Non-executive Chairman - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
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From Beirut With Love (A)

By: Christina R. Wing, Esel Y. Cekin and Samer Al-Rachedy

This case describes how Robert Fadel, CEO and chairman of ABC, one of Lebanon’s leading retail and real estate groups, professionalized the family business. Robert was the second son of the company’s founder, Maurice Fadel, who had run it single-handedly. Concerned... View Details

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Khalid Al Rumaihi

Khalid Al Rumaihi, Executive Chairman of Amriya Group W.L.L., discusses his leadership style- engaging differently in executive and non-executive roles and delegating tasks with an efficient strategy. View Details

September 2018
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From Beirut With Love (B): The Last Judgment

By: Christina R. Wing, Esel Y. Cekin and Samer Al-Rachedy

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dollarDEX (1998-2007)

Retired chief executive, non-executive chairman

One of world's top 30 in online finance (Institutional Investor, March 2003). Wealth management firm in Asia, and has... View Details

John A. Quelch

John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

Keywords: advertising; broadcasting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; health care; high technology; marketing industry; media

13 May 2002
Op-Ed

A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures

also hold the position of chief executive officer. Where the CEO and the chairman are the same person, a lead director should be chosen from the non-executive directors. The View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting

20 Apr 2015
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India Conference 2015

The day ended with an excellent keynote panel on women’s empowerment in emerging India with Rahul Bose, Kiran Bedi and Renana Jhabvala as the panelists. Mr. Sajjan Jindal, MD & Chairman of the JSW Group with the opening keynote kicked... View Details

05 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction

from the perennial objection that having two leaders is confusing, those opposed to this idea undoubtedly cite situations where a separate board chair hasn't worked. But the fact of the matter is, it has worked well in Great Britain. Rather than making the... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey

01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds of Lehman’s independent directors were hardly suited to overseeing... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

01 Sep 2005
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London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS

Future.” Other plenary speakers included Ann Moore (MBA ’78), chairman and CEO, Time Inc.; Sir Martin Sorrell (MBA ’68), chief executive, WPP Group plc, and GLF alumni chair; Antony Burgmans (AMP 101, 1987), chairman, Unilever, N.V.; and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2011
What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

objective observer, non executive board members) serves as an effective moderator of (thinking fast) on the part of executives. The relationship between the Independent Non-Executive Chairman of a Board and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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