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- 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
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Geographic Society (Abridged) David A. Garvin and Annelena LobbHarvard Business School Case 312-120 In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Author:Stephen P. Kaufman Publication:Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008) Abstract After Kaufman became a CEO, he was struck by how perfunctory the board was in its feedback on his performance. The chair of the compensation View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
congressional committees and the general power structure in Washington," Harmon says. "Enan's ability to relate to people and explain opportunities in Egypt to members of Congress who hadn't spent much—if any—time there, was exactly what... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15
wants to adjust the company's business, headcount, and cost levels to adapt to changing economic conditions after one of the worst economic downturns in decades. His all-male executive committee has raised eyebrows since it is a step back... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
leaking out of the company" (Armstrong 1993). The committee focused on two options: (1) to begin aggressively litigating those who try to leave with new technologies and (2) to invest in people trying to leave Xerox. Owing to... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
judge for the Financial Times /McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, and chairs the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Business School. Thinkers 50 ranked Ibarra #8 among the most influential management thinkers in the world. Professor... 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
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
Nueno, Dean Rolf D. Cremer, and Co-Dean Zhang Weijiong, of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), were sitting in the boardroom of the Shanghai campus in February 2009. They made up the management committee (MC) of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
the Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies. She is currently working on a book on racial global capitalism. She also serves on the Nominating Committee of the Nobel Prize in Economics in Sweden. Rebecca Henderson Harvard... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
principles and practice of effective negotiation. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48323 Harvard Business School Case 817-043 FJ Management Inc. In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
selection, and creating separate committees for professional practice, ethics, and compliance and operations; and enhancing its ethics and compliance program through human resource processes (e.g., recruiting, orientation, training, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
years building an open team based culture, one in which they had made themselves accessible, so employees believed them. When they were prepared to announce their restructuring to the financial community, executive committee members were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
featuring women protagonists -with initial support from retired Kmart executive Marjorie Alfus and the Committee of 200 (a national organization of women business executives), the School has developed over three hundred cases that feature... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
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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