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- 22 Feb 2018
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My First Job
college, in the summer, I decided to become a waitress up in Ogunquit, Maine. And I was able to get room and board near the beach and mostly serve lobster dinners. I was taking the orders and I was putting them into the kitchen and my... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
integrity. Mühlemann: Arrogance and greed are bad advisors. Gadiesh: First, no rug is big enough to sweep problems under indefinitely. If things are going wrong, stay humble enough to admit it and listen to the people who might know how to fix them. Second, for View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
knowledge management into the future of Danone. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608067 Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated Harvard Business School Case 208-019 In an activist role, the hedge fund Third Point LLC has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27
executive board meeting that afternoon. Jöhr recognized the meeting as a key opportunity to strategize far into the future, reexamining how his team's efforts in sustainable agricultural sourcing supported Nestlé's position as the world's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
investors, and experienced entrepreneurs. The challenges fall into five broad areas: the need to formalize organizational structure, executive transitions, the need for management systems/processes, evolution of the board of director's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Case 319-046 The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A) In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to decide whether to seek a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
consumer PC in a very big way. (Yoffie is a board member of Intel, whose chips power most PCs and who has tried to woo Apple as a customer.—Ed.) Q: Consumer PC? So Apple would make consumer PCs on Windows, and not just morph into a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
Boston Consulting Group has written about “leapfrog” promotion: “Corporate boards of directors are increasingly reaching down below the second layer of management to name new chief executive officers,” Torres writes. “A leapfrog leader,... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
with many American investors and board members (as I explain in this ABC x Nightline documentary), faces wild scrutiny over its international subsidiary, TikTok. It is a strange world when its two leading powers contest the future of a... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Standards Board (SASB). We find firms voluntarily disclosing more SASB-identified sustainability information have higher stock price informativeness. In contrast, sustainability disclosures not identified as material by SASB are not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
Looking back, the board reflected on what they had done well, what they might have done differently, and whether another company might be able to implement a similar CEO transition process. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
communities for major corporate clients. These communities have provided its clients with insights into how consumers view their brands, with quick feedback on potential marketing decisions, and with a sounding board for new product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
come in-- never, not once, has anyone ever landed this plane without killing every single person on board in the simulator. And if you ask Richard de Crespigny why he was able to do this-- and I've spoken to him a dozen times-- he will... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
"It has been very rewarding doing this work. These companies have been through so much horror, and then they have to figure out how to start up all over again. They really appreciate even the littlest things we do for them. It's inspired me to become a View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) and NAAHR (National Association of African Americans in Human Resources). She also sits on Working Mother Media's Advisory Board for Multicultural Women, which focuses on deepening the... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) has just made its third bid to acquire Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC), one of the largest railroads in the United States. Having rejected the prior offers, NSC’s CEO James Squires and the NSC board must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
when taken on board by the president and Democrats. Roberts' decision rested on an interpretation of the mandate as a tax. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/714029-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Commencement 2013 Address | About
problem. It would have been easy for us to try something less ambitious—to try FIELD out with just a section or two. I vividly remember coming back from a meeting of our Board of Dean’s Advisors where they had told us we were trying to do... View Details
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
Online Community's Official Networking Group and gain exclusive access to events and other networking opportunities. Description of silent animated video above: Learner types an answer in the discussion board in response to a peer's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição (where she continues to serve as a board member), Diniz had already launched a consulting business but was ready to move on. “I’m very results-oriented, very practical,” she says. “I wanted to invest... View Details