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- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
when other approaches would produce better results for customers, employees, and shareholders and foster better long-term performance of the company. “I’ve been a leader during three recessions, and I’ve never heard a management team talk... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
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wealth in urban communities. Frank S. Jones MBA 1957 In 1971, Frank Jones was named Ford Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning and became the first African American tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Affect Your Journey as a Leader? Professor Shikhar Ghosh (MBA 1980) + More Info - Video Recording – Less Info - Video Recording E.O. Wilson observed that the ‘real problem of humanity is that we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
widespread, the type of criticism activists levy seems less out of place. Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) both backed Peltz’s campaign for a board seat at DuPont this year, for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
annual, nonbinding votes by shareholders on executive compensation — so-called say on pay; grants substantial shareholders a new right to have their director candidates’ names... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
incompetence, and negligence by a corporate board. The board at Merrill Lynch was so disconnected from the company that when shareholders met in December 2008 to approve the company’s sale to Bank of America — after five straight... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
40%. Shareholder pressure (e.g., the voting outcome and the influence of the proponent) and the type of proposals are the main determinants of the implementation decision, while traditional governance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
the 1990s. In order to attract investors, the founders of companies organized before 1910 often included in the statutes stronger protections for small shareholders than what was mandated by law. The most important of these protections... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
Summing Up "It is pretty clear to me to whom the board is accountable: the shareholders."—J. W. Penland "When the board deviates from long- and short-term shareholder interests as it has recently done in some instances, it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
during the class period. Named directors receive more negative recommendations from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a proxy advisory firm, and significantly more negative View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
likely to implement MV proposals after industry-peer firms implement a similar proposal. Finally, proposals aimed at removing anti-takeover measures or instituting certain shareholder rights are more likely... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
several board members. “Saving Disney,” by HBS assistant professor Nancy Beaulieu, tells the story behind their efforts, following the timeline of events from Eisner’s arrival at Disney to a historic shareholder View Details
- Article
Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Elections, Banks and Agricultural Lending in India
By: Shawn A. Cole
Cole, Shawn A. "Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Elections, Banks and Agricultural Lending in India." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1, no. 1 (January 2009): 219–50.
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
subsidies are our descendants. If they could vote in Senate elections or in shareholder meetings, they would fire us. Other Articles In This Series Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think We... View Details
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
company statutes and shareholder lists, reveals that the addition of voting rights to their bylaws, particularly maximum vote provisions and graduated View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
the social fiction, as you call it, that there are very few qualified CEO candidates available? A: There are two big factors that have influenced this. The first is the rise of the institutional investor. Before this, managers were fairly... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
of votes a single shareholder could have to restrictions on the number of family members who could act as directors simultaneously," Musacchio says. We interviewed Musacchio about the research findings... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
delayed for 20 days a shareholder vote on the sale of Del Monte Foods Co. (Del Monte) to a consortium of three private equity firms. In his opinion, Laster was critical of Del Monte's board, noting that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
shareholders. He believed this required good corporate governance and effective oversight by the board of directors. The case explores the history of AFSCME's shareholder activism on this front and particularly its use of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace