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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 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

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

extraordinarily reactive in his emotions, in his declarations, in the very heavy hammer that he wields across the board on different subjects as they come up, in real time, using social media. This is unprecedented. There is nothing in... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

Public Authorities Control Board rejects a $1.4 billion plan to build the New York Sports and Convention Center (NYSCC) on the West Side of Manhattan. If built, the NYSCC would have served as the home for the Jets and possibly the opening... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

to apply to HBS, launching a career that would include executive roles at McKinsey, Citibank, and Union Texas Petroleum, as well as board service for General Mills, Hewlett-Packard, Stanley Black & Decker, and UnitedHealth. From 1993... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

conditions may be in the not-too-distant future. Amid such daunting constraints, Erling Lorentzen (MBA 6/'48), chairman of the board of Aracruz Celulose S.A., the world's largest producer of eucalyptus market pulp, with 25 percent of... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

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