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05 Apr 2021
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Help Wanted: Director of remote work

Spring 2013
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America's Changing Corporate Boardrooms: The Last Twenty-Five Years

This article outlines several significant changes in corporate boardrooms over the past twenty-five years and uses those lessons to propose a thought experiment about how boards can be shaped in the future. Professor Lorsch argues that the major problems in the last... View Details

Keywords: Boards Of Directors; BEST Practices; Stakeholder Engagement; Governing and Advisory Boards; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Change

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14 Feb 2013
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HBS Class Explores Lack of Women on Corporate Boards

July 2004 (Revised August 2004)
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On Becoming a Board Member

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Ashley Robertson

A Hispanic executive is considering whether to join the board of directors of a company and receives advice from several more experienced directors. Teaching Purpose: To focus on the issues related to joining a board of directors. View Details

Keywords: Management; Leadership; Ethnicity; Governing and Advisory Boards

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December 2011
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CEO and Board Chair Roles: To Split or Not to Split?

By: Aiyesha Dey, Ellen Engel and Xiaohui Liu

We examine the performance and compensation implications of firms' decisions to combine the roles of CEO and board chairman (duality). We document that firms that split the CEO and chairman positions due to investor pressure have significantly lower announcement... View Details

Keywords: CEO Duality; Board Chairman; Firm Performance; Pay-performance Sensitivity; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership; Performance Efficiency

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24 Mar 2016
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Grading Yahoo's board

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What to Consider as You Seek Your First Board Director Role - Blog: RGE Report

First Board Director Role Lex Schroeder Author tag Board Diversity However your path to the boardroom looks, landing a seat usually takes time. Relationships, in particular,... View Details

November 2011
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Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors

By: Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan

We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms.... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Retention; Policy; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Mergers and Acquisitions; Wages; United States

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April 2010
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Executive Pay and 'Independent' Compensation Consultants

By: K. J. Murphy and Tatiana Sandino

Executive compensation consultants face potential conflicts of interest that can lead to higher recommended levels of CEO pay, including the desires to "cross-sell" services and to secure "repeat business." We find evidence in both the US and Canada that CEO pay is... View Details

Keywords: Compensation Consultants; Conflicts Of Interest; CEO Pay; Board Of Directors; Director Pay; Disclosure; Conflict of Interests; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Disclosure; Executive Compensation; Corporate Governance; Consulting Industry; Canada; United States

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25 Feb 2015
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Harvard University Appoints Jodi Goldstein New Managing Director of I-Lab

01 Oct 2002
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Directors of Research Centers Share Global Perspectives

Office; Camille Tang Yeh (MBA '80), Asia-Pacific Research Center; and Vincent Dessain (MBA '87), European Research Center, were on campus together to discuss their work. In sessions with faculty members and administrators, the directors... View Details

November 1983 (Revised April 1984)
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Minnesota State Board of Investment

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19 Jul 2022
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Admissions Director Q&A: Chad Losee of Harvard Business School

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The Social Nature of Boards

By: Rakesh Khurana and Katharina Pick

Keywords: Governance

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Dissertation: Speaking Up on Boards

My dissertation examines individual and group behavior in corporate boards of directors. I focus on individual traits and group traits that can foster or inhibit the act of speaking up when an individuals views go against the general consensus in the room. Research and... View Details