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- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
Jordan brand and served as president of the Portland Trail Blazers NBA team? Probably not, says HBS Professor Francesca Gino, who coauthored the case with HBS Senior Lecturer Hise Gibson and HBS Professor Frances X. Frei, as well as... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
buying Alstom, GE’s chief energy competitor, but ignored warnings from wary board directors and senior executives who claimed Alstom had made bad deals and otherwise performed poorly. Since the acquisition,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
at both the senior management and director levels affect corporate philanthropic contributions. We also find that organizational structure constrains the philanthropic influence of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
prominent feature of the corporate landscape, escaping some of their earlier approbation as corporate raiders or, even worse, "greenmailers." Activism covered a range View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
almost sole focus on business results and their fiduciary responsibilities. Boards and CEOs must create a common vision of the effective, values based, high commitment, high performance organization they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
which can be large in some cases. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-054.pdf The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/610028-PDF-ENG Pandora: Royalties Kill the Web Radio Star? (A) Harvard Business School Case 310-026 Joe Kennedy, president and CEO of Pandora, one of the largest and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2021
- Book
The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
Click to watch. David Fubini has never been a CEO of a major corporation, but during his 34-year career as a senior director at consulting firm McKinsey, he had ample opportunity to work closely with and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50225 Harvard Business School Case 515-701 Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center Under the leadership of artistic director Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
grievances, fears, and agendas quickly coalesced into a vocal anti-Amazon movement, much in evidence at two hostile city council meetings. When the newly Democratic state senate appointed an opponent of the deal to an obscure View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks
support of founder Howard Schultz and his team in Philadelphia. Zuckerberg did not seem to rely upon the wisdom of Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg or lead board View Details
- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
requires that key stakeholders join together into one or more groups: A shareholders' council and an annual meeting of the owners to serve the governance needs of the owners. A View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
delayed for 20 days a shareholder vote on the sale of Del Monte Foods Co. (Del Monte) to a consortium of three private equity firms. In his opinion, Laster was critical of Del... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
- HBS Case
Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?
that technology companies should provide a backdoor into suspects’ phones. “Sophisticated criminals will come to count on these means of evading detection. It’s the equivalent of a closet that can’t be... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
real sense of purpose and a "flatness"—in career and in life. They often go through patches of life without creating or enhancing meaningful relationships, and even lack strength to deal with... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
CEOs and boards of directors is hard but ultimately the only path to sustained commitment and performance. Human nature is such that we do not want to know the truth, and lower... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
about serious art. Source: Tate "Most museums and cultural institutions are dabbling in digital and know they need to do something," says Avery, a former brand manager at Gillette and current board member View Details
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
Owner/President Management Program, with plenty of lessons about branding and competitive strategy. Two Paths In Branding Yoga, cowritten with HBS Global Research Group associate director Kerry Herman and... View Details
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
depends, to a surprising extent, on capable leaders. If boards of directors of public, anonymously-owned companies didn't believe that leadership... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
it was less effective when their relationship was more distant. The large and executive Board provided little check on the actions of the Special Committee. Directors executed... View Details