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July 14, 2002
Article

Add CEO Salaries to The Corporate Reform List

Keywords: Management; Compensation and Benefits; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

March 1991 (Revised October 1991)
Case

CEO Evaluation at Dayton Hudson

Describes the Dayton Hudson CEO evaluation process, one of the most intensive in corporate America today. The board of directors' role in the evaluation is examined, as is the question of whether the Dayton Hudson CEO evaluation process should serve as a model for... View Details

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Management Teams

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November 1988
Case

Martin Marietta: The Bendix Takeover

Keywords: Acquisition

December 1975 (Revised January 1987)
Background Note

Note on Organization Design

Deals with the organizational designer trying to create a structure, rewards, and a system of measurement that are compatible with the external environment, strategy, tasks, the members of the organization, management style, and the existing culture. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design

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December 1970
Case

Bedrock

October 1969
Supplement

Baines Electronics Corp. (B)

Keywords: Electronics Industry

October 1967 (Revised August 1982)
Case

Texana Petroleum Corp.

Keywords: Energy Industry

January 1986 (Revised June 1986)
Teaching Note

C.R. Bard, Inc., Teaching Note

01 Jun 2016
What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

Organization for Sustained Advantage (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009), pp. 295-325. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?: Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), pp. 181-182. Jay View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

Research Summary

Shareholders and Corporate Governance

The data gathering has been completed and an article is being written about the role shareholders can and cannot play in corporate governance. This article should be completed by the spring of 2012. View Details

2012
Book

The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

This book is a collection of chapters written by Harvard Business School faculty and alums who have experience with corporate boards. It will provide a uniquely HBS perspective on the future of boards. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Boards Of Directors; Compensation; Succession; Governing and Advisory Boards; Books; Perspective; Governance