporate assets ." What will it take to turn around negative trends in "identity"? Ajay Kumar Gupta suggests that "creation of...
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
his MBA at Harvard, he served in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps from 1943 to 1946 before returning to HBS to continue his education and launch his teaching career. In the mid-1950s, he played a major role in developing the concept of View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
Technology Fountainheads by E. Raymond Corey (Harvard Business School Press) As corporate research and development costs rise, many firms choose to participate in R&D; consortia - collaborative ventures with academic institutions and...
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- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
anniversary of the first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year MBA program. Differing Takes On Quotas Last year Groysberg teamed up with researcher Deborah Bell on a comprehensive survey of corporate directors around the...
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by Carmen Nobel