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- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
all, he’s someone we can all trust to always do the right thing.” However, romantic entanglements were part of Easterbrook’s story from the start. When the board appointed him CEO, they knew he had a relationship with a third-party View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
(ECAs). ECAs offer financial guarantees to multinationals that in effect may reimburse firms for bribes paid or for contracts canceled by host countries because the multinationals paid bribes. As for companies’ internal guidelines,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
are many communities that must be satisfied." Venture Capital and Private Equity The pool of U.S. private-equity funds has grown on the order of 2,500 percent in the past decade-and-a-half. Venture Capital and Private Equity (VCPE), a course taught since 1993, focuses... View Details
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
including Bohmer, a physician; Bill George, former chairman and CEO of Medtronic; Raymond Gilmartin, former chairman, president, and CEO of Merck & Co.; Robert Huckman, a former health care consultant and now Faculty Research Fellow... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
now a SVP of Greenlight.com, which recently merged with CarsDirect.com. “It moved quickly from class project to religious quest,” adds Nussey, the former CEO of e-business consulting firm iXL and current... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
Community Partners programming. The shift to virtual engagement over the past year inspired the clubs, with the help of the SEI, to run the event at a much larger scale. This year’s national summit is an amplification and supplement to the ongoing View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
the heritage my father left us," says Bertarelli, who has led the Ares-Serono Group, already strong, to even greater heights. During the last five years he has formed a management executive committee and reorganized the firm "to prepare... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 The Empirical Economics of Online Attention By: Boik, Andre, Shane Greenstein, and Jeffrey Prince Abstract—In several markets, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas where seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to pay dividends, initiate dividends, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the fundamental nature of the research, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
author as well as corporate director. “While my HBS classmates veered toward management consulting and Wall Street, I took the technology road less traveled. I’ve always followed my favorite quote from management guru Peter Drucker who... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
clean leakage, results here indicate that a carbon tariff decreases global emissions. Domestic firm profits, on the other hand, can increase, decrease, or remain unchanged due to a carbon tariff, which suggests that carbon tariffs are not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
and an inspiration for the next generation of strategy scholars. Its direct impact on practice could be seen subsequently in the work of The Boston Consulting Group and other firms that employed what became... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
they would need as general managers. The course became a centerpiece of the HBS curriculum, the source of many pioneering case studies, and an inspiration for the next generation of strategy scholars. Its direct impact on practice could be seen subsequently in the work... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
firms should create value wherever they are. But when we ask what kind of value and for whom, who are the relevant stakeholders, how is work actually going to be implemented on the ground, there are different answers in different... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
meaningful action, Gerstner himself initially considered resigning from a public board and asking to be replaced by a Black director. But as he consulted with friends and colleagues, he quickly recognized the moment presented an... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
startup scene. In addition to moving home, she'd had open heart surgery and changed jobs several times. Meanwhile, Egypt had become a hotbed of startup activity. Last fall, Enan stepped into the role of partner at San Francisco-based VC View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
struggled to get twenty-five people to the conference. At that conference the academics and consultants came together and created a professional society called the Family Firm Institute (FFI) to develop... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman