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  • Video

Introduction to Nonprofit Board Service

  • 03 Sep 2015
  • News

Why Boards Must Look Beyond Shareholders

  • 16 Mar 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards

Keywords: by Edward J. Ludwig, Anna Elise Walton & Michael Beer
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

rTSR: Properties, Determinants, and Consequences of Benchmark Choice

By: Paul Ma, Jee-Eun Shin and Charles C.Y. Wang
We develop a measurement-error framework for assessing the quality of relative-performance metrics designed to filter out the systematic component of performance and analyze relative total shareholder return (rTSR)—the predominant metric market participants use to... View Details
Keywords: Relative TSR; Relative Performance Evaluation; Systematic Risk; Board Of Directors; Compensation Consultants; Style Effects; Executive Compensation; Performance Evaluation; Corporate Governance
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  • 12 PM – 1:30 PM EDT, 15 Jun 2021
  • Virtual Programming

HBS On Board Session

Join the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative for the launch of On Board, a new program designed to inspire and support alumni serving on nonprofit boards. In this first session, Professor Kash Rangan will host a conversation with Anne Wallestad of BoardSource on the shift... View Details
  • Winter 2021
  • Article

Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Causal Evidence from Massachusetts

By: Robert Daines, Shelley Xin Li and Charles C.Y. Wang
We study the effect of staggered boards (SBs) using a quasi-experiment: a 1990 law that imposed an SB on all Massachusetts-incorporated firms. The law led to an increase in Tobin's Q, investment in CAPEX and R&D, patents, higher-quality patented innovations, and... View Details
Keywords: Staggered Board; Entrenchment; Life-cycle; Tobin's Q; Innovation; Profitability; Investor Composition; Governing and Advisory Boards; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Institutional Investing; Value
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  • 10 Jul 2020
  • News

The Upside of Virtual Board Meetings

  • December 2011
  • Article

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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  • 14 Feb 2013
  • News

HBS Class Explores Lack of Women on Corporate Boards

  • Program

Women on Boards

Summary Traditionally, the majority of board appointments are made through informal networks that are especially hard for women to break into. Designed specifically for top women executives, this program... View Details
  • Third Quarter 2015
  • Article

Should Boards Mentor Their CEOs?: It Is a Complex Question. Here Are the Significant Considerations.

By: Jay W. Lorsch
It's a complex question with significant considerations, including how open the CEO is likely to be to such advice, the company's situation, and the characteristics of the board. View Details
Keywords: Directors; CEO Mentoring; Governing and Advisory Boards; Rank and Position; Management Teams
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  • June 7, 2016
  • Blog Post

The Value-Decreasing Effect of Staggered Boards

By: Alma Cohen and Charles CY Wang
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  • 23 Jul 2014
  • News

Matt Segneri Named Director of Social Enterprise Initiative

Keywords: Educational Services
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Save The Dates

Save The Dates Spring Meeting of the HBSAA Board of Directors/Club Officers Roundtable HBS May 29–30, 2002 Spring 2002 Reunions/MBA Classes of... View Details
Keywords: reunion; commencement; HBSAA Board of Directors
  • 18 Mar 2019
  • News

Professor Henderson recognized by the Financial Times Outstanding Director Exchange as one of three “outstanding directors of the year”

  • 24 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris

integrity, regulatory compliance, determining compensation. But to these, Norris adds two more recent concerns that have become more important to corporate boards. The first of these is change itself. "Many View Details
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

M.I.A. Boards

September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds... View Details
Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance
  • 24 Mar 2016
  • News

Grading Yahoo's board

  • March 1993 (Revised September 1993)
  • Case

Praxair: Creating a Board (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch
Discusses the process a CEO/chairman goes through in creating a new board. Specifically, follows a CEO's decision-making process in selecting board members. Also includes decisions about the selection process for board members and the structure and process of board... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Decision Making; Corporate Governance; Conferences; Business or Company Management; Selection and Staffing
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  • March 1993
  • Supplement

Praxair: Creating a Board (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch
Discusses the final formation of Praxair's board. Lists the members chosen with their backgrounds. Also describes the selection process of board members, and the structure and process of board meetings. View Details
Keywords: Conferences; Governing and Advisory Boards; Selection and Staffing; Management Practices and Processes
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