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- February 2009 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
AFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A)
By: Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
Union seeks to protect its pension funds through shareholder activism focused on corporate governance and executive compensation. The case uses Countrywide Financial as an example. Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Mortgages; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Labor Unions; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
Ferri, Fabrizio, and James Weber. AFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A). Harvard Business School Case 109-009, February 2009. (Revised March 2009.)
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
kind of impact she wants to have. She has been the beneficiary of numerous fellowships from HBS and HKS as well as a loan forgiveness award from HBS. “The fellowships I’ve received have given me opportunities I could not have explored... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
crisis and then interest dropped off. It’s also been true there’s been a change in attitudes. If you compare 2015 to 1995, there’s much greater interest on the part of the students in shaping one’s own... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
were rare. The Better Chance program that offered students in poor neighborhoods a chance to attend public schools in more wealthy suburbs. There were real financial investments in these programs that were required to do the hard work of... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
to use credit to build assets and finance consumption. Moving Forward explores what caused the crisis and, more important, focuses on the path ahead. The challenge remains the same as ever: protect consumers, ensure fairness, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are launching new business and social impact ventures. This year,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
the Japanese noticed and, on December 7, 1941, copied the military exercise exactly. Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College by Doug Lemov (MBA ’04) (Jossey-Bass) Lemov offers effective techniques to... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Invention of Data Privacy in the United States and France Author:J. Gunnar Trumbull Publication:In The Voice of the Citizen Consumer, edited by K. Bruckweh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Lessons from the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Chicago's difficult decision recently to close a number of schools, given that there were too many facilities for too few students. The goal is for the remaining students to thrive with more resources per capita, with a focus on... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
have to say, especially if they disagree with you.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “Keep an open mind about what you want to do after you graduate. You may discover areas of interest that you didn't even know about before you came to HBS. And once... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
but was glad she was able to curb the infection rate.” The city, she added, also received $30 million in federal loans for small business as well as food and rent assistance. Under her leadership, the homeless have been tested and moved... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
oriented venture? Continue to operate and expand the company? Expand to other neighboring countries? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310041-PDF-ENG JP Morgan Private Bank: Risk Management during the Financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
climate change, whether in companies that are mitigating its effects or preventing further damage.” She sees the climate change series as a great way to connect and engage HBS alumni, faculty, and students working on innovative solutions... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
are commonly called thrifts: savings banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions. Savings institutions were really the first financial intermediaries established specifically to serve the personal saving and borrowing needs of... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Military Alumna Reflects on Time at HBS
about the HBS students I had met, but still not sure what to expect the following day when I attended class in Aldrich. The next morning after coffee and discussion group in Spangler, I headed to LEAD class with Section I 2007. At the... View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
Microfinance—essentially small loans that help impoverished individuals create jobs, small businesses, and stronger communities—may offer a window on new methods for widening access to healthcare for the poor. Led by Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
Chairman & CEO, GE Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Dartmouth College, 1978 B.A., Applied Mathematics LESSONS FROM HBS “Understanding the difference between knowledge and intelligence.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
company's choices in terms of strategy, control systems, and culture. It also provides an opportunity to discuss the challenges of dealing jointly with a market-wide crisis (subprime) and a company-level crisis. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
the inner city will require a commitment not only by the government, but also by the private sector, a five-member panel, moderated by Randal Pinkett of the MIT Media Laboratory, told HBS students and alumni. And once the inner city is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman