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- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
capital partnership or as a business unit? How should it be governed, and how should the investment committee function? Could mechanisms be developed that ensured the expertise of Saudi Aramco's famously conservative engineering resources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
funding, lobbying, committee participation, and other instruments to influence local, national, and international political environments. Also firms that are heavily influenced by politics are more likely to craft Integrated Political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
The investor, Sequoia Fund, opposes the re-election citing Jim Johnson's prior track record as the CEO of Fannie Mae, which has been criticized for its role in the financial crisis and for serving on the compensation committees of two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
of the league's broadcasting committee and the securing of lucrative TV contracts, and for helping forge peace between players and owners during heated labor negotiations in 2011. Goal to Go While expanding its fan base and finding new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
venture-capital firm founded by Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69). Grateful for the Red Cross’s assistance to her own family after Hurricane Gilbert ravaged Jamaica in 1988, Brown has volunteered for years in various Red Cross programs. At HBS, she chaired the student-run... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
"Since Mike reached out to me early in the process, I was happy to help him think about ways he could better present Roadtrip Nation to our committee through impact numbers and adviser recommendations," says Huang. "But really, Mike did... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
for the building to have an academic anchor with an auditorium and study rooms.” Neither of those decisions came easily, says Professor Emeritus Steven Wheelwright, the lead faculty representative on the planning committee who is now... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
friend of mine), and the company, were represented. A steering committee met monthly to essentially go over what each one of those constituencies needed to do differently and what they needed to do collaboratively to bring about the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
building interpersonal relationships. I was the head of the compensation promotion committee at Morgan Stanley that had to evaluate and weigh his 360-degree performance reviews, so I know every breath in that case. I’ve taught it 500... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
positions, as consultants, analysts, etc., at each of these companies? How many HBS alumni have served on congressional committees that have made policy decisions that led to the crisis? How many HBS alumni have served at various levels... View Details
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
guy. So he wanted to address it. But it wasn't until one of the very few senior women partners said in an executive committee meeting, "It's really true; there are obstacles for women here." Her male colleagues protested,... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
risk-management actions. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111052-PDF-ENG The Pecora Hearings David A. Moss, Cole Bolton, and Eugene KintgenHarvard Business School Case 711-046 In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Senate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
document two days ahead, so that other people could read it and think about it. So you couldn't over-talk them. And the job of that investment committee was very simple. It was to figure out all the risks in that investment so that we... View Details
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
national office. The national office proposes to play a screening role whereby a national growth committee will "green-light" the plans of local schools to create multi-site regions in selected areas of the United States. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
emerged was an awareness that HBS could do more in three areas: leadership development, globalization, and experiential learning. Afterward, Dean Jay Light formed faculty committees to identify ways HBS might uniquely address these areas.... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
focuses on the role that management, external auditors, and the audit committee played in what amounted to a significant control failure. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112050-PDF-ENG Delta/Signal Corp V. G.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
group had generated. These ranged from stabilizing the company's current carbon emissions to complete carbon neutrality. The UBS Corporate Responsibility Committee would meet early next week. Suter wondered which option he should support.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
That's what the BBC executive committee discovered in themselves when their charismatic chief departed. And that's the real magic—to make leadership appear from many unexpected places, just when it is needed. Leaders Supporting... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter