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- 12 May 2009
- News
Schumer's Shareholder Bill Misses the Mark
- 07 Jun 2018
- News
Bill Ackman on what it means to be an activist investor
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Covid-19 Is Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Governance
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Who Was George F. Baker?
newspaper reporter since 1863,” the year he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the First National Bank of New York (now Citibank) at age 23. Baker believed in action, not words. And his actions spoke volumes. He began... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
emissions from the entire state of Florida every year for the next nine years" for the White House, key US agencies, state capitals, business leaders, and Congress to meet the Paris Agreement goal of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
layoffs. Even so, I remember someone pointing at me in a bar, and we hustled out of there. It certainly left a taste in my mouth of the power of strategy and thought, but I felt really bad about it.” The tension between straight-ahead View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
In 1984, two board members of the Walt Disney Company (WDC) — Stanley Gold and Roy Disney — mounted a targeted campaign to convince major shareholders that Michael Eisner and Frank Wells were the right team to lead the faltering... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
on shifting the balance of power in the boardroom away from management. Senator Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Shareholder Bill of Rights Act, introduced May 19, casts shareholders as the antidote to runaway... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
organizations, Nolan says, technology has so thoroughly penetrated every aspect of the business that its activities, strategies, and functions have become transparent, thereby circumventing any possibility of the disorienting dot vertigo (symptoms of which include lack... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Adventure in China
her initial enthusiasm was tempered when she arrived at the School. “I had only worked on projects in a state plan but I was being told about shareholder value, equity, and management,” she recalled. “It was... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
declared. “That caused the credit markets worldwide to seize up. The system went into a state of shock.” With Lehman’s abrupt demise, Thain suddenly faced the possibility that his own troubled firm, Merrill Lynch, could be next. “To... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
Raised in Seoul, Yu came to the United States when he was 13. After majoring in computer science in college and following a stint as an engineer, he returned home and reclaimed his Korean nationality. Knowing that he wanted to become a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
the unique juncture at which the United States now finds itself, with many speakers urging their audience to get involved in the issues of the day. The event also featured some twenty sessions led by HBS faculty on a variety of subjects... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A lifetime investment in the entrepreneurial spirit
to entrepreneurs ‘We've been where you're going,’ and really mean it.” Bowes was also the founding shareholder of Amgen and its first chairman and treasurer. Prior to founding USVP, he had success as a venture capitalist with companies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
flourished as did the nation’s social enterprise organizations. Today, the United States has more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations, and they account for 5 percent of GDP. Annual contributions have grown faster than the economy... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
United States but have nonetheless benefited greatly from an education at this eminent worldwide business school." Initiated last year to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan (announced at Harvard in 1947), the Andreas... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
buzz. Of course, high positions still provide opportunities; a President of the United States has a bully pulpit and can use it to command attention. But attention will be ephemeral if his actions don’t earn respect. Hierarchy’s last... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
detergent part of Benckiser public. Subsequently, in 1999, this company merged with Reckitt & Colman, forming Reckitt Benckiser. The new firm thrived, reaching a total shareholder return of 16.5 percent per year over a period of 10 years.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
more than 15,000 children in ten states and the District of Columbia. When they came to Bridgespan, HCZ and Youth Villages both ran successful programs that faced difficult organizational and strategy challenges impeding their growth.... View Details