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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
characteristics and director networks are also associated with deal generation. We find that a company that has a director who has had LBO experience through prior board... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
involved in numerous regional and national health policy initiatives, including the American Joint Replacement Registry, where he serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors; the Yale Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation (CORE)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Changes for MBA Applicants
in previous years. In another significant change, within 24 hours of being interviewed by MBA Admissions, candidates will be asked to provide a written reflection on the interview—giving applicants “the opportunity to have the last word,” says Dee Leopold (MBA 1980),... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
guidelines being put forth in several member countries of the E.U. in response to accounting improprieties at Ahold and other European companies. Among other things, Sarbanes-Oxley seeks more independent directors on View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
management skills to work for good causes. She helped a health-care start-up with its finances, served on the board of directors of a local choral group, and is the senior warden (head of Vestry) at Christ... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
disclosed in Enron's financial statements and related footnotes? Yes, they were, but even the special committee of the Enron board of directors later described the disclosures as "obtuse" and... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
executive board of the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Deutsche Reichsbahn from 1991 to 1994, Heinz Dürr played a leading role in unifying the East and West German railroads into one national system that is scheduled to be fully privatized in... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission
responsibilities in three areas: 1) project management of institutional strategic priorities, including revamping the Boston Ballet website, an effort coordinated among staff and executive leaders across the organization; 2) support for View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Inside Executive Search
How do executive search firms work? It’s well known that most senior management, CEO, and board positions are filled by these organizations, but given the confidential nature of their work, they often conduct their business with utmost... View Details
- Web
2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
be published in April 2020. Rebecca sits on the boards of Amgen and of Idexx Laboratories. Her publications include the books Leading Sustainable Change and Accelerating Energy Innovation: Lessons from multiple sectors. She was named one... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Director Cognetti that the board will follow state and federal procurement laws to bid out for ongoing and as-needed services, with target dates to send out requests for proposal. It passes after some... View Details
- 03 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
9 Lessons from the Class of 2019
members of the AASU board received a threatening and hateful email [from outside the Harvard community], Tyson and Morrow led a community response rooted in unity, empathy, and mutual understanding. First, they focused on their members to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Stacey Childress (MBA 2000) Deputy Director of Education, Next Generation Learning, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington Illustrations by Peter Hoey TAILORED TEACHING "One of our anchors... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
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: Garry Emmons
- Profile
Behrad Mahdi
two-year commitment. At first I did everything from meeting with board members to cleaning the office at night. Eventually, I became director of development and external affairs." Within a year, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa
also chairs the advisory board of Harvard’s Center for African Studies. “As alumni, we need to give students the benefit of our judgment so that they aren’t always reinventing the wheel.” That meeting Belo-Osagie had with Faust two years... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
B,” she recalls. With Goldberg’s help, Ruhr got a summer job working for General Mills in its Stockton, California, regional grain office. Upon graduating, she went to work for the company, first on the trading floor at the Chicago Board... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
director at Summit Partners, says her connection to the contemporary art world began casually. The mother of four had taken a break from real estate development (Rouse & Associates, then AEW Capital Management) after the birth of her... View Details
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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
equality , Cuz: an American Tragedy , and Talking to Strangers: anxieties of citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education. She has chaired numerous commission processes and is a lead author on influential policy roadmaps, including... View Details