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07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

committee to relationship managers. Q: Did the rules change? Or has the policing not been strong enough? A: Maximizing shareholder wealth has become the overarching corporate goal, and whatever it takes to accomplish that seems to be... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

School Case 310-011 Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. This case examines Acumen's new projects in Kenya. The organization's... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Sep 2009
What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

compensation committees for large corporations, sign lengthy public proxy statements, and are already under intense public scrutiny. Pay for performance, in theory, should be a win-win proposition for investors and managers alike. It is... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

made in the context of significant trade-offs among these criteria that may lie ahead. Will this prompt a continuation of the proliferation of board committees on sustainability or its first cousin, risk? If so, will this just confuse... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

on the faculty at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business," Stuart says. "I was part of a committee examining why there wasn't a more vibrant life sciences industry in the Chicago area when all of the requisite... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

union relations. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/412072-PDF-ENG Johannes Linden: Managing the Global Executive Committee Linda A. Hill and Mark RennellaHarvard Business School Case 913-509 Johannes Linden is the Director of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 May 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics

Olympic Committee continues to argue that the Games and the aspirations and achievements of individual athletes should be independent of politics. The reality is that the Chinese government has always intended to use the Games to its... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Sports

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

in multiple innovations, including smartphones, search, online purchasing, and social media. Lead director John Thompson led the board committee that chose insider Satya Nadella as its next CEO. Nadella completely changed Microsoft’s... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515097-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 115-028 Guiding Professional Accountants to Do the Right Thing The Ethics Advisory Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

Representatives passed a bill granting shareholders a non-binding vote on executive compensation and severance packages. It also maintains that compensation committees should be independent of management. But given its non-binding status,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

In 2016, Bruce Wayne, Managing Director of Energy Finance Corporation (EFC), was refining the Investment/Credit Committee materials for the development of up to 10 power generating plants in Argentina. As a subsidiary of the much larger... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

Zhang compared the effectiveness of ads prepared by the candidate's own campaign with ads supporting the candidate prepared by outside political groups, including political action committees (PACs). “"I need to see a good ad about Obama... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

critical processes the board and its committees must perform to meet these external objectives; and highlights the board's composition and skills, the information packages, and the meeting dynamics that enable the board to perform its... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

more balanced and comprehensive if management believes that directors might seek an independent opinion. It should be noted that there is a precedent for providing directors with independent funding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that audit View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

11 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

reject it, too. “It turns out that shareholders have many different views, and it’s not only the largest shareholders whose proposals have widespread appeal” The House Financial Services Committee explained it this way in its April 2017... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

Case 313-067 Milwaukee (B8): Richard Meeusen, CEO, Badger Meter and Co-chair, Water Council No description available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313067-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-068 Milwaukee (B9): Julia Taylor, President, Greater... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

Finally, we recommend that the external auditor problems can only be solved through a major change in the relation between auditors and the companies they audit. This may be achieved by making the audit committee responsible for hiring... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

18 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

dissemination of ideas," says Richard G. Hamermesh., MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, and a faculty steering committee member of the Forum, which is a joint collaboration between HBS and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

to William Lever. After his death, the Overseas Committee became the institutional embodiment of this paternalistic oversight role. Philips too conformed to this model: the Philips family dominated the company's top management until well... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

08 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

really like niche products much. Elberse outlines the implications of her research for producers and retailers, and offers strategic advice to both groups. Can Research Committees Add Value for Investors? An Analysis of Lehman Brothers'... View Details