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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...
DaimlerChrysler: Post-merger News
Authors: Bansal, Pratima; Airey, Doug; Gepp, Andy; Harris, Cathy; Menard, Yves
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
Daimler-Benz AG, a large automobile manufacturer in Europe and the Chrysler Corporation, one of the Big Three auto makers in North America have merged to create DaimlerChrysler. On the surface, everything seemed to be going as planned. In reality, all was not well.
Turning Around Organizations in a Crisis: The Case of Two Major Alberta Orchestras
Authors: Bansal, Pratima; Ewart, Tom
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
In 2002, both the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Calgary Philharmonic faced financial crises that threatened their existence. Both organizations provided similar programming, had approximately the same revenues and were well rooted in their communities, which were of similar populations. However, the turnaround approaches taken by the boards of the two organizations were starkly different.
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.
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.
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 Sloan Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Author: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Notes
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education's Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Publication Year: 2007
Since 2003, The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education received funding from the Sloan Foundation to underwrite its Corporate Governance and Accountability Project, which aims to influence prevailing models of corporate governance and theories of the firm, as they are understood and taught by business school faculty.
A Closer Look at Business Education: The Stakeholder Approach in Accounting and Finance
Author: Shattuck, Rachel
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
As part of Aspen CBEs “Corporate Governance and Accountability” project, which was funded by the Sloan Foundation, Aspen CBE in 2008 collaborated with Jane Cote and John Becker-Blease—at the time, both faculty at the College of Business at Washington State University-Vancouver (WSUV)—to produce two extended teaching modules that focus on integrating the stakeholder perspective into MBA-level courses in the Accounting discipline and the Finance discipline.
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.
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