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- 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
- 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016
director Tommy Kail, and producer Jeffrey Seller met to discuss how to launch Hamilton, a new musical based on the life of the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, Alexander Hamilton. With a hip-hop score and an ethnically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron’s board of directors have failed to detect the business, ethical, and legal risks embedded in the company’s aggressive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
McGinn believe that negotiation skills are crucial to closing the gender gap in leadership. Riley Bowles, who earned her doctoral degree from Harvard Business School, is an assistant professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. McGinn is a professor and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
expressed in its earlier statement. The new statement includes the following: In the Business Roundtable’s view, the paramount duty of management and of boards of directors is to the corporation’s stockholders; the interests of other... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
chairman of the Federal Reserve and now a top economic adviser to President Obama, led the committee that wrote the report. G30 members included Treasury Secretary Geithner and Larry Summers, Treasury Secretary in the Clinton administration who now serves as View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
Limited Companies Act in order to achieve greater representation of women on corporate boards. According to the amendment, all state-owned companies and public limited companies were required to have at least 40% women on their boards. This case uses firsthand accounts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
two network surveys supported these hypotheses. Cases & Course MaterialsAFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A) (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 309-101 Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308002 North Goes East Harvard Business School Case 208-136 In August 2006, Magnus Lofgren and Robert Provine, managing directors and co-founders of the "North Real Estate Opportunities Fund,"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
decision making, and judgments in carrying out the work of the modern corporation. A most fortuitous event in starting the project was the engagement of our research assistant who has a theater academic background and experience as a scriptwriter and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
health benefits under the leadership of then CEO Michael Critelli and Corporate Medical Director Jack Mahoney. The case provides an overview of the history of employee health benefits in the U.S. and at Pitney Bowes. The range of health... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: In 2008, Jim Langford (MBA 1984) became the executive director of the Georgia Meth Project, a nonprofit that blanketed his native state with a graphic,... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
case details the origins and development of KP. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317106-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-035 Waze Connected Citizens Program Di-Ann Eisnor, director of growth at Waze,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
effect is most pronounced when all of the fund's directors are independent, not the 75 percent level of independence required by the SEC. Higher-paid target fund boards are less likely to approve across-family mergers that cause... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
therapy, before he unfortunately passed away early this year. Recently, our field study team was looking to interview cardiologists. After a few e-mails, we found ourselves at Brigham and Women’s Hospital yesterday, talking to the View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
and managing director at BCG Digital Ventures, Walter Delph (MBA 2003) works with companies to develop apps, connected devices, and online content—including video—that will engage customers on a level that goes beyond the straight sell.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
Instructions for Poppie Santoni, Director Ian LarkinHarvard Business School Case 912-040 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912040-PDF-ENG New England Apple Slices Deishin Lee... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
will only increase as hospitals learn all it can do. Once they learn, they tend to incorporate Watson quickly. For instance, at the University of North Carolina’s teaching hospital, Watson moved from a novelty assisting doctors to the standard of care in six months,... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
look at its purpose and what it was giving back to the public,” says Lewis Braxton III (PMD 66, 1993), who recently retired as deputy director of NASA’s Ames Research Center and is now pursuing a position with a space startup. Over the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley