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Presents summaries for the The Moral Leader course.

Provides a brief introduction to fiscal policy, including the fiscal multiplier. Uses Ireland's experience in the 1980s to explore the possibility that fiscal contractions--tax rises and expenditure costs--can stimulate economic growth (contrary to conventional Keynesian wisdom) via confidence effects and the establishment of a credible framework for fiscal stability over the medium term. A rewritten version of an earlier note.

The importance of responsible value creation is indisputable for society. How could we argue that the well-being of future generations is not important? The disagreement is with the role of corporations in this process. This technical note offers two sides of the argument of whether corporations should be involved in addressing societal issues. The purely economic argument says that a responsible corporation is one which fulfills its fiduciary duty to shareholders to maximize profits. The ethical argument is that corporations are morally obliged to give back to the societies in which they exist. Using a sustainability argument, this note shows that there does not have to be a trade-off between economics and ethics. There exists a compelling business case for corporations to operate in the overlapping area of our model where activities are both financially profitable and socially and environmentally responsible. Not only does this middle ground exist, but the activities in this area are likely to generate long-term stable profits and result in a higher level of employee, shareholder and corporate well-being.

Provides a general description and overview of U.S. law on insider trading, including the basic theories of liability, the responsibilities of securities firm managers to prevent and detect insider trading, and the potential penalties for insider trading. A rewritten version of an earlier note.

M&A experts view communications as the most important activity to manage during post-merger-integration (PMI efforts).

This note discusses excellence in postmerger integration (PMI) communication, which results from applying many of the same principles that generate success in other forms of corporate communication.

Great strategists rely heavily on numbers as they go about their work. Offers an overview of the high- and low-brow quantitative tools that students encounter during the Strategy course. The class explores high-brow tools in detail; the focus here is on low-brow calculations. Such calculations come up often in class but because they seem so simple, they get little airtime or explanation. From past class experience, roughly 20% of the students in each section come into the course with the intuition and experience to do these simple calculations themselves. The other 80% understand the calculations after they see them and grasp their value, but don't spot the opportunities to do the math themselves, before class.

This note provides an overview of China's IT industry, using Michael's Porter's "Diamond of National Advantage" framework. Specifically, it assesses how China uses its factor conditions, demand conditions, related and supporting industries, and the context for firm strategy, structure, and rivalry to achieve a competitive position in IT. The note was developed as a companion to "The Competitive Advantage of China" (GSB No. IB-57), which provides a more detailed analysis of China's political, economic, and social history, as well as an evaluation of the country's national competitiveness using the Porter framework.

The PELP Coherence Framework is designed to help district school leaders identify the key elements that support a district-wide improvement strategy, bring those elements into a coherent relationship with the strategy and each other, and guide the actions of people throughout the district in the pursuit of high levels of achievement for all students. The Framework is intended to help school district leaders effectively implement their strategy by strengthening coherence among actions at the district, school and classroom level, and ultimately, improve student performance at scale. Achieving high-performance at scale--in every school, for every student in a district-- is an imperative for school systems given today's heightened accountability environment. The framework emerged out of interactions with hundreds of U.S. public school leaders eager to identify ways to better organize and manage their complex organizations. Although it resembles models used in the business and nonprofit sectors, the framework was designed to fit the unique context and challenges of managing in public education.

All complex systems have four distinct hierarchical design levels: system objectives, architecture, interfaces, and components. Each level has a distinct design question associated with it. Distinguishing among these levels and understanding the questions associated with each offers insight into the evolution of products and markets as well as the principles by which organizations should be structured to accomplish each task. The first section of the note contains examples that illustrate the four levels of complex-product design and how each level cascades naturally to the next. The second section discusses the implications of the hierarchy in terms of project management, product evolution, and market evolution. The third section introduces the idea that a similar framework of hierarchical design levels can be used when thinking about the design of complex processes.

Presents class summaries for the The Moral Leader course.

An introduction to the internal control process from a managerial perspective.

Outlines the conceptual framework, module structure, and service flow of an MBA course on professional services.

Discusses the compensation of professionals--partners and nonpartners--in a professional services firm. Discusses the considerations that determine the choice of compensation systems and the interrelationship between compensation and other human resources management systems in professional services firms.

Provides information on the foreign exchange market and exchange rate movements. Describes the different types of foreign exchange transactions, including spot transactions, forwards, swaps, futures, and options. Includes worked examples to help students understand the different instruments and an appendix with additional exercises. A rewritten version of an earlier note.

Money laundering is not an activity far removed from the corporate world; in fact, many organizations are unwittingly drawn into the web of money laundering with often damaging results. This note traces the history of money laundering, explores the different stages in the money laundering process, and investigates the growing phenomenon of cyber-laundering. Its intent is to raise awareness of the phenomenon as it relates to the corporate world and to help inform corporate personnel and business students how it might affect their workplace and their work lives.

Discusses issues involved in the job interview process. Teaching Purpose: To assist in career planning.

Discusses the process of generating implications from life themes, a necessary step for completing the Self-Assessment and Career Development final paper.

Provides insights and observations into the process of analyzing and choosing a job offer. Teaching Purpose: To assist in career planning.

The hedge fund industry has been in existence for several decades. However, it is still considered as an alternative investment and it is not well understood by many investors. This note provides a background description of hedge funds as well as illustrations of some of the various strategies that are employed by hedge funds managers including relative value, event-driven, and directional strategies.