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- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
employees. So that's on the S side of ESG. G, governance. This is really how a company behaves. What are their standards for leadership? What's the makeup of the board? What are their risk controls, shareholder rights, voting rights,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
faces. Another is busting convention. Most South Korean corporations are owner-operated, with shareholders voting with the owner practically all the time. Now, “more and more professionals are managing companies,” Yu explains. And like... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Booth Gardner’s Night at the Oscars
understand him. When he walks, he lists ever so slightly. He wonders aloud when his end will come. He knows “it’s not a pretty picture.” While Gardner’s campaign succeeded by a wide margin — the Death with Dignity Act, a ballot referendum, passed with 58 percent of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
Committee, where he raised more money than any other member, Weinberg launched a long series of relationships with occupants of the White House that would continue for more than thirty-five years. Almost everybody on Wall Street voted... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Spring Training for Startups
Angie Hicks (MBA 2000); discussions of a few of HBS's top entrepreneurship cases; and—naturally—plenty of networking opportunities. Summit attendees were also invited to check out the finale of another startup event on campus that day: the student New Venture... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
registration/identity card system. DiCamillo notes with pride that last June's elections there were perhaps the "cleanest" in Mexican history, due to the minimization of fraud and vote tampering afforded by the highly secure Polaroid... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
annual, nonbinding votes by shareholders on executive compensation — so-called say on pay; grants substantial shareholders a new right to have their director candidates’ names included on the ballots sent out by the company (dissident... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
of investment management. “I think that vote captured a powerful tension inside the students,” she remarks. “They have plenty of mathematical and financial models to support the point of view that restricting the size of an ‘investable... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
Further, the voting cycle truncates long-term progress. "Government is an interest-group groupie," she said. "Who speaks for the less fortunate? The homeless, for example, are not a powerful interest group." Businesses, she added, "will... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
underperform and be overcompensated. A caricature, but sadly still true: consider the enormous pay packages for CEOs in companies that lose money. Shareholder protests (such as those in the United Kingdom), voting against compensation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
educational institutions. A Democracy Is Born: An Insider’s Account of the Battle against Terrorism in Afghanistan by Matthew J. Morgan (MBA ’07) (Greenwood Publishing Group) In October 2004, more than 8 million citizens of Afghanistan View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Botkin (MBA ’68, DBA ’73) Cambridge, MA A Vote for MVP In the March Bulletin, writer Deborah Blagg touched all the bases in “Local Hero,” her article about San Francisco Giants president Larry Baer (MBA ’85). For all his wizardry and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
and not tooting his own horn, I’ll give a vote for Michael Horn’s podcast, Future U. It’s great for anyone interested in higher ed and workforce development. —Scott Benson (MBA 2008) I’ve been listening to many of the podcasts by Mark... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
representatives from the 101st to 110th Congresses. After assessing the main purpose of each bill and classifying each according to 49 industry categories, they watched how legislators voted when their home state's GDP was significantly... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
and resells it at market rates to consumers. Working Assets takes the equivalent of 1 percent of each person's phone bill and enters it into a nonprofit donation pool that goes each year to a rotating roster of sixty nonprofits voted on... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
adjunct professor at Kellogg. In 1995, he sold the businesses, and when the school offered him a fulltime teaching position, he knew he had found his true calling. Rogers, the Gund Family Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, has been View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- News
Supporting new art by bringing private funding to public museums and spaces
or even two steps removed from the artists themselves,” says Evans. “At VIA, we work directly with artists, meeting as a group to learn, discuss, and vote on which projects we will support.” Since she launched VIA in 2013 with cofounder... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
voter turnout has been quite high, although no specific figures were given. In the two days following the debate, voting was held until one presidential pair received 50 percent of the vote. “After a hotly contested final round, Fred... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
reactions to policies that would seem to benefit them, like raising taxes on those who earn and own a lot more. Why would the poor oppose taxes on the wealthy? Because many believe that they, or at least their children, will eventually be wealthy, View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
MBA 2011) were semifinalists in the 2010 contest with FashionStake, a “community-curated marketplace for independent fashion” that circumvents the traditional department store model by giving consumers a voting voice to determine which... View Details