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  • September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
  • Case

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
Keywords: Family Conflicts; Sibling Rivalry; Second-generation; Foundation; Trust; Work-life Balance; Succession Planning; Corporate Culture; Shareholders; Board Of Directors; Retail; Department Store; Shopping Mall; Real Estate; Growth; Non-executive Chairman; Sustainability; Family Business; Conflict Management; Management Succession; Governance; Leadership; Transformation; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Management; Growth and Development; Retail Industry; Real Estate Industry; Lebanon; Middle East
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  • September 2018
  • Supplement

From Beirut With Love (B): The Last Judgment

By: Christina R. Wing, Esel Y. Cekin and Samer Al-Rachedy
Keywords: Family Business; Family Conflicts; Sibling Rivalry; Second-generation; Foundation; Trust; Governance; Work-life Balance; Leadership; Leading Change; Transformation; Succession Planning; Management; Organizational Structure; Corporate Culture; Shareholder; Board Of Directors; Retail; Real Estate; Shopping Mall; Department Store; Growth; Lebanon; Middle East; Non-executive Chairman; Sustainability
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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
    • 20 Apr 2015
    • Blog Post

    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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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 Sep 2005
    • News

    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