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- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
financial markets change the interaction between banks and corporations? This paper compares the importance of interlocking boards of directors between corporations and banks in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1909. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
opportunities, but also created challenges throughout their organizations. At the Multi-Channel Retail panel, speakers from three retail companies, all heavily invested in multi-channel selling, talked about how they were tailoring their strategies to best sell to... View Details
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
Tyneski, Research in Motion "There will always be a need for specialized devices," argued Frank Tyneski, director of design integration at Research In Motion, maker of the popular Blackberry wireless communications handheld.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
Emily Bell, director of Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Panelist Nicco Mele, director of the Shorenstein Center, noted that all those things we call ads on Facebook are really a wide variety of... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
presentation settings and receiving narrative information regarding company culture—typically from the CEO. Too often, by the time directors realize there is a culture or leadership style problem at the company, it is too late to have... View Details
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
The most damaging portion of former FBI Director Louis Freeh's comprehensive report on the Pennsylvania State pedophilia scandal is his conclusion that four senior university officials concealed football coach Jerry Sandusky's child abuse... View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
employee prompts me to ask the question above. It also brings back vivid memories of the last bubble, seen from the inside. In the spring of 2000, signs of the end of a dot.com bubble were all around us. As a director of an Internet-based... View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007
managing a master limited partnership with over $35 billion in infrastructure assets. In the summer of 2006, Richard Kinder, the founder and chairman of Kinder Morgan, led a consortium of buyers to take the company private. The independent board of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Government: Yes Or No? Shin Yasunobe, a former director within various departments of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), and now executive director of Stanford's Japan Center for... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
dismayed by the actions of Kumar, as well as the recent allegations against Gupta and were closely monitoring the situation. Could a former Managing Director of their Firm have conspired to enable insider trading? And if so, what did that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
was what led Ira Fishman in this direction. Fishman worked in the Clinton administration as Counsel and Director of the Task Force on Education at the Federal Communications Commission and founding CEO of the nonprofit E-Rate program that... View Details
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
encourage innovative thinking about a challenge is to deconstruct the problem, such as when a musical director makes the orchestra practice a madrigal at a snail's pace. When trying to create something new you have to do something... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
chronicles a host of academics, businessmen and, yes, charlatans who ultimately failed to foresee the biggest economic event of the twentieth century: The Great Depression. In an e-mail interview, Friedman, director of the HBS Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
for eleven years at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and was director of research at MIT's Center for Real Estate Development. "Housing in any form is relatively more expensive for municipalities than most other uses of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49602 Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality By: Eccles, Robert G., and Tim Youmans Abstract—Under the prevailing ideology of "shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
among scientists that was unprecedented in human genetics research. A professor of genetics and director of Harvard Medical School's Lipper Center for Computational Genetics, Church noted that his own computer experience dates back to... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Cheng, J. Yo-Jud, and Boris Groysberg Abstract—: Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317089-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-004 Rajat Gupta Rajat Gupta, former managing director of McKinsey & Company; a director of Goldman Sachs, Procter... View Details
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
Two cadavers are better than one in this regard, so Anteby was encouraged when several donation program directors mentioned the co-donation phenomenon among married couples. "They said that sometimes they had spouses who would donate... View Details
- 18 Apr 2007
- HBS Case
How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor
immediate e-mail to Gustavo Herrero (HBS MBA '76), executive director of the School's Latin America Research Center (LARC). Herrero responded promptly, and with the assistance of LARC senior researcher Ricardo Reisen de Pinho (HBS PMD 74,... View Details