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  • May 2014 (Revised January 2015)
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The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

By: Julie Battilana and Michael Norris
In 2014, as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) has just brought former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on as chairman of the board, Jean Rogers, founder and CEO struggles with how best to ensure the nonprofit's financial sustainability while... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Reporting; Environmental Sustainability; Accounting; Accounting Industry; United States
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Battilana, Julie, and Michael Norris. "The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board." Harvard Business School Case 414-078, May 2014. (Revised January 2015.)
  • December 2013
  • Article

How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By: Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang
The well-established negative correlation between staggered boards (SBs) and firm value could be due to SBs leading to lower value or a reflection of low-value firms' greater propensity to maintain SBs. We analyze the causal question using a natural experiment... View Details
Keywords: Staggered Board; Takeover Defense; Antitakeover Provision; Proxy Fight; Tobin's; Firm Value; Agency Cost; Delaware; Chancery Court; Airgas; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance
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Cohen, Alma, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a Natural Experiment." Journal of Financial Economics 110, no. 3 (December 2013): 627–641.
  • December 2010
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The Case for Professional Boards

By: Robert C. Pozen
When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Failure; Accounting Audits; Quality; Behavior; Legal Liability; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Performance Effectiveness; United States
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Pozen, Robert C. "The Case for Professional Boards." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010).
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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

understand the board selection process, best practices, and critical skillsets to help them succeed. After the first program ran in 2016, participants decided the class was too strong to allow their connections to dissolve once the... View Details
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Value Creation Through Effective Boards

Summary The impact of a corporate board can be significant—but the challenges faced by board members are increasingly complex. Designed to enhance your contribution as a corporate View Details
  • 03 Sep 2015
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Why Boards Must Look Beyond Shareholders

  • 2003
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Limits to Board Effectiveness

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Jay W. Lorsch
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards
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Palepu, Krishna G., and Jay W. Lorsch. "Limits to Board Effectiveness." May 2003.
  • February 1991 (Revised March 1995)
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Board of Directors: Membership

By: Jay W. Lorsch
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards
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Lorsch, Jay W. "Board of Directors: Membership." Harvard Business School Case 491-081, February 1991. (Revised March 1995.)
  • 2001
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Building a Better Board

By: Jay W. Lorsch, Duke K. Bristow, Paul D. Lapides, Chuck King and T.K. Kerstetter
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards
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Lorsch, Jay W., Duke K. Bristow, Paul D. Lapides, Chuck King, and T.K. Kerstetter. "Building a Better Board." Roundtable Discussion. Special Supplement Corporate Board Member (2001): 12–19.
  • 22 Dec 2003
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How to Build a Better Board

As more and more corporate executives have been paraded on perp walks these last few years, a question has repeatedly been raised: Where was the board? After all, isn't it the board's responsibility to make sure the fox isn't hired to run the hen house? Doesn't the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 Feb 2017
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Why Boards Aren’t Dealing with Cyberthreats

  • January 2013 (Revised July 2014)
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Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards (B)

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
This follow up to Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards provides a one-page description of the new boards that were created at Telecom and Chorus. View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards
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Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 413-081, January 2013. (Revised July 2014.)
  • June 1994 (Revised October 1999)
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Beer Game, The: Board Version

By: Janice H. Hammond
The beer game is an exercise that demonstrates supply channel dynamics. Simulates the flow of material and information in a simplified channel of beer production and distribution, focusing on the linkages among a beer manufacturer, its distributors, a wholesaler, and a... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Information; Distribution Channels; Production; Supply Chain Management; Problems and Challenges
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Hammond, Janice H. "Beer Game, The: Board Version." Harvard Business School Background Note 694-104, June 1994. (Revised October 1999.)
  • 30 Dec 2010
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A New Model for Corporate Boards

  • June 2021
  • Teaching Note

Board Diversity at Amazon

By: Aiyesha Dey
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Dey, Aiyesha. "Board Diversity at Amazon." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 121-094, June 2021.
  • 01 Oct 2002
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New HBSAA Board Members

Flavia B. Almeida (MBA '94) São Paulo, Brazil Principal McKinsey & Company David L. Anderson (MBA '68) Palo Alto, California Managing Director and General Partner Sutter Hill Ventures Eve S. Benton (MBA '71) Bethesda, Maryland Cochairman Bund Capital Peter J. Cooper... View Details
  • March 1992
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Allegheny International Board (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch
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Lorsch, Jay W. "Allegheny International Board (A)." Harvard Business School Case 492-042, March 1992.
  • Feb 01 2017
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Examining Differences Among Boards

  • 28 Jan 2022
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New Resources for Board Membership

  • February 2014
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Pixability: Bettina's Board Walk

By: Noam Wasserman and Yael Braid
[Teaching Plan for 814-021.] View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Business Startups
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Wasserman, Noam, and Yael Braid. "Pixability: Bettina's Board Walk." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 814-075, February 2014.
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