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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
During the bull market of the 1990s, stock grants and options formed increasingly large components of executive compensation. Now, however, with many options "underwater" as share values have declined well below the strike price, boards... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
Mark Twain in front of his childhood home in Hannibal, Missouri (photos courtesy of American Writers Museum) Before he arrived at HBS, Jay Hammer (MBA 1979) was pursuing a PhD in literature at Johns Hopkins. Daunted by the increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
enthusiasm, "and the Nielsens are our daily report card." A veteran of NBC and CBS, where he helped develop hits such as The Cosby Show, Cheers, and Touched by an Angel, Sagansky, president and CEO of Paxson Communications Corp., is now... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
Other grants helped survivors begin to rebuild devastated areas, allowing them to return to their former villages rather than remain in settlement camps, explains Curran. Back on campus, Curran is working to place up to ten MBA students... View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
generates returns for investors through timber harvesting, recreational leasing, and in some cases, by subdividing the properties for development or non-timber uses. Lyme Timber, however, is unique among TIMOs View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
offered by HBS Executive Education every summer. The program with the broadest content and largest number of scholarship recipients is Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM). It helps nonprofit executives sharpen leadership... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
president and general manager at the time, Quin has since seen her life change as a result of her terrifying ordeal, and she is currently taking time off from her business career to write a book about the incident. While on a two-week tour of Yemen, Quin and fifteen... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
coursework, mentoring, coaching, and career and job opportunities, delivered on a social platform. HBS, for its part, through the federal government’s Yellow Ribbon Grant program, is annually providing $10,000 each to dozens of HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
despite the fact that they are often composed of diverse units; and the role families play in these organizations. “It is important to recognize that emerging economies, unlike those of developed nations, typically lack many of the essential supporting institutions we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01) and Heather McLeod Grant (Jossey-Bass) What makes nonprofits great? The authors studied twelve nonprofits that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
(SHE), and its first business, a Rwandan start-up that employs sixty women to manufacture and distribute low-cost sanitary pads. In recognition of her achievements, Scharpf in March was named the first HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow and received a $25,000 View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
illustration by Taylor Callery illustration by Taylor Callery Artificial intelligence is not a replacement for the human brain. At least not yet. “That is decades away,” says Rudina Seseri (MBA 2005),... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
case discussions by faculty, “Job Market,” “Mystery Melody” (an audience call-in program), and such services as weather forecasts and the morning menus at Kresge. Students had their own disk-jockey programs of pop, folk, and classical... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
A Clean Start
and bactericides to tires and textiles—or for storing intermittent renewable energy until it is ready to be used, by converting it back into hydrogen or electricity. With two recent grants worth $2.8 million... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
through grants and advocacy. The organization seeks to end the school-to-prison pipeline through disciplinary reform and ensure that schools with high needs receive the necessary resources and funding to achieve their goals. “There is... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
departing executives soon become common practice. 1990 To better align executive pay with shareholder returns, academics — led by HBS professor Michael Jensen — and activists urge greater use of stock options. During the bull market years... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Congress for the authority to take them over, it was granted without much debate. I’ve spoken to almost every lawmaker, regulator, and executive who might have influenced that decision, and none indicated they lost much sleep over the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
WuDunn Photo Courtesy Sheryl WuDunn Girls matter — we take that for granted here in the developed nations, and we all expect our daughters, sisters, and wives to make a difference in the world. But take a moment to think about another... View Details