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  • 10 Nov 2008
  • Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

number of which offer Internet access. What these statistics suggest is that "the most precious currency today is information," said panelist Jim Breyer, an early investor in Facebook and a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jul 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

"servant leadership." Without hesitating, he asked an associate to get him some cleaning materials and proceeded to get down on his hands and knees to soak the coffee out of the carpeting while his View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

  Working PapersHiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, Christopher Malloy Abstract We test the hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2019
  • News

Diversity as a Driver of Performance

Source: Tapestry Source: Tapestry In September, Jide Zeitlin (MBA 1987) was named chairman and CEO of Tapestry, the $5.9 billion parent company of Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman. A former Goldman... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
  • December 2012 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

Nestlé: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV)

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Lorin A. Fries
Corporate Head of Agriculture Hans Jöhr's mind raced in anticipation of the executive board meeting that afternoon. Jöhr recognized the meeting as a key opportunity to strategize far into the future, reexamining how his team's efforts in sustainable agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Value Creation; Quality; Supply Chain Management; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Health Industry
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  • 12 Feb 2016
  • News

Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

director of product, where she oversaw the launch of Xbox Kinect incubation. “Many days I would say, ‘This isn’t work.’ There was a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

case, product divisions). And just as obviously, no one likes to give up power. Leadership from the top, aimed at promoting a "one-company" mentality, is often the only way forward. One of Oosterveld's conditions for taking the... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

When to Take the Leap: The Antecedents and Consequences of Leapfrog CEOs

By: J. Yo-Jud Cheng
Much of the prior research on CEO successions focuses on differences between CEOs appointed from within the firm and those appointed from outside; however, this dichotomy neglects significant heterogeneity in CEOs’ career trajectories. In this study, I examine the... View Details
Keywords: Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Innovation and Management
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  • Research Summary

The Talent at the Table: Business Expertise and Share Ownership in Fortune 500 Boardrooms

This paper examines the relationship between corporate value and "vestige" directors, defined as directors who own sizeable shareholdings but lack salient business experience relative to their peers on Fortune 500 boards.  These people come to serve on... View Details
  • May 2014
  • Article

How to Outsmart Activist Investors

By: Bill George and Jay W. Lorsch
We offer opinions on how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder return. Beverage industry firm PepsiCo is... View Details
Keywords: Investment Activism
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  • June 2008
  • Article

Current State of Fellowship Hiring: Is a Universal Match Necessary? Is It Possible?

By: Christopher D. Harner, Anil S. Ranawat, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, Peter J. Stern, Shepard R. Hurwitz, William Levine, G. Paul DeRosa and Serena S. Hu
Currently, approximately ninety percent of the six hundred twenty graduating orthopaedic residents are planning on entering a post-graduate fellowship. Since January of 2005, two of the largest fellowship match programs, Sports Medicine and Spine Surgery, were... View Details
Keywords: Medical Specialties; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Health Industry
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  • June 2005 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

Financial Reporting Problems at Molex, Inc. (A)

By: Paul M. Healy
Following an accounting problem at Molex, the firm's auditors request changes in management. The board of directors has to decide whether the auditors' concerns have merit or whether, as management argues, the accounting issue is immaterial. View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Governing and Advisory Boards; Financial Reporting; Relationships; Resignation and Termination; Accounting Audits
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  • 21 Nov 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

A worldwide economic crisis. Intense scrutiny from board members, customers, and government regulators. Expanding global markets. Public protests aimed squarely at your industry. Running a financial institution, never easy to begin with,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 29 Jul 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Who Is Governing Whom? Senior Managers, Governance and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms

Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Matthew Lee
  • 03 Oct 2005
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

is arguably the strongest these days, appears not to be competitive in many global industries in which labor costs are still important. Germany, in particular, where workers and union members routinely occupy seats on boards View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • June 2011
  • Case

Trouble in Islandia; Computer Associates 2001 - 2004

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa Barton
The Board of Directors of Computer Associates deals with pressure from the U.S. Department of Justice as its members try to gain better insight into the accounting practices of the company's top management team. View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Corporate Governance; Management Teams; Ethics; Practice; Florida; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Breaking Free from Fear of Change

organizations in the process of change, DeLong is a former chief development officer and managing director at Morgan Stanley. His new book draws on conversations with top executives in business, law, and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

    Stephen P. Bradley

    Professor Bradley is the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. In addition to teaching Management and Strategy in the Owner President Management Program and leading an... View Details

    Keywords: e-commerce industry; financial services; health care; high technology; internet; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications
    • 06 Oct 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Growth of the Social Enterprise

    central board of directors. In contrast, affiliates are independent, 501(c)(3) organizations that have an agreement with a coordinating, central organization to be part of an... View Details
    Keywords: by Carla Tishler
    • 01 Oct 1998
    • News

    Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

    Today, 25 years later, Hoa is still living in Hanoi and doing her part to help her impoverished country establish a modern, productive economy. As managing director of Galaxy Company, a successful consulting... View Details
    Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)