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William A. Sahlman
William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details
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- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Covid-19 Is Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Governance
- 2010
- Working Paper
Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors
By: Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan
We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms....
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Executive Compensation;
Retention;
Managerial Roles;
United States
Li, Feng, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-018, August 2010.
- October 2011
- Case
Strategy and Governance at Yahoo! Inc.
By: Krishna G. Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan, David Lane and Ian McKown Cornell
Yahoo! faces a number of governance and strategic challenges in late 2011 as it tries to compete with rivals such as Google and find ways to monetize its shareholding and business links with Alibaba Group in China and Yahoo! Japan. The company is now valued at almost...
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Palepu, Krishna G., Suraj Srinivasan, David Lane, and Ian McKown Cornell. "Strategy and Governance at Yahoo! Inc." Harvard Business School Case 112-040, October 2011.
- April 2001 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
Verge Software (A)
By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Elizabeth Kind
Scott Rozic, CEO of start-up Verge Software, has just told his board that he is taking the company in a totally new direction, moving from enterprise knowledge management software to Internet direct marketing. This case covers the start-up of the business, and Rozic's...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Business or Company Management;
Business Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Applications and Software;
Management Teams;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Product Development;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Leonard, Dorothy A., and Elizabeth Kind. "Verge Software (A)." Harvard Business School Case 601-065, April 2001. (Revised July 2001.)
- April 2009 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
Bob Beall at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Sophie Hood
Bob Beall is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). CFF is an extremely successful organization, but Beall has to determine how to manage the organization through the financial crisis of 2008-2009. In this situation, donations are likely...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financial Crisis;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Leadership;
Crisis Management;
Nonprofit Organizations
Kaplan, Robert Steven, and Sophie Hood. "Bob Beall at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation." Harvard Business School Case 409-107, April 2009. (Revised October 2010.)
- 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.)
- December 2014 (Revised November 2015)
- Case
Alibaba Goes Public (A)
In 2014 Alibaba debuted on the New York Stock Exchange, creating not only the largest IPO in history but this initial desire to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange was denied due to the company's desire to preserve its partner's control over decision rights. Why did...
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Keywords:
Dual-class Share Structure;
Alibaba;
IPOs;
VIE;
Corporate Governance;
Financial Services Industry;
United States;
Hong Kong;
China
Palepu, Krishna, Suraj Srinivasan, Charles C.Y. Wang, and David Lane. "Alibaba Goes Public (A)." Harvard Business School Case 115-029, December 2014. (Revised November 2015.)
- November 2011
- Article
Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors
By: Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan
We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms....
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Executive Compensation;
Retention;
Policy;
Motivation and Incentives;
Performance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Wages;
United States
Li, Feng, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors." Journal of Financial Economics 102, no. 2 (November 2011): 454–469.
- November 2002 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
Circles: Series D Financing
By: Paul W. Marshall and Kristin Lieb
Circles, a corporate concierge company on the verge of profitability, must make a decision whether to take a D-round venture capital despite ever-changing and ever-worsening terms. A four-year-old company with several major clients, it has met its business plan...
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Keywords:
Cost vs Benefits;
Financing and Loans;
Management Teams;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Negotiation Process;
Venture Capital;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Entrepreneurship;
Service Industry;
Consulting Industry;
Massachusetts
Marshall, Paul W., and Kristin Lieb. "Circles: Series D Financing." Harvard Business School Case 803-062, November 2002. (Revised October 2003.)
- 18 Nov 2013
- Video
Investing in Change
- 18 Apr 2022
- HBS Case
Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off
difficult decision. These lessons include getting top executives on board with a change, analyzing the financial impact, and developing a communications strategy aimed at explaining the firm’s actions to customers, employees, suppliers,...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- January 2008 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
Opportunity Partners
By: Robin Greenwood and James Quinn
Philip Goldstein, the principal in a growing hedge fund and prominent activist investor, has taken a position in a Mexico-based closed-end fund. Following a hard-fought proxy contest in which he advocated for management to eliminate the fund's substantial discount,...
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Keywords:
Investment Activism;
Investment Funds;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Value;
Financial Services Industry;
Mexico
Greenwood, Robin, and James Quinn. "Opportunity Partners." Harvard Business School Case 208-097, January 2008. (Revised July 2008.)
- 18 Oct 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
Chewy.com’s Make-or-Break Logistics Dilemma
- October 2001 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Anagene, Inc.
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Christina L. Darwall
An entrepreneurial, publicly traded biotech company has begun production and sales of its core product--cartridges that permit DNA samples to be analyzed on a microchip. In the early quarters, sales are difficult to forecast and the company has experienced fluctuating...
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Keywords:
Cost Accounting;
Financial Reporting;
Production;
Performance Capacity;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Genetics;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Biotechnology Industry;
California
Kaplan, Robert S., and Christina L. Darwall. "Anagene, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 102-030, October 2001. (Revised March 2008.)
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Founder's Resource‐Dependence Challenge
By: Noam Wasserman
Does the degree to which founders keep control of their startups affect company value? I argue that founders face a "control dilemma" in which a startup's resource dependence drives a wedge between the startup's value and the founder's ability to retain control of...
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Wasserman, Noam. "The Founder's Resource‐Dependence Challenge." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-090, March 2014.
- 2024
- Chapter
Managing for Organisational Integrity: My Take After Three Decades
By: Lynn S. Paine
This chapter revisits core ideas from my 1994 article “Managing for Organizational Integrity” and explores a critical issue not discussed in the article: the role of corporate boards. In the chapter, I first re-examine the article’s ideas about the origins of...
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Paine, Lynn S. "Managing for Organisational Integrity: My Take After Three Decades." Chap. 2 in Research Handbook on Organisational Integrity, edited by Muel Kaptein, 8–23. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
- April 2012
- Case
Meli Marine
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Sunru Yong
Meli Marine, a container shipping company, is facing an important strategic decision after an interesting acquisition opportunity presents itself. Founded in 1974 by the Chang Family, the Singapore-based company has carved out a niche in the intra-Asia transport...
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Hamermesh, Richard G., and Sunru Yong. "Meli Marine." Harvard Business School Brief Case 124-426, April 2012.
- 2007
- Working Paper
Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz
Civil society actors have been pushing for greater accountability of the World Bank for at least three decades. This paper outlines the range of accountability mechanisms currently in place at the World Bank along four basic levels: (1) staff, (2) project, (3) policy,...
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Keywords:
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Compensation and Benefits;
Business and Community Relations;
Social Enterprise;
Motivation and Incentives
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and Steve Herz. "Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-027, October 2007.
- October 2021
- Case
Financial Reporting at Mattel
By: Aiyesha Dey, Trung Nguyen, Marshal Herrmann and Julia Kelley
In September 2020, Diana Ferguson was nearing her first Audit Committee meeting as the newly appointed Audit Committee chair of Mattel, Inc. Mattel was just recovering from an accounting scandal which had revealed the company’s poor internal controls and weak board...
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Keywords:
Accounting;
Accounting Audits;
Financial Reporting;
Financial Statements;
Governance;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Disclosure;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Compliance;
Governance Controls;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Consumer Products Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
California
Dey, Aiyesha, Trung Nguyen, Marshal Herrmann, and Julia Kelley. "Financial Reporting at Mattel." Harvard Business School Case 122-006, October 2021.