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- 23 Dec 2013
- News
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals
independent sounding board and provides informal advice on the direction of the School. Chairman C.D. ("Dick") Spangler, Jr. (MBA '56), president emeritus of The University of North Carolina, finds his work...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds of Lehman’s independent directors...
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- 18 Jul 2011
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News Corp and Questions Boards Need to Ask
- 03 May 2012
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Chesapeake Board Had `Blind Spots,' Kaplan Says
- 16 Feb 2016
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The Political Issues Board Directors Care Most About
- 01 Aug 2019
- News
With local connections and quirkiness, indie bookstores thrive
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
Photographed by Webb Chappell In March 2010, the 1787 drafting of the United States Constitution became breaking news. The members of the Texas State Board of Education had convened in Austin to review the state’s history and other social...
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April White
- 24 May 2017
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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979
Independent Director, Goldman Sachs Chairman and Managing Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners As a student of philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford, Bayo Ogunlesi learned that some lectures were optional. Several weeks into...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
liberal arts education he received at Hamilton and now serves as chairman of its board of trustees. Kennedy says he has developed "an appreciation for a tolerable level of risk" in trying to decide which companies to underwrite at...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink
support. The only sustainable economic policy path was legislative.” Preparing their pitch to Congress, the team released a white paper in late October of 2015 outlining a plan with four components: a holistic bankruptcy regime that would restructure all of the...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
superintendent, the teachers. I think about four or five days later, I had my first decision as mayor. The head of the school board called—and in Virginia and in a lot of other states, the school board is...
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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
Hewlett-Packard, Financial Analyst 1974 Named Assistant Administrator, Federal Energy Administration 1981 Cofounds Applied Energy Services 1991 AES goes public 1991 Establishes The Summit Foundation 1994 Elected Chair, World Wildlife Fund–US 2001 Appointed to View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s...
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- 01 Oct 2021
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Fostering Diversity
believe is crucial to society. “You need to invest in the pipeline in order for things to change,” says Victoria, an independent consultant focused on health care and technology. “We believe that we need more diversity—race, gender,...
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- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
half that of traditional pawnshops; and Rappler, the Philippines’ last independent news outlet and where Ayala also serves as chairman of the board. “At Hatchd, it’s kind of like we’re professional cofounders,” he says. Ko, who is now...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
contrary to human nature to expect total objectivity from a CEO regarding his or her performance. One cannot expect a CEO in the role of chairman to prepare the board to evaluate lapses and failures on his or her part, or on the part of...
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- 01 Jan 2013
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André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
1974 Named Executive Director, Unibanco 1983 Launches Banco Pactual S.A. 1998 Launches JGP Asset Management 2001 Joins HBS Board of Dean's Advisors 2002 Jakurski House opens, British School 2002 Named Chair, HBS Latin America Advisory...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
them twenty years ago. If you look at the typical board of a major public company, you will find that only one or maybe two directors are members of management, and everybody else is “independent.” To argue against View Details