Directors - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309003 How Serial Entrepreneurs Build and Manage a Board of Directors in a Venture-Backed Start Up Harvard Business School Case 808-163 This case includes structured interviews... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

well established, and board members are trying to do the right thing. How do we make boards even stronger? Some good ideas I've heard recently call for getting the independent directors to meet alone without management and having somebody... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

negotiation The researchers found that one of the keys to success lay in the way the two organizations managed tensions between their commercially focused production supervisors and their socially focused job counselors. In the organization that performed badly, the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

should be answerable to directors for poor performance but in fact are not. Directors, representing an indirect form of governance, are poor representatives of owners. They are far too lax in influencing employment contracts and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

The paper, “Partisans Neither Expect Nor Receive Reputational Rewards for Sharing Falsehoods Over Truth Online,” was led by Isaias Ghezae, a doctoral student in social psychology at Harvard University, co-led by Jordan, and coauthored by Izzy Gainsburg, associate View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

Establish clear accountability and governance structures, including appropriate legal counsel. Consider where it is needed and proper to have insurance, such as Directors and Officers (D&O) liability coverage, for people in critical... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909028 Insulting Andrew Harvard Business School Case 909-025 This case describes a compensation negotiation between a global HR director and a candidate for a high-level executive position. The situation... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 May 2018
HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

premier brands such as Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, and Vacheron Constantin. Thomke and coauthor Daniela Beyersdorfer, associate director of the Harvard Business School Europe Research Center, had unfettered access to the usually... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

29 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

industry like taxicabs. It can fight hard to get the rules changed,” says Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair and director of the Harvard University... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

directors concentrating their attention on leadership behaviors that, at least in theory, should provide the basis for long-term performance rather than the behaviors exhibited by many leaders who are short-term optimizers and well... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

says Rose, who grew up in the Bay Area. "People are afraid that this special culture in this special place could get lost." Wealth And Culture Rose tackles these tensions in a new case study, San Francisco, 2015 #tech #inequality, cowritten with HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8

leadership. This week, Kanter sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss how these same reasons might hinder corporate adoption of Windows 8. 1. Loss of Control—Unsolicited change naturally meddles with autonomy, and the world's IT View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Computer; Consumer Products

22 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

Once upon a time, there were two kinds of businesses. On the one hand, there were public and privately owned companies such as those that existed in Western-style democracies, which had boards of directors and accountability to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different

studies on companies including Microsoft, Sony, and Intel, and consults with consumer marketing companies in the area of innovation. She also serves on the board of directors of Avid Technology and the board of governors of the American... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

Integration, Not Intellectual Property The "great embarrassment" of twentieth-century medicine, despite its many strides, is that most therapeutics were directed at symptoms, not causes, said Eric S. Lander, a leader of the Human Genome Project and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

23 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

of Inclusive Growth Strategies, written with George Serafeim, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Eduardo Tugendhat, Director of Thought Leadership at the international social impact... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

organization, why men believe women are more emotionally intelligent, and the challenges female directors of corporations face in interacting with their male counterparts. 2006 pub Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

successful," says Boris Groysberg, the Richard B. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who cowrote the case with HBS Global Research Group associate director Kerry Herman and research associate Annelena Lobb. "It... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

opportunities. "We've always been in that three-legged race," said Ristau, a pregnant, working mother of two. She recently dropped down to part-time at EMC Corporation, where she works as director of channel operations and... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

companies do CSR in fits and starts” The problem? They lack a cohesive CSR strategy, says Rangan, who recently cowrote the working paper Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It with HBS research associate Lisa A. Chase and Sohel Karim (HBS DBA '88),... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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