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A Head Start on Succession
By: Joseph L. Bower
Our studies of CEO succession over the past several years have shown some improvements in the trends in CEO turnover, often resulting from outside pressures for improved oversight and better corporate governance. The next step in improving CEO succession—and ultimately...
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Keywords:
Investment Return;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Leadership Development;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Succession;
Management Teams;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Bower, Joseph L. "A Head Start on Succession." Strategy + Business, no. 51 (Summer 2008): 84–85.
- 03 Feb 2009
- News
How Corporate America Can Help Obama
- 03 Oct 2018
- News
Why Is The Number Of Female CEOs Declining?
- 29 May 2018
- News
How Amazon’s digital health moves could affect providers
- Research Summary
Does Banks' Corporate Control Benefit Firms?
In this paper we examine the importance of banks' corporate control by investigating the loan policy pricing effect of banks' voting stakes on their borrowers. A sample of loans taken out over the 2000-2003 time period shows that banks charge lower rates on...
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- 12 May 2011
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Powerlessness is as corrupting as power
- 14 Oct 2017
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Holdin' on for a Hero
- December 2013 (Revised March 2016)
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Managing Online Reviews on TripAdvisor
By: Thales Teixeira and Leora Kornfeld
In 2013, TripAdvisor was the most visited online travel site in the world. It hosted a massive repository of information on hotels and travel services, and provided millions of reviews written by consumers. Consumers were becoming increasingly motivated to read and...
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Online Word-of-mouth;
Online Reviews;
Hotels;
Internet and the Web;
Marketing Communications;
Marketing Reference Programs;
Digital Marketing;
Customer Satisfaction;
Accommodations Industry;
Travel Industry
Teixeira, Thales, and Leora Kornfeld. "Managing Online Reviews on TripAdvisor." Harvard Business School Case 514-071, December 2013. (Revised March 2016.)
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
links between satisfied employees and satisfied customers have on practitioners? Jim Heskett: While we don't spend any time tracking the impact, Earl and I (as well as our...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- March 2022
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Copper Nationalization in Chile
By: Jeremy Friedman, John Masko and Jingyu Liu
In 1970 Chile became the first country to elect a Marxist president through open, multi-party elections in Salvador Allende. In his first year as president, Allende nationalized the copper industry, Chile’s largest export industry that was developed and owned by US...
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Keywords:
Nationalism;
History;
Political Elections;
Natural Resources;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
National Security;
Government Administration;
Government and Politics;
Chile
Friedman, Jeremy, John Masko, and Jingyu Liu. "Copper Nationalization in Chile." Harvard Business School Case 722-016, March 2022.
- 29 Mar 2013
- News
New Life for Old Brands
- 22 Nov 2019
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How Fintech Could Pave the Way To Small Business Utopia
- 09 Aug 2017
- News
Financial Fraud: It Takes Two
- 20 Dec 2016
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How ‘busyness’ became a bona fide status symbol
- October 2017 (Revised April 2019)
- Case
Eastern Bank: Innovating Through Eastern Labs
By: Karen Mills, Dennis Campbell and Aaron Mukerjee
Eastern Bank is a 200-year-old New England mutual bank with a community focus. Eastern specializes in small business lending, having made strategic investments to become the top SBA lender in New England in the midst of the Great Recession, when other banks were...
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Mills, Karen, Dennis Campbell, and Aaron Mukerjee. "Eastern Bank: Innovating Through Eastern Labs." Harvard Business School Case 318-068, October 2017. (Revised April 2019.)
- September 2018
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Assembling the Sales Team
Data and analytical tasks have lengthened productivity ramp-up times in many sales contexts, making each hire a bigger sunk cost for a longer time. Most companies adopt two common practices: They hire on the basis of “experience” and/or look at their best reps and try...
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- September 2023
- Teaching Note
CMA CGM: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Container Shipping
By: Willy Shih
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 623-006. Marine transport is the most cost-effective way to move large volumes over long distances, and container shipping is the backbone of international trade in goods. Yet shipping contributed 3% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions,...
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- 25 Apr 2013
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HBS Professor Brings Jay-Z, Lady Gaga to the Classroom
- 08 Jan 2022
- News