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- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
Inc.’s third largest shareholder in 2013 when Dell announced a management-led buyout, or MBO, structured as a merger. In considering whether to vote for or oppose the transaction, Brian C. Rogers, chairman and chief investment officer at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
annual, nonbinding votes by shareholders on executive compensation — so-called say on pay; grants substantial shareholders a new right to have their director candidates’ names included on the ballots sent out by the company (dissident... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
in 1995 after a successful Wall Street career. In a unanimous board vote last fall, he became only the third Bank president to be reappointed to a second five-year term. Excerpts from his speech, "The Challenges Facing the World Bank in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
After I heard what had happened, I ran up to my room and tore down the signs. As it happens, I had voted for Kennedy. It was a tragic, terrible thing. I thought I would stay in the retail drug business for the rest of my life. My advice... View Details
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
Brochet, Francois, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract—We examine which independent directors are held accountable when investors sue firms for financial- and disclosure-related fraud. Investors can name independent directors as defendants in lawsuits, and they can View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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4.5 University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities | MBA
the Statement and is subject to appropriate discipline. This University-wide Statement and its first interpretation were adopted on an interim basis by the Governing Boards on September 20, 1970, and were voted to remain in effect... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
of investment management. “I think that vote captured a powerful tension inside the students,” she remarks. “They have plenty of mathematical and financial models to support the point of view that restricting the size of an ‘investable... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
Further, the voting cycle truncates long-term progress. "Government is an interest-group groupie," she said. "Who speaks for the less fortunate? The homeless, for example, are not a powerful interest group." Businesses, she added, "will... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 31 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs
provide an innovative, positive story for the public and cost $6.4 to $8.6 million; and a 100 percent reduction would cost $9.1 to $11.3 million and match industry leader HSBC. According to Oberholzer-Gee, about half the students voted... View Details
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Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
WAVE received an early vote of confidence when it was added to the foundation’s portfolio. “Almost all of our other funders have come through connections with the DRKF,” says Rewane. “We can thank the Social Enterprise Initiative and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
for partnership between the faculty, staff, and students." Even as an undergraduate at Harvard, team leadership came naturally to Mitchell. He was a two-time captain of the varsity basketball team, was voted the team's most valuable... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
the 1990s. In order to attract investors, the founders of companies organized before 1910 often included in the statutes stronger protections for small shareholders than what was mandated by law. The most important of these protections were maximum View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Reconstruction efforts in former Confederacy 1869 Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor and Colored National Labor Union formed 1870 15th Amendment to the Constitution adopted; the right to vote may not be abrogated by color 1873... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
Side of the Vote: Biased Voters, Social Information, and Information Aggregation Through Majority Voting Authors: Rebecca B. Morton, Marco Piovesan, and Jean-Robert Tyran Abstract We experimentally investigate information aggregation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
name, and cast your vote to the right to predict the winner. asia-pacific HBS Club of Shanghai Sophia Shing, MBA 1997 Founder Little Teacher mobile language learning canada HBS Club of Toronto Jennifer Lee Koss, MBA 2008 Co-founder and... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
cities in the state abutted a municipality with a green procurement policy. To assess each city's intrinsic environmental pulse, they measured the proportion of the city's population that voted in favor of environmental initiatives on... View Details
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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
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
voting public. They cast their votes not on ideology and old loyalties, but on a more pragmatic assessment of their own — and their community’s — interests. The last election saw incumbents lose in dozens of... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 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