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- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
four factors allows special committees and their advisors to assess the degree to which the playing field is level in an MBO, and (by extension) the extent to which a market canvass can provide a meaningful check on the buyout price. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
financial advisors to make saving and investment decisions. Low literacy and lack of information affect the ability to save and to secure a comfortable retirement; ignorance about basic financial concepts can be linked to lack of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
with these companies in a variety of roles, including those of founders, shareholders, or managers of their own family's firm, as well as those of non-family managers and employees, investors or business partners (e.g., private equity investors), and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
substantial investment of $3 million to $5 million and work extensively with the management team as strategic advisors to help them build that organization. And in fact, some of our investment partners have made significant strides—real... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
the boss. They're in charge. That's what we teach here at Harvard Business School. But in this case, the board is an advisor because if Mark doesn't want to do it there's nothing the board can do. They can take a vote. It doesn't mean... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
counsel from faculty advisors Clay Christensen (MBA 1979) and Kent Bowen. Karim Lakhani provided insight into crowdsourcing and “innovation engines”; Nancy Koehn offered leadership advice and inspiration. They pursued every possible... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
CalPERS' external fund managers, Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA), and a service provider to DFA and CalPERS, KLD Research & Analytics. One question facing CalPERS with this new approach is whether to invest in PetroChina, which had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112006-PDF-ENG Business Intelligence Advisors (BIA), Inc.: Finding the Hidden Meaning in Corporate Disclosures Lauren H. Cohen and Christopher MalloyHarvard Business School Case 212-031 Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
Life of Significance By Warwick Fairfax (MBA 1987) Mount Tabor Media In Crucible Leadership, author and leadership advisor Warwick Fairfax shares the power of embracing the crucible moments: those past trials, failures, and setbacks that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
advisor to the newly formed government of East Timor. “You had yesterday’s freedom fighters now trying to figure out how to run a country,” he says. “Our job was to help them navigate the big policy and technical issues of various... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
successful in field tests." The problem, he explains, is that only ten thousand people in the country have IDA accounts, out of an estimated forty million eligible families. Tufano has been working as an advisor on legislation currently... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
brilliant pedagogy on Jim Austin's part." "The case studies remind us of the value of public-private partnerships," elaborates Richard W. Pogue, senior advisor of the corporate public relations firm Dix & Eaton and one of the architects... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
that a higher price could be obtained. Delaware Chancellor Leo Strine agreed with the plaintiffs on the conflicts, and in his opinion expressed serious concerns with how El Paso advisor Goldman Sachs and El Paso CEO Douglas Foshee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Advisory Group for the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign. Finally, Professor Sullivan was appointed Advisor to the Department of Justice Presidential Transition Team. In 2007, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Professor Sullivan was... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
the upper quartile, it seems that they were unable to maintain relevance by simultaneously keeping abreast of changes in the game, communicating effectively with influential stakeholders, and making efforts to surround themselves with talented View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
director of recruiting at Netflix and an advisor to Struct Club. “This is an opportunity to have a dialogue that is long overdue. We want to spend some time talking about what we can do in this profession,” said Mitchell. With panelists... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
heard about his passing. His life was a gift to everyone who had the good fortune to cross paths with him. —Darria Long (MBA 2005) John was my esteemed teacher and advisor both in the first and second year of the MBA Program. After... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
not. SWG: There's a whole degree program in that at USC—to help train all their wealth advisors and their employees about how to assess life priorities and create portfolios that match the needs and stages that their clients were in. So... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
company. He convinced his advisor that because of Carpé’s work studying high-altitude cosmic rays for Bell Labs, the expedition fit the School’s requirements. Following the successful expedition to the top of Mount Bona, Moore requested a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Catherine Bouvier d'Yvoire (MBA 1982), financial advisor to governments, Paris, France Use due diligence in assessing the "people" environment in which you will work: the culture of the company, the team you will join, and the seniors you... View Details