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The Accountable Corporation
Author: Hanson, Kirk O.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters; Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Praeger
Publication Year: 2005
This landmark set of essays brings new clarity to the issues of business ethics, social responsibility, and accountability, as societies around the world begin to hold corporations and their leaders to higher standards of conduct.
Building Better Boards: A Blueprint for Effective Governance
Author: Nadler, David
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Jossey-Bass
Publication Year: 2005
Building Better Boards covers all the key issues facing boards in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley era. It provides practical advice based on the authors' wide-ranging experience with major companies that have built successful boards...
Governance and Sustainability
Authors: Petschow, Ulrich; Rosenau, James; Von Weizsacker, Ernst-Ulrich
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Greenleaf Publishing Ltd
Publication Year: 2005
‘Governance and Sustainability' examines the possibilities of integrating the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainable development within the framework of governance processes and how that might steer societies towards sustainability...
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
Authors: Bagley, Constance E.; Silverthorne, Sean
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Working Knowledge
Publication Year: 2005
Most managers think the legal department is that office down the hall where they go to keep out of trouble or write a binding patent agreement. And that's shortsighted, says Harvard Business School professor Constance Bagley...
Winning Legally
Author: Bagley, Constance E.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Harvard Business School Press
Publication Year: 2005
Describes the four components of legal astuteness: the attitudes, proactive approach, judgment, and knowledge necessary to manage the legal aspects of business effectively. Identifies a number of legal tools legally astute managers can use during different phases of business development to create and capture value and manage risk.
Take Your Best Shot
Author: Deutsch, Claudia H.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
More than ever, Americans do not trust business or the people who run it.
Up to Code
Authors: Paine, Lynn S.; Deshpande, Rohit; Margolis, Joshua D.; Bettcher, Kim Eric
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2005
Codes of conduct have long been a feature of corporate life. Today, they are arguably a legal necessity--at least for public companies with a presence in the United States. But the issue goes beyond U.S. legal and regulatory requirements...
The Roots of Sustainability
Author: Ehrenfeld, John
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 23–25, Winter 2005.
Publication Year: 2005
Management literature today abounds with stories about the business case for sustainability. Yet, the author suggests, much of business's efforts in the name of sustainable development at best only temporarily slow society's continuing drift toward unsustainability. Indeed, he argues, that the term "sustainable development" has become an oxymoron. The problem really stems from management's failure to see unsustainability as a deep-seated systems failure and to appreciate the extent to which radical thinking and action are required to embark upon a sustainable trajectory.
Capital discipline for Big Oil
Authors: Dobbs, Richard; Manson, Nigel; Nyquist, Scott
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2005
The oil and gas industry has a history of overinvesting at the top of a cycle. This time it should break the habit...
The Realist's Guide to Moral Purpose
Author: Mourkogiannis, Nikos
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Strategy + Business
Publication Year: 2005
Everyone agrees that the performance of a company's chief executive and top team has a decisive influence on long-term profitability. But what is it, exactly, that great leadership teams do? How do they create sustained competitive advantage in a firm? Consciously or not, they have learned how to deploy a conceptual tool called moral purpose that allows them to inspire and lead an organization toward enduring competitive advantage...
Why the US Needs a Single Payer Health System
Authors: Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Physicians for a National Health Program
Publication Year: 2005
The current market-driven health care system in the U.S. is increasingly compromising quality and access to care...
Linking Strong Moral Principles to Business Success
Authors: Lennick, Doug; Kiel, Fred
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge @ Wharton
Publication Year: 2005
In Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance & Leadership Success (Wharton School Publishing), Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel look at the connection between strong moral principles and business success...
The Geography of Corporate Giving
Author: Marquis, Christopher
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Harvard Working Knowledge
Publication Year: 2005
In an article forthcoming in the Academy of Management Review, HBS professor Christopher Marquis and coauthors Gerald Davis and Mary Ann Glynn develop a framework for understanding an important aspect of this issue: how social and governmental forces in local communities influence corporate decision making in the social sphere...
A Rogue Trader at Daiwa Bank (A, B)
Author: Misawa, Mitsuru
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2005
In 1995, the VP of Daiwa Bank's New York branch confessed that over the course of 11 years, he had lost nearly $1.1 billion through the unauthorized trading of United States Treasury Bonds and had sold securities the bank had in custody to cover losses. Discusses the impact of Japanese and American cultural differences on attitudes toward proper international business practices.
eBay, Inc.: Stock Option Plans (A, B, C)
Author: Bradshaw, Mark T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
The footnote disclosure for eBay, Inc. in 2000 indicates that if the company had accounted for employee stock options under the fair value method, its reported profit of $48 million would have been a loss of $91 million.
Maximizing Shareholder Value: What Are Shareholders' Interests?
Author: Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education's Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Publication Year: 2005
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Maximizing shareholder value (MSV) guides many business decisions and quickly becomes part of business school students' vocabulary. However, it is important to understand shareholders' interests more precisely. This Teaching Module considers that shareholders might prefer maximization at the level of their portfolio or an industry, not at the individual firm level. It focuses on the underlying question: What are shareholders' interests...
Get Aggressive About Passivity
Authors: Samuelson, Judith; Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2005
Whistle-blowing isn't a desirable end, it's a last resort. Most organizations want workers who don't just think the right thing but also do it. Why is it so hard for people to act on their values?
First the Merger, Then the Mess
Author: Pearlstein, Steven
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Washington Post
Publication Year: 2005
It wasn't many years ago that Wall Street sharpies were out peddling the idea that professional service firms could smooth out their earnings by maintaining a healthy mix of government and nongovernment business, which tend to move in different cycles. Corporate executives embraced the concept and embarked on an acquisition spree, generating untold fees for Wall Street...
Freeport's Hard Look at Itself
Author: Bernstein, Aaron
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Business Week Online
Publication Year: 2005
The company Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold, Inc., long criticized for human rights violations in Indonesia asked the NGO, the International Center for Corporate Accountability to conduct an independent audit of its Papuan mining complex which employs 18,000 workers...
Grameen Bank
Authors: McMillan, John; Hanley, D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Grameen Bank was a microcredit bank in Bangladesh, annually lending hundreds of millions of dollars to its millions of poor entrepreneurs. This case covers the history of the bank from 1975 to 1998, with a concentration on events in the mid nineties.
The Pension Pincher
Author: Thigpen, David
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Time Magazine
Publication Year: 2005
Delphi CEO Steve Miller says that traditional pensions are anachronisms that corporations must fix in order to survive. Can he change how the auto industry provides for its retired workers?
Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron (A, B)
Author: Salter, Malcolm S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Presents a brief historical overview of Enron's rise, its strategic successes and failures...
Creating Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks
Authors: Wheeler, David; McKague, Kevin; Thomson, Jane; Davies, Rachel; Medalye, Jacqueline; Prada, Marina
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review
Publication Year: 2005
In developing countries, examples of successful sustainable enterprise often involve informal networks that include businesses, not-for-profit organizations and communities.
What the Law Allows
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education's Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Publication Year: 2005
This module – What the Law Allows – was created because some faculty mentioned how it is often assumed that managers and directors are required to take actions that serve shareholders by maximizing short term share price. They wanted to examine those areas where the law allows managers and directors to consider other stakeholders and the firms' longer term well-being. Accordingly, this module focuses on the following question...
What's Next for Tata Group: An Interview with its Chairman
Author: Pandit, Ranjit V.
Product Type: Interviews
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2005
Ratan Tata explains how the company is expanding abroad while cultivating an emerging mass market at home...
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
Authors: Wong, Ka-fu; Lee, Jennifer
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2005
In one trading day at the Hong Kong Exchange, roughly 10% of the market capitalization for microcaps was wiped out. What went wrong?
When Auditors Go Astray, What Director Dares Say So?
Author: Norris, Floyd
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
Is the big accounting business too important to be left to the accountants? Or, put another way, why should all the safeguards put in place for normal companies not apply to auditors?
Infosys Technologies: Powered by Intellect, Driven by Values
Authors: Mitchell, Jordan; Velamuri, S. Ramakrishna
Product Type: Cases
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2005
This case documents the evolution of Infosys Technologies from its humble beginnings in 1981 to its position in 2004 as one of the most admired companies in India, with revenues exceeding US$1 billion, profits of US$270 million...
Leading Change: An Interview with the CEO of Barclays Bank
Authors: Price, Colin; Turnbull, David
Product Type: Journal Articles; Interviews
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2005
John S. Varley speaks to why high performance doesn't necessarily mean a healthy company. Last in a series of interviews with leading executives on change management...
Corporate Governance Systems - Econ 153
Author: Mintz, Steven M.
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Dr. Steven M. Mintz, Professor @ Claremont McKenna College, The Accounting Program
Publication Year: 2005
This course integrates knowledge about control systems in the corporate environment with the role of accounting and auditing in producing transparent financial information.
The Corporation in Society (Interactive Course Syllabus)
Author: Walsh, James P.
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Professor James P. Walsh, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Publication Year: 2005
Perhaps the most difficult challenge for managers is to sustain their idealism and noble aspirations with the practical demands of getting their work done and satisfying their shareholders. A broad framework for understanding the role that companies play in society, and the expanded role that they are being asked to play, is indispensable for sorting out the questions and challenges they face. These challenges may be most acute for people as they begin their careers...
S.E.C. Inquiry Latest Problem for Daimler
Author: Landler, Mark
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
When DaimlerChrysler's chief executive, Jürgen E. Schrempp, threw his company into flux last week by announcing that he would step down earlier than planned, his top executives reacted in a characteristically European way: they went on vacation...
Pollution Trial of Mining Company to Begin in Indonesia
Author: Perlez, Jane
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
In a rare case against an American business giant operating in the developing world, the Newmont Mining Corporation and its chief executive in Indonesia go on trial here Friday on criminal charges of pollution at its gold mine near this remote city...
HP at a Strategic Crossroad: 2005
Authors: Farhoomand, Ali F.; Sethi, Kavita
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2005
This case examines the paradox of bringing in a charismatic leader to spearhead organizational change in a company renowned for its strong legacy and culture.
Governance and CEO turnover
Authors: Fisman, Raymond; Khurana, Rakesh; Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Columbia University Graduate School of Business; Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Fundamentally this paper explores whether, in caving in to shareholder demands, boards act in the best interests of shareholders or simply respond to their whims: Do they do just do something, or do they do the right thing?
The Market For Virtue
Author: Vogel, David
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Brookings Institution Press
Publication Year: 2005
The Market for Virtue explores the extent to which improvements in corporate conduct can occur without more extensive or effective government regulation—in the United States, Europe, the Far East, and developing nations. In other words, what is the long-term potential of business self-regulation?
Deception in Business: A Legal Perspective
Authors: Paine, Lynn S.; Bruner, Christopher M.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Discusses several of the most important prohibitions on deception found in U.S. law, starting with the basic elements of liability for fraud and moving to important antifraud provisions in federal statutes, restrictions on "misrepresentation" in consumer and contract law, deceptive nondisclosure, and forms of sales "puffery" that are not legally actionable.
Leading Change: An Interview with the CEO of P&G
Authors: Gupta, Rajat; Wendler, Jim
Product Type: Journal Articles; Interviews
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2005
Alan G. Lafley discusses how to stretch a company's aspirations without overpromising. Second in a series of interviews with leading executives on change management...
Managers and the Legal Environment
Authors: Bagley, Constance E.; Savage, Diane
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: South-Western College/West
Publication Year: 2005
Recognized and respected for both its inclusion of cutting edge material and for its strong strategic managerial approach, this is one of the most comprehensive and challenging, yet approachable and understandable legal environments texts on the market...
Digitas (A, B)
Authors: Lorsch, Jay W.; Robertson, Ashley C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Raises issues about how the nature and function of a board changes as its company moves from ownership by its employees (including the founder) to ownership by a private equity firm, Hellman & Friedman, to public ownership.
Manville Corp. Fiber Glass Group (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Paine, Lynn S.; Gant, Sara B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
Manville Corp.'s senior managers must decide how to respond to a new scientific study suggesting that fiberglass, the source of 75% of the company's profits, may be another asbestos and must act under conditions of great uncertainty...
The Economics of Short-Term Performance Obsession
Author: Rappaport, Alfred E.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Financial Analysts Journal, Volume 61, # 3, 2005, CFA Institute.
Publication Year: 2005
This article explains why maximizing long-term cash flow is the most effective way to create value for shareholders and charts a course for alleviating the obsession with short-term performance...
New Wine, New Bottles: The Rise of Non-Financial Reporting - A Business Brief for Social Responsibility
Author: White, Allen L.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Business for Social Responsibility Website
Publication Year: 2005
This article traces changes in corporate reporting practices which indicate that non-financial reporting is on a trajectory to becoming standard business practice in the 21st century...
Societal Learning and Change: How Governments, Business, and Civil Society are Creating Solutions to Complex Multi-Stakeholder Problems
Author: Waddell, Steve
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Greenleaf Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
"The world faces unprecedented challenges that will require business, government and civil society to work and learn together in ways that have never been needed in the past. This demands bridging gulfs of misunderstanding and distrust that have build up over generations. No one knows how to do this, but a few brave explorers like Steve Waddell are showing the way. Societal Learning and Change provides one of the first comprehensive treatments of the motivations, processes, pitfalls and possibilities for such change. It will be an invaluable guide in building a future we can be proud to leave our grandchildren." - Peter M. Senge,(senior lecturer)MIT and (founding chair)SoL
When Earnings Management Becomes Cooking the Books
Author: Millstein, Ira
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Financial Times
Publication Year: 2005
"Earnings management" includes both legitimate and less than legitimate efforts to smooth earnings over accounting periods or to achieve a forecasted result. The line between appropriate earnings management techniques and "cooking the books" can be a blurry one...
The Dilemma of the Successful CEO
Author: Cools, Kees
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: The Boston Consulting Group
Publication Year: 2005
Corporate fraud, he tells us, occurs much more often than most of us realize and leads just as often to punishment: fines, loss of reputation, and imprisonment. Kees calls this the dilemma of the successful CEO...
The IAS 39 "Carve-Out": How the European Union Hedged Its Exposure to the International Standard on Derivatives and Hedging
Authors: Jagolinzer, Alan D.; Armstrong, Christopher
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2005
International Accounting Standard (IAS) 39, Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement, has attracted considerable controversy throughout its development. Major European financial institutions and political agencies lobbied heavily against the development of certain provisions within the standard...
Those You Love to Hate: A Look at the Mighty Laid Low
Author: Scott, A. O.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
If you are looking for a good dose of outrage at a theater near you, you won't find a better bargain than "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," a new documentary directed by Alex Gibney.
Milking Money out of Parmalat
Authors: Toninato, Francesca; Tapies, Josep
Product Type: Cases
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2005
At Parmalat's headquarters in Collecchio (Parma), top management was desperately trying to rescue the Group, negotiating a cash infusion of 3 billion euros with LBO funds, Blackstone and KKR, and the investment banking arm of Deutsche Bank.
DVD: The Corporation
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Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Zeitgeist Films
Publication Year: 2005
An epic in length and breadth, this documentary aims at nothing less than a full-scale portrait of the most dominant institution on the planet Earth in our lifetime—a phenomenon all the more remarkable, if not downright frightening, when you consider that the corporation as we know it has been around for only about 150 years...
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