Governing and Advisory Boards - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat

Advisory Board and the Corporate Executive Board, I never had the idea that I was a great businessperson, but I thought I was a good businessperson,” he says, citing the highly... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices

01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm that oversees more than $170 billion in pension and mutual funds, Pozen writes with authority and unusual clarity about complex issues in Too Big to Save?... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

thought had laid the company low, making this one of his finest leadership hours as he oversaw Corning’s return to stability. A former board chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and former (and... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary

worry about engineering talent,” he says. “Our challenge is management.” That’s one reason why the Beijing-born CEO serves on the advisory board of the HBS Asia-Pacific Research Center. Tian has also... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Information

01 Feb 2002
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Building Community in the Bay Area

his experiences with his board and about critical issues relating to governing nonprofit organizations today. The event was hosted by the HBS Community Partners, a group... View Details

Keywords: Reynold Levy; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

08 May 2012
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Screen Saver

Film Center (JBFC), showing a range of independent and foreign films and hosting special events with actors, filmmakers, and critics. (Steven Spielberg was a recent guest at... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools

01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors

their jobs to offer to resign, and Dayton Hudson Corp. insists that outside directors resign if they change jobs. The General Motors Board of Directors Corporate Governance... View Details

Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV

01 Jun 2016
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Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations

Researchers have long known that building high levels of voter trust and participation are essential to help fragile democracies thrive. The 2013 national elections in Kenya, which followed vast government... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

later adopted by the Securities and Exchange Board of India and the nation's stock exchanges. Bajaj's expertise in these matters has also been tapped by the New York Stock... View Details

19 Feb 2010
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Will Reform Affect Recovery?

Keywords: Finance

01 Mar 2010
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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... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Jun 2003
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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

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

07 May 2019
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Managers, Are You Prepared to Handle Religion in the Workplace?

09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity

Fieldhouse to develop a workable concept for a launch of the program. Fieldhouse connected with Specialisterne to help build Dandelion, and formed an external pro bono advisory View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

15 Apr 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight

underwent a mastectomy and survived, and Smyth kept the family secret for more than a decade. That’s all changed now—in part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of... View Details

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

favor, and manufacturing dried up. At a certain point, jobs in local government and services became the gold standard for security, benefits, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Mar 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal

yin and yang between the improvement of the built environment and the preservation of nature,” says Rosenfeld, a member of the California advisory View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2015
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Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?

to a new working paper coauthored by Lecturer Abigail Allen, the opposite is often true. When the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) proposed stricter public pension accounting standards in 2012, many state View Details