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Diamond Foods, Inc.
Authors: Srinivasan, Suraj; Gray, Tim
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2013
The Diamonds Foods, Inc. case describes the major accounting blow up at the company in late 2011 that was triggered by a report by Off Wall Street, a prominent short selling research firm...
Say on Pay at The Walt Disney Company
Authors: Gow, Ian D.; Ormazabal, Gaizka
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2013
This case focuses on the lead-up to Disney's 2012 annual meeting where Disney would face a vote on the compensation package of its CEO, Robert Iger...
Every Story Tells a Picture: Lessons from Cartoons on Corporate Governance
Authors: Wiid, Ria; Pitt, Leyland F.; Mills, Adam J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
A theory of cartooning suggests that cartoons reflect public sentiment toward issues. As such, cartoons are a useful way of gauging and tracking public sentiment over time. This article uses a historical cartoon analysis to track public sentiment toward issues surrounding corporate governance. Specifically, it compares what cartoons reflected prior to the economic crash of 2008 and what they portrayed after.
Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies: Understanding the Game
Authors: Crittenden, Victoria L.; Crittenden, William F.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Our research suggests doing business in an emerging economy is confounded by the fact that rules, regulations, and marketplace expectations of the home market do not apply. Governance is not just an oversight issue related to making the most appropriate decisions. Instead, responsible governance in emerging markets entails governing bodies understanding the characteristics of the unsettled environment in which the company is, or will be, operating.
Corporate Governance in Publicly Traded Small Firms: A Study of Canadian Venture Exchange Companies
Authors: Gordon, Irene M.; Hrazdil, Karel; Shapiro, Daniel
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Most evidence regarding the determinants and effects of corporate governance practices is based on large firms. Herein, we explore these issues in the context of small publicly traded Canadian companies. We measure performance by two variables: quality of accounting earnings and financial performance. The results indicate that corporate governance does matter for smaller traded Canadian firms.
Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience
Authors: Carroll, Archie B.; Lipartito, Kenneth J.; Post, James E.; Werhane, Patricia H.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2012
Today, it is expected that a corporation will be transparent in its operations; that it will reflect ethical values that are broadly shared by others in society; and that companies will enable society to achieve environmental sustainability as well as a high standard of living. As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, the social, political and economic landscape is once again shifting: the need for an informed public conversation about what is expected of the modern corporation has never been greater.
JP Morgan: Lessons Learned
Author: Sapp, Stephen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Following the revelation of a US$2 billion loss on trading at JP Morgan’s chief investment office in London, the company’s board of directors is tasked with recommending changes to its risk management practices and corporate governance structure...
A Strategic Perspective on Bankruptcy
Authors: George, Bill; McLean, Andrew N.
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
This case suggests that among certain stakeholders, bankruptcy has come to be viewed as merely a vehicle for corporations to circumvent their obligations.
Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods
Authors: Coates, John; Rose, Clayton; Lane, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
This case explores the reputational and legal issues that arise as Barclays Capital attempted to manage client conflicts by following established industry practice in the face of changing legal norms...
El Paso's Sale to Kinder Morgan
Authors: Coates, John; Rose, Clayton; Lane, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
On October 16, 2011, El Paso agreed to sell itself to Kinder Morgan for just over $21 billion. Shareholders filed suit, arguing that the process was tainted by conflict and that a higher price could be obtained...
Ethical Leadership and the Dual Roles of Examples
Author: Langvardt, Arlen W.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Through the examples they set, leaders do a great deal to shape–for good or for ill–the culture of the organizations in which they serve. Employing as a jumping-off point a recent high-profile and multi-faceted scandal involving Penn State University and decision makers affiliated with it, this article explores a number of ethical decision making lessons to be learned from that scandal and considers how those lessons can be applied to a variety of decisions faced by corporate leaders...
Lehman Brothers’ Fall
Authors: Kakani, Ram Kumar; Singhania, Vasudha; Stack, Martin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
This case describes the financial undertakings of Lehman Brothers Inc., which was once the fourth-largest investment bank in the world. On September 15, 2008, less than a year after the bank presented its largest profit ever, the world watched its decline...
Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach
Authors: Erhard, Werner; Jensen, Michael C.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Behavior that lacks integrity leads to value destruction. Werner Erhard and Professor Michael Jensen analyze some of the common beliefs, actions, and activities in finance that are inconsistent with being a person or a firm of integrity.
First Quantum Minerals vs. Eurasian Natural Resources
Authors: Serafeim, George; Knauer, Andrew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The case describes the battle between First Quantum Mineral and Eurasian Resources over mines in Democratic Republic of Congo...
Olympus and the Whistleblower President
Authors: Williams, Christopher; Takeshita, Seijiro
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The newly-appointed president and chief operating officer of Olympus Corporation of Japan was about to attend an emergency board meeting and needed to decide on a course of action. Since assuming the job in April 2011, the president had discovered evidence of corporate fraud on a large scale...
Sustainable Capitalism
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Generation Investment Management LLP
Publication Year: 2012
Ben Franklin famously said, “You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.” We have the opportunity to rebuild for the long term and an obligation to seize it. Sustainable Capitalism will create opportunities and rewards but it will also mean challenging the pernicious orthodoxy of short-termism...
Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse: Video
Authors: Hanson, Kirk O.; Jennings, Marianne M.
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 2012
Marianne Jennings, author of "Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse," talks with Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, about the issues that consistently arise in companies that have gotten into trouble...
What Does It Mean for an Executive to Make $1million?
Authors: Larcker, David F.; McCall, Allan; Tayan, Brian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2011
Executive compensation figures are not always what they seem...
Lehman Brothers and Repo 105
Authors: Mikes, Anette; Yu, Gwen; Hamel, Dominique
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
The case examines the economics of the off-balance sheet transactions Lehman undertook prior to the collapse, and highlights the corporate governance challenges in situations where firms face capital market pressure and market downturns.
Open Systems: Applying Diverse Employee Ownership Theories to Address Today’s Complex Challenges
Author: Foundation for Enterprise Development
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: The Foundation for Enterprise Development
Publication Year: 2011
The ideas of employee ownership and various forms of profit sharing in corporations have been around for a long time. The shorthand proposition under study is this: If employees observe that they have a meaningful stake in the fortunes of the enterprise, they create value. More specifically, if they have a financial and emotional stake in the performance of the venture, then as individuals and as a workplace community they will raise the level of their performance and productivity.
Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm
Author: The Aspen Institute CVSG
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This reading collection contains suggested readings for the Aspen-UCLA Roundtable, Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm. More specifically, the readings on this page are focused on law and policy.
Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm
Author: The Aspen Institute CVSG
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This reading collection contains suggested readings for the Aspen-UCLA Roundtable, Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm. More specifically, the readings on this page are focused on corporate governance.
Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm
Author: The Aspen Institute CVSG
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This reading collection contains suggested readings for the Aspen-UCLA Roundtable, Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm. More specifically, the readings on this page are focused on the role of corporate law.
Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm
Author: The Aspen Institute CVSG
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This reading collection contains suggested readings for the Aspen-UCLA Roundtable, Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm. More specifically, the readings on this page are focused on shareholder value.
Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm
Author: The Aspen Institute CVSG
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This reading collection contains suggested readings for the Aspen-UCLA Roundtable, Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm. More specifically, the readings on this page are focused on the problems with shareholder primacy.
Gulf Bank: Re-Building a Bank
Authors: Busaba, Walid; Khokher, Zeigham; Safieddine, Assem; Mark, Ken
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
In December 2009, about a year after it suffered a crisis after clients walked away from massive derivative losses, Gulf Bank’s new chief executive officer is trying to changes the way Gulf Bank operates and is governed.
Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm
Author: The Aspen Institute CVSG
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
It is hard to single out a more consequential idea today than the following: the purpose of the business corporation is to maximize profits. While this assertion is first and foremost only an idea, it is clearly an idea with legs. In fact, for decades the "shareholder-centric" model of the firm has been the organizing principle of Anglo-Saxon style capitalism.
The Collapse of Lehman Brothers – How it Happened
Author: Boamah, Kwabena
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Swiss Management Center (SMC) University
Publication Year: 2011
This paper examines the Lehman Brother’s bankruptcy report and other news sources regarding the financial implosion to determine how such an investment company could fail and almost bring about systemic financial market collapse.
CEO Decision-making at Prairie Health Services
Authors: Wallingford, Valerie; Gritzmacher, Sharon
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
Rather than listen to the recommendations of division administrators who had spent considerable time researching potential software, the CEO seemed to be basing his selection of a new records management system on the personal relationship he had developed with sales representatives from one of the software firms.
One Acre Fund: Outgrowing the Board
Authors: Sherman, Eliot; Donnelly, Anne Cohn
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2011
A young international nonprofit social enterprise governed by friends of the founder grows rapidly and faces increasing demands...
Acme Life Science Tools: To Sell or To Stay
Authors: Lee, Moses; Goldstein, Amy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan
Publication Year: 2011
This case highlights the pressures faced by entrepreneurs when they take outside funds and have a diverse set of stakeholders. It showcases a situation where the decision-maker must balance multiple interests while seeking a solution that is fair to all. It also challenges students to consider how funding and management decisions impact investors, employees, and founders.
Get Me Rewrite: What's Next for Murdoch's Media Empire?
Author:
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2011
Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of New York-based News Corp., has built a fortune on the scandals of others. Now, at age 80, Murdoch finds himself at the center of his own ever-widening scandal, one that threatens his hold on a $40 billion global media empire.
The Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Author: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education's Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Publication Year: 2011
The Aspen Institute’s Center for Business Education developed the Corporate Governance and Accountability Project with the goal of influencing prevailing models of corporate governance and theories of the firm, as they are understood and taught by business school faculty. Rebalancing the short-term/long-term focus of business will make it possible to bring a wider view to the role of business, one that encompasses both fiscal and societal well-being.
The Crisis at Tyco - A Director's Perspective
Authors: Srinivasan, Suraj; Sesia, Aldo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
In 2002, Wendy Lane had been a member of the board of directors at Tyco International a little more than a year when the company's CEO Dennis Kozlowski and other top executives were accused of fraud, which ultimately led to resignations, imprisonments, lawsuits, and SEC filings. In a short period of time Tyco lost 2/3rds of its market value. Many outside the company questioned the board's leadership and diligence. Lane, who had a successful career in investment banking before becoming a professional director, was caught in the firestorm.
Graduating MBAs Are Ill Equipped to Lead Firms in Uncertain Times
Author: Samuelson, Judith
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Huffington Post
Publication Year: 2011
As commencement season shifts into high gear, it is worth asking: Has graduate education, in particular finance courses, prepared MBA students to steer us away from future crises, in what are sure to be even more volatile times? As someone who has made it my mission to retool the business curriculum at MBA programs around the world, when it comes to finance, at least so far, I fear the answer is 'no'-- the heavy lifting is still ahead.
Business Ethics
Author:
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The purpose of this course is to enable students to consider the role of ethics in business administration in a complex, dynamic, global environment.
The IASB at a Crossroads: The Future of International Financial Reporting Standards
Authors: Ramanna, Karthik; Misztal, Karol; Beyersdorfer, Daniela
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Should countries be encouraged to pursue "full adoption" of IFRS or should each country determine its own IFRS "convergence" strategy? How should the IASB respond to the growing power of emerging markets such as China in international standard setting?
Hewlett-Packard Company: CEO Succession in 2010
Authors: Lorsch, Jay W.; Palepu, Krishna G.; Barton, Melissa
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Mark Hurd resigned as the CEO of Hewlett Packard in 2010 after the board discovered that he had misfiled expense reports and paid an H.P. contractor for unsubstantiated work. Discusses H.P.'s recent scandals and highlights the balance needed between ethical and strategic considerations in choosing executive leadership.
Royal Group Technologies
Authors: Bryant, Murray J.; Mark, Ken
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The Royal Group Technologies case provides information on the insider trading and other allegations faced by the former executive officer and the company's management team. By the early 2000s, stakeholders were starting to question some of management's practices, including awarding themselves high levels of compensation and engaging in related party transactions.
William Jeffrey Departs from Bay Colony Mutual
Author: Goldberg, Lena G.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Explores a board's decision-making and process in investigating and terminating a company's CEO after allegations of an inappropriate relationship with an employee.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Author: The SEC
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Publication Year: 2011
The SEC is responsible for implementing a series of regulatory initiatives required under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Mahindra Satyam - Restoring Corporate Governance
Authors: Bryant, Murray J.; Chandrasekhar, Ramasastry
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2010
The recently appointed chief compliance officer of Mahindra Satyam was to develop a corporate governance structure that would address and repair previous mismanagement of the company. His largest task as the CCO was to restore trust in the company and solidify its future among various stakeholders.
American International Group - 2010
Authors: Lorsch, Jay W.; Barton, Melissa
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
The objective of this case is to explore how the board of a company in TARP struggled to oversee its top management.
Southwest Airlines One Report (TM)
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Cheng, Beiting; Thyne, Susan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
This case examines Southwest's environmental and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports produced in the two years preceding 2009 and follows the company's decision to transition to a new reporting format.
Leadership in Corporate Reporting Policy at Tata Steel
Authors: Ramanna, Karthik; Tahilyani, Rachna
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
The case describes the challenges faced by Tata Steel, India's largest private sector steel company, as it transitions from Indian GAAP to IFRS.
Strategic Leadership for the 21st Century
Authors: Hitt, Michael; Takacs Haynes, Katalin; Serpa, Roy
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2010
For future leaders to succeed, they'll have to get the right things done, and in the right ways.
Corporate Governance Failure at Satyam
Author: Yadav, Vanita
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2010
This case is about a US$1.4 billion corporate governance fraud at India's fourth-largest information technology company: Satyam Computer Services. The case offers an opportunity to understand the various aspects of corporate governance and can be used to study the reasons behind corporate governance failures at a firm...
Sustainability in Asia: ESG Reporting Uncovered
Authors: Read-Brown, Alex; Bardy, Florent; Lewis, Rebecca
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2010
The 2010 ASRTM highlights the current leadership position of corporate Korea on environment, social and governance reporting, with Chinese companies found to be the poorest disclosers. In general, companies in Asia scored better on Governance indicators compared to the Environment or Social categories, with at least some level of disclosure even amongst the laggards. For much of our universe, Governance was the only sustainability reporting of any kind and even that was mostly due to regulation or stock exchange listing requirements.
Batson International, S.A. (A, B, C)
Author: Hawkins, David F.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Management seeking to make up a shortfall in interim period earnings looks for an accounting solution to close the gap.
Baker Hughes: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Authors: Tayan, Brian; Larcker, David F.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2010
Baker Hughes was accused of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). This case describes the actions taken by the company in response to those accusations.
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