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- 10 Jul 2020
- News
The Upside of Virtual Board Meetings
- 18 Jul 2011
- News
News Corp and Questions Boards Need to Ask
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
Hertz Investor Fir Tree Urging Board to Replace CEO
- December 1998
- Case
Australian Wheat Board Limited.: Becoming a Grower-owned Corporation
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
In July 1999, the Australian Wheat Board (AWB), a statutory national and international grain marketing organization, would become grower-owned. As a private corporation, the AWB would no longer receive government borrowing guarantees and would have to rely on its own... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Capital Structure; Globalized Markets and Industries; Monopoly; Employee Ownership; Competition
Goldberg, Ray A., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Cate Reavis. "Australian Wheat Board Limited.: Becoming a Grower-owned Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 599-070, December 1998.
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 07 Mar 2017
- Webinars: Career
Getting on Boards in 2017: Trends & Insights
As companies seek to address the challenges and opportunities brought about by digital disruption, driving global growth, and entering new markets, their boardrooms are also in transition. Board directors are looking around the table and recognizing the need to bring... View Details
- July–August 1996
- Article
The Board As a Change Agent
By: J. W. Lorsch
Lorsch, J. W. "The Board As a Change Agent." Corporate Board (July–August 1996).
- 31 May 2013
- News
York joins Harvard Board of Overseers
- 23 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Board Games: Timing of Independent Directors’ Dissent in China
Keywords: by Juan Ma & Tarun Khanna
- June 7, 2016
- Blog Post
The Value-Decreasing Effect of Staggered Boards
By: Alma Cohen and Charles CY Wang
Cohen, Alma, and Charles CY Wang. "The Value-Decreasing Effect of Staggered Boards." Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (June 7, 2016). https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2016/06/07/the-value-decreasing-effect-of-staggered-boards/.
- Blog Post
Reexamining Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value
By: Alma Cohen and Charles CY Wang
Cohen, Alma, and Charles CY Wang. "Reexamining Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value." Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (December 13, 2017). https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/12/13/reexamining-staggered-boards-and-shareholder-value/.
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
The Women Who Become Board Members
- 08 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family Business Needs a Board
- 31 Aug 2021
- News
Boards Need Real Diversity, Not Tokenism
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
Ask board members their most important duty, and they will likely say it is appointing and overseeing the CEO. Yet many boards fail to make appropriate choices, often because they don’t prepare candidates... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
Open the Wall Street Journal on any given day, and you are likely to find at least one story about how technology is disrupting yet another industry, and the pressures companies face to innovate. And yet, for board members of companies... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- October 1984
- Case
NIKE (E2): Board Taps New Members
Christensen, C. Roland, and David C. Rikert. "NIKE (E2): Board Taps New Members." Harvard Business School Case 385-035, October 1984.
- October 2003
- Article
The Determinants of Board Structure at the Initial Public Offering
By: Malcolm Baker and Paul Gompers
This paper describes board size and composition and investigates the role of venture capital in a sample of 1,116 firms' initial public offerings. First, firms backed by venture capital have fewer insider and instrumental directors and more independent... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Venture Capital; Initial Public Offering; Managerial Roles; Power and Influence
Baker, Malcolm, and Paul Gompers. "The Determinants of Board Structure at the Initial Public Offering." Journal of Law & Economics 46, no. 2 (October 2003): 569–598.
- 2009
- Chapter
Leadership: The Key to Effective Boards
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Lorsch, Jay W. "Leadership: The Key to Effective Boards." Chap. 1 in Boardroom Realities: Building Leaders Across Your Board. 1st ed. Edited by Jay A. Conger, 25–50. Jossey-Bass, 2009.