Shareholder Special Meetings - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

watching me..."). Newspapers with built-in refreshable video. Menus (no more regrets from the waiter that the daily special is sold out). Maps. Camouflage clothing that changes in different lighting (Sahlman again: "So if you... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

01 Apr 1999
News

An Eye to the East

special pleas, too. Ehsan-ul Haque of Pakistan's Lahore University of Management Sciences cited an overemphasis on policy-driven studies at Asian institutions. "The immediacy and urgency of decisions [on policy] are so great that we... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online

Consulting and Research Limited MSc, Business Administration What You Earn Certificate of Completion Boost your resume with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online Earn by: completing this course Certificate of Specialization Prove... View Details

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

informal “water cooler” conversations could go a long way in promoting belonging. Concrete tips I have heard from interviews include scheduling five to 10 minutes before a formal meeting for casual conversation, asking each other silly... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Nov 2024
News

Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection

HBS Latino Alumni Association Banquet Marks 20 Years The HBS Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA) held its 20th Annual Banquet on October 5, bringing together 80 alumni, guests, and current HBS students for dinner and a panel discussion at the New England Aquarium in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland where she spoke about the role of confidence in women's economic empowerment. In 2012 and 2013, she partnered with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to study a decade of gender in the... View Details

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

accountability reports can be used to determine whether and how those reports create or destroy value for shareholders and other constituencies. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1934322 Working... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer

said, "Would Professor Sasser meet the special service agent?"... I was feeling a little uncomfortable because I was going to talk about customer service and customer focus and these folks were... View Details

Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser

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

11 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

and Japan? Fortunately, early indications with their innovation-led strategy were showing positive signs and demonstrable results—such as their biogenetic insulin and monoclonal antibody launch in India. Their lead oral insulin project, with a planned $100 million... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

independently. On the other hand, I'm sure it's going to happen. There are four big hospital companies in India, and I've talked with their CEOs, with these teams of students. They're very focused on this market. And one of the things they're all doing is getting... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

that it was an amateur's gadget and nothing more," Christopher Bonanos notes in Instant: The Story of Polaroid . "Land immediately took a big step to counter that idea, meeting an expert who in the coming years redefined what Polaroid... View Details

17 Mar 2015
News

The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)

out of HBS (aside from meeting my peers, of course) is that it reset the bar for what’s possible. Being on campus and constantly surrounded by so many incredibly accomplished people, and then realizing that they’re just people like anyone... View Details

Keywords: Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

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

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

01 Apr 2000
News

Getting the Message

astronomical -- as much as $33 billion worldwide by 2004, according to Forrester Research, a consulting firm specializing in e-commerce. Industry observers are shy to predict just what the future of advertising will look like, but they... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

but I thought what was particularly interesting, and that I feature tin the case, is that Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, coming out and saying, "This is wrong." He actually said, "Privacy is a human right." I had the opportunity of View Details

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

than already-mixed concrete delivered by trucks. A more significant finding was that do-it-yourself projects have a special significance for this demographic. Building projects, the team learned, provided more than the functional benefits... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

cooptation, resources should be made available to third parties for building the capacities of participants; The Issue Framing and Agenda Setting stage should be preceded by a comprehensive stakeholder analysis, and prioritization based on a rights-and-risks approach,... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

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