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  • 20 Oct 2023
  • News

Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

A warning to CEOs and other top executives in high-pressure positions: Job stress could shave years off your life, causing you to die younger than lower-level workers, new research suggests. After all, modern CEOs face taxing work... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 09 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

movie industry resides. Alcácer says that when Disney bought Pixar in 2006, Pixar executives asked to remain based in Northern California because they didn't want the company's culture to be negatively affected by the culture in Southern... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

case of Lisa Sherman (A) describes a highly successful executive at Verizon struggling with whether to reveal her sexual identity. Having attended a diversity training workshop in which participants expressed extremely negative views of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

are much weaker. In individual-level regressions of engagement in category-spanning communication patterns, we find that women, mid- to high-level executives, and members of the executive management, sales and marketing functions are most... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2007 (Revised December 2007)
  • Case

AFL-CIO: Office of Investment and Home Depot

By: Rakesh Khurana and James Weber
Describes the AFL-CIO: Office of Investments activities in their campaign to improve governance at Home Depot by calling attention to Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli's compensation package and the company's poor performance. The AFL-CIO Office of Investments advocates... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Labor Unions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 18 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

Harvard Business School says. As part of a sweeping executive order aimed at promoting competition in the American economy, US President Joe Biden specifically called out non-compete agreements as hurtful to innovation and workers. Issued... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

Tang Harvard Business School Case 410-018 Shanghai Tang is a luxury brand that focuses on Chinese-inspired fashion, accessories, and home decoration products. In fall 2008, amidst a growing global economic crisis, Raphael Ie Masne, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, and HBS senior... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
  • 10 May 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Flattened Firm—Not as Advertised

Keywords: by Julie Wulf
  • 2024
  • Case

Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations: Figueres the Negotiator (C)

By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Management; International Relations; Leadership
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Jana Kierstead | About

Jana Kierstead Bio Jana Pompadur Kierstead is the Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations at Harvard Business School. She brings over 25 years of experience to this role, with more than 20 years... View Details
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

MaterialsHarvard Business School Executive Education: Balancing Online and Offline Marketing John Deighton and Leora KornfeldHarvard Business School Case 510-091 How does a small business set its online media budget? The HBS View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Indoor Spaces | About

the Spangler Center is named for the late Charles M. (“Charlie”) Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952), a renowned HBS professor who influenced the lives and careers of legions of MBAs and executives around the world during his four decades as an... View Details
  • Web

FAQs for Alumni Virtual Programs - Alumni

chosen to deliver content and allow interaction Why am I receiving an error message (error code 3038/Zoom link invalid)? Error messages occur when the live event has concluded and the link is no longer active. Find a reunion Choose a degree MBA View Details
  • 16 Jun 2021
  • HBS Case

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

long-term success may depend on how much its customers feel safe going back into the water. When the company first shut down in March 2020, many cruise executives were hopeful that governments would lift restrictions, and they would sail... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel
  • 17 Dec 2020
  • News

Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta

community, both in Boston and in Tokyo. We hold several events every year to encourage young people from diverse backgrounds to apply to the MBA and executive programs at HBS. Also, we hold events in Japan to send positive messages to the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • Web

Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

his family's insurance company, one of the largest African American owned businesses in Atlanta. H. Naylor Fitzhugh served as an influential professor at Howard University and assumed a senior executive position at the Pepsi–Cola Company.... View Details
  • January 2024
  • Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
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  • February 2022 (Revised January 2024)
  • Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (C)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
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