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  • March 2007 (Revised October 2008)
  • Case

The Vancouver 2010 Olympics

By: Anita Elberse, Catherine Anthony and Joshua Callahan
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 Directors for Vancouver's Organizing Committee (VANOC), is keen to ensure the Games will have a... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Social Marketing; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Sports; Public Administration Industry; Sports Industry; Vancouver
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Collide Jennifer Berdahl , University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business Marianne Cooper , Stanford VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab Robin J. Ely , Harvard Business School Peter Glick ,... View Details
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2014 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

University of Illinois Value Threat: How Concerns With Being Seen as a Valued Group Member Affect Women's Preference For Female Candidates Leah D. Sheppard , Sauder School of Business at University of British View Details
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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

of Technology, Sloan School of Management Don Tomaskovic-Devey University of Massachusetts, Amherst Shelley Correll Stanford University Susan Sturm Columbia Law School Sarah Cliffe Harvard Business Review Maria Konnikova The New Yorker... View Details
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2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Gender and Work: Challenging Conventional Wisdom Gender and Work: Challenging Conventional Wisdom 28 FEB–01 MAR 2013 Home Videos Agenda Feb 28 Thursday, February 28, 2013 Panel StereoTypes Toni Schmader , University of British View Details
  • 24 May 2017
  • News

John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1934 Born, Burnaby, Canada 1957 Earns BCom, Forestry, University of British Columbia 1959 Earns MBA 1962 Joins HBS faculty 1963 Earns DBA 1980 Appointed... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • December 2010
  • Teaching Note

Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon (TN)

By: Michael L. Tushman and David Kiron
Teaching Note for 410705. View Details
Keywords: Vancouver; Canada; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

The Middle Way

the words: “Great Bear Rainforest: Partnership. Balance. Certainty.” Trailing behind the drummers was a line of speakers representing indigenous coalitions, the lumber industry, environmental groups, and the provincial government, including View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

ubiquitous presence until the early years of industrial capitalism. Pawnshops were common in eighteenth-century British cities like London and Manchester—the cradle of the industrial revolution—but New York’s first pawnshop was not... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Four Promoted to Full Professor

the University of Manitoba, a master's in economics from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Rochester. Josh Lerner has a joint appointment in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management units... View Details
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

NBC and the 2012 London Olympics: Unexpected Success

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Vadim Kogan
"The 2010 Vancouver Winter Games lost $223 million, astonishing for a 17-day event. Next year's London Summer Games, which cost a record Olympic rights fee of $1.18 billion, are expected to lose at least as much..." wrote Richard Sandomir in The New York Times. "NBC... View Details
Keywords: Success; Profit; Sports; Failure; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Vancouver; Beijing; London; Brazil; Russia
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Simmons Graduate School of Management, in Boston. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, she taught at Columbia University and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Professor Ely received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale... View Details
  • 03 Jan 2018
  • What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

the case in the province of British Columbia in Canada." Lydia asked, "Wouldn't a more positive answer be to attract, hire, & pay equitably & fairly, the many senior qualified women... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

John McArthur

University of British Columbia (courtesy Office of John McArthur) McArthur grew up in the suburbs of Vancouver, where he would go on to attend the University of British View Details
Keywords: Dean
  • March 2014 (Revised May 2014)
  • Teaching Note

The TELUS Share Conversion Proposal

By: Lucy White and Benjamin C. Esty
On February 21, 2013, TELUS announced a proposal to convert the firm's non-voting shares into voting shares on a one-to-one basis, thereby eliminating the firm's dual class structure. Shareholders were scheduled to vote on the proposal at the firm's annual general... View Details
Keywords: Proxy Contest; Proxy Battle; Proxy Advisor; ISS; Glass Lewis ＆ Co.; Hedge Fund; Short Selling; Share Lending; Telecommunications; Voting Rights; Empty Voting; Equity Decoupling; Share Unification; Dual Class Shares; Canada; Exchange Ratio; Shareholder Activism; Shareholder Votes; Investment Activism; Public Equity; Capital Structure; Investment Return; Corporate Governance; Corporate Finance; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation; Telecommunications Industry; Canada; British Columbia; United States; New York (city, NY)
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  • 30 Mar 2017
  • News

Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest

a forest in the interior of British Columbia or in the tropical areas of Indonesia will look different than the temperate coastal rainforest from between Alaska and Washington state. It may look different,... View Details
  • 11 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

Tommy Pan Fang and University of British Columbia business professor David Clough. Wu’s research centers on strategies used by technology entrepreneurs to achieve scale for competitive advantage. Platforms... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

dares to trust—a young British nurse with a troubled past. When she proves to be an exceptional student of his laws of influence, he urges her to help him complete his mission: Hitler has an atom bomb, and his scientists must be persuaded... View Details
  • 17 Apr 2013
  • Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

workplace negotiation and the way academics study negotiation are overwhelmingly masculine. But despite evidence that the game is rigged against them, women still believe they'd be better negotiators if they only tried harder. Scholars from Penn State, Yale, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

distinguishing themselves from the established elite. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2505184   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 812-113 Clarks at a Crossroads (A) "Clarks at a Crossroads (A)" describes how this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne