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  • 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
  • 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
  • 06 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 6

displeasure over the directors' ineffectiveness at monitoring managers. In a sample of securities class-action lawsuits from 1996 to 2010, about 11% of independent directors are named as defendants. The likelihood of being named is greater for audit View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Books

perceived to be of equal or higher status of the departed CEO. Without skill-based criteria, and with minimal information due to the cloak-and-dagger secrecy necessary when interviewing high-profile, employed candidates amid press scrutiny, the search 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
  • 05 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

meetings and repeat frequently that the Internet is overhyped. Form a committee to create a new corporate Internet offering, staff it with people from unrelated areas who are already doing five other things, and don't release them from... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • Web

Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

companies. 26 As head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II, Bush enlisted Polaroid in the cause, and the company entered into a contract with the National Defense Research Committee to create a range of... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2021
  • News

Revealing the Rules

in that promotion committee in order to be even considered? I would encourage managers to think about the extent to which what they’re preaching is in alignment with what they’re actually valuing in the workplace—and to what extent it’s... View Details
  • 26 Aug 2016
  • News

Connecting with the Past

for all of Poland?’ He hesitatingly responded, ‘Let’s start small,’” Diamond recalls. “In the next few years, we signed a formal agreement with the archives.” As activities grew, JRI-Poland formed an executive committee and Diamond took... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 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
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

CEO Compensation at GE: A Decade with Jeff Immelt V.G. Narayanan and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case 112-003 When ISS, a large shareholder advisory group, recommended a "no" vote on Jeff Immelt's award of 2 million stock options in April 2011, GE's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

look ahead to the post-COVID era, it will be important to keep this perspective in mind as the problem of income inequality will almost certainly worsen. Lagace: Your book describes the work of the Committee for Economic Development (CED)... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Program Policies - HBS Online

appeal. The appeals process will allow you to submit more information or documentation to provide additional context as to why you believe your exception decision should be changed. This appeal will be reviewed by an appeals committee at... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

could offer (suited for high-end desktops and notebooks), and subsequently to launch low-powered versions, code-named Brazos (suited for small notebooks and netbooks). However, the development of Llano suffered delays while that of Brazos was ahead of schedule. AMD's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

special thanks to Philip J. Deloria, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History and Chair, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard University; Danielle Kost; and Carmen Arnold-Biucchi for their guidance and insights; and to... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

the early technical challenges associated with napalm were solved by experimentation under the guidance of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), created to coordinate scientific research into the problems of modern warfare.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Profiles from the class of 2007

for Kaintuck, a hedge fund. Since coming to HBS, Landles-Dowling has led in other ways: as president of her section; as copresident of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Association; and as a member of the Joint Committee on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

Representative Tom Lantos, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, for Yahoo's role in the arrest and imprisonment of Chinese journalist and democracy advocate Shi Tao. The case describes the actions that Yahoo! had taken... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace