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Should You Join the Family Business?

The decision to join a family business can be difficult because once you're in, you're in for the long haul. You can leave IBM with two-weeks notice. But mixing blood and money means you are committing big time to Johnson's Distributors or Jones and Sons Auto Repair. ...

Tags: Corporate Law, Business Operations, Finance, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Family Governance, Family Business, Sean Silverthorne

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Corporate Boards Responding More To Shareholders

Thanks to the Enron-style management lapses and collapses, shareholders suddenly find their collective voices being heard more than ever by boards of directors. For any investor who has ever suffered through an annual meeting, you know that shareholder proposals almost routinely get shot shot down by directors,...

Tags: Finance, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Shareholder Proposal, Shareholder, Director, Board, Sean Silverthorne

Blog posts 2008-03-10

From Baseball to Accounting: Why We Encourage Unethical Behavior

It may not be right, but we often overlook unethical behavior in others. In a recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Max Bazerman and colleagues explain the psychological reasons why this is so, and what companies can do about it. The paper, See No Evil: When...

Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Management, Finance, Business Operations, Financial Services, Operational Accounting, Leadership, Real Estate, Accounting, Behavior

Blog posts 2008-01-28

Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn't Pay (Usually)

Your mama told you that good deeds will be rewarded. But in the emerging area of corporate social responsibility, or CSR, it's far from clear that socially responsible companies are rewarded financially in the marketplace, according to researchers. "While doing good doesn't appear to destroy shareholder value,...

Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Finance, Business Operations, Management, Financial Accounting, Leadership, Corporate Law, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Shareholder

Blog posts 2008-01-09