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- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
Financial and Accounting Standards Board, new New York Stock Exchange rulings regarding board composition and other matters, and a Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility, and Transparency Act (CAARTA) by Congress. A... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
sidebar "Are Board Self-Evaluations Enough?") Separate The Positions Of Chairman And Ceo. This suggestion is hardly novel—in fact, splitting the positions is a common practice in many boardrooms... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt announced their "grave... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
Vietor noted, privatization was the dominant force in Europe. "In the past two decades," he said, "the public enterprise sector has been reduced to about 7 or 8 percent of GDP." Each of the three panelists in the session knew exactly whereof Vietor... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Business School Case 808-137 In late November 2000, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., the once-monopolized telecom operator owned by the Taiwanese government, was on its way to privatization. Mr. C.K. Mao, Chairman of the company, who headed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
However, in entrepreneurial companies, the board often tries to find ways the founder can remain within the company in a different role, such as remaining on the board or taking a lower-ranking executive... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
Transforming Verizon 2015: Going Above the Network n 2015, the Chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications reflects on his four years leading the company and considers strategic repositioning for the future. Meanwhile, a rising leader... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
tax shelters. These changes included a common compensation bonus pool for the entire firm and rewarding people for professionalism as much as for business development; strengthening governance by adding a lead director to the board, removing the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
music and K-drama television shows in Asian countries, Chairman Jay Lee, of the South Korean conglomerate CJ Group, believed that the time was ripe for taking Korean cultural content to the West. One initiative, carried out by the Group's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
made by its Board of Executive Directors. However, in any given year the majority of the Bank's member countries do not get a chance to serve on this powerful body. In this paper, we empirically investigate whether View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
Globalization By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51810 The Structure of Board Committees By: Chen, Kevin D., and Andy Wu Abstract—We document and analyze... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
coauthors are Walter Swap, professor of psychology emeritus and former chairman of the Psychology Department at Tufts University, and Gavin Barton, principal and founder of GB Performance Consulting. book excerpt Bank Of America's... View Details
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
a CEO's incentive to perform is in large part tied to what happens when he or she does not perform—a risk of getting ousted. But aligning a board to say we're going to start looking for someone else is a lot more complicated when the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
sustainability" companies-exhibit fundamentally different characteristics from a matched sample of firms that adopted almost none of these policies- termed "low sustainability" companies. In particular, we find that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
CEO, he convinces Kotagal to lead the hospital's improvement efforts as senior vice president of quality and transformation. Anderson, a practicing attorney with expertise in the quality improvement methods used by manufacturing firms, is joined by View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
former chairman Alan Greenspan for holding interest rates too low for too long, which inflated the housing bubble with cheap credit. And it scolds the SEC for allowing the credit rating agencies to operate like a cartel without... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Understanding Boards of Directors: A Systems Perspective By: Lorsch, Jay W. Abstract—In this essay, my goal is to explore why, despite the tireless efforts of talented people, research on corporate governance has been slow and uneven, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
results became as critical in this domain as it was for all business goals. Gerstner also modeled desired behaviors in his interactions with his direct reports. One of them told me this story: During a board of directors dinner, I had to... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
they merely added a new layer of legal obligations for governance without improving the quality of people serving on the boards or changing their behavioral dynamics. The author—formerly the president or View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne