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- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
boards of directors are keenly interested in the latest sustainability or corporate responsibility report. They do not routinely ask for or receive a product safety review. Risk management committees typically focus on financial controls,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
in the canned goods aisle of a stateside supermarket? That's one of the questions Mary L. Shelman, director of Harvard Business School's Agribusiness Program, explores in the case study Mutti S.p.a., coauthored with colleagues Senior... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
(forthcoming) Abstract Drawing on institutionalist theory, we conceptualize the racial composition of the boards of directors of large American companies as shaped in response to social and political norms. We use new longitudinal and... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
on how this might be accomplished. For this purpose, we present the results of surveys we conducted of fellowship directors and residents, discuss how the present market for orthopaedic surgery fellows resembles the market for medical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
School of Public Health and director of the Healthy Buildings program there. John Macomber is a senior lecturer in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses in real estate and infrastructure finance. They are... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
Business School Case 415-028 Aarti Grover and CMS Computers No abstract available Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-051 Sarah Sullivan at Greater Marketing Solutions (GMS) Sarah Sullivan, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
focused on physical health much more than they have on mental health," says Professor John A. Quelch, Charles Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In collaboration with Carin-Isabel Knoop, executive View Details
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
Jim Aisner, Director of Media Relations at Harvard Business School. Jim Aisner: With me today is Harvard Business School professor Joseph Bower, an expert on corporate strategy and leadership. His most recent research focuses on CEO... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
Subsequently, it needs information on how well the strategy is being implemented and what results the strategy is delivering. Directors cannot infer from quarterly financial statements whether the company has selected a sensible customer... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
Spangler Auditorium at HBS. Hands-off is Virts' usual management style in the space station, he said, considering the pedigrees of the current crew. His colleagues and bunkmates include former ISS commander Scott Kelly; Anton Shkaplerov, former View Details
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
ebnem Kalemli-Özcan, professor at the University of Maryland; Luc Laeven, director at the European Central Bank Research Department; and Karsten Müller, assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. Data ‘unprecedented in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Dr. Shehan Dissanayake, a managing director and board member of Bahamian investment firm The Tavistock Group (Tavistock), the largest shareholder in the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo), one of the country's largest agribusinesses,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
Business School. She co-founded and was founding chair and director of the Harvard University-wide Advanced Leadership Initiative. She is author or co-author of 20 books including her most recent, Think Outside the Building: How Advanced... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
David F., Eric C. So, and Charles C.Y. Wang Publication:Journal of Accounting & Economics Abstract Firms with central or well-connected boards of directors earn superior risk-adjusted stock returns. Initiating a long position in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) to prevent such failures from happening again. The new rules looked promising. The majority of a board's directors now had to be independent. And senior executives were required to conduct annual assessments of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-082.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAlan Kendricks at Cardiology Associates Harvard Business School Case 407-067 Alan Kendricks struggles to address many challenges facing him as a recently promoted medical View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
had the kind of in-depth look it deserves, yet it is at the core of a number of the problems we've seen. The board of directors and its compensation committee determine the compensation of the CEO in our system. Yet too many companies in... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 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