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- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
had the kind of in-depth look it deserves, yet it is at the core of a number of the problems we've seen. The board of directors and its compensation committee determine the compensation of the CEO in our...
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by Kim B. Clark
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Harvard Business School
on the Harvard University Board of Overseers Visiting Committee for HBS from 1995 through 2000. Read More Read Less A. Leroy Willis, MBA 1969 "[W]hen Dr. King was assassinated, I think our commitment went up...
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- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
School Case 310-011 Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. This case examines Acumen's new projects in Kenya. The organization's...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
Finally, we recommend that the external auditor problems can only be solved through a major change in the relation between auditors and the companies they audit. This may be achieved by making the audit committee responsible for hiring...
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- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
nature of accounting standards proposed between 1973 and 2007. Among other results, we find that length of service on the board and a prior career in investment banking/investment management are associated with proposing standards...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
several years as a consultant for Construction Specialties, a manufacturer of specialized architectural products. At the same time, his nephew Mark brought him on board as an investor and marketing consultant in several high-tech...
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Jill Radsken
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Harvard Business School
board member. The collection includes records that document the relationship between DEC and ARD, and between Olsen and Doriot, from the 1950s to 1990s. American Research and Development Papers, 1946-1991 This collection documents Georges...
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- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
foundations with formal boards and designated roles and responsibilities. Now there is a wide range of foundations that are emerging. At one end of the continuum are nonprofit foundations that act as little more than legal shells to hold...
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by Mallory Stark
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
consulting firm to survey alumni members to better understand how the club can serve them at various stages of their careers and family lives. In addition, the club recently established the Younger Alumni Committee to help increase...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
when a Philadelphia museum runs a full-page ad in the New York Times, a Boston bus is swathed in a van Gogh image, and a Chicago cab receipt invites you to visit that city's Museum of Contemporary Art. READ MORE Old Meets New: A Dinosaur Named Sue A Trusty View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
Michigan, essentially halted the corporation’s U.S. production and resulted in significant gains for the nascent United Automobile Workers of America union and the Committee for Industrial Organization, both of which had supported the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Polaroid | Harvard Business School: Digital Archival Resources
leadership of the company, its efforts to present itself and its products to consumers, and work life and employee-management relations at Polaroid. The records include corporate governance documents, such as board of directors meeting...
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Harvard Business School
board member. The collection includes records that document the relationship between DEC and ARD, and between Olsen and Doriot, from the 1950s to 1990s. American Research and Development Papers, 1946-1991 This collection documents Georges...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
emerged was an awareness that HBS could do more in three areas: leadership development, globalization, and experiential learning. Afterward, Dean Jay Light formed faculty committees to identify ways HBS might uniquely address these areas....
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- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
union relations. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/412072-PDF-ENG Johannes Linden: Managing the Global Executive Committee Linda A. Hill and Mark RennellaHarvard Business School Case 913-509 Johannes Linden is the Director of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
Chesapeake's board and its compensation committee, including McClendon's role in consummating several joint ventures, which the board and committee believed positioned the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Vancouver 2010 Olympics Harvard Business School Case 507-049 It is February 2007, exactly three years before Vancouver hosts the 2010 Winter Olympics. Judy Rogers, City Manager for the City of Vancouver and a member of the Board of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
evidence of a lower likelihood of SEC enforcement for labor-intensive firms that are headquartered in districts of senior congressmen that serve on committees that oversee the SEC. All of these results hold after controlling for firms'...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
case:http://hbr.org/search/211107-PDF-ENG Jim Johnson's Re-election to the Goldman Sachs Board Srinivasan, Suraj, and Kelly BakerHarvard Business School Case 113-050 The case presents the opposition by a leading institutional investor in...
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Sean Silverthorne