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- September 2024
- Case
Board Director Dilemmas: The Tradeoffs of Board Selection
By: David G. Fubini, Suraj Srinivasan and Patrick Sanguineti
After retiring from a long and successful career in financial auditing, Linda McGill looked forward to the prospect of joining a board. She felt the time was right to leverage the breadth of her experience while fulfilling one of her long-term goals. Though somewhat of... View Details
Keywords: Board Decisions; Corporate Boards; Boards; Board Networks; Cost vs Benefits; Governing and Advisory Boards; Retirement
Fubini, David G., Suraj Srinivasan, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Board Director Dilemmas: The Tradeoffs of Board Selection." Harvard Business School Case 425-023, September 2024.
- July 2020 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
Board Diversity at Amazon (A)
By: Aiyesha Dey and Anu Atluru
The case revolves around the decisions that the board of directors of ecommerce giant Amazon would need to make in response to the controversial letter that activist shareholder CtW investment group sent to Amazon’s shareholders, urging them to vote in favor of a... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Boards; Governing and Advisory Boards; Diversity; Gender; Race; United States
Dey, Aiyesha, and Anu Atluru. "Board Diversity at Amazon (A)." Harvard Business School Case 121-012, July 2020. (Revised March 2021.)
- March 2020 (Revised May 2020)
- Case
Board Director Dilemmas—Family Affairs
By: David G. Fubini, Suraj Srinivasan and Amram Migdal
This case focuses on a new director who must help resolve a disagreement between two generations of leaders in a family business. The case raises questions of the proper role and approach for a director trying to manage a legitimate disagreement between shareholders... View Details
Fubini, David G., Suraj Srinivasan, and Amram Migdal. "Board Director Dilemmas—Family Affairs." Harvard Business School Case 120-103, March 2020. (Revised May 2020.)
- March 2020 (Revised May 2020)
- Case
Board Director Dilemmas—Incorrigible CEO
By: David G. Fubini, Suraj Srinivasan and Amram Migdal
This case focuses on a new director who, along with fellow directors, struggles with the inappropriate behavior of an otherwise competent—even brilliant—founder and CEO. This case is part of a series of vignettes that capture different dilemmas faced by directors as... View Details
Fubini, David G., Suraj Srinivasan, and Amram Migdal. "Board Director Dilemmas—Incorrigible CEO." Harvard Business School Case 120-102, March 2020. (Revised May 2020.)
- March 2020 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
Board Director Dilemmas—Pushing Senior Management
By: David G. Fubini, Suraj Srinivasan and Amram Migdal
This case explores a new board director who wants more detail from the management team than his fellow directors are willing to press for. New board director Sam Pesca is frustrated that CFO Alex Marotta provides only a minimal two-page financial summary at board... View Details
Fubini, David G., Suraj Srinivasan, and Amram Migdal. "Board Director Dilemmas—Pushing Senior Management." Harvard Business School Case 120-084, March 2020. (Revised September 2020.)
- July 2024
- Case
Board Director Dilemmas: Strategic Leadership
By: David G. Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti
Professor John Michaels, a distinguished scholar of corporate strategy, has served on the Board of OmniCo, a diversified industrial giant, for four years. Three months ago, the Board appointed a new CEO, Andrew Bennett, to lead growth, develop a more cooperative... View Details
- March 2020 (Revised May 2020)
- Case
Board Director Dilemmas—Sharing Expertise
By: David G. Fubini, Suraj Srinivasan and Amram Migdal
This case focuses on a new director who was invited to the board specifically due to her expertise in a technical area. The case allows for discussion of the board director’s appropriate role: to advise and direct management or to ask thoughtful questions about... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Experience and Expertise
Fubini, David G., Suraj Srinivasan, and Amram Migdal. "Board Director Dilemmas—Sharing Expertise." Harvard Business School Case 120-101, March 2020. (Revised May 2020.)
- Research Summary
Board Governance
By: Paul M. Healy
I examine how the internal operations of boards, including how they select new directors, how they interact with each other and the CEO, and how they review their performance, affect their governance effectiveness View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors
- March 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
Board Director Dilemmas—Digging into Detail
By: David G. Fubini, Suraj Srinivasan and Amram Migdal
This case explores a new board director who asks a detailed question about a footnote in the lengthy board packet distributed to directors by management. The case allows for discussion about the amount of information and level of detail provided by management, the... View Details
Fubini, David G., Suraj Srinivasan, and Amram Migdal. "Board Director Dilemmas—Digging into Detail." Harvard Business School Case 120-100, March 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
- 2013
- Chapter
Who Chooses Board Members?
By: Ali Akyol and Lauren Cohen
We exploit a recent regulation passed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to explore the nomination of board members to US publicly traded firms. In particular, we focus on firms’ use of executive search firms versus allowing internal members (often... View Details
Keywords: Boards; Boards Of Directors; Executive Search Firms; Governance; SEC Regulation; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Executive Compensation
Akyol, Ali, and Lauren Cohen. "Who Chooses Board Members?" In Advances in Financial Economics, Vol. 16, edited by Kose John, Anil K. Makhija, and Stephen P. Ferris, 43–77. Emerald Group Publishing, 2013.
- February 2021
- Case
Board Director Dilemmas—New Year, New Timing
By: Suraj Srinivasan, David G. Fubini and Amram Migdal
This case focuses on a junior partner at a private equity (PE) firm who sits on the board of one of the firm’s portfolio companies. In the case, the board member asks the CEO to accelerate a cost-cutting initiative and looks to a seasoned industry veteran who is also a... View Details
Srinivasan, Suraj, David G. Fubini, and Amram Migdal. "Board Director Dilemmas—New Year, New Timing." Harvard Business School Case 121-043, February 2021.
- February 2021 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Board Director Dilemmas—Back the SPAC?
By: Suraj Srinivasan, David G. Fubini and Amram Migdal
This case focuses on a board director of a diversified holding company. The firm’s longtime CEO had always exhibited a cautious, methodical approach to growth. Now, the CEO is raising the idea of joining with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to spin off... View Details
Srinivasan, Suraj, David G. Fubini, and Amram Migdal. "Board Director Dilemmas—Back the SPAC?" Harvard Business School Case 121-042, February 2021. (Revised April 2021.)
- Web
Becoming a Board Member - Alumni
Careers Becoming a Board Member Careers Becoming a Board Member Interested in joining a board? Similar to a job search, you’ll need to make connections with the right people to find a board that fits your interests. Start Networking Start by identifying potential... View Details
- February 2014
- Supplement
Pixability: Managing a Corporate Board
By: Noam Wasserman
"Bettina’s Board Walk" examines the board management methods of Bettina Hein, Founder-CEO of Pixability, Inc., as she prepares for and conducts a standard board meeting. The case is designed to give students an understanding of the delicate dynamics inherent in board... View Details
Wasserman, Noam. "Pixability: Managing a Corporate Board." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 814-702, February 2014.
- 2016
- Working Paper
The Structure of Board Committees
By: Kevin D. Chen and Andy Wu
We document and analyze board committee structures utilizing a novel dataset containing full board committee membership for over 6,000 firms. Board committees provide benefits (specialization, efficiency, and accountability benefits) and costs (information... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Board Committees; Specialization; Accountability; Information Segregation; Overloaded Directors; Multi-commitee Directors; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Accounting; Corporate Governance
Chen, Kevin D., and Andy Wu. "The Structure of Board Committees." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-032, October 2016.
- April 2015
- Teaching Note
The Board of Directors at Market Basket
By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague
Teaching Note for the Board of Directors at Market Basket Case. View Details
- April 2019
- Technical Note
A Note on Boards in VC-Backed Ventures
What is the value of a Board, and why does a company need one? The note documents the formal role of a Board of Directors as going beyond simply acting as legal representation of corporate ownership. Moreover, this role changes as the company moves through different... View Details
Keywords: Founders; Business Startup; Board; Board Of Directors; Business Startups; Governing and Advisory Boards; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship
Ghosh, Shikhar, Ramana Nanda, Suraj Srinivasan, and Terrence Shu. "A Note on Boards in VC-Backed Ventures." Harvard Business School Technical Note 819-128, April 2019.
- August 2013
- Case
Pixability: Bettina's Board Walk
By: Noam Wasserman and Yael Braid
Description: Bettina Hein, founder-CEO of Pixability, is meeting with her board of directors to discuss her startup's fundraising prospects and the recent strategic pivot. Though Bettina loves the entrepreneurial exhilaration of "riding a rollercoaster every day,"... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Board Of Directors; Power And Influence; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation
Wasserman, Noam, and Yael Braid. "Pixability: Bettina's Board Walk." Harvard Business School Case 814-021, August 2013.
- October 2021
- Article
Board Design and Governance Failures at Peer Firms
By: Shelby Gai, J. Yo-Jud Cheng and Andy Wu
Our study introduces board committees as a crucial determinant of board actions. We examine how directors who structurally link different board committees—referred to as multi-committee directors (MCDs)—explain why some board actions are merely symbolic while others... View Details
Keywords: Board Committees; Board Monitoring; New Director Nomination; Peer Financial Restatements; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Performance Effectiveness
Gai, Shelby, J. Yo-Jud Cheng, and Andy Wu. "Board Design and Governance Failures at Peer Firms." Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 10 (October 2021): 1909–1938.
- October 2021
- Article
Directors' Perceptions of Board Effectiveness and Internal Operations
By: J. Yo-Jud Cheng, Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Rajesh Vijayaraghavan
We contribute to the growing literature on the effectiveness of corporate boards by examining the effect of two insights that have been largely unexplored in prior studies that use public data. First, since boards’ responsibilities are wide-ranging, more holistic... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Performance Effectiveness; Perception
Cheng, J. Yo-Jud, Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, and Rajesh Vijayaraghavan. "Directors' Perceptions of Board Effectiveness and Internal Operations." Management Science 67, no. 10 (October 2021): 6399–6420.