Directors - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

occurred in spite of efforts, such as the creation of reporting hotlines and ombudsmen, to expose and respond to it. It raised questions about how much was known in leadership ranks about what was going on. Inevitably, as it always does, it raised questions about why... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

character; maybe he didn't mean exactly what he just said. It was an aspect of the character's personality that hadn't been seen before that scene. The director saw this moment in the daily review of work in progress and said, "No, no.... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation

08 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

—Robert Todd, HSBC "Following the tragic events in Japan, this has spurred many people to review their policies towards nuclear," said Robert Todd, director for renewable energy in the Resources and Energy Group at HSBC.... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities

21 Jul 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Managing Human Capital—Global Trends and Challenges

President, CatalystJack Shonkoff, Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development Director Center on the Developing Child, Harvard UniversityJide Zeitlin, President, The Keffi Group According to the panelists,... View Details

Keywords: Re: David A. Thomas

22 Jul 2013
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Meeting Management Challenges in India

resident—some 1.2 billion people—by 2020. In a new case, Professor Tarun Khanna and HBS India Research Center Executive Director Anjali Raina discuss the complexities of this massive data management project. HBS Cases: Branding Yoga As... View Details

Keywords: Re: Tarun Khanna & Rohit Deshpande

12 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Lawrence Summers on Market Capitalism’s Historic Opportunity

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Speaker: Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the... View Details

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

In a recent Harvard Business Review article, authors Richard Nolan and Warren McFarlan explored the role of the board of directors in IT governance—and how most "fall into the default mode of applying a set of tacit or explicit rules... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

15 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 15

characteristics and director networks are also associated with deal generation. We find that a company that has a director who has had LBO experience through prior board service is approximately 40% more... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 May 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

recruiting. Meghna will serve as interim executive director of Gyaana. During the coming months, our objective is to get at least two pilot programs off the ground, to test the concept in the field, and to begin to learn from having a... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services

08 Jul 2002
What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

restoring common sense to compensation schemes and holding officers and directors responsible for their actions. All of which implies greater transparency in information, education for non-officer directors, and stiffer penalties for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Nov 2016
First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

outside directors, board tenure and size, and public information available to outside directors. Moreover, boards allocate directors in ways to alleviate information segregation through multi-committee directors. Specifically,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 25

outcome and the influence of the proponent) and the type of proposals are the main determinants of the implementation decision, while traditional governance indicators do not seem to affect the decision. We then examine the labor market consequences of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

Sharing News That Might Be Bad

of directors recently gave the department mixed reviews: some directors are dubious about the unit's long-term prospects and are open to acquisition offers; others, however, continue to believe in the unit's... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

At a recent gathering of chief executives in New York City, the CEOs of two companies shared pleasant dinner conversation. The first led a large, successful corporation; the second also served as a director of a telecommunications firm... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

encourage innovative thinking about a challenge is to deconstruct the problem, such as when a musical director makes the orchestra practice a madrigal at a snail's pace. When trying to create something new you have to do something... View Details

15 Sep 2015
First Look

September 15, 2015

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49602 Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality By: Eccles, Robert G., and Tim Youmans Abstract—Under the prevailing ideology of "shareholder... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

among scientists that was unprecedented in human genetics research. A professor of genetics and director of Harvard Medical School's Lipper Center for Computational Genetics, Church noted that his own computer experience dates back to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317089-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-004 Rajat Gupta Rajat Gupta, former managing director of McKinsey & Company; a director of Goldman Sachs, Procter... View Details

18 Apr 2007
HBS Case

How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor

immediate e-mail to Gustavo Herrero (HBS MBA '76), executive director of the School's Latin America Research Center (LARC). Herrero responded promptly, and with the assistance of LARC senior researcher Ricardo Reisen de Pinho (HBS PMD 74,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

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 View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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