Filter Results
:
(6,358)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(6,358)
- People (9)
- News (2,320)
- Research (2,429)
- Events (31)
- Multimedia (191)
- Faculty Publications (1,654)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(6,358)
- People (9)
- News (2,320)
- Research (2,429)
- Events (31)
- Multimedia (191)
- Faculty Publications (1,654)
- Web
Terms of Use - HBS Online
(6 August 2020) 1. Introduction; Changes Please read these Terms of Use and the other Agreements described immediately below before registering for, accessing or using any portion of the Harvard Business...
View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
time, but somehow the cost of keeping them on board has been justified. The existence of an analyst who provides research on a particular company is attractive on several...
View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
interests of small investors." He also suggests that investors have little ability to judge whether compensation for managers is fair, particularly in an information economy in which it is difficult to assess justification for...
View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 2019
- Working Paper
Bank Boards: What Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis?
By: Shiva Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan and Forester Wong
Several government-mandated committees investigating the financial crisis highlighted four key deficiencies in the composition of bank boards before the crisis: (i) group think among bank board members; (ii) absence of prior banking experience of board members; (iii)...
View Details
Keywords:
Banks and Banking;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Corporate Governance;
Financial Crisis;
Change;
Diversity
Rajgopal, Shiva, Suraj Srinivasan, and Forester Wong. "Bank Boards: What Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-108, April 2019.
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
What fuels a global economy? Certainly the easy flow of capital across national boundaries would seem near the top of the list. But financial globalization is not an on/off switch, notes Professor Rawi...
View Details
Keywords:
by Rawi Abdelal
- 26 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?
of the ongoing debate over whether college athletes should be paid, given the large amounts of money they bring in. Two pending court cases would give college athletes the right to be paid—a move staunchly...
View Details
- November 2007 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
Clear Channel 2006
By: Richard S. Ruback and Leslie Pierson
The Board of Directors of Clear Channel Communications, a radio broadcasting and outdoor advertising company, has to respond to a revised proposal from two private equity firms to take the company private. In November of 2006, the Board had unanimously approved an...
View Details
Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Private Equity;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Negotiation Offer;
Privatization;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Ruback, Richard S., and Leslie Pierson. "Clear Channel 2006." Harvard Business School Case 208-083, November 2007. (Revised March 2009.)
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
enough to cover costs of safety improvements. Sridevi Kalavakolanu, a Wal-Mart director of ethical sourcing, told attendees the company wouldn't share the cost, according to...
View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
director of research. Garvin, the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, teaches courses for MBAs and executives on leadership, general management, and...
View Details
- November 2005 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
The MCI Takeover Battle: Verizon versus Qwest
By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn
MCI's board of directors is considering competing bids from Verizon and Qwest. Qwest, a smaller company with a weaker balance sheet, is offering almost a billion dollars more. But Verizon, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, has a history of...
View Details
Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Capital Markets;
Financial Strategy;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Valuation;
Telecommunications Industry;
United States
Baker, Malcolm P., and James Quinn. "The MCI Takeover Battle: Verizon versus Qwest." Harvard Business School Case 206-045, November 2005. (Revised October 2012.)
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
operations of their complicated, not-for-profit institutions. "The job of running a museum is much bigger and broader than it once was," observes HBS marketing professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, an...
View Details
- 05 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
When it became clear that my summer internship with Maverick Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital firm based in San Francisco, was going to be remote, I had a lot of questions on my mind. What would it be like to work with a team I...
View Details
Nori Gerardo Lietz
Nori Gerardo Lietz is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units. She presently teaches Real Estate Private Equity and Starting a Private Investment Firm.
Nori Gerardo Lietz is the founder of Areté... View Details
Michael S. Kaufman
A Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School, Michael co-developed and teaches a second year MBA course, “Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry.”
A founder and partner of Positive Strategy LLC, a management/strategy consulting... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
institutions, added Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (HBS MBA '99). A director of the Fate Foundation Nigeria and Fate Foundation U.S.A., two nonprofits that try to promote entrepreneurship in Nigeria, Nwuneli said,...
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading a community of health care providers
As CEO and chairman of the board of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., Kent Thiry (MBA 1983) has built the second-largest kidney dialysis company in the world. He oversees 2,074...
View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
honest conversation, to undermine their ability to develop a trust-based culture for years to come. Michael Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, co-founder and director...
View Details
Keywords:
by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
early success were it not for HBS and the OPM program, Taylor says. Classmates helped him network and even donated to the cause while the staff at Baker Library assisted with research. Professors Cynthia Montgomery, director View Details
Keywords:
Jill Radsken
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Taking up the issue of climate change
1988, we were thinking about bringing a child into the world and really became focused on the environment," recalls Horn. He subsequently joined the board of the Natural Resources Defense Council, "arguably...
View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
In the business of empowering women entrepreneurs
As a cofounder and managing director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF), Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) backs female-led, early-stage ventures in digital media and sustainable products and services. Dodi...
View Details