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    Case: Governing PG&E

    The five commissioners of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) listened intently at a public forum in April 2019 as PG&E Corporation's out-going chairman Richard Kelly described the company's proposed new board. PG&E, which provided... View Details
    • 18 May 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: May 18

    role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job market applicants now have a signaling service to send an... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Program

    Succeeding as a Strategic CFO

    Summary As capital markets and organizational strategies have evolved, so has the role of the chief financial officer (CFO). Today's CFOs are not just gatekeepers of a company's financial information; they serve as key strategic partners... View Details
    • April 2004 (Revised March 2008)
    • Case

    Precise Software

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Sara Bergson
    Yossi Sela, general partner at Gemini Venture capital, considers a new investment in Precise Software. The firm is at a crisis point, and Sela needs to decide whether he will fire the firm's chief executive officer. Conflicts between the American CEO and the Israeli... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Resignation and Termination; Crisis Management; Managerial Roles; Conflict and Resolution; Israel; United States
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    • 24 May 2021
    • Blog Post

    Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

    Rebekah Emanuel (MBA 2015), Director of Social Entrepreneurship for the Harvard Innovation Labs (i-Lab) and host of the third season of the BEI’s Climate Rising podcast, reflects on the role of entrepreneurship in confronting climate... View Details
    • 28 Sep 2016
    • Blog Post

    Tackling Inequality: An HBS Independent Project

    At HBS, I spent a lot of time thinking about how I would become a “leader who makes a difference in the world.” It was on my mind as I attended career development programs, agonized over internship opportunities, and prepared yet another case that featured a Fortune... View Details
    • 05 Nov 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

    Summing Up Should CEO succession processes be certified? Respondents to this month's column agree that CEO succession is badly managed, perhaps accounting in large part for the fact that few "inside... View Details
    Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
    • March 2025 (Revised March 2025)
    • Case

    Good for the Seller, Good for the Buyer and Good for Society: Sampo-yoshi, Sustainability and Trust at ITOCHU

    By: Sandra J. Sucher and Bethelehem Y Araya
    In 2024, ITOCHU CEO Masahiro Okafuji was at a crossroads. As the thirteenth CEO since ITOCHU’s founding in 1858, he had fueled the company’s growth since 2011 by bringing ITOCHU’s founding philosophy of Sampo-yoshi (good for the seller, good for the buyer and... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Trust; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Japan
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    • October 2007 (Revised February 2008)
    • Case

    The Coca-Cola Company (A): The Rise and Fall of M. Douglas Ivester (Abridged)

    By: Michael D. Watkins, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
    This is a shortened version of "The Coca-Cola Company (A): The Rise and Fall of M. Douglas Ivester," HBS case #9-800-355. It eliminates some background detail and the financial data and exhibits. As with the original case, it chronicles the appointment of Douglas... View Details
    Keywords: Resignation and Termination; Selection and Staffing; Managerial Roles; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
    • Case

    Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (A)

    By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
    In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation; Collaboration; Executive Search Firms; Consulting Firms; Compensation and Benefits; Restructuring; Human Resources; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Consulting Industry; Employment Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America; Oceania
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    • October 2021
    • Article

    Directors' Perceptions of Board Effectiveness and Internal Operations

    By: J. Yo-Jud Cheng, Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Rajesh Vijayaraghavan
    We contribute to the growing literature on the effectiveness of corporate boards by examining the effect of two insights that have been largely unexplored in prior studies that use public data. First, since boards’ responsibilities are wide-ranging, more holistic... View Details
    Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Performance Effectiveness; Perception
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    • June 2010
    • Case

    Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (Multimedia)

    By: Anette Mikes
    An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One anticipated new threats and opportunities in an industry that faced climate change and carbon legislation, the deregulation of electricity markets, and the greater adoption of renewable... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Energy; Energy Industry; Canada
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    • January 2009 (Revised February 2009)
    • Case

    Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research

    By: Robert L. Simons, Kathryn Rosenberg and Natalie Kindred
    This case examines the strategy implementation and risk management decisions at Sydney IVF, a research-based in vitro fertilization and stem cell company based in Australia. Drs. Robert Jansen and Jock Anderson, who co-founded Sydney IVF in 1986, developed novel... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk Management; Genetics; Commercialization; Health Industry; Australia
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    • 24 Dec 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: December 24

      Working Papers Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • January 2020 (Revised December 2024)
    • Case

    Governing PG&E

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
    The five commissioners of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) listened intently at a public forum in April 2019 as PG&E Corporation’s out-going chairman Richard Kelly described the company’s proposed new board. PG&E, which provided electricity and natural... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Board Of Directors; Board Dynamics; Business Ethics; Business Model Innovation; Corporate Boards; Energy Efficiency; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Government And Business; Hedge Funds; Institutional Investors; Legal Aspects Of Business; Regulated Monopolies; Regulation; Shareholders; Stakeholder Management; Strategy And Execution; Utilities; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Capital Structure; Climate Change; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Environmental Sustainability; Executive Compensation; Leadership; Management; Safety; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; California; United States
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      The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership

      The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership is an examination of how the role of the  business leader in the U.S. has changed from World War II to the present.  A small number of high-profile individuals have transformed the face of modern-day... View Details

      • 10 Jul 2023
      • In Practice

      The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

      part of his larger look at the role of public places in a democratic society. That leads to my second reading issue, saving democracy. I will read The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • Blog

      HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira

      This article originally appeared in the Harvard Business School—Newsroom. Can you tell us a bit about the new role and what it means organizationally for HBS Online and Executive Education? Patrick Mullane (PM) (Executive Director, HBS... View Details
      • 09 Nov 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

      decades of his life. Q: You spend a lot of time in the book talking about all of this—the impact of these early years on his middle and later years. A: The child is the father of the man and, you know, Andy Grove is the last CEO who will... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
      • Program

      Growing as a Purposeful Leader

      (beyond the four walls of the business), and how they should lead (not as superheroes and not just as good business leaders, but also as great human leaders). In this program, you will prepare to become an authentic, purposeful leader who can step up to more... View Details