Board Director - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2008
News

Team MBA

stressors of the HBS model is speaking in class. The learning team gave me a sounding board to try out a comment before bringing it to class. I was always more confident in discussing a topic in section that had been fleshed out by the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

professor and Dean of the Faculty, provided a brief outline of the landscape as well as thoughts on how to view the proposed bailout. Lecturer Nicolas P. Retsinas, Director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, then... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

purchased by Google for $3.2 billion in 2014. Nolan and Natarajan “Venkat” Venkatakrishnan, director of FirstBuild—the GE/Local Motors partnership—are sitting with Rogers in the University of Louisville’s University Club in late April,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

business holdings. The traditional Argentine newspaper La Nación provides an example of such a shift, when in 1996 a change in ownership of the controlling stake led to the appointment of Julio Saguier as board chairman. Saguier was... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

and autocratic, generating a heavy flow from the top downward. Your research on Thyssen contradicts this notion. In general, what did you discover about German management that is in opposition to what we thought we knew? A: This stereotype has always irked me. I don't... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2016
First Look

August 23, 2016

information to shareholders). FANUC’s CEO, Yoshiharu Inaba, and his board must decide if and how to respond. One the one hand, the firm had been very successful having built leading global market shares in each of its core divisions and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

highest-paid CEOs in 2011 through 2014, Clifford explains how board directors and compensation committees have directly contributed to the rising salaries and bonuses of the country’s richest CEOs and argues... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Back in Business

Lincoln or Jefferson Memorial - this will memorialize an incident that is just as important as what they originally memorialized." The LMDC - whose directors include Deborah C. Wright (MBA/JD '84), president and CEO of Carver Bancorp and... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Using Financial Statements Accounting & Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Lynn Paine Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors General Management, Organizational Behavior Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Jason Pananos... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

conditions may be in the not-too-distant future. Amid such daunting constraints, Erling Lorentzen (MBA 6/'48), chairman of the board of Aracruz Celulose S.A., the world's largest producer of eucalyptus market pulp, with 25 percent of... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

and staying engaged in some way are intrinsic to sustaining both confidence and opportunities. Serving on meaningful nonprofit boards that deal with serious business issues is one good route. Part-time projects and consulting is another.... View Details

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

of fresh orange juice. For the last 18 years, Arhodidis worked for Eurobank, one of the country’s four systemic banks. When he left last July, he was a member of the executive board and a general manager in charge of global markets,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

intellectual content of the field. That same year, under the leadership of Paula Barker Duffy (MBA '77), then administrative director of External Relations, the School's Division of Research conducted a survey that provided a new... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

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Print View - Course Catalog

Management Tom Nicholas Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) Finance C. Fritz Foley Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors General Management,... View Details

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

economicus, model of human behavior that treats managers as selfish maximizers of personal wealth and power. The Homo economicus model implies that a firm's board of directors can best further stockholders'... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions of boards. The AFL-CIO believes that such problems were... View Details