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  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

independent views on public boards in a sample of Chinese firms. First, we ask why independent directors dissent, i.e., how they justify such dissent to public investors. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Rakesh Khurana

    Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

    Professor... View Details

    Keywords: executive search

      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

        Edward B. Berk

        Ted Berk is the Barry and Teri Volpert Fellow and a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Private Equity Finance in the elective curriculum and Finance I & II in the required curriculum.

        Ted... View Details

        • February 2005 (Revised March 2009)
        • Case

        Arauco (A): Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion?

        By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Jorge Tarzijan and Jordan Mitchell
        Celulosa Arauco is a major Chilean producer of market pulp and wood products. Owning over 1.2 million hectares of forest in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, the company's key advantage is the ideal growing conditions in which the company's forests are located. As of... View Details
        Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Forest Products Industry; Chile
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          Dorothy A. Leonard

          Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

          Keywords: computer; consulting; education industry; electronics; federal government; high technology; information technology industry; software; venture capital industry
          • 17 Jun 2011
          • HBS Case

          KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

          different, not by being the same. In the Harvard Business School case "Yum! China," professor David E. Bell and Agribusiness Program director and senior researcher Mary Shelman examine how Yum! Brands, the parent company View Details
          Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage
          • 02 Jul 2024
          • Blog Post

          Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

          place, or to community – than water. We hope these stories showcase a range of ways in which some alumni have connected their bond with water to action in the business world. Thank you for reading, and please share your stories with us at... 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
            • Career Coach

            Brent Brown

            Brent (HBS '02) has experience in private equity/venture capital, investment banking, and real estate, consumer products and digital media industries and currently serves on the boards of numerous private... View Details
            Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Real Estate; Retail; Sports; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Technology
            • 24 May 2023
            • Blog Post

            Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week

            also raised awareness of a range of HBS faculty working on climate.” Afternoon plenary sessions took on scaling accountability and impact. Serafeim, Tufano, and senior lecturer Jim Matheson moderated... View Details
            • February 2007
            • Tutorial

            Measuring Marketing Performance

            By: John A. Quelch
            In many organizations, marketing exists far from the executive suite and the boardroom. This tutorial instructs students how to improve the link between high level corporate strategy and the marketing function. First, students are exposed to three companies in which... View Details
            Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Performance Evaluation
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            • 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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              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

                John F. Batter

                John Batter is a retired Litigation Partner in the Boston Office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where his practice focussed on on the defense of public and private companies and their directors and management against breach of fiduciary duty claims and... View Details

                  Leonard A. Schlesinger

                  Leonard A. Schlesinger is Baker Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School where he serves as Chair of the School’s Practice based faculty and faculty Chair of the MBA Field Global Immersion program. He has served as a member of the HBS faculty from 1978 to... View Details

                  • 23 Jul 2001
                  • Research & Ideas

                  Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

                  the umber of people who can lead the largest organizations in his country is so small that most search consultants can practically recite them by name. By Khurana's reckoning, however, scarcity of CEO talent... View Details
                  Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

                    Sara McKinley Torti

                    Sara Torti is a senior product and operating executive who has focused extensively on creating and scaling technology-based businesses that require a combination of detailed execution, business insight and technical acumen. She has grown products... View Details

                    • 13 Dec 2011
                    • First Look

                    First Look: Dec. 13

                    Eccles, George Serafeim, and James HeffernanHarvard Business School Case 412-052 Rodolfo Guttilla, director of corporate affairs for Natura Cosméticos S.A. (Natura), prepared for a meeting with key... View Details
                    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
                    • 03 Jul 2017
                    • Blog Post

                    4 Ways HBS Alumni Utilize Baker Library

                    his role as Director of Business for Baker, Jim Borron supports alumni and ExEd participants by helping them understand and take advantage of the information services and... View Details