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- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
when it comes to those much-maligned golden parachutes. Ferri sees say on pay as a tool utilized "quite judiciously" in the past. "There's no evidence that the process was hijacked by special... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
Canadian who sported not only a hockey stick but also an irrepressible enthusiasm for presidential candidate George McGovern. Elected class secretary upon graduation, Vibert has maintained strong ties to HBS and has zealously attended... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
know what the hell I was doing” — and he often prefaces his statements with “I don’t mean to sound arrogant, but....” He leaves out details that others might find hard not to mention. Hellman was the youngest person (at age 28) to be named View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
What’s a company’s purpose? Too often it has been hijacked by one extreme or the other claiming it’s either the unbridled pursuit of profit on behalf of shareholders or it’s anything but profit. I also take... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 06 May 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Introductory Reading For Being a Leader and The Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
(insurance, employers, health professionals, or individuals, for example) to build momentum within the channel. Exploit it as a platform instead of just an app. —Lisa Putukian (MBA 1988) With significant... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
The Art of Naming a Start-up
elusive. 1. The names could not sound foreign or antiquated. That ruled out candidates like Cantabrio, Cantissimo, Vivissimo, basically anything ending in the suffix “–issimo,” and many other beloved musical terms. We browsed this... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
Republic as an undergrad majoring in English literature at Arizona State. “Plato shaped my worldview of leadership,” recalls Nick. “He said a leader is a philosopher king.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
software and services company. The CRC is not her first startup: in 1986 Darwall cofounded ViewStar Corporation, a software company serving Fortune 500 clients that was eventually acquired by Mosaix. At the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
conditions and other factors. Through acquisitions and by building on its strengths, Martin and Giraud note, Club Med intends to double in size by 2003, operating as a services... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
instinctively understood—and has taken great advantage of—the collective network potential in terms of shared experiences, peer counseling, coaching, relationship cultivation, and ongoing support systems.” Bonnie Hagemann Benko joined what is now known View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
$100,000 in seed funding. "We wouldn't exist without that start-up money," says Schrader, who notes that Vaxess has also relied on the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) for meeting space as well as View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
by his business experience and prior service as board chair of both the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam and The Hague Municipal Museum. “As a private museum, we... View Details
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
Cespedes explains a strategic process for hiring and managing an effective salesforce: book excerpt Build your Team: Recruitment And Selection From Aligning Strategy and Sales By Frank Cespedes Putting the right team on the field is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- February 2008 (Revised February 2008)
- Supplement
Lincoln Financial Group (B): Making LFD a Reality
LFG reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople. This case series straddles human resource management, corporate strategy, and sales... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Financial Services Industry
Godes, David B., and David Lane. "Lincoln Financial Group (B): Making LFD a Reality." Harvard Business School Supplement 508-029, February 2008. (Revised February 2008.)
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
Alan B. Slifka On a bus in Israel, two seven-year-old boys talk about their interest in sports. One makes a joke, the other laughs. The boys, one Jewish, one Arab, are new friends. They met at View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Woman in the House
Boston native Kathy Davis (MBA 1982) never intended to go into politics, or to get her name in the Hoosier history books. But on October 20, 2003, she did both when she was confirmed as the first woman lieutenant governor of Indiana —... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Making of a School
George Bates (MBA ’25). “We had one classroom on the top of the Peabody Museum, another in the basement of the Harvard Union, and another in the basement of Lawrence Hall, which had, as I recall, a dirt... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A New Day for Fellowships
Ed Gozonsky (MBA '54), right, spoke to Associate Professor Andrew McAfee and students after attending a class as part of Fellowship Day. HBS changed my life. The education I got here made all the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
his story of turning an early-stage medical device company into a market leader with about $400 million in revenues. His plan included adding and integrating significant and complex acquisitions as well... View Details