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- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
it so often does today. What's more, company executives should make fewer, shorter, and more targeted presentations to board members and spend more time engaging them in interactive discussions. For the board to monitor strategy, it first... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
Paine: The book had its origins in the preparations for celebrating the Centennial of HBS in 2008. The School was founded because important Harvard alumni discussed with President Eliot their observation that a new class of executives who... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
compiled a detailed curriculum analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health... View Details
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
national office. The national office proposes to play a screening role whereby a national growth committee will "green-light" the plans of local schools to create multi-site regions in selected areas of the United States. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
the International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC), will be welcomed by the corporate community, since such a framework will give useful guidance to a management practice that is already happening. Integrated reporting represents a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Business School Case 415-047 BlackRock: Diversity as a Driver for Success In July 2014, the Global Executive Committee (GEC) for BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, held a two-day offsite to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
differently. Over time, he had established a group of trusted executives around him, which formed a "steering committee." And they all had their own points of view, which they regularly voiced. The tension of the big-growth... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
management roles of management, audit committee and the external auditor. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/113002-PDF-ENG How Much? (A) Clayton RoseHarvard Business School Case 313-004 The leader of a small business team must deal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607075 UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action? Harvard Business School Case 707-511 Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
wrong: I don't want to return to some "idyllic" past when markets were less powerful and effective. I want to go forward. But I think we have problems that we need to address. The trouble with executive compensation Let me use... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
company’s CFO, began to develop an entirely new retail model for Turkey—FILE, a discount supermarket. FILE would carry many more SKUs in larger stores and compete head-to-head with national and local supermarkets. Throughout the year, in their various View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Geographic Society (Abridged) David A. Garvin and Annelena LobbHarvard Business School Case 312-120 In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
That's what the BBC executive committee discovered in themselves when their charismatic chief departed. And that's the real magic—to make leadership appear from many unexpected places, just when it is... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
Zhang compared the effectiveness of ads prepared by the candidate's own campaign with ads supporting the candidate prepared by outside political groups, including political action committees (PACs). “"I need to see a good ad about Obama... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
Summing Up Management is a complex process. Good plans executed poorly may be worse than poor plans executed well. This is never truer than at times of disaster, in which plans made from afar have to be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
enlightening guide, they show how Gates, Grove, and Jobs approached strategy and execution in remarkably similar ways-yet markedly differently from their erstwhile competitors-keeping their focus on five strategic rules. Strategy Rules... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
higher utility (or satisfaction), higher execution effort (or motivation), faster coordination, less influence activities, and more communication, but also to less experimentation and less information collection. When two firms that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Lehman Brothers Harvard Business School Case 409-042 Explores how two senior Wall St. executives created a successful commercial opportunity for Lehman Brothers that focused on building relationships with minority- and women-owned... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
reject it, too. “It turns out that shareholders have many different views, and it’s not only the largest shareholders whose proposals have widespread appeal” The House Financial Services Committee explained it this way in its April 2017... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel