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Elsa Sze

campaign flyers we've been handing out. "I'm sure you'll be President one day! I'll vote for you, Antonio!" I've lied. I know the stats. A boy from this place is half as likely to finish school and twice as likely to be jobless,... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Crowdfunding capital for small business

like the idea of the crowd vetting ideas, and determining winners and losers by voting with their capital.” Although the partners had been friends for four decades, they had never worked together before iCrowd. McGee, a US Navy veteran,... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Maintaining a Resilient Democracy

Pensions Committee, which has a reputation for bipartisan cooperation. Harder’s suggestions to revitalize the system, on the other hand, include “revising arcane procedural rules that give obstructionists too much power to shelve proposals most Americans favor” and... View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

February 1991 (Revised June 1991)
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Raymond Jackson (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Professor Jackson is offered a spot on the slate of directors that Harold Simmons, Lockheed's largest shareholder, has nominated for Lockheed's board to oppose the slate nominated by Lockheed in the Spring, 1990 elections. Jackson must decide whether to join Simmons'... View Details

Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Decisions; Voting; Governing and Advisory Boards; Alliances

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07 Nov 2019
News

Scranton Elects First Female Mayor

As an Oregon native running on the Independent ticket, Paige Cognetti (MBA 2014) was not the most likely candidate to claim victory in a special mayoral election that took place Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But she won handily, claiming 36 percent of the View Details

Keywords: politics; leadership; women; career paths; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

my ideas, maybe some of them will become reality in 15 years.” He can keep investing, too. While he no longer devotes time to DFJ’s early-stage venture fund, he has already backed two startups through Innovate Your State. Placeavote, for example, is a digital View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Class Profile | MBA

changes each year based on who chooses to apply and enroll at HBS. We hope you will consider applying to HBS on your journey to make a difference in the world. We follow the GME Admissions Reporting Standards developed and voted on by... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

Hierarchy's Last Stand

underperform and be overcompensated. A caricature, but sadly still true: consider the enormous pay packages for CEOs in companies that lose money. Shareholder protests (such as those in the United Kingdom), voting against compensation... View Details

Keywords: Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Corporate Services

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McKim, Mead & White - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

selection, George F. Baker, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, HBS Dean Wallace B. Donham, and several architects unanimously voted for the plan created by the New York-based McKim, Mead & White, one of the country’s preeminent... View Details

25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

operate with a very light touch. Theoretically, voters are supposed to be the ultimate check: If the public doesn’t like what’s going on, the party or elected officials get voted out. Yet even with some leadership churn, candidates from... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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2.4 Disciplinary Process | MBA

allegations. The CRB will vote to determine whether a violation occurred and what sanctions, if any, should be applied. The CRB applies a “preponderance of evidence” standard, meaning that the CRB will decide whether it is more likely... View Details

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

platforms. “How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers” was the most-read story on Working Knowledge in 2016. Other popular topics among our readers included workplace communication, negotiation, white-collar crime, and, of course, the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Apr 2014
News

York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition

With online crowd votes from more than 1,200 alumni and MBA students, the winners of the 2014 alumni New Venture Competition have been crowned. Winner of the crowd-voted Most Innovative and Greatest Impact categories is York Street... View Details

Keywords: New Venture Competition; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

brazen theft from the American middle class and from every person who aspires to reach it The GOP tax scam is not a vote for an investment in growth or jobs. It is a vote to install a permanent plutocracy in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2003
What Do You Think?

To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?

director of the newspaper described above, which of the two offers would you vote for? Curiously, the proposed Sarbannes-Oxley guidelines say little about this. What, if anything, should Congress or the legal establishment do to encourage... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

of capital. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-040.pdf Friends in High Places Authors:Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy Abstract In this paper we demonstrate that personal connections amongst politicians, and between politicians and firms, have a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2004
News

New MBA Leadership Course

design-team member and course head Lynn S. Paine, one of ten HBS faculty members who taught LCA this year. Paine explains that after a lengthy review of the first-year offerings on managers’ responsibilities that began in 2001, the faculty View Details

Keywords: HBS; LCA; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

selling assets, generating additional cash for the company and giving it more flexibility to restructure its operations. Under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, assets can be sold by a court order, without requiring a full vote of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

01 Jun 2015
News

Creating Change

worsen the other side’s no-agreement alternative. If people in the organization think the worse thing that can happen is that everything stays the same, it’s very hard to push change.” The alumni advocating for change filed a lawsuit that would have closed the club’s... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

created a bureaucratic gridlock. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed Sir Fazle Hasan Abed Founder of BRAC, explains how he was approached by politicians in Bangladesh asking him to influence the votes of employees and how he refused to do so. Questions... View Details

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