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- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Christopher Stanton Abstract—Wage rigidity creates real and financial frictions, though the real-world drivers of rigidities remain largely unstudied. We use staggered commission reductions at a sales firm to estimate effects on worker...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
have their director candidates' names included on the ballots sent out by the company (dissident shareholders now must send out their own ballots); puts an end to staggered boards at all companies (boards...
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by Roger Thompson
- Web
Women’s health is more than female anatomy and our reproductive system—it’s about unraveling centuries of inequities due to living in a patriarchal healthcare system. - Blog: Health Supplement
6.9% of its female population is—amounts to a staggering 20 years. Furthermore, Black mothers die at a higher rate from pregnancy-related complications than any other racial/ethnic group at 40.8 deaths per 100,000 births. So, where do we...
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The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
staggering size of U.S. Steel, with a total capitalization of $1.4 billion, inspired the Wall Street Journal to write of its “uneasiness over the magnitude of the affair.”2 Through its combined subsidiaries, U.S. Steel’s integrated system...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through...
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
segments and creating a staggering array of business opportunities and threats. The digitization of tasks and processes has become essential to competition. General Electric, for example, was at risk of losing many of its top customers to...
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Info Join us for a panel discussion on the ever-changing landscape of board governance. During this conversation, moderated by Professor Linda Hill, alumni panelists explore critical priorities that are shaping the future of corporate...
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- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
and staggered board membership (designed to preserve continuity in governance, but criticized by shareholders as a means of preserving the status quo), and, in the minds of its advocates, greater management...
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by James Heskett
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
association as well as the food and beverage brands that supply them. We’ve invested in the industry and served as corporate board members and leaders of industry coalitions, and we now, as educators, prepare future founders and leaders...
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- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
why I started doing these interviews and conversations. This very fact that you just shared. The staggering loss of life. But also those who have recovered from COVID, the damage to their bodies has been enormous to the point where we...
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- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,...
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Governance? Professor Emeritus Lynn S. Paine + More Info – Less Info The past few years have seen an outpouring of statements heralding the arrival of a new and more inclusive form of capitalism often called stakeholder capitalism. In line with the new ideology,...
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- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
about serious art. Source: Tate "Most museums and cultural institutions are dabbling in digital and know they need to do something," says Avery, a former brand manager at Gillette and current board member of Boston's Museum of...
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- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
better understand the court's reasoning. The text continues to provide additional questions, connections to the empirical literature, and cross-country comparisons. Book: http://www.aspenlawschool.com/books/allen_busorg4/default.asp Working PapersHow Do View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
alternative explanations for some important empirical observations in IB, such as bunching and second-mover advantage in market entries. 2006 Journal of Financial Economics How Do Staggered Boards Affect...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
of both mechanisms successfully generates a sizable secular increase. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51107 Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Evidence from the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
Tackling Inequality: An HBS Independent Project
appearances from notable nonprofit executives, researchers, and alumni board members. During our second semester, we had the opportunity to actually take the course in its pilot form. Along with 21 other students, we struggled to wrap our...
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- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
implications whereby sustaining a high level of service quality is associated with the incumbent attracting and retaining more profitable customers over time. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
Publications August 2013 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law Delaware's Choice By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S. corporations and argues that the alternative of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
full-time volunteer with the organization. (“I’m now the CEO, president, board chair, treasurer, head of operations, and a couple other titles,” he says. Feingold also works at Fidelity as a part-time coach.) In 2021, the organization...
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