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The Business Administrator and Government Policy - A Course Description for Teachers
By: J. Ronald Fox
Keywords:
Business and Government Relations
- March 2015
- Case
Statoil: Transparency on Payments to Governments
By: George Serafeim
The Statoil case describes the challenge of increasing transparency, in extractive industries, around host county government payments. The case describes Statoil's reasoning behind voluntarily disclosing host country government payments, and the events that led to this...
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Keywords:
Corruption;
Disclosure;
Disclosure Strategy;
Regulation;
Industry Self-regulation;
Corporate Governance;
Corporate Accountability;
Bribery;
Sustainability;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Government Legislation;
Cost vs Benefits;
Corporate Disclosure;
Mining;
Mining Industry;
United States
Serafeim, George, Paul M. Healy, and Jérôme Lenhardt. "Statoil: Transparency on Payments to Governments." Harvard Business School Case 115-049, March 2015.
- October 2010 (Revised November 2012)
- Case
Shenzhen Capital Group
By: Paul A. Gompers, Shaohui Chen, Jessie Lin and Shelley Ling
Haitao Jin, chairman of Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd. (SCGC), and Wanshou Li, president of SCGC, must decide how to continue to grow their venture capital/private equity firm in China. SCGC is a premier VC/PE fund in China and a pioneer of the Government Sponsored...
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Keywords:
Government And Business;
Venture Capital;
Private Equity;
Investment Funds;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business and Government Relations;
Financial Services Industry;
China
Gompers, Paul A., Shaohui Chen, Jessie Lin, and Shelley Ling. "Shenzhen Capital Group." Harvard Business School Case 211-029, October 2010. (Revised November 2012.)
- Research Summary
Board Governance
By: Paul M. Healy
I examine how the internal operations of boards, including how they select new directors, how they interact with each other and the CEO, and how they review their performance, affect their governance effectiveness
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Keywords:
Board Of Directors
- 2001
- Chapter
Human Capital and Corporate Governance
By: Eric J. Van den Steen and John Roberts
Van den Steen, Eric J., and John Roberts. "Human Capital and Corporate Governance." In Corporate Governance: Essays in Honor of Horst Albach, edited by Horst Albach and Joachim Schwalbach, 128–144. Publications of the Society for Economics and Management at Humboldt University Berlin. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001.
- Fall 2020
- Article
Business Credit Programs in the Pandemic Era
By: Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, Adi Sunderam and Eric Zwick
We develop a pair of models that speak to the goals and design of the sort of business-lending and corporate-bond purchase programs that have been introduced by governments in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. An overarching theme is that, in contrast to the...
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Keywords:
COVID-19;
Business Lending;
Government Intervention;
Econometric Models;
Health Pandemics;
Credit;
Governance;
Policy
Hanson, Samuel G., Jeremy C. Stein, Adi Sunderam, and Eric Zwick. "Business Credit Programs in the Pandemic Era." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Fall 2020).
- Article
Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
By: Paul A. Gompers, Joy L. Ishii and Andrew Metrick
Gompers, Paul A., Joy L. Ishii, and Andrew Metrick. "Corporate Governance and Equity Prices." Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, no. 1 (February 2003). (Winner of Geewax, Terker & Company Prize in Investment Research presented by Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research.)
- 2010
- Working Paper
Corporate Governance and Internal Capital Markets
We exploit an exogenous shock to corporate ownership structures created by a recent tax reform in Germany to explore the link between corporate governance and internal capital markets. We find that firms with more concentrated ownership are less diversified and have...
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Keywords:
Cost vs Benefits;
Capital Markets;
Corporate Governance;
Taxation;
Ownership;
Performance Efficiency;
Diversification;
Germany
Sautner, Zacharias, and Belen Villalonga. "Corporate Governance and Internal Capital Markets." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-100, May 2010.
- March – April 2008
- Article
Interorganizational Trust, Governance Choice, and Exchange Performance
By: Ranjay Gulati and Jackson Nickerson
This paper looks at when and how preexisting interorganizational trust influences the choice of governance and in turn the performance of exchange relationships. We theorize that preexisting interorganizational trust complements the choice of governance mode (make,...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Improvement;
Conflict and Resolution;
Trust
Gulati, Ranjay, and Jackson Nickerson. "Interorganizational Trust, Governance Choice, and Exchange Performance." Organization Science 19, no. 2 (March–April 2008): 1–21.
- Article
Government Preferences and SEC Enforcement.
By: Jonas Heese
Heese, Jonas. "Government Preferences and SEC Enforcement." Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (June 29, 2015).
- 2015
- Chapter
The Business Model: Nature and Benefits
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron
This paper considers the nature of the business model and its strategic relevance to negotiations. We elaborate a substantive definition of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models...
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Keywords:
Business Models;
Value Capture;
Value-Based Business Strategy;
Ambivalent Value;
Business Model;
Value;
Negotiation Deal
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron. "The Business Model: Nature and Benefits." Chap. 1 in Business Models and Modelling. Vol. 33, edited by Charles Baden-Fuller and Vincent Mangematin. Advances in Strategic Management. Emerald Group Publishing, 2015.
- 2010
- Article
Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance
By: Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker
Most major decisions at the World Bank are made by its Board of Executive Directors. While some countries enjoy the opportunity to serve on this powerful body, most countries rarely, if ever, get that chance. This gives rise to the question: does board membership lead...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Decisions;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Voting;
Globalized Economies and Regions
Kaja, Ashwin, and Eric Werker. "Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance." World Bank Economic Review 24, no. 2 (2010).
- 2015
- Working Paper
The Business Model: Nature and Benefits
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron
This paper considers the nature of the business model and its strategic relevance to negotiations. We elaborate a substantive definition of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models...
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Keywords:
Business Models;
Value Capture;
Value-Based Business Strategy;
Ambivalent Value;
Business Model;
Negotiation Deal
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron. "The Business Model: Nature and Benefits." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-089, May 2015. (Revised June 2015.)
- 1999
- Article
Corporate Governance and British Industry
By: G. Jones
Jones, G. "Corporate Governance and British Industry." Entreprises et histoire 21 (1999): 29–43.
- 2013
- Article
Learning and the Disappearing Association Between Governance and Returns
By: Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang
The correlation between governance indices and abnormal returns documented for 1990–1999 subsequently disappeared. The correlation and its disappearance are both due to market participants' gradually learning to appreciate the difference between good-governance and...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Investment Return;
Operations;
Performance;
Value;
Learning;
Business Earnings;
Behavioral Finance
Bebchuk, Lucian A., Alma Cohen, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Learning and the Disappearing Association Between Governance and Returns." Journal of Financial Economics 108, no. 2 (May 2013): 323–348. (2013 IRRCi Investor Research Award.)
- 16 Nov 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Governing Misvalued Firms
- November 2005 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
By: Lynn S. Paine, Masako Egawa, Chisato Toyama and Kim Bettcher
Describes the corporate governance changes adopted by Japan's Sumida Corp. between 1999 and 2005, setting them in the context of changes in Japan's commercial code during this period. Sumida was the first Japanese company to adopt a new U.S.-inspired "committee system"...
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Keywords:
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Corporate Governance;
Change Management;
Business or Company Management;
Management Teams;
Law;
Japan
Paine, Lynn S., Masako Egawa, Chisato Toyama, and Kim Bettcher. "Governing Sumida Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 306-022, November 2005. (Revised February 2007.)
- 1993
- Book
Coalitions and Collaboration in International Business
By: G. Jones
This volume provides a selection of the most important research on the history of international business collaboration from the nineteenth century until the present day. The selected essays cover the extensve literature on international cartels, other forms of...
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Keywords:
International Business;
Collaboration;
Joint Ventures;
Trade;
Equity;
Body of Literature;
Relationships;
Research
Jones, G., ed. Coalitions and Collaboration in International Business. Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993.
- 2011
- Chapter
Innovations in Governance
By: Raymond Fisman and Eric Werker
In this paper we explore the innovations in governance that have promoted investment and growth. Some policymakers have tinkered with their country's institutions, some have undertaken wholesale changes, while others have attempted to influence the rules in other...
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Keywords:
Economic Growth;
Investment;
Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Innovation and Invention
Fisman, Raymond, and Eric Werker. "Innovations in Governance." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 11, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. Chicago: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011.
- Spring 2015
- Article
Bitcoin: Economics, Technology, and Governance
By: Rainer Böhme, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman and Tyler Moore
Bitcoin is an online communication protocol that facilitates virtual currency including electronic payments. Since its inception in 2009 by an anonymous group of developers, Bitcoin has served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions....
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Böhme, Rainer, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman, and Tyler Moore. "Bitcoin: Economics, Technology, and Governance." Journal of Economic Perspectives 29, no. 2 (Spring 2015): 213–238.