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- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
strong sustainability culture is significantly more likely to assign responsibility to its board of directors for sustainability and to form a separate View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jul 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Activist Directors: Determinants and Consequences
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
have their director candidates' names included on the ballots sent out by the company (dissident shareholders now must send out their own ballots); puts an end to staggered boards at all companies (boards... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 10 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing
incentivizes employees to report issues where the penalty is high." Dey: There are a lot of issues that well-meaning managers and boards may not know about. There may be something bad going on in one... View Details
Keywords: by April White
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
situations into mathematical models. The percentage of MBAs that we hire will go down in the next ten years. A director of a leading consulting firm made much the same point:... View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
Winner of the Harvard Business School outstanding teacher award and research awards from U.S. and international health care and accounting organizations: 2016 “60 of the Most Powerful People in Healthcare in 2016,” Becker’s Hospital Review, January 3, 2017 ; 2014 ... View Details
- November–December 2024
- Article
How Robust Is Your Climate Governance?
By: Lynn S. Paine and Suraj Srinivasan
During the past few years, as evidence of climate change and its effects has mounted, many corporate boards have added climate governance to their agendas. But the maturity of boards’ climate-oversight processes and activities varies widely.
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Keywords: Corporate Governance; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governing and Advisory Boards
Paine, Lynn S., and Suraj Srinivasan. "How Robust Is Your Climate Governance?" Harvard Business Review 102, no. 6 (November–December 2024): 86–95.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank
By: Ashwin Kaja and Eric D. Werker
We test for evidence of corporate misgovernance at the World Bank. Most major decisions at the World Bank are made by its Board of Executive Directors. However, in any given year the majority of the Bank's member countries do not get a chance to serve on this powerful... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards
Kaja, Ashwin, and Eric D. Werker. "Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-108, March 2009.
- Research Summary
Corporate Governance
The characteristics and structure of boards of directors have important implications for firm performance. Professor Wang has found that firms with well-connected boards whose members have strong network connections provide economic benefits that are not immediately... View Details
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
Doriot could not take the job, as he was still employed by the Army. So in the interim, the directors named him chairman of the board of... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
HBS research associate Brian DeLacey, are studying the processes of mentoring and coaching in entrepreneurial environments. Leonard and DeLacey discuss their findings with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
graduates—descended on the Allston campus for the start of the W50 Summit, two days of reflection, celebration, and brainstorming on women's experiences at HBS and beyond. They heard from panels View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
coupled with regular meetings of the independent directors is critical to the independent directors' ability to function effectively as a counterweight to management. When interviewing candidates for CEO,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
number of which offer Internet access. What these statistics suggest is that "the most precious currency today is information," said panelist Jim Breyer, an early investor in Facebook and a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Working PapersHiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, Christopher Malloy Abstract We test the hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
firm that discreetly interviews (not for attribution) a number of employees who interact with the senior executives being reviewed. I have directly observed this board-directed process in several situations and, in my experience, it has... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
"servant leadership." Without hesitating, he asked an associate to get him some cleaning materials and proceeded to get down on his hands and knees to soak the coffee out of the carpeting while his... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- September 2012 (Revised September 2014)
- Case
Doing Business in Malaysia
By: C. Fritz Foley, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Chi-Ho Wong
This case focuses on the current business environment in Malaysia as of 2012 by introducing the main economic, political and cultural aspects of the country for those interested in doing business there. The advantages and challenges of investing and doing business in... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
on my face, especially considering that during the last five years the U.S. has lectured Asia on ending collusion and cronyism." There is a general tone in responses to this month's column that there are few antidotes, including alignment, to greedy leaders and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett