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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Authority, and it's locally based in Accra, with a governing board made up of top figures from government, business, and civil society. That, I think, is a very serious advance." "We have enormous respect for a principle we call country... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
business holdings. The traditional Argentine newspaper La Nación provides an example of such a shift, when in 1996 a change in ownership of the controlling stake led to the appointment of Julio Saguier as board chairman. Saguier was... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
founders of Lynx Solutions have survived major challenges within their board of directors, the firing of Lynx's founder-CEO and departure of its successor CEO, and a crisis sparked by media allegations that it had been spying on its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
also extended to the companies in which XTV invested. These were structured as separate legal entities, with their own boards and officers. XTV sought to recruit employees from other start-ups who were familiar with managing new... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
shifting carbon footprint when they have a big life event? Jen Flint: One of the side effects of this crisis has been that we all abruptly stopped getting in our cars and boarding airplanes, we stopped all kinds of activities that also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
“Let’s make fashion smart,” Shin quips, a phrase Foalea later borrows as the perfect tagline. Foalea looks at her watch: 11:45 a.m. “Let’s get started on creating the app mock-ups before lunch,” she says. Behrens breaks out the art supplies: paper, scissors, colored... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
the Black Lives Matter movement can create lasting and sustainable change.” JULY 28 Camille Hackney (MBA 1994) and Michael Lynton (MBA 1987) were both recently named to the board of the Warner Music Group (WMG)/Blavatnik Family Foundation... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
has brought an amended plan to the table under which it would commit to backstop a $406 million equity rights offering that would be made directly to all the unsecured creditors. This offer might bring the objecting creditors on board but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016
a series of static comparisons that reveal the impact of a change in one determinant of an option's price while holding other factors constant. The business setting involves a mutual fund board considering the initiation of an option... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8
http://hbr.org/product/drivers-of-value-capture/an/714488-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-487 Drivers of Value Creation No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/714487-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-098 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
insulates the board from pressures by biased or uninformed shareholders. Whether stronger governance improves retain/replace decisions depends on which of these effects dominates. We use our theoretical framework to assess the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
asking, is this the right business model? But there are no answers. The market and technology are constantly changing," Riesenfeld remarks. Important Sounding Board The biotech industry presents similar challenges in a space littered with... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
tax shelters. These changes included a common compensation bonus pool for the entire firm and rewarding people for professionalism as much as for business development; strengthening governance by adding a lead director to the board, removing the chairman and deputy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609056 Odyssey Healthcare Harvard Business School Case 809-052 In January 2001, Dick Burnham, CEO of Odyssey Healthcare, and Odyssey's Board of Directors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
need to resign," read the email from the founder of Webpoint to the company's board of directors. Les Trachtman, the CEO of Webpoint, has to figure out how to react to the founder's "it's Trachtman or me" ultimatum.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
35-year-old institution. We have been working on the transition to a clean, prosperous, and secure low carbon energy future for the last 35 years. I joined the organization three years ago, with a specific mandate from the board to take... View Details
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Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) Finance C. Fritz Foley Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors General Management, Organizational Behavior Lynn Paine Spring 2026 Q3Q4... View Details
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Martin November
Marty (HBS '98) is an MD/MBA and practicing OBGYN physician who has broad expertise in the healthcare sector as the former Medical Director for Patient Safety and Risk Management at Atrius Health, Harvard Medical School teaching faculty and hospital division director,... View Details
- 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