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  • October 1997 (Revised November 1997)
  • Case

NAACP, The

By: James E. Austin, Paul Barese, Stephanie L. Woerner and Elaine V. Backman
In February 1995, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the largest civil rights organization in the United States, was in the midst of a crisis. The executive director had been fired due to financial improprieties amid charges of... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Capital; Governance Controls; Resignation and Termination; Selection and Staffing; Rights; Leadership; Management; United States
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    Dutch Leonard

    Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

    Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Bank Boards: What Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis?

    By: Shiva Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan and Forester Wong
    Several government-mandated committees investigating the financial crisis highlighted four key deficiencies in the composition of bank boards before the crisis: (i) group think among bank board members; (ii) absence of prior banking experience of board members; (iii)... View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Change; Diversity
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    • 12 May 2009
    • News

    Schumer's Shareholder Bill Misses the Mark

      Andy Zelleke

      Andy Zelleke is the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. A member of the General Management unit, he is the Faculty Chair of HBS’ Middle East & North Africa Research Center.

      Since Spring 2021, Dr. Zelleke has taught “Unpacking... View Details

      Keywords: federal government; professional services; defense; financial services
      • 2015
      • Working Paper

      Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality

      By: Robert G. Eccles and Tim Youmans
      Under the prevailing ideology of "shareholder primacy" most boards of directors believe that they are prevented from considering stakeholders other than shareholders in determining material issues and materiality for strategy and reporting. New research is showing that... View Details
      Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations
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      • March 2025
      • Supplement

      No One Left Behind (C)

      By: Lynn S. Paine, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, Max Hancock and David Lane
      In September 2021, the board of directors for the nonprofit No One Left Behind (NOLB) faced a crucial decision. Since its 2013 founding, NOLB had helped resettle in the United States thousands of Afghans and Iraqis who had assisted U.S. forces as combat translators;... View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Mission and Purpose; Nonprofit Organizations; Service Industry; Afghanistan; United States
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      • March 2025
      • Supplement

      No One Left Behind (B)

      By: Lynn S. Paine, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, Max Hancock and David Lane
      In September 2021, the board of directors for the nonprofit No One Left Behind (NOLB) faced a crucial decision. Since its 2013 founding, NOLB had helped resettle in the United States thousands of Afghans and Iraqis who had assisted U.S. forces as combat translators;... View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Mission and Purpose; Nonprofit Organizations; Service Industry; Afghanistan; United States
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      • March 2025 (Revised March 2025)
      • Case

      No One Left Behind (A)

      By: Lynn S. Paine, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, Max Hancock and David Lane
      In September 2021, the board of directors for the nonprofit No One Left Behind (NOLB) faced a crucial decision. Since its 2013 founding, NOLB had helped resettle in the United States thousands of Afghans and Iraqis who had assisted U.S. forces as combat translators;... View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Mission and Purpose; Nonprofit Organizations; Service Industry; Afghanistan; United States
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        Chip Bergh

        Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors... View Details

        • November 2003 (Revised August 2005)
        • Case

        First Commonwealth Financial Corporation

        By: Robert S. Kaplan
        First Commonwealth Financial Corp., a financial institution in central and southwestern Pennsylvania, implemented the Balanced Scorecard for describing and implementing its new customer-focused strategy. Its founder and chairman decided that the Balanced Scorecard also... View Details
        Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Corporate Strategy; Customers; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Customer Relationship Management; Executive Compensation; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Pennsylvania
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        • 07 Nov 2023
        • Cold Call Podcast

        How Should Meta Be Governed for the Good of Society?

        Keywords: Re: Jesse M. Shapiro; Technology; Communications
        • March 2009
        • Case

        Baosteel Group: Governance with Chinese Characteristics

        By: Lynn S. Paine and G.A. Donovan
        The new outsider-dominated board of directors of China's state-owned Baosteel Group must decide whether to modify the Group's structure. With the completion of a pending acquisition, the Group will control four publicly listed steel-producing subsidiaries, and board... View Details
        Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; State Ownership; China
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        • October 6, 2020
        • Article

        Test Your Board's Readiness for the Post-COVID Era

        By: Lynn S. Paine
        Research suggests that well-run boards take the process of self-evaluation quite seriously, often using a combination of director surveys and personal interviews to assess the functioning and effectiveness of the board, its committees, and its individual members. As... View Details
        Keywords: Health Pandemics; Governing and Advisory Boards; Performance Evaluation
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          Allison H. Mnookin

          Allison Mnookin is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at the Harvard Business School.  She currently is the co-chair of the first-year MBA Technology and Operations Management course. In addition, she... View Details

            Michael Y. Yoshino

            Professor Yoshino holds the Herman C. Krannert Chair in Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and is a Director of Research. He specializes in global strategy and management, competitive strategy, and general management. A founding member of the... View Details

            • 09 Aug 2013
            • News

            Beyond Ackman, JCP Fights for Survival

              Nori Gerardo Lietz

              Nori Gerardo Lietz is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units. She presently teaches Real Estate Private Equity and Starting a Private Investment Firm.

              Nori Gerardo Lietz is the founder of Areté... View Details

              • June 2014
              • Article

              Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger Outcomes

              By: Joy Ishii and Yuhai Xuan
              This paper investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance. Using data on educational background and past employment, we construct a measure of the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors and senior executives... View Details
              Keywords: Mergers; Acquisitions; Social Ties; Social Connections; Mergers and Acquisitions; Relationships; Outcome or Result
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                Michael S. Kaufman

                A Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School, Michael co-developed and teaches a second year MBA course, “Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry.” 

                A founder and partner of Positive Strategy LLC, a management/strategy consulting... View Details