Ensuring Corporate Misconduct: How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation
Jan/120
Ensuring Corporate Misconduct: How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation
Shareholder litigation and class action suits play a key role in protecting investors and regulating big businesses. But Directors and Officers liability insurance shields corporations and their managers from the financial consequences of many illegal acts, as evidenced by the recent Enron scandal and many of last year’s corporate financial meltdowns. Ensuring Corporate Misconduct demonstrates for the first time how corporations use insurance to avoid responsibility for corporate misconduct, dangerously undermining the impact of securities laws.
As Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith demonstrate, this need not be the case. Opening up the formerly closed world of corporate insurance, the authors interviewed people from every part o
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Law and Ethics in Global Business Integrating Corporate Governance into Business Decisions
Jan/101
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I would have no hesitation in recommending it to students in future. This interface of business ethics, business law and business practice is becoming a key focus for both business schools and law schools. – Professor Thomas Clarke, Director, Centre for Corporate Governance, UTS Sydney
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This book provides comprehensive and, above all, business focused guidance on the fundamentals of business law and how they should be integrated into ethical and effective business decisions. It concentrates on legal principles and thereby is able to articulate the impact of global business law and its international applications and provides a comprehensive overview of the legal and ethical principles which both facilitate and regulate corporate business.
The author combines the expertise of a long-term blue chip law background with the insights of an experienced business educator. Law and Ethics in Global Business is both a comprehensive course book for MBA study and an invaluable business reference source for any executive involved in global business.
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
Jan/101
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Corporate Governance at the Crossroads: A Book of Readings
Dec/090
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Behind today’s startling global spate of corporate scandals lies an even more alarming breakdown in corporate governance. Corporate Governance at the Crossroads features 40 articles by leading scholars and practitioners that examine the role of directors, controversial compensation plans, accounting and reporting issues, and more. Roundtable discussions highlight recent realities and concerns, along with possible solutions.
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Donald H. Chew (New York, NY) is a founding partner of Stern Stewart Management Company.
Stuart L. Gillian is a research economist with the TIAA-CREF Institute.
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Basic Training: The Language of Corporate Education Education, Book 1
Nov/090
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Harvard Business Review on Corporate Governance
Sep/091
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The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series brings managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. Gathered in a highly accessible format are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for forward-thinking businesspeople worldwide.
Corporate governance can raise many difficult leadership, strategy, and policy questions within an organization. Harvard Business Review on Corporate Governance is an essential reference, focusing on both policy and strategic challenges, for senior managers working with boards or dealing with governance issues.
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Since 1984, Harvard Business School Press has been dedicated to publishing the most contemporary management thinking, written by authors and practitioners who are leading the way. Whether readers are seeking big-picture strategic thinking or tactical problem solving, advice in managing global corporations or for developing personal careers, HBS Press helps fuel the fire of innovative thought. HBS Press has earned a reputation as the springboard of thought for both established and emerging business leaders.
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Harvard Business Review on Corporate Responsibility
Aug/095
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Harvard Business Review on Corporate Responsibility
What and whom is a business for? This collection of articles gathers the latest thinking on the strategic significance of corporate social responsibility. Readers will develop an understanding of why businesses should continue to give money away even while laying off workers, how companies play a leadership role in today’s social problems by incorporating the best thinking of governments and nonprofit institutions, and how community needs are actually opportunities to develop ideas and demonstrate business technologies. Readers will see how corporate responsibility can lead to new markets and solutions to long-standing business problems.
The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series
The series is designed to bring today’s managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe.
About the Author
Since 1984, Harvard Business School Press has been dedicated to publishing the most contemporary management thinking, written by authors and practitioners who are leading the way. Whether readers are seeking big-picture strategic thinking or tactical problem solving, advice in managing global corporations or for developing personal careers, HBS Press helps fuel the fire of innovative thought. HBS Press has earned a reputation as the springboard of thought for both established and emerging business leaders.
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