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    Hubert Joly

    Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy
    Author of The Heart of Business– Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

    Hubert Joly is a senior lecturer in the General Management unit and... View Details

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    Fabrizio Ferri's research focuses on a number of corporate governance issues, with particular emphasis on executive compensation and shareholder activism. His dissertation investigates the determinants and consequences of firms' decision to reprice... View Details

      Joseph B. Fuller

      Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and Entrepreneurship. He founded and co-leads the school’s project, Managing the Future of Work, as well as the Harvard Project on the Workforce. He currently leads the FIELD Global Capstone... View Details

      • 07 Jan 2025
      • Blog Post

      Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands

      as Manager, Clinique Global Marketing, rising quickly to a Director role. “Joining the Clinique brand at Estee Lauder allowed me to get more classic brand management training in a big corporation. Developing new skincare products and... View Details
      • May 2021 (Revised May 2022)
      • Supplement

      Odebrecht's 'Transformation Journey' (B)

      By: Lynn S. Paine, Ruth Costas and Pedro Levindo
      The case describes the changes in Odebrecht’s board of directors while the company had to file for court-supervised reorganization and cope with an ongoing feud within its founding family, and the new challenges that the Group’s leadership has to face. The changes in... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Reputation; Mission and Purpose; Business and Government Relations; Engineering; Family Business; Emerging Markets; Construction Industry; Brazil; Latin America
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      • July 2017 (Revised July 2018)
      • Case

      Entrepreneurship for All

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Julia Kelley
      Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) is a Lowell, Massachusetts–based nonprofit that hosts business accelerators for entrepreneurs in underserved communities. By mid-2017, EforAll has five office locations in Massachusetts, and its leadership and the Board of Directors... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions
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        Malcolm S. Salter

        Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

        In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

        Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
        • 26 Mar 2025
        • News

        Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore

        of local and global companies, government organizations, and universities in Hong Kong. A group of high school students also attended at the invitation of the club’s View Details
        Keywords: Margie Kelley

          Derek C. M. van Bever

          Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details

            Louis E. Caldera

            Louis Caldera is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability, a required first-year course in the MBA program. He has previously taught law school courses on corporate... View Details

            • January 2001 (Revised August 2003)
            • Case

            Diageo plc

            A major U.K.-based multinational is reevaluating its leverage policy as it restructures its business. The treasury team models the tradeoffs between the benefits and costs of debt financing, using Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the savings from the interest tax... View Details
            Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Multinational Firms and Management; Capital Structure; Restructuring; United Kingdom
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              Satish K. Tadikonda

              Satish Tadikonda is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. In the MBA program, Satish teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager, a required first-year MBA course, and Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences, an elective course for... View Details

              • December 2024
              • Article

              Proxy Advisory Firms and Corporate Shareholder Engagement

              By: Aiyesha Dey, Austin Starkweather and Joshua White
              We study how Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) affect firms’ engagement with shareholders. Our analyses exploit a quasi-natural experiment using say-on-pay voting outcomes near a threshold that triggers ISS to review engagement activities. Firms receiving ISS... View Details
              Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Voting
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              • June 2013
              • Article

              Dysfunction in the Boardroom: Understanding the Persistent Gender Gap at the Highest Levels

              By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell
              The article examines the gender gap that is present in boardrooms in U.S. corporations and internationally in 2013 as more women attempt to reach executive-level positions. Countries in the European Union are attempting to institute laws regarding the minimum... View Details
              Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Governing and Advisory Boards; Gender; United States; European Union
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                Das Narayandas

                Das Narayandas is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His academic credentials include a Bachelor of Technology degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), a Post-Graduate... View Details

                Keywords: advertising; beauty products; biotechnology; computer; electrical equipment; electronics; entertainment; federal government; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; internet; management consulting; manufacturing; marketing industry; professional services; retailing; telecommunications; transportation
                • November 2024
                • Background Note

                Nonprofit Governance: Some Basics

                By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
                This background note discusses basics about the prevalence, purpose, and unique legal, governance and regulatory dynamics of nonprofits and their boards of directors. The note describes both similarities and differences between for-profit and non-profit governance,... View Details
                Keywords: Corporate Governance; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Nonprofit Organizations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; United States
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                  Malcolm P. Baker

                  Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.

                  His research is in the... View Details

                  Keywords: asset management; biotechnology; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds); shipping; transportation
                  • June 2007 (Revised November 2008)
                  • Case

                  Nordic Telephone Company's Bid for TDC

                  Nordic Telephone Company, formed by a consortium of private equity firms, has made a public tender offer for Denmark's leading telecommunications company, TDC. TDC's board of directors approved the take-private transaction, and 88% of shareholders have accepted the... View Details
                  Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Communication Technology; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Offer; Privatization; Telecommunications Industry; Denmark
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                  • 2011
                  • Other Unpublished Work

                  Pioneers in Finance: An Interview with Michael C. Jensen - Part 1

                  By: Michael C. Jensen and Ralph A. Walkling
                  This interview is first of a two-part series in which Professor Ralph Walkling, the Stratakis Chair in Corporate Governance and Executive Director of the Center for Corporate Governance at Drexel University, interviews Professor Michael C. Jensen, Jesse Isidor Straus... View Details
                  Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Research; Financial Crisis; Compensation and Benefits; Agency Theory
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                  • March 2007 (Revised October 2008)
                  • Case

                  The New York Times Co.

                  The Sulzberger family owns 20% of the New York Times Co. (NYT) but controls 70% of the board through a dual-class share structure. At the company's April 2006 annual shareholder meeting, Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) and other investors, holding 28% of... View Details
                  Keywords: Family Business; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Publishing Industry; New York (city, NY)
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