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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
speaking, the IT expert serves much the same function as the certified financial expert on an audit committee. A CIO or CTO with solid experience in the management of IT qualifies; for example, the IT oversight committee chairman for the... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation joined together to form a new organization, AGRA, to tackle the historic challenge of increasing agricultural production in Africa. Launched with much fanfare and led by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
Vietor noted, privatization was the dominant force in Europe. "In the past two decades," he said, "the public enterprise sector has been reduced to about 7 or 8 percent of GDP." Each of the three panelists in the session knew exactly whereof Vietor... View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
structures underpinning the process of globalization. Harvard Business School Case 517-083 CJ E&M: KCON Goes Global In January of 2017, CJ Entertainment & Media (E&M) proudly announced that it will be holding its first ever KCON in Mexico City just two... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
controlling stake in Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (Satyam), a troubled Indian IT company managed since January 2009 by a six-member government-appointed caretaker board. Anand Mahindra, chairman and managing director of the Mahindra... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
detail, nonprofit boards are often larger, have more committees, and have a very different trustee life cycle. Further, as Chapter Seven describes, the heart of the governance process is a volunteer nonexecutive chairman and volunteer... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
Financial and Accounting Standards Board, new New York Stock Exchange rulings regarding board composition and other matters, and a Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility, and Transparency Act (CAARTA) by Congress. A misguided overreaction? Possibly. But... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26
company was still dealing with multiple purported class action and derivative lawsuits that had been filed against it. It was during this time the board started looking for candidates both for the CEO and chairman positions. In December... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
prompted the Chairman of German auto producer Daimler to comment, “In an ideal case, this can help foster another economic miracle.” Poorer nations benefit from outward migration most often because their birth rates are much higher than... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
Balancing the Needs of a Family Business with the Needs of a Family of Businesses William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen MantyHarvard Business School Case 312-059 As a second generation business leader, Chairman Dhanin Chearavanont took over the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008
Business School Case 808-137 In late November 2000, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., the once-monopolized telecom operator owned by the Taiwanese government, was on its way to privatization. Mr. C.K. Mao, Chairman of the company, who headed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
redefined," Higgins says. "The younger generation doesn't care as much about cable TV." And for older sports fans, mobile devices are gaining popularity because they allow for multitasking. "Wyc Grousbeck was on a tour of hospitals for the blind in... View Details
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
them." In July 2009, the Indian government invited Nandan Nilekani, cofounder and cochairman OR cofounder and former CEO of the global technology services firm Infosys and a champion of private-sector entrepreneurship, to lead the effort as View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
family-owned businesses employ a family member as the CEO. Sam Walton founded and the Walton family still owns Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., for example, and the founder's son Rob Walton is chairman of the board, but the company's president and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It was proposed by Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder and chairman emeritus of the MIT Media Lab. The time seemed ripe: The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Foundation quickly signed up Google, News Corp.,... View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16
Chairman Wang Jianzhou was exploring ways to expand its customer base. Nearly saturated in the cities, China Mobile needed to broaden its base of subscribers. Wang believed that further investment in China's rural villages was a key... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
follow, observe the authors, since more than a few failed companies have run straight into the tiger's jaws while believing that all they had to do was outrun their competition. Ghoshal and Moran, both of the London Business School, and Bartlett, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
1999 by chairman and CEO Michael Bronner, had all the scale anyone could ask for: to create a national customer-loyalty program (like airlines' frequent-traveler mileage points) which would pay consumers rebates on their shopping—not in... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg