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- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
Vancouver 2010 Olympics Harvard Business School Case 507-049 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
ambitions. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/novartis-leading-a-global-enterprise/an/413096-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 414-028 Man Jit Singh at Sony Entertainment Television (A) Explores the role of CEO Man Jit Singh and his senior management View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
worked with committee members to examine every expenditure, from staff cell phones to printing costs to health care concessions. Trimming was necessary but not enough; unthinkable as it seemed, all librarian positions in the district... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Because P&O operated some port terminals in the United States, DP World obtained clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States before P&O shareholders approved the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Case 319-046 The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A) In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to decide whether to seek a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
principles and practice of effective negotiation. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48323 Harvard Business School Case 817-043 FJ Management Inc. In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
selection, and creating separate committees for professional practice, ethics, and compliance and operations; and enhancing its ethics and compliance program through human resource processes (e.g., recruiting, orientation, training, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
years building an open team based culture, one in which they had made themselves accessible, so employees believed them. When they were prepared to announce their restructuring to the financial community, executive committee members were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 6
displeasure over the directors' ineffectiveness at monitoring managers. In a sample of securities class-action lawsuits from 1996 to 2010, about 11% of independent directors are named as defendants. The likelihood of being named is greater for audit View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
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perceived to be of equal or higher status of the departed CEO. Without skill-based criteria, and with minimal information due to the cloak-and-dagger secrecy necessary when interviewing high-profile, employed candidates amid press scrutiny, the search View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
strong sustainability culture is significantly more likely to assign responsibility to its board of directors for sustainability and to form a separate board committee for sustainability. Moreover, High Sustainability companies are more... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
same time, you’ll have a nominating committee that really tries to look at what skills, experiences do we need on the board and try to kind of oversee and manage the board’s evolution over time by identifying the right kinds of candidates... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
meetings and repeat frequently that the Internet is overhyped. Form a committee to create a new corporate Internet offering, staff it with people from unrelated areas who are already doing five other things, and don't release them from... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
companies. 26 As head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II, Bush enlisted Polaroid in the cause, and the company entered into a contract with the National Defense Research Committee to create a range of... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
in that promotion committee in order to be even considered? I would encourage managers to think about the extent to which what they’re preaching is in alignment with what they’re actually valuing in the workplace—and to what extent it’s... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
for all of Poland?’ He hesitatingly responded, ‘Let’s start small,’” Diamond recalls. “In the next few years, we signed a formal agreement with the archives.” As activities grew, JRI-Poland formed an executive committee and Diamond took... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
the heritage my father left us," says Bertarelli, who has led the Ares-Serono Group, already strong, to even greater heights. During the last five years he has formed a management executive committee and reorganized the firm "to prepare... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
sophisticated safeguards such as an independent ethics committee and a "whistle blower" system for employees concerned with the company's practices. In less than two decades, Sydney IVF grew from just four employees to over 200,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
volunteers to serve on numerous policy committees and having our voices heard on COVID-19 relief, infrastructure, innovation, education, racial justice, child care, and so much more. Never stop being open to ideas! Rosabeth Moss Kanter,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne