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- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
I find that government-owned bank lending tracks the electoral cycle, with agricultural credit increasing by 5-10 percentage points in an election year. There is significant cross-sectional targeting, with large increases in districts in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
because they believe that the chairman is trying to control the whole show, and so they feel left out. Going back 20 or 25 years, some of us came up with an alternative idea, the creation of a lead or presiding director. With that model, the independent View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
“Heroes List” of authentic leaders who are making a difference in overcoming the challenges of COVID-19: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been at the center of every virus... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
labor. One day in 1954, he was assigned to interview James P. Mitchell, President Eisenhower's secretary of labor. Mitchell was so impressed that he asked the young journalist to join him in Washington. Lodge accepted and soon became the Labor Department's View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
established to provide a continuing base for research and teaching in the field of entrepreneurship. Stevenson teaches the elective course Entrepreneurial Management and the doctoral course Basic Readings in Administrative Theory. He is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
create the elective course Product Management 101. Update: A former business operations intern at the software company Autodesk, Soheili recently landed a product manager job at design firm Homepolish. SS: What are the characteristics of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Turkey. When the video ends, Janice McCormick, director of Academic Services, flicks on the lights and leads the group on its first foray into case method learning. Despite McCormick's encouragement, it is an awkward exercise, marked by... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
corporate managers use information provision to encourage subsidiaries' adoption of advanced management practices. Focusing on the distribution of expertise across subsidiaries, we propose that corporate managers elect an information... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
one of the three most important issues facing managers and directors in 2006. He commented that, "Activist shareholders, led by hedge funds which today have aggregate assets of more than one trillion dollars and armed with the threat... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
property might fetch 20 percent more now, he adds. Like many other sectors in Greece, commercial real estate is on the rebound. It’s a direct response to the July 2019 national election in which Kyriakos Mitsotakis (MBA 1995) of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
has enough leverage to practice it. Boards of directors play an important role in championing the cause of stakeholders of all kinds. DF in AZ put it this way: “If a company promises a fundamental shift towards shareholder capitalism but... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
the California Institute of Technology in 1967. He received a bachelor's degree in engineering mathematics from Columbia University in 1966. He has served as president and director of the American Finance Association. Among Merton's... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
policy and urban redevelopment issues. When his boss moved on to another post, Jones filled the vacancy on the council and was subsequently elected to a four-year term. As a councilor, Jones enjoyed "getting streets paved, libraries... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
its board of directors — a quirky but powerful 23-member group that includes 11 annually elected Harvard and MIT students — on a restructuring plan that eliminated most nonbook merchandise. Barnes & Noble's... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
on a Tuesday at 2 p.m., who’s going to show up?” Agora, the online platform Sze launched last year, offers a place for citizens to interact with their elected representatives using everything from message boards to streaming video chats.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Americanas, with some 500 stores. In 1993, with Lemann and Telles, Sicupira founded GP Investimentos, a private equity firm that he led for eight years. Sicupira is the founder and also a director of Endeavor Brasil, a nonprofit that... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo
former students have invited him to their college graduations and baby showers). As the former co-president of the Harvard Latino Alumni Association, Acevedo actively advocated for Latinx students and alumni, and he currently sits on the board of View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
hard times after the dot-com meltdown in 2001, for example, Johnson—then chairman of the board—gave an inspiring pep talk. “We will not let this organization fail,” he told the directors and the staff, encouraging them not to give up on... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
from shareholders than directors in a benchmark sample. They are also more likely than other independent directors to leave sued firms. Overall, shareholders use litigation along with View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- Web
Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos | Baker Library
the board of directors at the Cambridge Settlement House, which provided social services to the urban poor and campaigned for social justice, and she volunteered at Jobs Clearing House, a job placement program for African Americans. In... View Details