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Al Dunlap at Sunbeam
Authors: Hall, Brian J.; Khurana, Rakesh; Madigan, Carleen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
Al Dunlap was one of the best-known corporate turnaround artists of the 1990s. In 1996, he was hired at Sunbeam to effect a restructuring, but was fired almost two years later when the company's financial performance and stock price began to decline...
Veridian: Putting a Value on Values
Authors: Khurana, Rakesh; Podolny, Joel; Elias, Jaan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
While some CEOs would have welcomed the opportunity to sell their companies for a substantial premium over its current stock price, David Langstaff had not built Veridian – a medium-sized defense contractor -- to be a high flier in the stock market. Langstaff believed that he was building a "national asset" - a company dedicated to giving the nation's top technologists the opportunity to devise the best solutions to the nation's most pressing problems...
It’s Time to Make Management a True Profession
Authors: Khurana, Rakesh; Nohria, Nitin
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2008
A rigorous code of ethics will make you a better manager. Society will benefit, too.
Six Critical Conversations about Business and the Environment (HBR Green Conversation Report)
Authors: Bishop, Steve; Walker, Brian; Woody, John G.; Rose, Stuart; Samuelson, Judith; Khurana, Rakesh; Nohria, Nitin; Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
Environmental issues will shape the business landscape for decades to come, affecting areas such as competitive strategy, government and investor relations, supply chain, marketing, finance - even your ability to attract and retain people.
Veridian
Authors: Khurana, Rakesh; Podolny, Joel; Elias, Jaan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
The CEO of Veridian, a defense company, struggles with the decision of selling the company. Langstaff was concerned with how the prospect of selling the firm would square with Veridian's commitment to its constituencies and values-based leadership.
Sapient Corp. (Abridged)
Authors: Khurana, Rakesh; Podolny, Joel
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Focuses on the creative use of organizational purpose and values as an integral part of strategy and alignment of organizational activities.
AFL-CIO
Authors: Khurana, Rakesh; Weber, James
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
The AFL-CIO Office of Investigation advocates for improved corporate governance at public companies, focusing on the problems of excessive chief executive compensation, improperly backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions of boards. To advance its cause, the Office targeted Home Depot. This case illustrates how activist investors are affecting corporate boards by questioning the quality and practices of their governance practices.
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
Authors: Podolny, Joel; Khurana, Rakesh
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Interviews
Source: Harvard Working Knowledge
Publication Year: 2005
When research on leadership pays more attention to financial results than a person's ability to give the company a sense of purpose, something crucial is lost. Three Harvard Business School scholars are working to change the debate. A Q&A with Joel M. Podolny, Rakesh Khurana, and Marya Hill-Popper...
Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing?
Authors: Fisman, Ray; Khurana, Rakesh; Rhodes-Kropf, Michael
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School: Working Paper Series
Publication Year: 2005
Shareholder delegation of the power to fire the CEO to the board of directors is central to corporate governance. While the board ideally acts as desired by shareholders, board entrenchment may insulate a poorly performing manager from shareholders agitating for her removal...
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?
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