Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

The committee organizing the London 2012 Olympic Games faced an extraordinary business challenge: How to price 8 million tickets in a way that allows equitable access to 26 sporting events, meets revenue and attendance targets, and adheres to the explicit social objective of making the Olympiad "Everybody's Games.". Be proactive.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. I should know: my company, Atos, is the worldwide IT partner of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the lead technology integrator for the London Games.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

According to the travel and leisure marketing firm MMGY, the use of travel agents increased by 50% from 2014 to 2015. But just because customers can research their purchase doesn’t necessarily mean the process is going smoothly. The campaign has resulted in dramatic increases in marketing leads and sales. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We attracted many new doctors when we opened a replacement hospital in 2012, ultimately doubling the size of our medical staff. Our partnering skills were maturing, so we became more precise in our evaluation process and expectations. Five main factors make our clinical partnerships work: Joint operating committees that meet regularly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

It broke into the open in April, 2012, when the New York Times published a lengthy investigative piece alleging Walmart bribery in a Mexican subsidiary and a cover-up in its Bentonville, Arkansas, global headquarters. Also at issue are what and when management told the board and what processes the board had for oversight.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

But for Catalyst, the pharmaceutical company that purchased the North American rights to a slightly modified formulation of 3,4 DAP (Firdapse) in 2012, the drug represented a market opportunity to the tune of $300 million to $900 million annually ($60,000 to $100,000 or more per patient). Senate Special Committee on Aging.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

In today’s health care market, providers — hospitals, physicians, surgery centers, clinics — are paid for volume. Our findings include the following: One percent of Intermountain’s patients used 24% of the total amount we spent on patient care between 2008 and 2012. High-cost patients experience high rates of turnover.

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Health Care Committee Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

And, while LOCOG (the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games) had great success in achieving its target of £700m in sponsorship revenues, it's also true that many brands didn't pay the asking price — even those that were keen to be persuaded — because they couldn't make a robust enough business case. Initial Findings.

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Brand Audience Committee Sports 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

A future compensation action would reduce 2012 variable benefits (bonus or equity awards) in absolute terms (or through a much slower rate of increase). Such determination is subject to ratification by (and for an award to the CEO would be made by) the [Board's] Compensation & Management Development Committee.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. Boards should require that CEO candidates demonstrate not just knowledge of finance and marketing but also a technology aptitude. There have been breaches at companies such as Global Payments (1.5 million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The Supreme Court is going to host a debate next week on the efficient market hypothesis. a case scheduled to go to oral arguments on March 5, the Supremes are reconsidering the “fraud on the market” doctrine at the heart of most securities-class-action lawsuits. billion, or 17% of settlements, in 2012. John Fund, Inc. ,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The bad news is that the job market is really tight, and it’s preventing us from hiring the conceptual designers we need.” An independent steering committee’s first “gate” review of the project, at the end of the conceptual-design stage, had been scheduled for Week 15; she postpones it to Week 33. Progress is only a little behind plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Carl Levin, the chairman of the committee , "Apple successfully sought the holy grail of tax avoidance. First, the worldwide system with a repatriation tax alters the capital allocation process for our firms and locks capital out of the U.S. I asked Mihir A. These incentives reflect two features. which hurts all of us.

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