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- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
impact with Jeannette Wagner, former vice chair of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. and member of the HBS Board of Dean's Advisors. Wagner recommended that they send a copy of the case to Leonard Lauder, chairman of Estée Lauder. The chain... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
available for these projects. JH: Naina Lal Kidwai continues to do her work at the intersection of business, government, and the environment, serving on numerous boards in addition to continuing in her role as chair of the ISC. She says... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
stressors of the HBS model is speaking in class. The learning team gave me a sounding board to try out a comment before bringing it to class. I was always more confident in discussing a topic in section that had been fleshed out by the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
conditions may be in the not-too-distant future. Amid such daunting constraints, Erling Lorentzen (MBA 6/'48), chairman of the board of Aracruz Celulose S.A., the world's largest producer of eucalyptus market pulp, with 25 percent of... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
Boston Consulting Group has written about “leapfrog” promotion: “Corporate boards of directors are increasingly reaching down below the second layer of management to name new chief executive officers,” Torres writes. “A leapfrog leader,... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
with many American investors and board members (as I explain in this ABC x Nightline documentary), faces wild scrutiny over its international subsidiary, TikTok. It is a strange world when its two leading powers contest the future of a... View Details
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Business School and Harvard University, and its and their officers, governing board members, faculty, employees, agents and representatives, from and against any present or future claims, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses for injury... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
information to shareholders). FANUC’s CEO, Yoshiharu Inaba, and his board must decide if and how to respond. One the one hand, the firm had been very successful having built leading global market shares in each of its core divisions and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
scholars, and business historians. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/gjones/papers/Jones%20%20Friedman%20Flyer.pdf The Future of Boards Author:Jay W. Lorsch ed. Publication:Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
School Case 411-074 The AIG Board underwent significant restructuring after the company was bailed out by the U.S. government in September 2008 in the midst of the financial crisis. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
These changes relate to: advisory notes by shareholders, refinements to board structure, non-disclosure on compensation and tightening up of certain enforcement provisions. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for several proxies for earnings and stock return performance suggesting that boards appear to penalize managers for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
time, but somehow the cost of keeping them on board has been justified. The existence of an analyst who provides research on a particular company is attractive on several grounds. The primary source of revenue that is arguably related to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
highest-paid CEOs in 2011 through 2014, Clifford explains how board directors and compensation committees have directly contributed to the rising salaries and bonuses of the country’s richest CEOs and argues that those companies could... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) has just made its third bid to acquire Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC), one of the largest railroads in the United States. Having rejected the prior offers, NSC’s CEO James Squires and the NSC board must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
when taken on board by the president and Democrats. Roberts' decision rested on an interpretation of the mandate as a tax. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/714029-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Commencement 2013 Address | About
problem. It would have been easy for us to try something less ambitious—to try FIELD out with just a section or two. I vividly remember coming back from a meeting of our Board of Dean’s Advisors where they had told us we were trying to do... View Details
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
Online program are added to the HBS Online Community's Official Networking Group and gain exclusive access to events and other networking opportunities. Description of silent animated video above: Learner types an answer in the discussion View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição (where she continues to serve as a board member), Diniz had already launched a consulting business but was ready to move on. “I’m very results-oriented, very practical,” she says. “I wanted to invest... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
heartened to see that many of our alumni are leading these efforts. In my own work, I have observed growing interest from boards of directors in tackling environmental issues as well as the tremendous social challenges of racial equity... View Details