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  • Research Summary

Corporate Governance

By: Charles C.Y. Wang

The characteristics and structure of boards of directors have important implications for firm performance. Professor Wang has found that firms with well-connected boards whose members have strong network connections provide economic benefits that are not immediately... View Details

  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Portraits from the Class of 2003

Leadership Award for involvement with MBA Career Services MS in Strategic Management: Hautes Études Commerciales, Paris Judo: brown belt Previous Job: special assistant to the director of purchasing,... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

conditions may be in the not-too-distant future. Amid such daunting constraints, Erling Lorentzen (MBA 6/'48), chairman of the board of Aracruz Celulose S.A., the world's... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Portraits from the Class of 2003

New England Conservatory, piano; Yale, psychobiology Speaks: French, Hebrew HBS Show: musical director (2002); writer (2003) Last Summer: associate producer, A Hole in One, Beech Hill Films Previous Career:... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

    F. Warren McFarlan

    Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details

    Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; nonprofit industry
    • 16 Dec 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

    HBS research associate Brian DeLacey, are studying the processes of mentoring and coaching in entrepreneurial environments. Leonard and DeLacey discuss their findings with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

      Rohit Deshpande

      Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; airline; banking; beauty products; beverage; financial services; home video games; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; tourism; video games
      • 05 May 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

      coupled with regular meetings of the independent directors is critical to the independent directors' ability to function effectively as a counterweight to management. When interviewing candidates for CEO,... View Details
      Keywords: by Carla Tishler
      • 01 Oct 2000
      • News

      The Class of 1975 in Review

      longtime HBS Alumni Board member Jed Bullard. But most of us, I think, would have to say that HBS changed us. It gave us added confidence in our abilities, a close-knit network... View Details
      Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
      • 01 Jun 2006
      • News

      Profiles from the Class of 2006

      president and had attended Georgetown, that’s where I set my sights.” Brown soon established herself as a student leader at Georgetown. One of the university’s board members, Lloyd Campbell, then a managing... View Details
      Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

        Archie L. Jones

        Archie Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, where he currently teaches Venture Capital and Private Equity, Field... View Details

          Malcolm P. Baker

          Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.

          His research is in the... View Details

          Keywords: asset management; biotechnology; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds); shipping; transportation
          • 01 Apr 1997
          • News

          HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

          business community," Graves said, "continues to reserve the real positions of power for white males." But Graves, who serves on the Board of View Details

            David G. Fubini

            David G. Fubini is a Senior Lecturer in the Organizational Behavior Unit and leader of the Leading Professional Services Firm and Mergers & Acquisitions Programs for Harvard Business School’s Executive Education. His MBA teaching has concentrated on teaching the... View Details

              Das Narayandas

              Das Narayandas is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His academic credentials include a Bachelor of Technology degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), a Post-Graduate... View Details

              Keywords: advertising; beauty products; biotechnology; computer; electrical equipment; electronics; entertainment; federal government; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; internet; management consulting; manufacturing; marketing industry; professional services; retailing; telecommunications; transportation
              • 10 Jul 2007
              • What Do You Think?

              How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

              "servant leadership." Without hesitating, he asked an associate to get him some cleaning materials and proceeded to get down on his hands and knees to soak the coffee out of the carpeting while his... View Details
              Keywords: by Jim Heskett

                Leemore S. Dafny

                Leemore Dafny is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration and the Mary Ellen Jay and Jeffrey Jay Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Dafny is an applied microeconomist whose... View Details

                Keywords: health care
                • 10 Nov 2008
                • Research Event

                Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

                number of which offer Internet access. What these statistics suggest is that "the most precious currency today is information," said panelist Jim Breyer, an early investor in Facebook and a View Details
                Keywords: by Martha Lagace
                • 19 Jul 2011
                • Research & Ideas

                Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

                firm that discreetly interviews (not for attribution) a number of employees who interact with the senior executives being reviewed. I have directly observed this board-directed process in several situations and, in my experience, it has... View Details
                Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

                  James I. Cash

                  Professor Cash received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Texas Christian University; a Master of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University's Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Management Information... View Details

                  Keywords: accounting industry; computer; e-commerce industry; financial services; health care; information technology industry; software