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- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
outside directors implementing MV shareholder proposals reap the benefits of their responsiveness in the directors market through a higher likelihood View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
with a request for proposal, the company's largest customer performs a routine evaluation and ranks PV Technologies third behind two key competitors. The director of sales and marketing must weigh the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
with bankruptcy for executives and boards of directors has diminished, among other stakeholders it has come to be viewed as merely a vehicle for corporations to circumvent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
boards of directors are keenly interested in the latest sustainability or corporate responsibility report. They do not routinely ask for or receive a product safety review.... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
review board made up of a panel of judges that could provide an initial review to cases within three to six months to determine whether the cases have any merit. No matter the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
HBR, Stewart was editorial director of Business 2.0, where he set editorial policy, developed story ideas, wrote feature articles on management trends, and penned a Web column, "Barely Managing."... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
member to discover how and whether his employees can speed up cleaning, checking, restocking, and refueling. Expert commentary comes from Atilla Korkmazoglu, president of ground handling and cargo operations at Celebi Aviation Holding,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
investors’ technical EiRs and/or network. When I was CTO at DigitalOcean, it was amazing to have someone like Martin Casado at a16z, our lead investor, to bounce ideas off of and even help us with some tricky architecture decisions.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem"-and the use of data to drive decision. In the case, managing director Jeff Edmondson is faced with two dilemmas: how to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Balanced Scorecard, to a public school district. As part of a continuous improvement initiative, the Director of Planning and Policy facilitates the development View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
on, it pays its key cast and crew members the minimum salary stipulated by industry unions and only pays out sizeable bonuses if a movie’s box-office reaches certain levels, it gives its directors a great deal View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
Recovery Act of 1981, Congress increased (from 5% to 10%) the allowable corporate tax deduction for charitable contributions (Mills & Gardner, 1984). And even as a majority of states were adopting... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
strategic guidelines to shape strategies at lower levels of the organization. Board and shareholder alignment: The corporation's board of View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
impair goodwill when their reputation concerns are low, suggesting that those executives are subject to their own opportunistic motives. We also find that the greater propensity of former auditors and investment bankers to report goodwill... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
CEO, with the intention of using the specialist for a limited time only. The specialist, on the other hand, takes actions that benefit not only the firm but also inform future employers of his or her... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
decision making, and judgments in carrying out the work of the modern corporation. A most fortuitous event in starting the project was the engagement of our research assistant who has a theater academic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
serves as chairman of the consultancy TruePoint Partners and of its educational and research institute, the TruePoint Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. In the e-mail interview that follows, Beer talks... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
locations in Massachusetts, and its leadership and the Board of Directors must decide whether EforAll is ready to open its first out-of-state office. Students are asked to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the Senate, said that the new law's value is that it helps eliminate conflicts of interest between auditors and a company's board View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
less resources into firm governance. For instance, the researchers found that for the group of firms they looked at, VCs were 14 to 21 percent less likely to place an investor on the board View Details