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- February 2019
- Teaching Note
Beth Stewart: Navigating the Boardroom
By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
Teaching Note for HBS No. 413-094. View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
years required to bring a drug to market—and the potential for failure looming every step of the way—the business of biotech is one of managing uncertainty over time. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, a longtime observer of the industry,... View Details
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
clubby groups that are widely criticized as the handpicked "captives" of self-serving management. With White House support, congressional leaders are intent on shifting the balance of power in the boardroom away from management.... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
and longitudinally (in a field study of windfall spending). Finally, participants who were randomly assigned to spend money on others experienced greater happiness than those assigned to spend money on themselves. Leading from the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
of integrity has to do it. In the same way that medical ethics do not compel a physician to do something that violates his or her own personal ethics, corporate law does not require directors to check their sense of right and wrong outside the View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 09 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
countries serving on the board are rewarded with an average $60 million "bonus" in IBRD loans. This is more likely driven by soft forces like boardroom culture rather than by the power of the vote itself. We find no significant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
beliefs that foam strikes incurred during the launch of the space shuttle Columbia posed no risk to its fuselage. This propensity to maintain silence, a flaw at once personal and organizational, is "widespread and problematic" in both the public and the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
of these customers. The model was used to help an online auction firm make several critical decisions including its pricing and marketing strategy as well as its overall firm valuation. HBS Focus: The Reality of Corporate Boards... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
L. Bower Publication:Chap. 9 in Boardroom Realities: Building Leaders Across Your Board, edited by Jay A. Conger, 253-275. Jossey-Bass, 2009 Book link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470391782.html Information Content... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
$60 million "bonus" in IBRD loans, an amount that rises in years when IBRD loans are in high demand, particularly for countries in the most influential seats. This effect is more likely driven by informal rules and norms in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
context of an unsolved managerial and academic problem, we develop a review of existing literature, a description of current managerial challenges, and a sketch of future research opportunities. Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy and Boards of Directors View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
its own right. But it was also crucial for the resumption of European integration in the 1970s. Leadership: The Key to Effective Boards Author:Jay W. Lorsch Publication:Chap. 1 in Boardroom Realities: Building Leaders Across Your Board,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
Nueno, Dean Rolf D. Cremer, and Co-Dean Zhang Weijiong, of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), were sitting in the boardroom of the Shanghai campus in February 2009. They made up the management committee (MC) of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
for Pentax into a hostile cash tender offer. A surprising sequence of events had caused a friendly merger agreement to fall apart, resulting in a boardroom coup at Pentax and the intervention of the Sparx Group, an indigenous activist... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
at the Highest Levels By: Groysberg, Boris, and Deborah Bell Abstract—The article examines the gender gap that is present in boardrooms in U.S. corporations and internationally in 2013 as more women attempt to reach executive-level... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I lead in a crisis? What roles does the Board play? What are the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
causes of the scandals were systemic rather than a matter of a proverbial "few bad apples." In the panel, moderated by HBS professor Krishna Palepu, panelists also said that new laws ,and regulations were already making a... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- 31 Oct 2006
- HBS Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
Issues surrounding corporate governance are a source of ongoing debate in the boardrooms of companies around the world—not just the United States. A new Harvard Business School case, "Governing Sumida Corporation," takes readers... View Details