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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
task force to help publicize the upcoming Global Leadership Forum at club meetings and events. In addition, the committee has appointed a task force for club membership development, club renewal, and outreach to Executive Education...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
"I'm a great believer in nonprofits," Herzlinger said, "but sometimes they don't achieve their mission. Nonprofit managers more than agree with me. Many grade their own performances as poor." Herzlinger ticked off a few examples: declining View Details
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
associated with the loss of position renders the director no longer qualified to serve, the message to the outside world is that board membership is geared to the position, not the person. Stated another way, the apparent objective is to...
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Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference
Kong or China to an HBS Executive Education program. With membership at two hundred, the HBSA-HK is thriving, thanks in part to a mentoring system that links active board members with young alumni. The board members “take care of the...
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- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
Working PapersThe "Fees Savings" Link, or Purchasing Fifty Pounds of Pasta Authors:Michael I. Norton and Leonard Lee Abstract Many consumers have had the experience of entering discount membership clubs to make a few...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
observational data and quantitative operational data analyzed with adapted network methods, we examine whether and how team scaffolds facilitate teaming in a dynamic work environment. Although team scaffolds were implemented with little or no View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
This typology is similar to work on how industry membership influences companies. For example, regarding governmental factors, the city of Detroit created an Enterprise Zone to attract local inner-city corporate spending. Cleveland firms...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Social Media - Alumni
http://www.alumni.hbs.edu Set the access to "request to join" to restrict membership to HBS alumni in your target group (and, in select instances, partners). Facebook Determine who from your proposed group will be the designated owner and...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Building a Social Network
Art by Ikon Images/Masterfile Related Links YPO official membership video Founded in 1950, the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), a global network of young chief executives, has 18,000 members worldwide. According to one estimate, YPO...
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Julia Hanna
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
be its strongest regional ally. Yet because Israel's formal membership might have kept numerous Arab states from joining the coalition, the U.S. government pointedly excluded the Israelis, starting negotiations elsewhere. Careful...
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by James K. Sebenius
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
chaired by an IT expert. In this mode, it's even more important to get the membership right. For example, the chairman of the IT committee for Novell—a company in strategic mode—founded a major IT-strategy-consulting company, sold it to...
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by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
continuing education. Clubs Committee Membership in HBS clubs remains static at 25 percent. The committee recognizes that given the demands on people's time, clubs will have to work especially hard to both retain current members and...
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Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 14 May 2020
- Blog Post
A PRIDE Farewell
PRIDE, releasing a new visual identity and mission statement, to better represent the diverse gender identities and sexual orientations of our members. Created categories of membership to better protect member privacy and respect the...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
Interactive was contracted in the Spring to provide a series of useful administrative tools including data updates, membership renewal, event management and web templates. Thanks to the work of this committee, clubs and associations of...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
LGBTSA Spotlight: Alterrell Mills
Prior to HBS, I was working at American Express first in the CEO’s internal strategy group and then in Membership Rewards for the Centurion and Platinum team. While the training and development during those four years was phenomenal I...
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- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
their date of birth, nonprofit and corporate board memberships and years served, and multiple layers of prior employment (company, job title, and years). Even had Val, Doris, and Marianna’s duties not expanded over the years, just the...
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- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
service through which Zalora customers could purchase an annual membership to receive free shipping, similar to the Amazon Prime model. "Our research implies that it is very difficult for the average online seller to make a program...
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- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
comfortable because regardless of my confidence in myself, I still feel like a visitor in your world - where my membership and access to these privileged spaces may be voided at any point. My Black experience is acknowledging how you...
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- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
event. GNN, HBS Club of Austin The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) saw this year’s GNN as an opportunity to introduce its membership to Terrill L. Drake, the inaugural Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at HBS, through...
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Margie Kelley
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
forgotten, current Prime subscribers will benefit from large savings on big ticket items. But the company may have other motives in mind, as well, such as fending off up-and-coming online retail competition. Many other companies (Walmart among them) have begun their...
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