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- 24 Oct 2019
- Video
Anu Aga
Anu Aga, former Chair of the engineering and energy company Thermax in India, describes the difficult decision to reconstitute the company’s Board of Directors and her belief in the need to keep the roles of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
Desmond Wong A loyal HBS alumnus who says he “truly bleeds Harvard crimson,” Wong has played a leading role in every '77 reunion since graduation. He has served on the HBS Alumni Association Board and the graduate schools committee and... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 2017
- Working Paper
Does Financial Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Alumni Managers?
By: Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin and Georgios Serafeim
We explore how an organization’s financial misconduct may affect pay for former employees not implicated in wrongdoing. Drawing on stigma theory we hypothesize that although such alumni did not participate in the financial misconduct and they had left the organization... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Restatements; Stigma; Financial Misconduct; Compensation and Benefits; Crime and Corruption; Employees
Groysberg, Boris, Eric Lin, and Georgios Serafeim. "Does Financial Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Alumni Managers?" Working Paper, November 2017.
- July 2020
- Article
Does Corporate Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Alumni Managers?
By: Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin and George Serafeim
Using data from a top-five global executive placement firm, the authors explore how an organization's financial misconduct may affect pay for former employees not implicated in wrongdoing. Drawing on stigma theory, they hypothesize that although such alumni did not... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Financial Misconduct; Stigma; Crime and Corruption; Employees; Compensation and Benefits
Groysberg, Boris, Eric Lin, and George Serafeim. "Does Corporate Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Alumni Managers?" Special Issue on Employee Inter- and Intra-Firm Mobility. Advances in Strategic Management 41 (July 2020).
- December 2015
- Case
Negotiating the Path of Abraham, 2015 Progress and Challenges
The Abraham Path board reviews the last five years and seeks to frame and act on its major strategic, negotiating, and operational challenges going forward. The Abraham Path Initiative seeks to revitalize a route of Middle East cultural tourism following Abraham's path... View Details
Sebenius, James K. "Negotiating the Path of Abraham, 2015 Progress and Challenges." Harvard Business School Case 916-027, December 2015.
- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
Google, Facebook, Asian Institute of Management, Procter & Gamble HBS ACTIVITIES Digital Initiative Student Advisory Board Enrico Ferrari “REAL SUCCESS COMES FROM EMPOWERING OTHERS. I AM NO ONE ON MY... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
hole in the culture you’re trying to build.” No applause meter was available, but on balance, judging from the volume of their cheers and handclapping, Parson got a thumbs-up from the student audience. D. Ronald Daniel (MBA ’54) view full... View Details
- 23 Jul 2016
- News
The Art of Persuasion
bit of consensus building and (if you want) self-motivation and drive from people, you have to get them excited about the idea. I learnt the art of persuasion in business school.” Named managing View Details
- October 1993
- Case
United Way of America: Governance in the Nonprofit Sector (A), The United Way
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Discusses the management practices of William Aramony at the United Way of America (UWA). First, the case describes the United Way movement, focusing on both the local chapters and the national organization. Second, it sets forth the Washington Post reports that lead... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Nonprofit Organizations; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Crisis Management; Public Administration Industry; United States
Lorsch, Jay W. "United Way of America: Governance in the Nonprofit Sector (A), The United Way." Harvard Business School Case 494-032, October 1993.
- 17 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees
Little & Company motivated board members of Gulfstream to sign up new clients: with model airplanes. The wealthy and influential members of the private plane company’s... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- Research Summary
Market Triads: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Market Intermediation (Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, June 2002)
By: Rakesh Khurana
This paper examines the role of executive search firms in CEO search. The paper argues that the numerical shift from two party market transactions (e.g. buyers and sellers) to three party transactions (e.g. buyers, sellers, and third party) transforms market exchanges... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
Competitiveness and Hurting America’s Middle Class,” by Professor Joseph Fuller and Manjari Raman, a program director and senior researcher at HBS’s Managing the Future of Work project. The impact View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
Last month, more than one million people lined the streets of Boston for a parade in honor of their National Hockey League champion Boston Bruins. Talk about consumer excitement over a product! On that score... View Details
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
organized religion soars Brown v. Board of Education desegregated public schools> Influence: Medium-High 60 1960 19 Civil rights movement gain strength Antiwar sentiment divides electorate FDA approves oral... View Details
- 22 Apr 2017
- News
Survey Roundup: Gender Disparity on Boardroom Diversity
- March 2013
- Teaching Note
Nestlé: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) (TN)
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Matthew Preble
In December 2012, Hans Jöhr, Nestlé's head of corporate agriculture, was preparing to meet with the company's board of directors to discuss its vision for the future related to sustainable agriculture. Nestlé's continued success depended on its ability to access the... View Details
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
Fialkow, managing director of General Catalyst Partners, he would first employ the "earnest young man routine" to get an interview with an old guy in business who could explain the ins and outs... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2013
- Article
Boardroom Centrality and Firm Performance
By: David F. Larcker, Eric C. So and Charles C.Y. Wang
Firms with central or well-connected boards of directors earn superior risk-adjusted stock returns. Initiating a long position in the most central firms and a short position in the least central firms earns an average risk-adjusted return of 4.68% per year. Firms with... View Details
Larcker, David F., Eric C. So, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Boardroom Centrality and Firm Performance." Journal of Accounting & Economics 55, nos. 2-3 (April–May 2013): 225–250.
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
strong sustainability culture is significantly more likely to assign responsibility to its board of directors for sustainability and to form a separate View Details
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