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- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
through her decision to publish. So it probably seemed like a no-brainer to send 2 fairly junior reporters to follow up on the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington. But that...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
to make the most of technology as a learning tool." Name: Deborah Winshel Title: SVP and CFO Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Annual visitorship: Over five million Favorite committee meeting to attend: Acquisitions Number...
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- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
Vancouver 2010 Olympics Harvard Business School Case 507-049 It is February 2007, exactly three years before Vancouver hosts the 2010 Winter Olympics. Judy Rogers, City Manager for the City of Vancouver and a member of the Board of Directors for Vancouver's Organizing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
ambitions. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/novartis-leading-a-global-enterprise/an/413096-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 414-028 Man Jit Singh at Sony Entertainment Television (A) Explores the role of CEO Man Jit Singh and his senior management View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
worked with committee members to examine every expenditure, from staff cell phones to printing costs to health care concessions. Trimming was necessary but not enough; unthinkable as it seemed, all librarian positions in the district...
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- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
group had generated. These ranged from stabilizing the company's current carbon emissions to complete carbon neutrality. The UBS Corporate Responsibility Committee would meet early next week. Suter wondered which option he should support....
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
That's what the BBC executive committee discovered in themselves when their charismatic chief departed. And that's the real magic—to make leadership appear from many unexpected places, just when it is needed. Leaders Supporting...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
(ForeEdge) The authors tell how an ad hoc, underfunded group of citizens worked together to challenge Boston boosters, the United States Olympic Committee, and the International Olympic Committee and derail Boston’s bid to host the 2024...
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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Because P&O operated some port terminals in the United States, DP World obtained clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States before P&O shareholders approved the...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Case 319-046 The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A) In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to decide whether to seek a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Geographic Society (Abridged) David A. Garvin and Annelena LobbHarvard Business School Case 312-120 In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Author:Stephen P. Kaufman Publication:Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008) Abstract After Kaufman became a CEO, he was struck by how perfunctory the board was in its feedback on his performance. The chair of the compensation View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
districts with high unemployment rates are less likely to be subject to an SEC enforcement action if the incumbent congressman serves on a committee that oversees the SEC. These findings suggest that voters' interests are reflected in SEC...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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...
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- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
sophisticated safeguards such as an independent ethics committee and a "whistle blower" system for employees concerned with the company's practices. In less than two decades, Sydney IVF grew from just four employees to over 200,...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of accelerating digital...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Republican senator from the state of Maryland. “I even knew which house I wanted to live in. I was unbecomingly ambitious at an early age.” Bradley, who attended Sidwell Friends School and Swarthmore College, was working for Nixon’s reelection View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
trusts through which all current and future asbestos claims will be channeled, allowing the company to survive as an ongoing business. However, the company and asbestos claimholders' committees materially disagree over the size of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
bowl, other years baskets of fruit and preserves. One time Charlotte and I were invited to a dinner at the Faculty Club, that would follow a meeting of the HBS Visiting Committee at which I was to make a presentation. When we accepted, he...
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Dean
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
defendants. The likelihood of being named is greater for audit committee members and directors who sell stock during the class period. Named directors receive more negative recommendations from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a...
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Anna Secino