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- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
disappointed in the performance of the company. You think the technology is solid but the management team, and particularly the CEO, isn't very strong. The board has begun to take a more active role, the founder-CEO has been made the... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
around physical and mental health is not a luxury or a frill, but an essential aspect of risk management. CEOs and top management need to prioritize taking care of their own health. Boards need to persuade their leadership teams to make... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
executive compensation packages, and the board of directors’ evaluation horizons could be barriers to such decisions. My work so far has concentrated on the ESG issues where firm-level action is actually producing value both for the... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Relative total shareholder return (rTSR) is increasingly used to incentivize and evaluate managers. Although... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Harvard Business School Case 208-129 Bob Kelly, the new CEO of Mellon Financial, is considering the terms of a proposed "merger of equals" with The Bank of New York, just before the final Board meeting to approve the deal. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
in general apparel, but we may be able to identify a couple of categories—high-quality jewelry and high-end kids' apparel—that we can lock up," says Anthony W. Deering, chairman of the board and CEO of The Rouse Company, of Columbia,... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 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
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
did what we did. And it's hard, because you need to move. Your board and your investors and everybody in the company need to face up to it. We made a big bet and we just ran with it. As CEO, you can't be scared of making bold decisions.... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
founders of Lynx Solutions have survived major challenges within their board of directors, the firing of Lynx's founder-CEO and departure of its successor CEO, and a crisis sparked by media allegations that it had been spying on its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
also extended to the companies in which XTV invested. These were structured as separate legal entities, with their own boards and officers. XTV sought to recruit employees from other start-ups who were familiar with managing new... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
in partnering with Spark to develop its hemophilia B program. Also, the company is working with the FDA on a potential change to its protocol. The CEO is preparing for a board meeting, and he is contemplating the best path to deal with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
them also to provide public space Wi-Fi, advertising, and urban intelligence sensors. "One year from now we will no longer sell any machines," Kutner planned to tell the company's board of directors. Would they buy his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Jazztel into the fastest growing broadband operator in Spain. The case describes how Fernández Pujals designed and managed the board and led Jazztel toward profitable growth. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
impact with Jeannette Wagner, former vice chair of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. and member of the HBS Board of Dean's Advisors. Wagner recommended that they send a copy of the case to Leonard Lauder, chairman of Estée Lauder. The chain... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
has brought an amended plan to the table under which it would commit to backstop a $406 million equity rights offering that would be made directly to all the unsecured creditors. This offer might bring the objecting creditors on board but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
a series of static comparisons that reveal the impact of a change in one determinant of an option's price while holding other factors constant. The business setting involves a mutual fund board considering the initiation of an option... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
http://hbr.org/product/drivers-of-value-capture/an/714488-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-487 Drivers of Value Creation No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/714487-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-098 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
insulates the board from pressures by biased or uninformed shareholders. Whether stronger governance improves retain/replace decisions depends on which of these effects dominates. We use our theoretical framework to assess the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
asking, is this the right business model? But there are no answers. The market and technology are constantly changing," Riesenfeld remarks. Important Sounding Board The biotech industry presents similar challenges in a space littered with... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
tax shelters. These changes included a common compensation bonus pool for the entire firm and rewarding people for professionalism as much as for business development; strengthening governance by adding a lead director to the board, removing the chairman and deputy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace