Filter Results:
(452)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,247)
- People (1)
- News (359)
- Research (452)
- Events (8)
- Multimedia (14)
- Faculty Publications (330)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,247)
- People (1)
- News (359)
- Research (452)
- Events (8)
- Multimedia (14)
- Faculty Publications (330)
Sort by
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
transportation infrastructure. In addition, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., announced a plan to rework the tax code and dedicate $126.5 billion to fund highway and infrastructure investment. Although the two... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
four factors allows special committees and their advisors to assess the degree to which the playing field is level in an MBO, and (by extension) the extent to which a market canvass can provide a meaningful check on the buyout price. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
committee chair is attempting to understand the complexity of the portfolio and the risks that might be present. How should the risks of these sophisticated strategies be measured? And, in particular, what risks is the endowment exposed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
reject it, too. “It turns out that shareholders have many different views, and it’s not only the largest shareholders whose proposals have widespread appeal” The House Financial Services Committee explained it this way in its April 2017... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
Case 313-067 Milwaukee (B8): Richard Meeusen, CEO, Badger Meter and Co-chair, Water Council No description available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313067-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-068 Milwaukee (B9): Julia Taylor, President, Greater... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
Finally, we recommend that the external auditor problems can only be solved through a major change in the relation between auditors and the companies they audit. This may be achieved by making the audit committee responsible for hiring... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
group had generated. These ranged from stabilizing the company's current carbon emissions to complete carbon neutrality. The UBS Corporate Responsibility Committee would meet early next week. Suter wondered which option he should support.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
That's what the BBC executive committee discovered in themselves when their charismatic chief departed. And that's the real magic—to make leadership appear from many unexpected places, just when it is needed. Leaders Supporting... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
districts with high unemployment rates are less likely to be subject to an SEC enforcement action if the incumbent congressman serves on a committee that oversees the SEC. These findings suggest that voters' interests are reflected in SEC... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
these things do we want to do which define our role?" Having done that, they then can think more intelligently about how they want to design the board itself and answer questions such as "Who do we want on the board? What View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
Article In the past several weeks we have been treated to vastly restated earnings, the conviction of an entire accounting firm, and the baiting by congressional committees of witnesses drawn from the ranks of corporate managers. We are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
diamonds in the future and making them into ambassadors of ill will. At a meeting scheduled for November 2015, the De Beers Executive Committee would have to decide whether to end the pilot program, extend it for another year to gather... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
Chesapeake's board and its compensation committee, including McClendon's role in consummating several joint ventures, which the board and committee believed positioned the company for future growth in the relatively young industry of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of accelerating digital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
evidence of a lower likelihood of SEC enforcement for labor-intensive firms that are headquartered in districts of senior congressmen that serve on committees that oversee the SEC. All of these results hold after controlling for firms'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the 1983 movie of the same name.4... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
signals accordingly. At that very moment in 1998, the IMF Executive Board and Interim Committee were considering codifying the norm for all 184 members, as had the EU and OECD for their own clubs. That autumn was as close as the world has... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
achieve social value." REDF recently hired a full-time financial analyst, formerlywith J.P. Morgan, to help build models for SROI. REDF also practices venture philanthropy through efforts such as targeted business analysis and venture View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
in turn, generates value for advertisers? And if the end result is only a fine, how large does that fine have to be to matter? It’s clear that antitrust is not what it used to be, at least not under current laws. Is new legislation required? If so, how likely are the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
The FBI has ordered Apple’s help unlocking an alleged terrorist’s iPhone. The company has opposed the request and turned to the court of public opinion for help with a verdict. As a House Judiciary Committee hearing gets underway this... View Details