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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
have died.” Chan, who hails from the People’s Republic of China, obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. In 1994, she was named Director of Health for Hong Kong, where she began her public-health... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Retail Chain By: Deller, Carolyn, Susanna Gallani, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—We analyze the effects of a field experiment introducing a values-based 360-degree assessment system at an Indian retailer. The director intended to encourage... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
couldn’t persuade his own executive team and board of directors that whatever package he ultimately agreed to with Moore was a reasonable one, even though an acquisition of Metasploit would come with no meaningful revenue and considerable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
409-021 Padraic Kelly became Managing Director (MD) of the engineering services firm Buro Happold in 1996. One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size where... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709021-PDF-ENG Sustainability at Millipore Harvard Business School Case 610-012 This case describes Millipore Corporation's approach to becoming a more environmentally sustainable company. As he prepared for his quarterly meeting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
directors who exert pressure to really change failing companies. Unfortunately, it often takes a crisis, which then leads to a new chief executive. One of the chapters in our book, by Donald Sull of London Business School, develops a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
him are heroes, plain and simple, because they have the capacity to change the world for the better. “Tim recognizes the difficulty of effecting change, and the need to celebrate the people who do that work,” says Jennifer Fonstad (MBA 1997), a managing View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Ogden, who serves as co-managing director with Leiman. “Whenever we came to a decision point during the start-up phase we would joke with each other, ‘They’re at the end of the A case, they’re looking at each other in despair, what do... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- Blog
Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
together quite nicely. When I came on board, Jen Eliason, our associate director of diversity, inclusion and belonging, was the only person in the School with a formal DEI role. Soon after I started, she and I launched a search for a... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
David F., Eric C. So, and Charles C.Y. Wang Publication:Journal of Accounting & Economics Abstract Firms with central or well-connected boards of directors earn superior risk-adjusted stock returns. Initiating a long position in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) to prevent such failures from happening again. The new rules looked promising. The majority of a board's directors now had to be independent. And senior executives were required to conduct annual assessments of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-082.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAlan Kendricks at Cardiology Associates Harvard Business School Case 407-067 Alan Kendricks struggles to address many challenges facing him as a recently promoted medical View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
had the kind of in-depth look it deserves, yet it is at the core of a number of the problems we've seen. The board of directors and its compensation committee determine the compensation of the CEO in our system. Yet too many companies in... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
Business School. She co-founded and was founding chair and director of the Harvard University-wide Advanced Leadership Initiative. She is author or co-author of 20 books including her most recent, Think Outside the Building: How Advanced... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
science and public policy. Her subsequent career has followed those passions. Prior to joining Fermata Energy, Claire served as a co-founder of solar energy services provider SunEdison, which developed the groundbreaking power purchase agreement for the solar industry.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
in social enterprise pursuits for the past twenty years, Scoon is the lead director of the Tufts Health Plan and has served in key positions in town government and in his church. "Being part of the Tufts Health Plan has been a great... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
writes Bob Gardella in the introduction to his book, The Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job. "It is also one of the most feared, misunderstood, and mishandled activities, even by otherwise intelligent, accomplished people." Gardella, who is... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
Philanthropies, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s (MBA 1966) charitable foundation. At Bloomberg, he co-led and expanded the Mayors Challenge, a $9 million prize competition to inspire American cities to develop bold solutions to common challenges. Today,... View Details
- 12 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
2+2er Pursues HBS/HKS Joint Degree
Director of Strategy and Analytics at the NYC Department of Education. I learned more about the amazing change that can be catalyzed from the intersection of business and government. It was then that I also decided to apply and was... View Details