Board Independence - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

money to Senator Mark Hanna [R-OH] and the leaders of a Panamanian independence movement. Hanna, in turn, convinced President Roosevelt to support the independentistas. American warships prevented Colombia from responding to Panama's... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

25 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 25

independent directors. The decision to opt out reflects the relative costs and benefits of doing so. Cross-listed firms opt out more when coming from countries with weak corporate governance rules, but if firms based in such countries are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Loeb House | About

substantial gift from his company in 1966 to create the John L. Loeb Fellowship Fund, awarded annually to the top students in finance, as well as the funds needed to renovate the building that now bears the family’s name. Loeb participated in Harvard’s governance as a... View Details

30 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

managers have the courage, but does the CEO have the vision and fortitude to stand before the board and defend the opportunity to explore and fail?" Joe Violette, who reminded us that innovation (as opposed to invention) is most... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

thinking and innovative approaches, and they certainly require enhanced leadership skills. They could be enormous business opportunities, but they are hard to pursue without convincing multiple independent stakeholders to climb on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

institutions within individual and community networks. But they have not done so to date. Enter the SEC One novel way to assure that independent hospitals create network plans is to harness a new accounting standard, as specified by the... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

30 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

pays for it? Should there be an independent firm that is appointed by the SEC?" What do you think? Original Article Observers such as Jay Lorsch, in his book Pawns and Potentates, has argued that boards... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jan 2013
News

André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

1974 Named Executive Director, Unibanco 1983 Launches Banco Pactual S.A. 1998 Launches JGP Asset Management 2001 Joins HBS Board of Dean's Advisors 2002 Jakurski House opens, British School 2002 Named Chair, HBS Latin America Advisory... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

by the same firms from 2008 and 2017. They then trained a machine-learning algorithm on the text, letting it independently decide which words were most highly associated with eventual violations. The words that rose to the top ranged from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

liberal arts education he received at Hamilton and now serves as chairman of its board of trustees. Kennedy says he has developed "an appreciation for a tolerable level of risk" in trying to decide which companies to underwrite at... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Dec 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

educational leadership, to provide school leaders with frameworks, skills, and knowledge to effectively lead and drive change improvement in schools. The CSML certificate is comprised of four courses, which can be taken independently or... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Fostering Diversity

believe is crucial to society. “You need to invest in the pipeline in order for things to change,” says Victoria, an independent consultant focused on health care and technology. “We believe that we need more diversity—race, gender,... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Thomas-Graham is the founder and CEO of Dandelion Chandelier and the lead independent director of the board of the Clorox Company. Thomas-Graham was the first Black woman to be elected partner at McKinsey &... View Details

16 Aug 2018
News

Working with a Giver’s Spirit

half that of traditional pawnshops; and Rappler, the Philippines’ last independent news outlet and where Ayala also serves as chairman of the board. “At Hatchd, it’s kind of like we’re professional cofounders,” he says. Ko, who is now... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

at HBS. The third and fourth years are elective years in which students take courses at both schools just like their peers. JD/MBAs have been known to pursue a variety of additional pursuits related to their personal interests. At the law school, JD/MBAs are Harvard... View Details

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

seen on video. Comfort – Is your space set up ergonomically? If you are accustomed to a standing desk, you can set up a makeshift standing desk using an ironing board or counter top, or consider investing in a standing desk if possible.... View Details

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

they pursued the mission through various organizational structures." She said that the National Audubon Society in the United States is a network of organizations, some of them corporate-owned and others independent or formerly View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2021
What Do You Think?

What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

bosses and peers, something (including boards in some organizations) that CEOs don’t have to worry so much about. In fact, middle managers are often blamed when problems arise. Some leaders say that middle managers obstruct effective... View Details