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- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
1982 by Martin Lipton, of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, and Katz. Pills are considered the most effective of all the normal defenses against a hostile bidder. Describes the two basic types of poison pills (flip-ins and flip-overs), and...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
and not just inside the Beltway. At HBS, a group of MBAs last spring crafted and sent to Washington a bold proposal to create a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College to employ and train a cadre of professional directors...
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by Roger Thompson
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Management Division at Babson College, teaching organizational behavior courses to undergraduates, MBA students and executives. Professor Opie obtained her Ph.D. in Management (with a concentration in organizational behavior) in May 2010...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
most part, failed or even backfired (see chart on facing page). Nonetheless, the reform debate is fully engaged, and not just inside the Beltway. At HBS, a group of MBAs last spring crafted and sent to Washington a bold proposal to create...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
later known as the “dean of black businessmen.” Fitzhugh encouraged Lambert to apply to HBS, where she was the first African American woman to attend the School during the early years of women’s acceptance into the two-year MBA Program....
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- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director of the HBS Europe Research Center Vincent Dessain...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
problems involved in establishing and operating new enterprises. The course is intended primarily for students who contemplate going into business for themselves." The first course devoted to entrepreneurship established at HBS, MNE, in various incarnations, remained a...
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- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
improved diversity. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52703 Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation By: Gompers, Paul A., Kevin Huang, and Sophie Q. Wang Abstract—We study the role of homophily in group formation. Using a unique...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
in the first phase of online advertising will only accelerate in the future. A Total Marketing Environment Dollar totals for ad purchases, however, tell only part of the story. Martin Sorrell (MBA '68), chief executive of the London-based...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
as well as organizations and institutions around the globe, including in his home country of Canada. McArthur’s association with HBS began in 1957 when he arrived on campus from Vancouver. His standout performance in the MBA Program led...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
as did reports on the expansion of Baker Library's collection, the continuing development of the case method, and, farther afield, the gathering of war clouds over Europe. Early in 1940, new Bulletin editor Boyce F. Martin (MBA '30)...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
appeared in 1925, Harvard Business School has sent forth tens of thousands of MBA and Executive Education graduates into the world. As managers, leaders, and entrepreneurs, the School's alumni body collectively has had an impact on...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
trained to fill the role of the natural mother. Villages also run K-12 schools, vocational facilities, and medical centers in many countries, especially in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Kash Rangan first heard about SOS-KDI from Martin...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
economy, while freshly minted MBAs see magic in founding something new. Yes, startups look magical, but they can also be chaotic and inaccessible. Many books are written for those who aspire to be founders, but a company only has one or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
adapting the skills and practices of entrepreneurship for the public sector,” he says. Before joining the HBS faculty and creating the MBA course Public Entrepreneurship, Weiss was chief of staff to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. In 2010,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Staats, who sold Posita in 2003. “But I realized I still had a lot to learn about business.” So he followed his younger brother, Bradley (MBA ’02), to HBS. Comparing MBA studies with Ph.D. work, Staats notes, “Few experiences here have...
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- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708499 Name Your Price: Compensation Negotiation at Whole Health Management (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-064 MBA student Monroe Davies is asked by a potential employer to determine his own...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Courses by Title - Course Catalog
Fritz Foley Fall2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors General Management, Organizational Behavior Lynn Paine Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA (LIFE) Organizational Behavior Leslie...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Roger Provost (HBS MBA 1980), chief marketing officer for Canadian-based Vincor, as he develops Inniskillin's initial marketing strategy within Canada. Goes on to detail Inniskillin's challenges as it enters other markets, initially...
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Sean Silverthorne