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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
This is my first letter to you in my capacity as president of the HBSAA Board of Directors. I am honored to carry on the work View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49
Every HBS class has its “war stories.” In recent decades, they’ve been about takeover battles on Wall Street or crashing and burning in Silicon Valley. For the MBA Class of 1949, however, View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
knew how important he was — and to many it seemed a sure waste of money because it could not possibly be effective. Who, after all, could compete with Sidney Weinberg or with any View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 2012
- Working Paper
No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events
By: Jiao Luo, Stephan Meier and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
One of the benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs, it has been argued, is that they build up a reservoir of public good will, shielding companies in times of trouble. In this paper, we test the view that CSR provides protection from public ire by... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Crisis Management; Media; Newspapers; Business and Community Relations; Corporate Strategy
Luo, Jiao, Stephan Meier, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-091, April 2012.
- December 2010
- Article
Rating the Ratings: How Good are Commercial Governance Ratings?
By: Robert M. Daines, Ian D. Gow and David F. Larcker
Proxy advisory and corporate governance rating firms (such as RiskMetrics/Institutional Shareholder Services, GovernanceMetrics International, and The Corporate Library) play an increasingly important role in U.S. public markets. They rank the quality of firm corporate... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Markets; Rank and Position; Quality; Business and Shareholder Relations; Voting; Change; Information; Outcome or Result; United States
Daines, Robert M., Ian D. Gow, and David F. Larcker. "Rating the Ratings: How Good are Commercial Governance Ratings?" Journal of Financial Economics 98, no. 3 (December 2010): 439–461.
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
to report on the Board's activities and to encourage you to provide feedback. Last year, under Cathy's energetic leadership, the Board divided into three committees, each one taking on a broad issue View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
paid when deals are done, and the fever pitch of auctions. And guarding against these pathologies is a critical role for senior management. Gerdeman: What are the most View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
about butts in seats—it’s about helping people learn and make progress in life. That experience set me on a trajectory to convert a passion for education into my career. Now I am leading a transformation at View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
published by Wharton School Publishing, demonstrated that the public companies in this group returned 1,026 percent for investors over the 10 years ending June 20, 2006, while View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 31 Mar 2022
- Op-Ed
Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services
legal services, Eden McCallum in management consulting, and Gerson Lehrman in expert services present themselves as platforms that bring together professionals and clients. As in other platform settings, scale is important because View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the center of a network that provides rich opportunities for professional and intellectual growth. For me, that network has also been important because View Details
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
example, often mask narrow but important pain points—areas of major dissatisfaction—such as unhappiness with poor customer service or long wait times. They can also mask backsliding against competitors;... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
News of the death this week of Steve Jobs reverberated around the world. And the Harvard Business School campus... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
As you read this, many of you will be returning from HBS and the celebration of your class reunion. Knowing how special these events can be, I trust you had a great time --... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA 1964)
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
the case is not centered on dictating to students a particular value system; rather, it begins to reveal to them the importance of understanding... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
greatest source of wealth for most families. In this interview Segel discusses the importance and fascination of real estate, and three View Details
- 21 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
HBS and the Arts
like a CEO and consider all components of what makes a business thrive – operations, the underlying financials, the importance View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
experiencing,” says Amabile, who gathered and analyzed the data with the help of HBS research associates and doctoral students, ultimately writing View Details
- 08 Aug 2006
- Working Paper Summaries