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Field Course: Startup Operations - Course Catalog
Organization: Structuring early teams and the processes by which to operate your business. Topics will include: Who to hire and when - from technical hires and managing freelancers/first hires to product managers, operations, support and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
managers who, with little of their own money at risk, were spending corporate resources on ill-conceived diversification and empire-building campaigns." "Unfortunately," Jensen concludes, "too much of the current M&A; activity falls into... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment
landscape and ecosystem, and develop an understanding of various corporate structures / lifestyle including business “vocabulary”. They’ve taught me that it’s not okay to tell my classmates to, Drop and give... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
M. Perkins, and Mark Weick Publication: Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 24, no. 2 (spring 2012) Abstract Dow Chemical Company, which was founded in 1894, is now the second‐largest chemical company in the world. From the outset, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung... View Details
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stakeholders other than shareholders in corporate governance and examine new governance structures such as the public benefit corporation or B-Corp and the hybrid View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
Issues surrounding corporate governance are a source of ongoing debate in the boardrooms of companies around the world — not just the United States. A new case, “Governing Sumida Corporation,” takes readers inside a Japanese manufacturer... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and regulatory regimes, other features of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
the growing role of intermediaries. Gompers and Lerner argue that the next decade is likely to see a fundamental transformation in the structure of the venture industry, as a relative handful of large, professionally managed venture... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
Harvard Business School professor Stuart Gilson fielded some questions regarding his new book in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean SilverthorneSilverthorne: When should a company consider a major restructuring? Are there tell-tale signs? Gilson:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
the commitment and loyalty of employees who perceive themselves as the most disposable of corporate assets ." What will it take to turn around negative trends in "identity"? Ajay Kumar Gupta suggests that "creation of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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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
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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog
protagonists and guest speakers who have decades of hands-on experience to share with the class. The course will be structured around several turnaround levers—some connected with planning and some with execution. The course will open and... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
volunteers “have helped the city capitalize on the innovation sprouting from Silicon Valley, through specific initiatives such as designing the structure of the city’s startup incubator, developing innovative ways to incorporate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
University of Toronto. The paper argued that the structure of executive compensation and perks motivated CEOs and other top officers to feather their own nests at the expense of the business itself — the “principal-agent problem.” How... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
this case:http://hbr.org/search/312109-PDF-ENG Credit Unions: The Future of the Cooperative Financial Institution Robert C. Pozen and Grace HouHarvard Business School Case 312-131 Credit unions are a specialized type of depository institution with a cooperative,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
Blameless Victim: Our Ten-Year Legal Battle against Zurich American Insurance and American International Group by Harold S. Rhodes (MBA 1980) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) This is the detailed story of the Rhodes family’s... View Details
- October 2013 (Revised September 2014)
- Case
The TELUS Share Conversion Proposal
By: Lucy White, Benjamin C. Esty and Lisa Mazzanti
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)
White, Lucy, Benjamin C. Esty, and Lisa Mazzanti. "The TELUS Share Conversion Proposal." Harvard Business School Case 214-001, October 2013. (Revised September 2014.)