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26 Sep 2017
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A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

In November of 2015 I set in the upper deck of Faneuil Hall in Boston, looking on as300 people from 80 countries congregated to take their oath as the newest crop of US citizens. Among them was my girlfriend, now fiancé, who had navigated her own journey to the US as... View Details

April 1993 (Revised October 1993)
Supplement

Lukens Inc.: The Melters' Committee (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

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November 1976 (Revised May 1993)
Case

Budget Crisis of the Boston School Committee

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Education; Budgets and Budgeting; Crisis Management; Education Industry; Boston

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Program

Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance

Summary As the focus on corporate governance and oversight has grown, so has the complexity of regulatory challenges facing audit committees. This corporate governance strategy program explores the best practices that your audit committee... View Details

August 2012 (Revised May 2013)
Supplement

Milwaukee (B9): Julia Taylor, President, Greater Milwaukee Committee

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Bird

Keywords: Management; Wisconsin

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20 Nov 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

In November of 2015 I sat in the upper deck of Faneuil Hall in Boston, looking on as300 people from 80 countries congregated to take their oath as the newest crop of US citizens. Among them was my girlfriend, now fiancé, who had navigated her own journey to the US as... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

February 2014 (Revised April 2014)
Background Note

Incentives at the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)

By: Nava Ashraf and Kristin Johnson

Keywords: Community Health Workers; Motivation and Incentives; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Bangladesh

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29 Feb 2012
News

The Economic Impact of Congressional Committee Chairman Switches

27 Jan 2011
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How to keep audit committees in the know

July 2012
Teaching Note

Johannes Linden: Managing the Global Executive Committee (Brief Case)

By: Linda A. Hill and Mark Rennella

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January 27, 2011
Article

How to Keep Audit Committees In the Know

By: Robert C. Pozen

Keywords: Accounting Audits; Groups and Teams

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Article

Catching Outliers: Committee Voting and the Limits of Consensus When Financing Innovation

By: Andrey Malenko, Ramana Nanda, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Savitar Sundaresan

We document that investment committees of major VCs use a voting rule where one partner `championing' an early-stage investment is sufficient to invest. Their stated reason for this rule is to `catch outliers'. The same VCs use a more conventional `majority' rule for... View Details

Keywords: Optimal Voting Rules; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Investment; Decision Making; Voting

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28 Feb 2022
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The Importance of the Governance Committee to a Successful Development Program

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Consequences of Financial Reporting Failure for Outside Directors: Evidence from Accounting Restatements and Audit Committee Members

By: Suraj Srinivasan

I use a sample of 409 companies that restated their earnings from 1997 to 2001 to examine penalties for outside directors, particularly audit committee members, when their companies experience accounting restatements. Penalties from lawsuits and Securities and Exchange... View Details