Shareholder Special Meetings - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

Kanter, who holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. We asked her to discuss several themes in the book, especially those with a business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 13

questions at the upcoming shareholder meeting about Ping An's financial strategy for diversification within China and globally. Ping An had been founded by Ma in 1988 and had since grown into China's second... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

advantage of distributed innovation and outsourcing can bridge the tension between value creation and value capture by modifying the modular structure of their technical systems. Specifically, we introduce the concept of "IP modularity," a View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 18

role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job market applicants now have a signaling service to send an expression of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 May 2023
Blog Post

Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change

raised from private sources of equity and debt financing. According to Mark Carney, United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero has resources to support more than $100 trillion... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

are likely to find in coming years that the problems borders create are easily solved by forward positioning goods and services. Free-trade zones and special warehouses that preposition products for anticipatory delivery, helped by data... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

15 Sep 2015
News

Easing the Costs of Saving a Child

Taylor is heartened every Wednesday, the day when Pathways’ partners meet to approve loan requests. The magic happens on the 10th floor in an office across from Rowland Taylor’s headquarters in Houston. One week there was a “yes” for a... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jan 2008
News

James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

meeting at the Shanghai Stock Exchange, to an education conference in Dubai, and to the University of Ghana, where he delivered a lecture on partnerships for success in Africa. The hectic pace and diverse agendas were not unusual for... View Details

05 Dec 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

federal and state governments, and negative publicity driven by special interest groups." Shadreck Saili added, "Is a company this large manageable? 'Yes' for as long as its policies align with policies of the environments it... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy

actually needed them, allowing the start-ups to take advantage of them quickly. Second, the networking leads to preferential access, not preferential treatment—a subtle but crucial distinction. Preferential access means being able to call a View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Henry W. Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria & Donald N. Sull

22 Feb 2022
News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

cluster concept pioneered by Michael Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor (Renewal Leave) at HBS, Mills argues that organizing a region’s small and large businesses around specialized industries—such as biotech in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

Web

European and UK Personal Data Collection Disclosure | HBS Online

process transactions requested by you and meet our contractual obligations (for example, registering you for an online education course; processing your payments; delivering our Services; and evaluating your performance); as necessary for... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Banishing Balkan Ghosts

around in the fridge, he cocks an ear toward the snippets of TV news in the background: “Labor unrest...Organized crime...Protesting pensioners.” Welcome to Belgrade and the legacy of Milosevic. Now meet the man who wants to change all... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

What are the first things you should do in your new post? In this e-mail Q&A, Michael Watkins offers strategies that he researched while preparing his new book, The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels (HBS Press, 2003). Martha... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

capital allocation decisions over a 10-year period from 2004 to 2013, during which IBM returned more than $140B to shareholders through a combination of dividends and share repurchases. During this time, CEO Sam Palmisano created,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

corporate abuses or (2) less-developed nations roughly equal in power and with some control of corporate abuses. Unfortunately, much of today's international trade does not meet these conditions. Under the colonial system, powerful... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

05 May 2023
News

Fail Better

all highly successful. But they also share something in common: failure. Steve Schwarzman: You don't grow just by winning games. You have to lose a few to figure out how to make your team better. DM: In this special edition of Skydeck,... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Meal Plan

trying to get on top of it by holding morning and evening standup meetings of the entire executive team, which we’ve continued with to this day. By mid-March we were getting local and federal guidance and trying to figure out what it was... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

10 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 10

Decker, Inc. William E. FruhanHarvard Business School Case 211-067 This case allows instructors to explore shareholder value creation and transfer opportunities in merger and acquisition transactions. It also invites an examination of... View Details