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- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
spin-off announcement, the stock price barely reacted. The case protagonist, Robb LeMasters (MBA ’05), managing director at Blue Harbour, joined the new company, BWX Technologies board View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Halliburton Energy Services). The case examines BP's safety record and prior accidents at a refinery in Houston in 2005 and along a pipeline in Alaska in 2006 and describes managerial changes imposed by the Board View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
labor-management trust, product liability, foreign child labor, business e-ethics, the oil industry and climate control, and more. A new appendix, "Corporate Self-Assessment and Improvement," provides a corporate self-assessment tool for senior management and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
institute laws regarding the minimum percentage of women on a company's board, while research suggests that women enter executive positions earlier and work harder than male counterparts. Other topics include a discussion View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
that the division might be in trouble, that corporate support is wavering, and that potential buyers are lining up. He wants to know what you know. Though the rumors are not altogether accurate, they do contain more than a few grains of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309003 How Serial Entrepreneurs Build and Manage a Board of Directors in a Venture-Backed Start Up Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
Once upon a time, there were two kinds of businesses. On the one hand, there were public and privately owned companies such as those that existed in Western-style democracies, which had boards View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
studies on companies including Microsoft, Sony, and Intel, and consults with consumer marketing companies in the area of innovation. She also serves on the board of View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
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 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
effort into succession ." C.J. Cullinane pointed out that "if the style or background of a capable insider does not mesh with the CEO, (insiders) seldom get to a position where the Board View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
industry like taxicabs. It can fight hard to get the rules changed,” says Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair and director... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
compared to non-founder firms. Overall, the evidence suggests that boards with founder-directors provide more high powered incentives in the form of pay and retention policies than the average U.S. board.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
even interest in life beyond our country's borders, a limitation of growing importance as the global economy expands. This is evident everywhere; our boards of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
member to discover how and whether his employees can speed up cleaning, checking, restocking, and refueling. Expert commentary comes from Atilla Korkmazoglu, president of ground handling and cargo operations at Celebi Aviation Holding,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
investors’ technical EiRs and/or network. When I was CTO at DigitalOcean, it was amazing to have someone like Martin Casado at a16z, our lead investor, to bounce ideas off of and even help us with some tricky architecture decisions.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem"-and the use of data to drive decision. In the case, managing director Jeff Edmondson is faced with two dilemmas: how to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Balanced Scorecard, to a public school district. As part of a continuous improvement initiative, the Director of Planning and Policy facilitates the development View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
Friendly and also owned a larger percentage of another restaurant company, was shifting expenses between the businesses in a way detrimental to Friendly shareholders, but personally advantageous to the CEO. Further, Blake believed that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
Recovery Act of 1981, Congress increased (from 5% to 10%) the allowable corporate tax deduction for charitable contributions (Mills & Gardner, 1984). And even as a majority of states were adopting... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
new strategic initiative without the buy-in of the senior stars who will have to lead and fund the effort.— Jay W. Lorsch and Thomas J. Tierney Finally, there's the important matter of who decides the CEO's... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney