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13 Nov 2019
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How to spend money to squeeze more joy out of life

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The Talent at the Table: Business Expertise and Share Ownership in Fortune 500 Boardrooms

This paper examines the relationship between corporate value and "vestige" directors, defined as directors who own sizeable shareholdings but lack salient business experience relative to their peers on Fortune 500 boards. These people come to serve on... View Details

May 2014
Article

How to Outsmart Activist Investors

By: Bill George and Jay W. Lorsch

We offer opinions on how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder return. Beverage industry firm PepsiCo is... View Details

Keywords: Investment Activism

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Phillip Andrews

Phillip (MPA, New Hampshire ’06; JD, Suffolk Law ’09) is formerly a Corporate Relations Director in HBS Career & Professional Development responsible for employer relations in Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, as... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Government; Social Enterprise; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing; Auto/Transportation/Logistics

23 Aug 2016
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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

29 Apr 2014
News

4 Components Required to Sustain Innovation

26 May 2022
Video

2022 Welcome Address Jan Rivkin & Jana Kierstead

12 Dec 2023
HBS Seminar

R. Edward Freeman, University of Virginia Darden School of Business

12 Nov 2014
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Time to Restart Small, Medium Bank M&A

22 May 2016
Video

2016 G&WS: Lori Mackenzie (Clayman Institute) Presents on Identifying and Blocking Gender Bias in the Workplace

09 Nov 2020
Video

Muhammad Musa

Muhammad Musa, the Executive Director of BRAC International since 2015, recalls how the founder Sir Abed Hazan Fazle led the NGO’s first international foray in Afghanistan in 2002, negotiating with conflicting parties to establish schools for girls. View Details

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By: Linda A. Hill

-Board of Trustees of The ArtCenter College of Design
-Board of Trustees of Brigham and Women’s Hospital
-Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, Special Representative
-Board of Directors of the Global Citizens Initiative, Inc.
-Board of Directors... View Details

24 Mar 2015
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Best-Selling Author Touts Walter Friedman Work

September 1997
Case

Davis, Lloyd, Young, & Donovan

Tom Roberts, director of audit operations, is responsible for assigning individual accountants to projects. Describes the current scheduling and assignment system, and the specific concerns of two staff members. Are any changes required in the system? View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Accounting Audits

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06 May 2012
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RLJ's newest executives are young and taking charge

25 Aug 2016
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Seth Pinsky responds to MOC class discussion in 2016

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

If you want to become good at early-stage investing, you need to learn how to size up the fundamental elements of an opportunity. Many investors use checklists or think of evaluation as a process of judging an entrepreneur, or an idea, or a particular set of facts.... View Details

Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

29 Jun 2010
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Ruling Means Few Changes for Companies Under Sarbanes-Oxley

01 Jun 2011
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Want Creative Workers? Loosen the Reins, Boss

18 Jul 2017
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