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  • 08 Sep 2022
  • News

Your Family Business Needs a Board

  • 02 Dec 2016
  • News

Why There Aren't Women On Boards -- And Why There Should Be

  • 23 Aug 2016
  • News

7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

  • 31 Aug 2021
  • News

Boards Need Real Diversity, Not Tokenism

  • Teaching Interest

Governing for Nonprofit Excellence (Executive Education, Faculty Chair)

This Executive Education course, an HBS Social Enterprise Initiative program, is designed to maximize the contributions of individual nonprofit board members. Participants are challenged to examine their role and the role of their boards in improving organizational... View Details
  • 19 Aug 2014
  • News

Can Political Pressure Save The Market Basket Board From Itself?

  • November 29, 2011
  • Article

The Role of The Board in Creating a Sustainable Strategy

By: Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
While conceptually elegant, the belief that a corporation's role is to maximize value for shareholders is under increasing challenge as society's expectations for companies change. An equally elegant new concept that takes account of these dual pressures has yet to... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Expectations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Practices and Processes; Decisions; Risk and Uncertainty; Cost vs Benefits; Information
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  • January 2015
  • Supplement

Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards. An Interview with Sarah Naudé and Matt Stanley

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2011, Telecom, the largest telecom provider in New Zealand, was being divided into two publicly traded companies. In connection with this split, Sarah Naudé and Matt Stanley worked with the chairman of Telecom, Wayne Boyd, to create two new boards of directors for... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Women's Empowerment; Governance; Leadership; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Structure; Decision Making; Human Resources; Diversity; Telecommunications Industry; New Zealand
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  • June 2005 (Revised January 2007)
  • Case

The Board of Directors at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Ashley Robertson
Examines the resignation of Philip Purcell as chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley as a result of poor performance and cultural problems, as well as his relationship to the board of directors. View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Corporate Governance; Resignation and Termination; Performance; Rank and Position
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  • Mar 28 2018
  • Testimonial

Accessing a World of Knowledge About Boards

  • 11 Sep 2018
  • News

Bringing Government Up to Code

government starting with people who need it the most, and the way that we approach that is through the intersection of government and technology.... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2021
  • News

How Boards Can Help Build Trusted Companies

  • September 2015 (Revised February 2016)
  • Supplement

Novell (B): Board of Directors Aftermath of Hedge Fund Attack

By: Richard L. Nolan
No corporation and its board of directors is immune to a disruptive shareholder activist attack. The Novell (A) and (B) cases take students through a shareholder activist attack and its aftermath—a saga that spanned 5 years. The cases outline the activist playbook in... View Details
Keywords: Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Decision Making
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  • October 2010
  • Teaching Note

Target Corporation: Ackman versus the Board (TN)

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Suraj Srinivasan
Teaching Note for 109010. View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Governing and Advisory Boards; Conflict and Resolution; Voting; Investment Activism
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  • 10 Feb 2020
  • News

Top Boards Do These 4 Things Differently

  • 2016
  • Working Paper

What Factors Drive Director Perceptions of Their Board's Effectiveness?

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Richard Ellis Crum
We use a survey of directors to collect data on their ratings of board effectiveness as well as board internal dynamics and key processes. Controlling for many of the governance metrics examined by prior research, we find that directors’ ratings of their boards’... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Performance Effectiveness; Perception; Risk Management
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  • April 2024
  • Article

An Integrative Model of Hybrid Governance: The Role of Boards in Helping Sustain Organizational Hybridity

By: Anne-Claire Pache, Julie Battilana and Channing Spencer
Hybrid organizations must sustainably attend to multiple goals embedded in different institutional spheres. Past research has highlighted the value for hybrids in recruiting board members representing different logics to avoid attentional drifts; yet, diverse boards... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Business or Company Management; Organizational Structure
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  • Article

Oversight and Delegation in Corporate Governance: Deciding What the Board Should Decide

By: M. Useem and A. Zelleke
Keywords: Corporate Governance
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  • Web

Expanding Perspectives Across Board Leadership - Alumni

candidates; Fostering discussions about diversity in the boardroom and effective governance; Distributing relevant content and resources and highlighting HBS alumni in the... View Details
  • 16 Sep 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Real Duty of the Board of Directors

financial results are material. But if employees are also a significant audience, then human capital issues become material as well. The Statement, a simple one-page annual declaration by the board, is values-neutral. The board can decide... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans