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    Lynn S. Paine

    Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior... View Details

      Henry W. McGee

      Henry McGee joined the HBS faculty in 2013 after retiring as President of HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office, the pioneering premium television company. A member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit,... View Details

      Keywords: television; motion pictures; media; e-commerce industry; entertainment; broadcasting; distribution; health care; journalism; wholesale; arts; nonprofit industry

        Rohit Deshpande

        Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

        Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; airline; banking; beauty products; beverage; financial services; home video games; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; tourism; video games
        • 11 Jul 2012
        • Research & Ideas

        Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

        role is appropriate for the board? And how can the directors understand enough about the company to meet their responsibilities effectively? In this excerpt Lorsch looks at how directors are rethinking their... View Details
        Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

          Thomas R. Piper

          THOMAS R. PIPER, Baker Foundation Professor and Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, is a faculty member in the Finance and Accounting Units at the Graduate School of Business Administration.  He has taught in the MBA Program, as well... View Details

          • 29 Apr 2015
          • HBS Seminar

          Jason Jay, MIT Sloan School of Management

            Charles C.Y. Wang

            Charles C.Y. Wang is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and an associate editor of Management Science and Journal of Accounting Research,... View Details

            • July 1997 (Revised March 2005)
            • Case

            Lille Tissages, S.A.

            By: William J. Bruns Jr.
            The marketing director and finance director must set the price for an expensive yet competitive fabric. Recent price increases have not been matched by competitors, and market share has been lost. The case provides an opportunity to practice contribution analysis... View Details
            Keywords: Cost; Competition; Price; Accounting
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              Paul M. Healy

              Paul Healy is the James R. Williston Professor at the Harvard Business School. His research covers a broad range of topics, including white collar crime, governance, business ethics, financial analysis, and Wall Street research. He joined the HBS faculty in 1998,... View Details

              Keywords: accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry
              • 07 Jul 2008
              • Research & Ideas

              Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

              facilitated by Enron's bankers and advisors and largely missed by its board of directors and other watchdogs. Here are some "high level" details: Jeffrey Skilling had begun working with Enron in 1986 as a consultant with... View Details
              Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
              • Research Summary

              Overview

              Professor Sherman's research has long focused on financial reporting, performance measurement/management, and financial literacy issues facing corporate management and Boards of Directors in global businesses. He also actively studies methods to improve productivity in... View Details
              • 13 May 2002
              • Op-Ed

              A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures

              general, existing law is adequate. The main problem lies in the failure by boards to follow procedures that would hold managements accountable for company performance. This could be improved by focusing on three areas. The first is... View Details
              Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting
              • 14 Nov 2011
              • Working Paper Summaries

              The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Process and Performance

              Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim; Accounting
              • February 2011 (Revised September 2016)
              • Case

              Investcorp and the Moneybookers Bid

              By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Nori Gerardo Lietz
              In January 2007, Hazem Ben-Gacem, managing director and co-head of Investcorp Technology Partners (ITP), needs to decide what to bid at an auction for Moneybookers Limited, one of the top three e-payment solution providers in Europe. However, approximately 70% of... View Details
              Keywords: Business Startups; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Private Equity; Investment; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Valuation; Europe; United States
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                Carliss Y. Baldwin

                Carliss Y. Baldwin is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She studies the process of design and its impact of design architecture on firm strategy, platforms, and business ecosystems. With Kim Clark, she authored... View Details

                Keywords: computer; electronics; software
                • February 2008 (Revised November 2011)
                • Case

                The International Monetary Fund in Crisis

                By: Rawi Abdelal, David Moss and Eugene Kintgen
                When Dominique Strauss-Kahn became the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund in late 2007, he faced a number of significant changes. The organization had lost much of its legitimacy over the previous decade, and countries seemed increasingly reluctant to... View Details
                Keywords: History; Globalized Economies and Regions; Problems and Challenges; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Government and Politics; Financial Institutions; Business Strategy; Macroeconomics; Financial Services Industry
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                  Malcolm S. Salter

                  Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

                  In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

                  Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry

                    Vikram Gandhi

                    Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details

                    Keywords: financial services
                    • 14 Apr 2003
                    • Research & Ideas

                    Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

                    Christensen and Walter Kiechel, editorial director of Harvard Business School Publishing, to discuss these and other questions confronting business leaders today. Kiechel: You've spoken of high-tech companies, Intel included, moving... View Details
                    Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
                    • December 1999
                    • Case

                    Agrochemicals at Ciba-Geigy AG (A)

                    By: Michael L. Tushman, Wendy Smith and Daniel Radov
                    After spending five years to develop a revolutionary product, the director of Ciba-Geigy's fungicide research department is handed an unfavorable market study. The case details the R&D process for the new product, including information on corporate partnerships,... View Details
                    Keywords: Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Product Launch; Marketing Channels; Change Management; Product Development; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Corporate Accountability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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