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  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

achieve excellence, but he also knew the state never intended to govern local schools permanently. As he considered his options for the recommendation to the state board about future governance, his overarching goal was to position the... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2016
  • News

How We Make It Work

optimizing rather than balancing my time. When I am with my child, I give him 100 percent attention, and in a few short minutes he is off to another activity. Likewise, I arrive at a board meeting well prepared and make it known that the... View Details
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

in partnering with Spark to develop its hemophilia B program. Also, the company is working with the FDA on a potential change to its protocol. The CEO is preparing for a board meeting, and he is contemplating the best path to deal with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

them also to provide public space Wi-Fi, advertising, and urban intelligence sensors. "One year from now we will no longer sell any machines," Kutner planned to tell the company's board of directors. Would they buy his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 3

Jazztel into the fastest growing broadband operator in Spain. The case describes how Fernández Pujals designed and managed the board and led Jazztel toward profitable growth. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

impact with Jeannette Wagner, former vice chair of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. and member of the HBS Board of Dean's Advisors. Wagner recommended that they send a copy of the case to Leonard Lauder, chairman of Estée Lauder. The chain... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 29 Apr 2022
  • News

Clean Slate

available for these projects. JH: Naina Lal Kidwai continues to do her work at the intersection of business, government, and the environment, serving on numerous boards in addition to continuing in her role as chair of the ISC. She says... View Details
Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Team MBA

stressors of the HBS model is speaking in class. The learning team gave me a sounding board to try out a comment before bringing it to class. I was always more confident in discussing a topic in section that had been fleshed out by the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

special committees can use to level the playing field: for example, contractual commitments from management that allow the board to run the process; pre-signing rather than post-signing market checks; information rights rather than match... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

612-033 Pret A Manger Pret A Manger, a London-based chain of sandwich shops, was known for its fast, genuine service and pre-packaged sandwiches prepared on-site daily. Instructed by its board to grow at 15% per year, Pret considered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

Agarwal, and Christine ChiHarvard Business School Case 612-080 When HP established a branch of its corporate research lab in Singapore, the government played a key role through its Economic Development Board (EDB). Chris Whitney, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

100 academic-housed whole-body donation programs (University of Florida State Anatomical Board 2004) and a dozen for-profit or non-profit entrepreneurial ventures. Though welcomed by some specimen users, entrepreneurial ventures often... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

leadership is the only way to create long-term results. Making the Best of M&A Author:Jay W. Lorsch Periodical:Directors & Boards 3, no. 3 (fall 2006): 6 Download the paper: http://www.directorsandboards.com/BBFall06.pdf Shifting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Money Matters

his mind: “You’ve been away from India for over fourteen years, and unless you spend some time there to understand the environment, you won’t get an understanding of the opportunity or know if you really want to work there.” Within two weeks, Varma View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • Web

Past Issues - Alumni

Baker is on a mission to curtail corruption and bring the world’s illegally hidden wealth to light. M.I.A. Boards Pervasive negligence by boards of directors is ruining American business. New government... View Details
  • September 2023 (Revised September 2024)
  • Technical Note

Measuring and Managing Social Impact

By: Brian Trelstad, Gerald Chertavian and Susan Pinckney
A brief overview of how to measure social impact at nonprofits, social organizations, and impact investments. View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Change; Transformation; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Entrepreneurial Finance; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Innovation and Management; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Measurement and Metrics; Standards; Strength and Weakness; Mission and Purpose; Success; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Strategic Planning; Programs; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues; United States
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  • 11 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers? What do you think? How should organizations respond to sexual... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

were in a precarious position. One such institution was Wachovia, which entered acquisition talks with Citigroup and Wells Fargo. This case describes the development of these negotiations throughout the week of September 26-October 3, 2008 and explores the role of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

observes Willis Emmons (HBS MBA '85, PhDBE '89), director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at HBS. "We welcomed 38 new faculty to the School this year and hope to have a similar number to come on board... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

of managers to set up and serve as a board of directors. The corporate partners would also recruit a larger group of corporations, called WDC Affiliates, to the effort. Partners and affiliates, as appropriate, would then undertake the... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge