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- December 2020
- Supplement
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government of Tulsa to pay reparations for the massacre. In...
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Keywords:
Cost Vs Benefits;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Race;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values And Beliefs;
corporate Accountability;
corporate governance;
Policy;
governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
government Legislation;
government And Politics;
government Administration;
Lawsuits And Litigation;
Legal Liability;
Leading Change;
Mission And Purpose;
corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Conflict And Resolution;
Conflict Management;
Loss;
Motivation And Incentives;
Perspective;
Prejudice And Bias;
Civil Society Or Community;
Social Issues;
Welfare;
Tulsa;
Oklahoma;
United States
- December 2020
- Teaching Note
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government of Tulsa to pay reparations for the massacre. In...
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Keywords:
Cost Vs Benefits;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Race;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values And Beliefs;
corporate Accountability;
corporate governance;
Policy;
governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
government Legislation;
government And Politics;
government Administration;
Lawsuits And Litigation;
Legal Liability;
Leading Change;
Mission And Purpose;
corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Conflict And Resolution;
Conflict Management;
Loss;
Motivation And Incentives;
Perspective;
Prejudice And Bias;
Civil Society Or Community;
Social Issues;
Welfare;
Tulsa;
Oklahoma;
United States
- December 2020
- Article
Multinational Firms and the Politics of International Trade in Multidisciplinary Perspective
By: Grace A. Ballor and Aydin B. Yildirim
From the technical analyses of wide ranges of scholars to the public discourse backlashes against globalization, there is a huge volume of work historicizing, quantifying, and problematizing the complex role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in international trade....
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Nonprofit Boards: It Is time to Lift Your Gaze and See the System
By: Shamal Dass, Kristy Muir and V. Kasturi Rangan
Nonprofits the world over have faced significant crises in 2020, leaving them and their constituents in precarious positions. Responses to these crises have demonstrated incredible agility. However, they have also demonstrated that the first two levels of governance...
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- November 2020
- Case
Integrating Beam Suntory (A)
By: David G. Fubini, Rawi Abdelal and David Lane
The spring 2014 acquisition of U.S. alcoholic spirits maker Beam Inc. by Japan’s Suntory Holdings vaulted Suntory from 15th to third-largest international spirits company in the world. Yet Suntory had borrowed nearly the entire $16 billion purchase price, and relied on...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Communication;
Borrowing And Debt;
Globalization;
corporate governance;
governing And Advisory Boards;
Retention;
Leadership;
Supply Chain;
Organizational Structure;
Ownership;
Relationships;
Conflict And Resolution;
Integration;
Value Creation;
Food And Beverage Industry;
Japan;
United States;
Chicago
- November 2020
- Supplement
Integrating Beam Suntory (B)
By: David G. Fubini, Rawi Abdelal and David Lane
Supplements (A) case: The spring 2014 acquisition of U.S. alcoholic spirits maker Beam Inc. by Japan’s Suntory Holdings vaulted Suntory from 15th to third-largest international spirits company in the world. Yet Suntory had borrowed nearly the entire $16 billion...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Communication;
Borrowing And Debt;
Globalization;
corporate governance;
governing And Advisory Boards;
Retention;
Leadership;
Supply Chain;
Organizational Structure;
Ownership;
Relationships;
Conflict And Resolution;
Integration;
Value Creation;
Food And Beverage Industry;
Japan;
United States;
Chicago
- October 2020
- Supplement
TowerBrook: ESG in Action (B)
By: Victoria Ivashina, Brian Trelstad and Meaghan Conway
This case is the second of a two-part series that follows Ramez Sousou and his team at TowerBrook Capital Partners as they face a challenging investment decision in February of 2013. It is intended to be distributed at the end of the of the discussion of “TowerBrook:...
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- October 2020
- Case
TowerBrook: ESG in Action (A)
By: Victoria Ivashina, Brian Trelstad and Meaghan Conway
This case is the first of a two-part series that follows Ramez Sousou and his team at TowerBrook Capital Partners as they face a challenging investment decision in February of 2013. Since its founding, TowerBrook has prided itself on its purpose-driven investing...
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Keywords:
Esg;
Finance;
Private Equity;
corporate governance;
Value Creation;
Investment;
Decision Making
- October 27, 2020
- Blog Post
Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
- October 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Digging for Gold: Paulson & Co.'s Activism in the Gold Sector
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Jonah S. Goldberg
The case describes the efforts of hedge fund Paulson & Co to influence corporate governance and improve performance in the gold industry. In an innovative move, the hedge fund led the creation of the Shareholder Gold Council, a consortium of large investors in gold...
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- October 2020 (Revised December 2020)
- Case
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government of Tulsa to pay reparations for the massacre. In...
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Keywords:
Cost Vs Benefits;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Race;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values And Beliefs;
corporate Accountability;
corporate governance;
Policy;
governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
government Legislation;
government And Politics;
government Administration;
Lawsuits And Litigation;
Legal Liability;
Leading Change;
Mission And Purpose;
corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Conflict And Resolution;
Conflict Management;
Loss;
Motivation And Incentives;
Perspective;
Prejudice And Bias;
Civil Society Or Community;
Social Issues;
Tulsa;
Oklahoma;
United States
- 2020
- Working Paper
The European Commission's Sustainable Corporate Governance Report: A Critique
By: Mark Roe, Holger Spamann, Jesse Fried and Charles Wang
In July 2020, the European Commission published the “Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance” by EY. The Report purports to find evidence of debilitating short-termism in EU corporate governance and recommends many changes to support sustainable...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
Investor-driven “short-termism” is said to harm EU public firms' ability to invest for the long term, prompting calls for the EU to better insulate managers from shareholder pressure. But the evidence offered—in the form of rising levels of repurchases and dividends—is...
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- October 6, 2020
- Article
COVID-19 Is Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Governance
By: Lynn S. Paine
Boards are facing a complex new reality as a result of COVID-19. The new environment is characterized by pressures and demands from various stakeholder groups, heightened expectations for societal engagement and corporate citizenship, and radical uncertainty about the...
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- October 2020
- Case
COVID-19 Testing at Everlywell
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull
In March 2020, as COVID-19 spreads rapidly across the U.S., Everlywell founder Julia Cheek considers how to respond as a small start-up specializing in at-home lab testing. After making dramatic budget cuts, she decides to pivot the organization to address the...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Business Strategy;
Venture Capital;
Health Care And Treatment;
Health Disorders;
Leading Change;
Technology Adoption;
Technology Platform;
Competitive Strategy;
Science;
Adaptation;
corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Crisis Management;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Ethics;
government Legislation;
Health;
Health Testing And Trials;
Health Pandemics;
Consumer Products Industry;
Health Industry;
Technology Industry;
Texas;
United States
- Fall 2020
- Article
Business Credit Programs in the Pandemic Era
By: Samuel Gregory Hanson, Adi Sunderam, Jeremy C. Stein 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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- October 2020
- Case
Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress
By: Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner
In Israel of 2020 the demand for software engineers was endless. Meanwhile just miles away, Palestinian universities were graduating 3,000 engineers a year, and many of them could not find jobs in the still nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers
By: Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates, Josh Lerner, Richard Townsend and Yulia Zhestkova
The treatment of foreign investors has been a contentious topic in U.S. entrepreneurship policy in recent years. This paper examines foreign corporate investments in Silicon Valley from a theoretical and empirical perspective. We model a setting where such funding may...
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- September 2020
- Case
Keeping It in the Family at the Hayden Saw Company
By: V.G. Narayanan and John Masko
In 2019, Board Chair and third-generation shareholder Helen Fullerton was preparing for a meeting to discuss Ohio-based Hayden Saw Company’s (Hayden) future as a family business. As the company entered its fifth decade, the Hayden family was dealing with three distinct...
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