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  • October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
  • Case

Engine No.1: An Impact Investing Firm Engages with ExxonMobil

By: Mark Kramer, Shawn Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi and T. Robert Zochowski
ExxonMobil, the world's fifth largest source of carbon emissions, remained committed to aggressively expanding its oil & gas business despite global warming. During the COVID pandemic this strategy resulted in massive losses as the price and demand for oil declined. ... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Global Warming; Impact Investment Funds; Hedge Fund Activism; Leadership Development; Business Model; Renewable Energy; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards
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  • November 2007 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

OppenheimerFunds and Take-Two Interactive (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch, Andrew Hill and Kaitlyn Simpson
Describes the dilemma faced by Emmanuel Ferreira, a fund manager at OppenheimerFunds. As the largest shareholder and a long-time investor in software publisher Take-Two Interactive, Ferreira contemplates whether or not to get involved with other investors in trying to... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    Reza R. Satchu

    Reza Satchu is a Senior Lecturer in... View Details

    • 30 Apr 2021
    • News

    This Harvard Professor Reveals the Secret Sauce for Remote Work - And It Has Nothing to Do With Zoom

    • December 2010
    • Article

    Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us...)

    By: William A. Sahlman
    The financial crisis of 2008-2009 has revealed that our broad model of corporate governance is broken, independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees,... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Human Capital; Ethics; Policy; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Finance; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • March 2019 (Revised October 2020)
    • Case

    GENTERA: Facing the Digital Age

    By: Michael Chu and Carla Larangeira
    After long dominating Mexican microfinance, Compartamos Banco faces the emergence of fintech, just as for the first time its loan portfolio and clients have declined. Enrique Majós, CEO of GENTERA, the bank´s parent company, is keenly aware of the profound changes... View Details
    Keywords: Micro Finance; Base Of The Pyramid; Fintech; Microfinance; Disruption; Innovation and Management; Competitive Strategy; North America; Mexico
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    • February 2017 (Revised May 2017)
    • Case

    Rapid7

    By: Mitchell Weiss, Paul Gompers and Silpa Kovvali
    That Corey Thomas, vice president at Boston-based Rapid7, Inc., was about to enter his investor’s boardroom to negotiate a potential acquisition of Metasploit, LLC, was already an unlikely achievement of sorts. After all, Rapid7 was a venture-backed, corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Computer Hacking; Open-source; Corey Thomas; Rapid7; Exploit Testing; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cybersecurity; Computer Industry; North and Central America; Boston
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    • 16 Aug 2010
    • News

    Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award

      Robert H. Hayes

      Robert Hayes is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School. Prior to his appointment to the Harvard Faculty in 1966, he worked for I.B.M. and McKinsey & Company. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1966 from... View Details

        Case: The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A)

        In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to decide whether to seek a shareholder vote at the upcoming Annual General Meeting in April on a proposal to... View Details

          Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern (Railroads)

          Following weeks of speculation about a possible bid, Canadian Pacific (CP) made an unsolicited bid for Norfolk Southern (NS) on November 17, 2015. Norfolk Southern swiftly rejected the offer as well as a second offer made shortly thereafter.  Canadian Pacific then made... View Details

            Michael L. Tushman

            Michael Tushman holds degrees from Northeastern University (B.S.E.E.), Cornell University (M.S.), and the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. (Ph.D.). Tushman was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, from 1976 to 1998 where he was... View Details

              Lauren H. Cohen

              Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

              Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
              • 09 Sep 2024
              • HBS Case

              McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

              job and getting banned from serving as an executive or director at any other company for five years. This consensual workplace relationship—forbidden under the iconic fast-food chain’s fraternization policy because of potential conflicts... View Details
              Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
              • 14 Apr 2003
              • Research & Ideas

              Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

              movement from this advisory-body model to the correct governance model, but with miles and miles to go. And a parameter of how many miles to go is the percentage of Fortune 500 companies where the chairman is a different person from the CEO—in 85 percent of the... View Details
              Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
              • March 2009 (Revised April 2009)
              • Case

              AFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A) (Abridged)

              By: Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
              Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest public sector workers union in the U.S., was responsible for protecting the pensions of its members. Because pensions were invested for decades, Ferlauto wanted the companies in which... View Details
              Keywords: Voting; Investment; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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              Annette Rodriguez-Ferrer

              (now CCMP Capital). Annette has significate public, private and non-profit Board experience. Currently, she serves as Executive Chairperson of Wax Center Partners and previously held Board positions with... View Details
              Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Retail; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship
              • April 2011
              • Case

              Daniel Kim's Dilemma (A)

              By: Bill George and Natalie Kindred
              Daniel Kim was considering "blowing the whistle" on his friend, the CEO of a fast-growing startup where Kim had spent most of his professional career. When Kim joined the company, called Cardio-Metric, in 2002, it consisted of seven young engineers (including its two... View Details
              Keywords: Ethics; Fairness; Corporate Accountability; Emotions; Behavior; Leadership Style; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Disclosure
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              • 05 Jul 2006
              • Working Paper Summaries

              Bankers, Industrialists, and Their Cliques: Elite Networks in Mexico and Brazil During Early Industrialization

              Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio & Ian Read; Banking
              • Research Summary

              Understanding the Drivers and Limits of Corporate Growth

              By: Gary P. Pisano

              Perhaps no issues garners more attention of senior executives and Boards of Directors than growth.  Yet, the underlying factors shaping and limiting corporate growth are poorly understood.  Empirically, we know that some corporations grow much faster than... View Details