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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
mix of oversight, decision-making, and advisory roles. “Boards are most likely to be effective,” they write, “if their structures are design-ed to suit the circumstances of their company and the role the board has elected to play.” For... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
in Denmark, where companies like Lego and Maersk are also owned by charitable foundations. In the case of Novo Nordisk, its foundation has a very specific mission: to support scientific, humanitarian, and social causes in health and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
EiR: A Baker’s Dozen
invaluable knowledge and insights to students who are eager to develop innovative products and services and create value for both the economy and society.” EiRs serve in a part-time capacity, advising MBA students interested in starting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
models—we need to go back to when consumers started paying attention to pricing online. The internet becomes widespread starting in 1994, and suddenly you can know the price of something with very minimal effort. And so companies needed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
school, something I didn’t know anything about. After leaving Grand Bank, I started Grand Angels to help local entrepreneurs. We’re here not only to write the checks but to mentor companies we invest in. Many entrepreneurs will tell you... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
creditors at the back of the line, meanwhile, lose out on the value that could have been produced had the company kept operating. A new working paper coauthored by Professor Stuart Gilson challenges that... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards
managing director of FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm, were awarded first place for their January–February 2011 article “Creating Shared Value.” The article lays out the concept of shared value, which focuses on the connections between societal and economic progress.... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
first post-HBS year as a Leadership Fellow made total sense for Tsai, a Stanford graduate with a tech background who came to HBS “to learn to lead in ways that are consistent with my values and beliefs.” During his fellowship in San José,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
An International Perspective
School “opened my eyes to a whole new spectrum of opportunities” in the field of financing and building entrepreneurial energy services companies. His most recent focus as managing director at Houston-based SCF Partners is the development of portfolio View Details
- 22 Aug 2020
- News
Bluemercury’s Marla Beck on How Covid-19 Is Changing the Beauty Business
Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Bluemercury cofounder and CEO Marla Beck (MBA 1998) recently spoke to the Wall Street Journal’s Secrets of Wealthy Women podcast about how her company has adapted during the pandemic. One of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
circumstances under which companies can, in terms of the environment, most successfully create value or lessen business risk. (An example of value created and risk reduced... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
Transatomic Power in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a company that aims to revolutionize the nuclear energy industry. In addition, participants discuss alternative governance styles and shareholder value... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
diagnosis and treatment. We’re Crazy!: A Memoir About U.S. Values by Bert McLachlan (MBA 1959) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) McLachlan has written a personal guidebook for future generations that explains the confusion of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
Inspired by Dean Kim B. Clark's vision for the School, Beverly and Rodney A. Hawes, Jr. (MBA '69), recently made a generous gift to HBS that will fund a new classroom building. "You can't succeed in the world today without having a global perspective, without realizing... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
company to more than economic success. "Starbucks describes itself as a values-driven company," he explains. "What's most important is that leadership has the integrity to try to live religiously by the View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
will be—because they are less rooted in the fundamental value of the corporations whose shares are being traded. Sure, some volatility is good because it gives people a reason to trade, thus keeping markets liquid. But too much volatility... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- News
A Novel Approach
called Behavioral and Value Investing, Lyle went out on a limb with the topic of her final paper, and went to her professor, Robin Greenwood, for guidance. "He said, 'This is going to be really tricky, and I'm not sure what you're going... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
some of the latest computer-aided tools, managers can dramatically lower the time and cost of changes. Second, they should review management processes. Many companies cannot exploit these new technologies because their management... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
companies taking on these challenges. It’s been a steep ascent for ESG in recent years, from a fringy outlier straight to the mainstage, as investments increased tenfold from 2018 to 2020. And there’s no sign of that pace slowing. Some... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint