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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
director of all operations in Kibera, is leaving to go to graduate school. Rye Barcott, founder and president, has a new career and a growing family and can no longer play an active role in CFK's operations.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
increased five-fold between 1997 and 2007. We construct and analyze a panel of Mexican bank financial data covering this period and find no evidence that foreign entry increases the availability of credit.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
billion and more than 66,000 employees. With Chambers’s retirement imminent, Cisco’s board of directors must design a detailed succession process that will allow a smooth... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
on practical measures that businesses can implement to create shared value. Originally published in an online forum hosted by Harvard Business Review, it offers valuable advice about how CEOs, other senior executives, and boards View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
Sustainability companies. The boards of directors of High Sustainability companies are more likely to be formally responsible for sustainability,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
will want to convince your company to develop an innovative product. Perhaps you will want to convince your board of directors that it is worth developing a new market segment.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
couldn’t persuade his own executive team and board of directors that whatever package he ultimately agreed to with Moore was a reasonable one, even though an acquisition View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
of America Acquires Merrill Lynch (A) Robert C. Pozen, Charles E. BeresfordHarvard Business School Case 310-092 On December 22, 2008, Bank of America (BofA) chairman and CEO Ken Lewis convened a special... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
board as part of a business venture before the revolution, it's doubly important now. Libya looks like a classic revolution, with barricades and battles. Gaddafi has lost control View Details
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
Danner was about to make his first presentation to the board of directors of Codon Devices, a one-year-old biotechnology start-up based in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
further thought: "Does increasing transparency and visibility of the ratios help increase the ability for shareholders and boards to make better choices?" He commented, "One View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
M. Viceira, the George E. Bates Professor and senior associate dean for International Development at Harvard Business School. “That raises the question, who is exercising control in these corporations?” In traditional mutual funds,... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
privatization garners attention in industries whose importance, infrastructure, and enormous capital needs once put them under the comfortable control of their governments. Historically, observed HBS professor Richard Vietor in his... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
809-073 The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is one of the largest and fastest-growing pools of investment capital in the world and follows an unusually active program... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
lower risk levels for banks that employ bank managers with higher equity stakes. Our evidence also suggests that external shareholders affect risk taking via directors representing their interests. We also demonstrate that regulation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
in the first place,” Lloyd wrote. Bealeader commented: “ leadership training is too often: (1) an infrequent, if not one time, event, and (2) offered to a select few.” In citing the pressures of market norms, Clark & View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
the East and the Pacific Northwest. However, the recent expansion in ethanol production is changing the pattern of grain flow along with stimulating the local farm economy. SDWG's management and producer View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
with bankruptcy for executives and boards of directors has diminished, among other stakeholders it has come to be viewed as merely a vehicle for corporations to circumvent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace