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- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
Frankel in Moscow (A): Unfreezing Change Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew BirdHarvard Business School Case 312-070 A young and upcoming French executive in a global technology company is sent to Moscow as deputy managing director to turn... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Oceanbulk-Maritime-S-A---/an/914416-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 414-044 Houston We Have A Problem: NASA and Open Innovation (A) Jeff Davis, director of Space Life Sciences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
Egypt or across Africa, or invest in the hospital. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-021 Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Technology & Innovation This case... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
of votes a single shareholder could have to restrictions on the number of family members who could act as directors simultaneously," Musacchio says. We interviewed Musacchio about the research findings that underpin his new book,... 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
- First Look
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
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
panelists where search competitors could gain the most distinct advantage. "I think for us at Yahoo right now, we see an opportunity in helping users manage their personal information," said Bradley Horowitz, director of Yahoo's... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
including Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (1998). A'lelia Bundles, director of talent development for ABC News, and author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madame C. J. Walker (2001) served as the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
of faculty who are already involved in cross-Harvard collaboration: Daniel Schrag, the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard, and the Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment; Forest Reinhardt, the John D.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
HBR, Stewart was editorial director of Business 2.0, where he set editorial policy, developed story ideas, wrote feature articles on management trends, and penned a Web column, "Barely Managing." Stewart also served as a member... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
around the world, the company's current business model (selling Sel-Plex as an ingredient) did not allow it to participate in the value created. Lyons and Alltech's directors must choose between three different options for Sel-Plex, which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
414-031 United Rentals (B) In April 2012, Jenne Britell, the chairman of the board of directors of United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) was preparing her notes for an upcoming stockholders' meeting. It was a meeting unlike most other meetings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
selecting, interviewing, onboarding, developing, and engaging these real talented people in the unreal virtual world. About the Authors Sarah Abbott is a research associate at Harvard Business School. Boris Groysberg is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
will want to convince your company to develop an innovative product. Perhaps you will want to convince your board of directors that it is worth developing a new market segment. This exercise helps students practice the skill of getting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
Recruiting Andrew Yard (A) Brian J. Hall, Nicole S. Bennett, and Sara del NidoHarvard Business School Case 911-028 This case describes a compensation negotiation between a global HR director and a candidate for a high-level executive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
Clinton administration who now serves as director of the President's National Economic Council. While they recused themselves from the G30 deliberations, both have since voiced support for a systemic risk regulator, as have Fed Chairman... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
Governance When Founders Are Directors Authors:Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne