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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
has considerable power to forestall any merger that doesn't appeal to him." Sometimes, however, Lorsch adds, reluctant CEOs do come under such intense pressure from boards that they are forced to accept offers, or View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Authority, and it's locally based in Accra, with a governing board made up of top figures from government, business, and civil society. That, I think, is a very serious advance." "We have enormous respect for a principle we call country... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
are trying to do the right thing. How do we make boards even stronger? Some good ideas I've heard recently call for getting the independent directors to meet alone without management and having somebody... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
content being added to an ever-expanding list of platforms that it could be dizzying for a viewer to try to pick something to watch. As director of product, Liang spent her days building tools to help organize the chaos: Say you were in... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
purchased by Google for $3.2 billion in 2014. Nolan and Natarajan “Venkat” Venkatakrishnan, director of FirstBuild—the GE/Local Motors partnership—are sitting with Rogers in the University of Louisville’s University Club in late April,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
1980), serve on the board of directors of Olatec. OCTOBER 26 In January 2020, Meredith Oppenheim (MBA 2001) launched Vitality Society, an online community serving people “60 and better” that puts her 30-year... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
African American Directors Forum, which connects companies with Black board candidates and builds community among Black board members across the country. Motley’s Pittsburgh... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
(“Shiggi”) Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired “committee system” for its board of directors — the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by Professor Lynn... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
chairman of the Federal Reserve and now a top economic adviser to President Obama, led the committee that wrote the report. G30 members included Treasury Secretary Geithner and Larry Summers, Treasury Secretary in the Clinton administration who now serves as View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Donella Rapier to Head External Relations
the Alumni Board, the Visiting Committee, and the Board of Directors of the Associates. “I’ve enjoyed working with the talented External Relations staff, and it has been a real privilege to have met so many... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
Courtesy Steve Payne Courtesy Steve Payne The Arctic ice pack is melting. For more than a decade, Steve Payne (MBA 1985), chair of the board of the Arctic Ice Project, has patiently explained the problem to anyone willing to listen: The... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
been successful," says Boris Groysberg, the Richard B. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who cowrote the case with HBS Global Research Group associate director Kerry Herman and research associate Annelena Lobb. "It also... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
with characteristic vigor. During his first year, he wrote for (and was eventually elected to the board of) the Harbus News and helped run classmate Al Dobron's campaign for president of the Student Association. "This time my candidate... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
practice designed to "bridge" the gap between the seemingly disparate worlds of corporate management consulting and nonprofit organizations worldwide. Tierney, who serves on the Board of Directors of the... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
educations together as a health care investor. As managing director of KBL Healthcare Ventures, she has invested in a number of groundbreaking companies, including Summit Technologies and the Candela Corporation, now a leading maker of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
of Corporate Boards Is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions by John Gillespie (MBA ’83) and David Zweig (MBA ’83) (Free Press) The authors expose the flaws in the dysfunctional corporate board... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
startup, that’s because he is. In addition to serving as president of the board of directors at the Sontag Foundation, Sontag is the president of The Spring Bay Companies, an investment group he helped... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
Born in Vienna, Austria, Edgar Koerner grew up in New Orleans and New York. A former partner at Kuhn Loeb and managing director at Lehman Brothers, he has for many years been active in pro bono work, particularly with The Children’s Aid... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
Masako Egawa (MBA ’86), executive director of Harvard Business School’s Japan Research Office in Tokyo, answers questions about business changes in Japan and the School’s research there. Q: Tell us about an interesting recent case in... View Details