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04 Jun 2018
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Should Directors Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

07 Sep 2021
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New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm

world’s largest producers of wallboard for the construction industry. Both are active on boards and in their community and are particularly interested in issues related to education, arts and culture, and community improvement. The couple... View Details

02 Feb 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter; Financial Services

Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy

In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled... View Details

Mar 26 2023
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Leveraging Your Point of View in the Boardroom

14 Nov 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society

Keywords: by Alnoor S. Ebrahim & Steve Herz

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Job Market Paper

When to Take the Leap:
The Antecedents and Consequences of Leapfrog CEOs

Much of the prior research on CEO successions focuses on differences between CEOs appointed from within the firm and those appointed from outside;... View Details

February 18, 2022
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Transparency as a Solution for COVID-19 Related Hospital Capacity Issues

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer

In the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. hospitals could not provide an adequate supply of beds to meet demand. Solving the problem of hospital bed capacity is of great importance in the “new normal,” which requires recognizing that SARS-CoV-2 is but... View Details

Keywords: COVID; COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Care; Health Care Demand; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Industry; Health Care Operations; Health Care Policy; Transparency; Hospital; Hospital Management; Hospitals; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Performance Capacity; Policy; Health Industry

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Mark McNeill

the role play) were totally shocked! The exercise was a great way to give people a sense of what it might have felt like that first day Rakuten held its board meeting completely in English. What is your favorite childhood memory? When I... View Details

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From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni

responsibility management. To build these skills consider these paths forward: Ask, and Ask for More Be transparent with your current CEO and Board Members about your career goals in order to gain insight into succession planning and... View Details

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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching by the Case Method Diversity and Inclusion Preparing to Teach Leading in the Classroom Pre-Class Arrival Diversity and Inclusion Openings Cold Calling Questioning, Listening & Responding Transitions Closings Timing Participation Engagement View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal

work ethic—“they didn’t care what we did, but everyone had to work hard,” she says—and her mother offered a model of public service, serving as chancellor of the Board of Regents, New York State’s governing body for education. But when... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

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Alumnae Circles - Alumni

Boards Women's Leadership Forum Race, Gender & Equity Initiative HBR Podcast: Women at Work MBA Women's Student Association CURRENT MEMBER LOGIN The Circles program will be managed in a software platform called Chronus. Only current... View Details

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

gas started in 1933, when Hess’s father Leon bought a secondhand truck and began delivering fuel oil to homes in New Jersey. A thought leader for the energy industry, Hess serves on the board of trustees at the Center for Strategic and... View Details

13 Nov 2023

Busting Application Myths with HBS Admissions

Spend 30 minutes with members of the HBS Admissions Board as we walk through the HBS application, offer tips on how to approach the application process, and bust some myths about the admissions process. View Details

Steven C. Wheelwright

Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.

Following his retirement from HBS in 2006, he served with former Dean Kim B. Clark at BYU-Idaho and then from 2007-2015 he served as... View Details

01 Sep 2013
News

Dynamic Duo

of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Judy, a former Fidelity Investments executive, is leading a science education initiative for early teens at the Museum of Science and serves on the board of Rosie's... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds

professionals and board members). To add this criteria, go to Education-->Colleges/Universities. Type in Harvard Business School. Select it by adding it to the right hand window. Click Add Criteria. This... View Details

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

lawyer, wrote the Brown vs Board brief in 1954. He took an interest in me for reasons that I don't quite understand and I could emulate him. And so I think it's important. Mentorship is really important. There are two kinds of mentors, I... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

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Public Education Leadership Project

administrators School principals Regional supervisors Union leaders Teacher leaders Community liaisons Members of the school board, board of education, or school committee that governs the district Districts can build capability by... View Details

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