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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
Marilyn Goldstein Fedak Chief Investment Officer Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc. New York, New York In 1993, Marilyn Fedak was named chief investment officer, chairman of the U.S. Equity Investment Policy Group, and a member of the board... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Disney animation department was not the company’s only problem. Disney was under pressure: the company had recently delivered poor financial results; ratings at the ABC network had fallen below competitors; Walt’s nephew, Roy E. Disney, had stepped down from the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
organization that operate under a corporate umbrella. For example, Google Search is a classic transaction platform that connects end users to advertisers, and the Android operating system is a classic innovation platform that enables... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
service as a director and lead director on multiple nonprofit and corporate boards. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award, Associate Editor Julia Hanna talks to Barron about View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
first seat on a public board at Altimeter Growth Corporation, a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Since launching in September 2020, the Board Challenge’s singular mission has been to increase the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
up anywhere. For example, a female tech genius CEO in a promising startup privately railed against a member of her investor-dominated all-male board of directors. “He calls me ‘sweetie,’” she said. Every time she heard it, she cringed,... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
HBS Alumni in Harvard Leadership Roles
With new and continuing appointments, HBS alumni are playing key roles in the governance structure of Harvard University. In September, Theodore Wells (MBA 1974/JD 1976) was elected to the Harvard Corporation by members of the View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
University Elections
Harvard Business School alumni are invited to participate in Harvard University’s elections for both the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The elections will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
is filling a need in the market. That is due, in no small way, to the fact that top-performing senior executive women remain critically underrepresented in corporate governance across all industries. Currently only about 19 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
If companies and regulators are ever to learn from the collapse of Enron—and prevent similar corporate debacles in the future—they must look more closely at the relationship between auditors, managers and the company audit committee. The... View Details
- 23 Jul 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
reduce the gap between strategy and execution? Does the BSC work in testing strategy? How Can The Balanced Scorecard Improve Corporate Governance? Working Paper: Improving Corporate Governance with the... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
network cofounded by fellow WOB participants Lisa Pent and Bonnie Hagemann with a vision to become the go-to source for corporate boards to find and recruit highly qualified women. Initially, Pent, an... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- Person Page
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Houghton Steps Down
James R. Houghton (MBA ’62), the longest-serving member of the Harvard Corporation and chair of the University’s 2006–07 presidential search, will step down at the end of this academic year. Houghton, chairman emeritus of Corning Inc.,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
be expecting too much of corporate boards and CEOs if we put primary responsibility for stakeholder capitalism in their hands. Incentives influenced by market-based competition nudge them toward short-term... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
illegal, gaming of society’s rules that led to Enron’s collapse. The answer points to three persis-tent tasks of corporate governance: the avoidance of perverse incentives for executives, the strengthening of View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Boosting Boardroom Diversity
According to the Alliance for Board Diversity, representation of women and minority men on Fortune 500 companies has grown, however slightly—from 12.8 percent in 2010 to 14.4 percent last year. A new Executive Education program, Women on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Career Coach
Craig Husa
CourtLink Corporation (acquired by LexisNexis) and served in the U.S. Navy as a submarine officer. MBA from HBS, BS Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy. Currently, Craig is also the View Details
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
CEOs face difficult choices when deciding to speak out under the company's brand. Credit: fizkes Summing Up: Should Boards Specify Limits on CEO Activism? Opinions about suitable CEO activism—taking public positions and actions on social... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett