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  • 06 Sep 2013
  • News

More Seats at the Table

aren't more women directors. "Why do I think there aren't more? Because nobody looks for them. Because there's no demand. Because 65- or 70-year-old men on boards don't really have peers who are women." Stewart believes another thing women bring to View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Corporate Services
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • News

Directorship Magazine Awards

  • 08 Oct 2010
  • News

Another View: It's Time for Obama 2.0

  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future

The conventional wisdom is that Asian businesspeople tend to avoid confrontation and take only calculated risks. Edwin Yu is clearly breaking that mold. Last April he came out on top in the first View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Information
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

of integrity has to do it. In the same way that medical ethics do not compel a physician to do something that violates his or her own personal ethics, corporate law does not require directors to check their sense of right and wrong... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 19 Jan 2010
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis

Perspectives from the Boardroom—2009 To understand what transpired in the boardrooms of complex companies during the financial crisis, and to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • March 2009 (Revised September 2010)
  • Case

HOYA Corporation (A)

By: W. Carl Kester and Masako Egawa
In 2007, HOYA of Japan must decide whether to change its friendly exchange offer for Pentax into a hostile cash tender offer. A surprising sequence of events had caused a friendly merger agreement to fall apart, resulting in a boardroom coup at Pentax and the... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Negotiation Tactics; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation; Japan
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Kester, W. Carl, and Masako Egawa. "HOYA Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 209-065, March 2009. (Revised September 2010.)
  • 15 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead

professors reminded me of this purpose every single day. I once had a poster on the wall of my bedroom that said: "Before you lead a boardroom of executives, see if you can teach a classroom of... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Advancing the cause of women’s leadership in business

world. Women are getting more management opportunities, says Lang. Still, significant progress needs to come in the boardroom and the C-Suite, where women continue to lag in... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

world," notes Simons. The topic of marketing, taught by Professor John Quelch, is brought up to the executive boardroom level, says Simons. “There's a realization that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction

reforms such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act emphasize oversight enhancement, especially the independence of non-management directors. In U.S. boardrooms today, however, View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey
  • 08 Aug 2021
  • News

Business Needs to Rethink Its Role in Politics

  • Web

The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog

Faith Shapes Boardroom Debate Faith as An Enabler and Disabler Linking Spirituality, Health and Leadership Poetic Justice: Islam and Business III. Moving Beyond – Locating Purpose in the World Moral Growth... View Details

    How Robust Is Your Climate Governance?

    During the past few years, as evidence of climate change and its effects has mounted, many corporate boards have added climate governance to their agendas. But the maturity of boards’ climate-oversight processes and activities varies widely. To better... View Details

    • 14 Oct 2013
    • News

    Nothing to fear

    • October 2019 (Revised February 2025)
    • Case

    A Conversation with Ellen J. Kullman, Chairman & CEO of DuPont, 2009-2015

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
    Ellen J. Kullman, the retired Chairman and CEO of DuPont, describes how she guided the storied science and technology company through a contentious proxy battle with activist investor Trian Partners, which acquired DuPont shares in 2013 and sought to break up the... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Institutional Investing; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Transformation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
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    Paine, Lynn S., and Will Hurwitz. "A Conversation with Ellen J. Kullman, Chair & CEO of DuPont, 2009-2015." Harvard Business School Case 320-017, October 2019. (Revised February 2025.)
    • 01 Dec 1996
    • News

    Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

    Thermo Electron. Jensen notes that the course's content is applicable "everywhere," from the boardroom to the lunchroom. He takes pride that CCMO... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • 08 Apr 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: April 8, 2008

    and longitudinally (in a field study of windfall spending). Finally, participants who were randomly assigned to spend money on others experienced greater happiness than those assigned to spend money on themselves. Leading from the View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Apr 2001
    • News

    Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia

    Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk William K.L. Fung (MBA 1972): E-Commerce and... View Details
    Keywords: Alejandro Reyes and Deborah Blagg; David Lane; Educational Services
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