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Mission-Driven Governance

By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation

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05 Oct 2020
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Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

or free time and family? Soon after settling into her dream job, Whillans worked and traveled constantly, but her partner was miserable, with no job or friends nearby. During one work trip, the couple was fighting long distance, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Financial Aid - Alumni

1984) and Denise Dupré Keen to bridge the worlds of business and engineering and catalyze HBS-SEAS collaborations, the couple endowed a fellowship for students in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program. Your Gift Matters $250 $500... View Details

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

Sooner or later, every company runs into challenges that force them to make tough trade-offs during the innovation process. Harvard Business School associate professor Rory McDonald calls these moments “tensions.” The streaming service Netflix, for instance, has faced... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

02 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

between us and some other firms relates to how we think about the CEO. A couple of years ago, we analyzed our successful companies across multiple dimensions. The one trait of all our successful companies was that the CEO we backed at... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Barley

01 Dec 2023
News

Action Plan: Life Study

of a cliff. I asked myself, What can I do to keep my wife interested and alive? With that objective in mind, I started the watercolor class and invited eight of her friends to join.” When Merrill died in 2017, Hartley struggled to find a new focus. The View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Nov 2016
Blog Post

The Benefits of a Residential Campus

a more immersive experience during your two years here. There’s a naive kind of bliss to allowing work and play to fully intertwine again. I completely understand the desire to live off campus if a partner needs to (there are many options on the HBS campus for View Details

01 Jan 2012
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E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

served as a doctor there). HBS students study in the Stamps Reading Room at Baker Library, and the couple has funded a professorship, residency programs, a speakers’ series, a gallery, and an auditorium at the University of Michigan... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm

world’s largest producers of wallboard for the construction industry. Both are active on boards and in their community and are particularly interested in issues related to education, arts and culture, and community improvement. The couple... View Details

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

trading, took over leadership from Peter Peterson in 1983. [15] Glucksman placed a greater emphasis on trading versus investment banking, causing tensions between the two divisions. The firm experienced a decline in profits coupled with a... View Details

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

"Self-regulation" increasingly rings like a mantra in business. Just think of topics in the news over the past couple of months, such as the Italian fashion industry's move toward self-regulation to discourage the hiring of dangerously... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 May 2022
Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

the most about your HBS experience? How quickly we catch on. Showing up to HBS is analogous to showing up to OCS, The Basic School, MOS school, etc. There’s a brief moment in time where you’re lost in the sauce, and then a couple weeks... View Details

31 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

important question, though," Shih says. "Should I distribute my suppliers around the world to avoid things like this? We don't know. But the shortages are starting to emerge, and over the next couple of months we'll see a... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics

22 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

is true in software, where you have the added benefit of being able to give some of your work to a computer, which can process it more reliably and quickly than a human." More time, coupled with a better understanding of the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

01 Feb 2023
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Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?

that has emptied their offices and destroyed much of the daily face-to-face give and take coupled with pride in the organization that they enjoyed over the years? Will hybrid work strategies destroy much of this? Will they pull down... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jan 2016
Blog Post

3 Tips on Coming to HBS with a Partner

stayed in our apartment off campus, which is about halfway between the business and law school. You can definitely still live on campus if you have a partner or children – the only housing not available to you is the dorms. There are multi-bedroom apartments in a... View Details

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

What advice do you have for introverts? Prepare a couple bullet points of topics you could bring up when a conversation starts to lag or stagnate—it’s pretty easy to personalize these topic ideas depending on who you expect to talk to.... View Details

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

than the original cohort. We also followed up on 90 leaders featured in True North to see how they have fared since their 2005-06 interviews. With only a couple of exceptions, we learned these leaders had remained true to their authentic... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

11 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

awakening in the last couple years around diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. Is this moment leading to real change, in your view? Frances Frei: I totally agree there’s been an awakening, and I think what’s different about... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

24 May 2017
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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

but Ogunlesi always showed up, eventually becoming the sole student in the classroom. “The lecturer was my tutor and I didn’t want him to face an empty classroom,” says Ogunlesi. That level of consideration for others, coupled with raw... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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