Directors - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

Programs at Harvard Business School. She and Bohnet, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School who serves as director of its Women and Public Policy Program, have extensively studied gender gaps and inequality in the workplace. Their... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

Domingo, managing director of O&V Associates, said established Latin American companies face a situation in which their markets are no longer protected by national interests and suddenly face competition on all sides. Andres Obregon... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

Stock Exchange (NYSE); and Robert C. Gasser, managing director and head of U.S. equities at J. P. Morgan & Co. Financial exchanges today, Seifert began, must have the business systems of a technology company, with the requisite speed... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

09 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

Most of the companies I've studied don't pay a whole lot of attention to the way they grant options. Their directors and executives assume that the important thing is just to have a plan in place; the details are trivial. As a result,... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Hall

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

people are held accountable for their actions as individuals rather than as a group, they tend to weigh their choices more carefully.—Cynthia A. Montgomery and Rhonda Kaufman Make directors accountable to shareholders. One compelling way... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-115 Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap CEO Art Peck was eliminating his creative directors for The Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

that in Singapore: Empower the people to take action. The third thing was this balance he created. He talked about the three-legged stool. Kapur was one leg, the finance director the second, the creative View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Slaughter, managing director and head of North American real estate investment banking for Morgan Stanley. Some refer to the post-crash era as a paradigm shift for commercial real estate. Others call it a sea change. Whatever the choice... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

who have practiced on the Charles for four years." The company announced a strong board of directors and an all-star advisory board of business leaders, educators, and two former governors. It signed a letter of intent with Coca-Cola... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

investment. Steve Williams (MBA '84), senior director at Genentech, Inc., in South San Francisco, remembers watching a television program about the biotech industry in late 1987 with his father, who was fighting metastatic colon cancer.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

unwavering belief in human potential. After the war, the stage was set for an explosion of innovation, and Doriot was in a perfect position to light the fuse. As a professor of a leading business school and a director of dozens of... View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

09 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

at the networks of interlocking boards of directors of major joint stock companies in Brazil and Mexico in 1909. We test whether in Mexico businessmen relied more on networks and other informal arrangements to do business than in Brazil.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

financing institutions, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). We find that developing countries serving on the Board of Executive Directors can expect an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jul 2018
What Do You Think?

Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

directors needs to be thinking about it as well. Triple bottom line is coming whether all shareholders like it or not.” When should a board encourage a triple bottom line philosophy? What do you think? Original Column Since becoming CEO... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

'diversity' really mean? Keynote speaker Anna Holmes—founder of Jezebel.com, columnist for the New York Times Sunday Book Review, and editorial director of the digital company Fusion—recalled an event from a decade ago, while she was... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

number of which offer Internet access. What these statistics suggest is that "the most precious currency today is information," said panelist Jim Breyer, an early investor in Facebook and a director of Wal-Mart Stores.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/519011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-027 Fundraising at St. Camillus Hospital St. Camillus is a fictional non-profit hospital in rural Maine facing a serious budget deficit. As Director of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Mar 2017
First Look

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

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

investors’ technical EiRs and/or network. When I was CTO at DigitalOcean, it was amazing to have someone like Martin Casado at a16z, our lead investor, to bounce ideas off of and even help us with some tricky architecture decisions. Similarly, my friend Jocelyn... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

14 Jun 2016
First Look

June 14, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/116041-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-442 Chateau Pontet-Canet This case discusses the situation of Chateau Pontet-Canet in early 2000. Alfred Tesseron was the director and son of the... View Details