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- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
stake of 9.5% in Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company. Third Point believed that Ligand had a strong drug portfolio and pipeline but that it was highly undervalued due to poor management. After gaining board... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
trade-off decisions he must make in managing through the current period. He is preparing for a meeting with his board of trustees where he plans to discuss the current situation and the key decisions the organization needs to make.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
several years as a consultant for Construction Specialties, a manufacturer of specialized architectural products. At the same time, his nephew Mark brought him on board as an investor and marketing consultant in several high-tech... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
but it is an excruciating reality for many women." Piette did get pregnant after she quit her job, and since the birth of her daughter in 1999, she has been working about ten hours a week, helping entrepreneurs with strategic planning. "No travel, no View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
were in a precarious position. One such institution was Wachovia, which entered acquisition talks with Citigroup and Wells Fargo. This case describes the development of these negotiations throughout the week of September 26-October 3, 2008 and explores the role of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
with a request for proposal, the company's largest customer performs a routine evaluation and ranks PV Technologies third behind two key competitors. The director of sales and marketing must weigh the possible consequences of the report... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
early December, the board fired Wallace as CEO. A few weeks later, the company closed for good. It isn’t the sort of story that alumni like to trumpet when they return to their alma mater. But today, that is why Christina Wallace is back... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Relative total shareholder return (rTSR) is increasingly used to incentivize and evaluate managers. Although... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
organizational boundaries. Innovations cannot reach a sufficient level of scale and impact unless they are integrated into the larger operations of the corporation. And yet, say recently retired Harvard Business School dean Cash, Oxford dean Earl, and nGenera View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Elective Curriculum (Second Year) Authentic Leadership Development Leading Professional Service Firms Leading Teams Leading and Governing High Performing Nonprofit Organizations Managing Human Capital Power and Influence The Moral Leader The View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
deteriorates, it's often true that the internal processes of the firm don't really respond. Management keeps saying, "What we need is to pour more money into these businesses because then we'll fix them." Quite often it's the bankers or bond holders or their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
Sustainability companies. The boards of directors of High Sustainability companies are more likely to be formally responsible for sustainability, and top executive compensation incentives are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
board as part of a business venture before the revolution, it's doubly important now. Libya looks like a classic revolution, with barricades and battles. Gaddafi has lost control of the east. A prolonged civil war is a possibility, but so... View Details
- Career Coach
Doug Lester
Doug’s approach to career and executive coaching is informed by over ten years in marketing, digital, and general management roles at Johnson & Johnson and other Fortune 500 companies. He offers perspective as a former executive recruiter and often counsels alumni on... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
business in the United States while exempting CIC and Huijin from certain types of Fed oversight. The second was whether to appoint a board director to Morgan Stanley, a company in which CIC had directly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
industry like taxicabs. It can fight hard to get the rules changed,” says Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair and director of the Harvard University... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
industries such as agriculture and biofuels. As GenapSys came closer to releasing its product, Esfandyarpour and his Senior Director of Operations and Strategy, Leila Rastegar (HBS '11), sat down to decide which of three business models... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
heartened to see that many of our alumni are leading these efforts. In my own work, I have observed growing interest from boards of directors in tackling environmental issues as well as the tremendous social... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
practices of Canadian non-medical businesses. The best practices discussion was based on Cleveland Clinic Canada’s experience serving numerous Canadian enterprises through its Medical Director Program. “The webinar really gave us a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley