HBSAA Board of Directors - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 26, 2008

information provision strategies to encourage knowledge transfer within the organization. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-085.pdf Board of Directors' Responsiveness to Shareholders:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Rick Grinnell

Rick Grinnell is Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, focusing on investments in AI-enabled security and enterprise infrastructure. Rick has led investments and serves on the Board View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital

05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

cofounders have any experience in managing logistics. In addition, any move they might make to in-source fulfillment would likely destabilize the existing 3PL relationship, on which the viability of the fast-growing business depends.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2018
News

Code Breakers

dimensions—gender, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, and others. This is something I will take with me for the rest of my life.” —Erica Santoni (MBA 2019), Co-President, Women’s Student Association Women on Boards: Succeeding as a... View Details

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

results became as critical in this domain as it was for all business goals. Gerstner also modeled desired behaviors in his interactions with his direct reports. One of them told me this story: During a board... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

02 Nov 2017
News

Making Friends with Mother Nature

his expertise in building successful business teams, and the result was the Wild Center, an immensely popular 54,000-square-foot, interactive museum experience in the heart of the pristine upstate region. Clifford, a former McKinsey &... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Executive Pay: Onward & Upward

require listed firms to have a majority of independent directors and mandate compensation committees to be entirely composed of outside directors. The exchanges also require... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

08 Jun 2023
News

Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner

of directors recognized the immediate past copresidents, Eduardo Russian (MBA 2018), Shirley Cardona (MBA 2012), and Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010) for their service to the club. Board... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Jul 2018
News

Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community

organizations in her community. Currently director of strategic philanthropy for Congregation Rodef Sholom, she has also served on the boards of... View Details

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

impact, those of a critical mass of like-minded institutions very well might. Over time, active investors could go a long way toward righting the imbalance in the corporate governance system. When View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

Clinton administration who now serves as director of the President's National Economic Council. While they recused themselves from the G30 deliberations, both have since voiced support for a systemic risk... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

(forthcoming) Abstract Drawing on institutionalist theory, we conceptualize the racial composition of the boards of directors View Details

03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

were in a precarious position. One such institution was Wachovia, which entered acquisition talks with Citigroup and Wells Fargo. This case describes the development of these negotiations throughout the week View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

in diverse urban public schools, which forged my passion for racial equity. After graduating from college in Washington, DC, I was founding director of the DC Community Anchor Partnership (DCAP), a... View Details

29 Jun 2017
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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... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

11 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

Swan (HBS MBA '91), former executive vice president of Nickelodeon and now on the advisory board of Ascend Venture, and Donna Lopiano, executive View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

chemical company Novacap. For each company, the case describes how Ardian decided on the investment and established a board of directors and details the deliberations around... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Sep 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: EF Education First

Kaufman, Director of Talent Acquisition, EF Education First Describe your organization in three to five sentences. EF Education First is the world’s largest international travel and education company – with... View Details

14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-029 'Golden Leash' Pay for Directors at The Dow Chemical Company In November 2014, The Dow Chemical Company was faced with the... View Details