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- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also to investors, the countries... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
consulting firm to survey alumni members to better understand how the club can serve them at various stages of their careers and family lives. In addition, the club recently established the Younger Alumni Committee to help increase... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
at ten years' worth of executive committee discussions, you would find two subjects, and only two, that appeared on every one of the agendas. One was the financial performance, led by our CFO. The second was a discussion of management... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
315-060 The Basic LCA Framework No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-055 Restructuring JAL Hideo Seto, the recently appointed chairman of the investment View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
infrastructure; and soaring costs all threaten to detract from the good vibes of the Games, which begin Friday. As of two weeks ago, Sochi had sold only 70 percent of tickets—compared to 97 percent for the Vancouver Games four years earlier. And the organizing View Details
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
documents, and materials by and about Stanley Pratt and the field of venture capital. The collection also includes Pratt's testimonies before various government institutions, his work on committees related to small business and venture... View Details
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
for compensation committees at public companies. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109036 Hearts on Fire—Brand Development Manager Harvard Business School Case 709-436... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
diamonds in the future and making them into ambassadors of ill will. At a meeting scheduled for November 2015, the De Beers Executive Committee would have to decide whether to end the pilot program, extend it for another year to gather... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Artist Support | Baker Library
(3) Photographs in other media that Adams obtained for the collection included works by Margaret Bourke-White, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Eliot Porter, Aaron Siskind, Edward Weston, and Minor White. Morse initially oversaw the Polaroid Collection with an... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
wants to adjust the company's business, headcount, and cost levels to adapt to changing economic conditions after one of the worst economic downturns in decades. His all-male executive committee has raised eyebrows since it is a step back... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
thought of calls.” Jameson had a case study at the ready. In 2015, he had been approached by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee as it sought to rally congressional opposition to the Iran nuclear deal. Over a nine-week period,... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
Chesapeake's board and its compensation committee, including McClendon's role in consummating several joint ventures, which the board and committee believed positioned the company for future growth in the relatively young industry of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
Komatsu and Dresser created a fifty-fifty joint venture (Komatsu Dresser Corporation, or KDC), merging manufacturing, engineering, and finance operations. The joint venture maintained equal management representation on the six-person oversight View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
firm that provides strategic consulting services for private equity and venture funds. Also a former member of the Obama administration’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, she serves as a trustee of the Getty Trust and the Art... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
outside directors’ committees do everything else. The best way to ensure that directors carry out their responsibilities is to indict outside directors for malfeasance when they fail to do so. Enron was a perfect example of malfeasance... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
"Since Mike reached out to me early in the process, I was happy to help him think about ways he could better present Roadtrip Nation to our committee through impact numbers and adviser recommendations," says Huang. "But really, Mike did... View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
evidence of a lower likelihood of SEC enforcement for labor-intensive firms that are headquartered in districts of senior congressmen that serve on committees that oversee the SEC. All of these results hold after controlling for firms'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the 1983 movie of the same name.4... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- Web
Harvard Business School
served on the Harvard University Board of Overseers Visiting Committee for HBS from 1995 through 2000. Read More Read Less A. Leroy Willis, MBA 1969 "[W]hen Dr. King was assassinated, I think our commitment went up a few notches . . .... View Details