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Jackie Burgos
reviewing and offering feedback on her resume and cover letters, Career Services has reinforced Jackie's interview skills with preparatory questions and mock interviews. The work has paid off. This summer, she will intern with The Raine... View Details
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has been associated with higher levels of entrepreneurial activity. Our results are robust to using various proxies for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
Tatiana Sandino Abstract In this paper we examine the economic consequences of over 150 shareholder proposals to expense employee stock options (ESO) submitted during the proxy seasons of 2003 and 2004—the first case where the SEC has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and consulting View Details
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
shareholders the right to place board nominees on the company's proxy ballot. Said SEC chairman Mary Schapiro: "This would turn what would otherwise be a somewhat illusory [shareholder] right to nominate [directors] into something... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
careful consideration, we decided to postpone the 2003 Global Leadership Forum originally planned to take place in Shanghai, China, in June and reschedule the conference to June 15–17, 2004, in the same venue. The worrisome reports and travel View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
details). His service to HBS is long–standing: In 1981, he and his classmate, Fayez Sarofim, funded the first professorship at HBS in the field of entrepreneurship (which has been held by Howard H. Stevenson since its inception). From... View Details
- Blog
Tech Power at HBS: Faculty Boost Technology Ecosystem
of Service Management and her co-author Anne Morriss were recognized for "advancing research on empathetic leadership strategies and more welcoming workplaces." The two co-founded The Leadership Consortium, which helps organizations... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
Here are key requirements to ask of any service provider offering to certify your work setting as a healthy building. These best practices apply for employers, employees, and customers alike. Our research over many decades in public... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
HBS Alum Joins Harvard Corporation
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
210 is Jess Bloomgarden (MBA 2012), with classmates Alex Stratoudakis and Emma Taylor. In fifteen minutes they present their plan for AfterSteps, a Web-based end-of-life planning service that offers advice and secure storage for legal,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
organization.” In the MBA and Executive Education programs, Austin teaches a case he coauthored (with Larry Leibrock and Alan Murray) called “The iPremier Co.: Denial of Service Attack.” Raising the kinds of questions and dilemmas cited... View Details
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Lehman Brothers - Introduction | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
banking and financial advisory services for corporations, the government, and private individuals, and consistently showed foresight in its ability to recognize the potential of emerging industries, from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
"bridge" year of service learning and leadership training in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Related Links Sizing Up Social Impact A Healthy Profit Making Change Bringing It Back Home Opening the Door Change begins in the classroom, too,... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Laura Alfaro to Costa Rican Post
HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro is taking a leave of absence from the School to serve as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in her native Costa Rica. At 38, Alfaro, who has no prior service in Costa Rican public... View Details
- September 2007 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
ValueAct: Shareholder in the Boardroom
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Alexis Chernak
ValueAct, a San Francisco investment firm, makes an investment in PerSe Technologies. The partners of ValueAct build relationships with the PerSe board and management. Eventually ValueAct is given a seat on the PerSe board and is able to influence a significant imprint... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Investment; Business and Shareholder Relations; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco
Lorsch, Jay W., and Alexis Chernak. "ValueAct: Shareholder in the Boardroom." Harvard Business School Case 408-007, September 2007. (Revised September 2010.)
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
with outspoken banking executives, argued that, “Silence may be both a more eloquent statement and a more intelligent one ” CEOs and other high-profile people “do a service by restraining their knee-jerks and shutting their mouths.” RCD... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- August 2012
- Supplement
William Jeffrey: Performance at Bay Colony (B)
By: Lena G. Goldberg
The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel are explored in connection with on-boarding, investigating alleged misconduct of, and terminating a company's CEO,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
their very success at product development and fundraising often heightens the chances that they will be replaced. After the founder has successfully met the initial operating challenge of getting the product or service developed, a number... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alumni Board Goes Global to Pick New President
countries will be filled by HBS graduates.” Looking back on his experience at HBS, Shirazi says that a commitment to service is one of the enduring lessons imparted by Dean John McArthur. “He would have breakfast with a student every day... View Details