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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds of Lehman’s independent directors were hardly suited to overseeing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
board members commit to serving on ad hoc committees, namely, the Global Alumni Conference Committee, chaired by Joan McCabe (MBA '81); the Nominating Committee, chaired by Ed Hajim; and the Community Standards Committee. The first group... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Shanghai. As we look forward to those upcoming events with anticipation, let me give you a quick status report on the important, ongoing work that our Alumni Board committees are undertaking this year. The Communications Committee,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Spring greetings to all HBS alumni! The arrival of April signals the start of intense planning for spring events at HBS. The MBA spring reunions are fast approaching, and plans for the annual Club Officers Roundtable and spring Alumni View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
offered in conjunction with this month's reunions: Transitions and Transformation and Strengthening Your Role as a Nonprofit Board Leader. These were tailored specifically to the needs of alumni. In addition, the committee has urged the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
direction the School is taking. There is also a wealth of resources online to bring you closer to the School's resources, such as Working Knowledge (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu) and eBaker, a video library of faculty presentations made at Reunions. The Alumni View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
shepherding them into boarding school and monitoring their development through daily calls and weekend visits. “That was a tough time, but my Harvard ‘family’ made it bearable,” she says. That family... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
FedEx, UPS, and Amazon, to name a few, and a significant portion of EVgo’s growth during the coming years is expected to come from capitalizing on this trend.” There is growing cognizance of the sea change, though, says Middaugh. The government is on View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
compensation dynamics, board evolution, entrepreneurial finance, and founder-CEO succession. He's also turning the spotlight on venture capital firms. "VC firms have an interesting organizational structure compared with other... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
question the wisdom of using its own stock to hedge merchant investments rather than contracts with bona fide counterparties. It failed to monitor the conflicts of interest that the board itself had approved... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“These board fees for [health] insurance companies are off the reservation.” — HBS professor F. Warren McFarlan, arguing that nonprofit board service should be about giving “time, talent, and treasure,” not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
and we made believe that the sponsors, the biggest money center banks, had zero risk of loss. They did not fully disclose what was happening, and they did not put up enough capital to cover potential risks. Now, the FASB Financial Accounting Standards View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
interested Latino professionals prepare themselves to be considered for board positions. The virtual event was the second in a series of webinars offered as part of a coordinated campaign by the two alumni clubs, with consulting help from... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
that monitors radio broadcasts and frequencies and identifies songs as they air. Songs are scanned into a computer to create a digital "fingerprint," which is then matched against music played by radio stations View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
quite a few companies face this issue. Another challenge is corporate governance. Historically, banks acted as monitors for Japanese companies, and the boards of Japanese companies were dominated by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
financial measures of performance,” he says. “How do you design a performance measurement system that is both useful for monitoring purposes and motivates people to do the right thing? We know that financial measures of performance are... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
board about five years after its founding, Melcher became chair. Melcher also monitored the student lunchroom so that the teachers could all eat together. At first, that effort and the large amounts spent on... View Details