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- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
by the mid-90s, you started to see more interest in diversity on boards, particularly having women and minorities. And partly that was coming from the rise of institutional shareholder power, because then,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
from the steps of Baker Library as some students railed against the invasion of Cambodia, others spoke with pride of their recent military service in Vietnam, and still others broke through the din with shouts of "Free Bobby Seale!" When all was said and done, the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
recalls growing up in France—a country with less of a history of populism—and voting in his first presidential election in 2002, having to choose between a right-leaning candidate and a far-right populist. For both faculty members, these... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 May 2013
- News
The Power of Three
record, raising $4,000,835. To demonstrate their commitment and to inspire their classmates, the trio led the way with major contributions of their own. “I personally benefited from a fellowship that allowed me to go to HBS,” Dias Griffin explains. “It was an... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
into a New England institution and one of the leading consumer banks in the nation. Responding to demographic trends and consumer demands in the mid-1970s, Crozier moved quickly to launch a ubiquitous network of automated teller machines... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
through the efforts of a vanguard of institutional entrepreneurs, both academics and managers, who saw the need for creating a managerial class that would run America’s large corporations in a way that served the broader interests of... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
more focused on maximizing shareholder value." Specifically, a class taught by Professor Josh Lerner on venture capital prompted her to write a paper on the nature of value. "I wrote a paper calling for a different kind of value... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
to break down silos and provide a unified body of knowledge to inform public policy. Two proposed legislative agenda items from an earlier version of the group’s white paper were voted into state law last year: making the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
Nigerians. It could lay out its management plan as part of its election campaign, and voters would take that into account in making their decision. Why would locals vote for a foreigner? If they felt it was their only option to get out of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
HSBC. According to Oberholzer-Gee, about half the students voted for UBS to maintain emissions at 2005 levels; he says that these students tend to take the rational approach that it’s fine to spend $100 on insulating a building if that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
systems and glitches galore. But given his extensive experience helping international corporate clients solve IT and management problems, he was in a perfect position to help. "I was attracted by the challenge of turning around a huge View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
boards of several Boston organizations, including The Windsor School, MATCH Education, the Telluride Foundation, and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), which she describes as "all incredible, impact-oriented nonprofit organizations... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Brian Hall: Checks and Balances In the wake of these events afflicting corporate America, I find I’ m thinking harder about what I’ m teaching in terms of creating shareholder value. I’ ve always been a big proponent of the idea that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
in 1995 after a successful Wall Street career. In a unanimous board vote last fall, he became only the third Bank president to be reappointed to a second five-year term. Excerpts from his speech, "The Challenges Facing the World Bank in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
were a time for institutions to reconsider their goals and direction, it is now. There is, for example, a growing social perception that the MBA degree needs to do more around the roles and responsibilities of business and business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
executives will need to synthesize Theories E and O to develop businesses that both satisfy shareholders and survive as viable institutions in the long run. "This framework," write the editors, "will aid... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
Rewarding the Top Dog The media, institutional investors, and even government officials all seem to have an opinion about CEO compensation, often criticizing how and how much top executives are paid. But do CEOs really dictate their own... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
individual citizens are protected. Tracing governmental involvement in risk management to the early 19th century, Moss shows how government institutions have served to promote capitalism and economic growth by shifting risk from View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
deep experience across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors who is the founder and chairman of FOMEPADE, a financial institution that offers consumer and housing credit. “The fact that we could actually talk to the people and look... View Details