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- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
of the class discussion, which enables students to reflect on concrete managerial implications of the analysis. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/918041 Harvard Business School Case 118-047 PrimeStone Capital and dormakaba London-based View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes represents a substantive or merely symbolic approach to governing working conditions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
investments in green building expertise by local suppliers. These findings suggest that government procurement policies can accelerate the diffusion of new environmental standards, which require coordinated complementary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
Global Impact Wellington Global Impact is one of the first public equities impact investing strategies in the market. The case explores how the strategy was developed at Wellington, including an analysis of the culture that supported its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
many people I could mentor. That’s what [Fitzhugh] devoted his life to, and that’s what still inspires many of us today.” “I think of Naylor Fitzhugh as an incredibly bright star and business innovator,” adds Tsedal Neeley, the chair’s current holder. “He was also an... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
this offer. In light of this recent news, the two private equity firms had come back to the Board with a revised offer. Now the Board must decide if it thinks the new proposal will satisfy the institutional shareholders, one of which is an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609027 Kmart and ESL Investments (A) Harvard Business School Case 209-044 A major bankrupt retailer is poised to emerge from Chapter 11. Two activist hedge funds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53646 January–February 2018 Harvard Business Review The New CEO Activists By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Though corporations have been lobbying the government and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
founder of Celtel, which when sold had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers across Africa, and Ela Bhatt, Indian activist and founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India. The interviews, many on video, are intended to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
$2.5+ million investments have been augmented by two other substantial funders: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides grants for “authentic experiential learning for K-12 audiences through "Meaningful Watershed... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
organizations that design these programs, the companies that are investing resources to adopt them, and those that are relying on them to infer the quality of management practices. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
companies with detailed data on how CEOs allocate their time, which we define as their span of attention. CEOs with larger executive teams do not save time for personal use or to cultivate external constituencies. Instead, CEOs with broader spans of control View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
participation, improve representation of marginalized groups, and increase the average level of competence and informedness of the population. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50729 Do CEO Activists... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
farm that produced olives, including Kalamata table olives. Alexandra had invested in the expansion of her farm in anticipation of the evolution of her market from domestic trade in Australia to international export. There was, however, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
unpopular and very costly war in Iraq. Meanwhile, countries that used to be called "less developed" became emerging markets, and have invested much more in the development of talent than we have. So there are also concerns about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
portrayed by the takeover artists and shareholder activists of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as by business school professors influenced by the work of scholars such as Oliver Williamson and Michael Jensen, as incompetent at best, and... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
capital market and regional development. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411081-PDF-ENG Carl Icahn and Clorox Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen DuranteHarvard Business School Case 412-078 This case outlines the takeover attempt by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Oaxaca City, local activist Gustavo Esteva, a founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, gave us a crash course in Zapotec culture, a way of life for the area’s indigenous people who first settled the Oaxaca valley thousands of... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
sales people. The article discusses reasons for that gap, the implications, and an example of what one leadership team did to link better its business strategy with sales investments and behaviors. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
(OPM 30, 2001) and Blair S. Walker Wiley This is the true story of resolute immigration lawyer and activist Loida Lewis, beginning with her adventure-packed Philippine upbringing. A torrid love affair with brilliant, irascible financier... View Details