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- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
at Harvard, we have initiated and hosted an annual Great Negotiator Award series over the past six years, sponsored by an inter-university consortium of Harvard, MIT, and Tufts through the Program on Negotiation. Honorees have included...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is...
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by Christian Ketels
- 13 Oct 2021
- News
A Transactional Approach to Power
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
first time a wide range of top industry CEOs, government leaders, and customers of transportation services, was designed to help provide that purpose by assessing the state of the industry, identifying innovations both in technology and...
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- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
conventional wisdom isn’t enough to produce significant innovation; we must go further. Our thinking can too easily get confined by silos and structures that limit us to what is familiar, what we see every day, what the people around us...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Courageous Leader Triggers a Moral Revolt of CEOs Against Trump
business community. It all came down to moral leadership. When the president refused to take the lead in speaking out against the demonstration in Charlottesville by neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, and white supremacist groups, America’s CEOs...
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by Bill George
- 11 Jan 2017
- News
How do we solve the crisis in cancer communication?
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to initiate talks with the leadership...
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by Deepak Malhotra
- 09 Aug 2010
- News
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
while allowing Sandusky free reign to destroy lives. Sadly, the Penn State situation is not unique. Consider these other cases: Had President Richard Nixon acknowledged his role in the Watergate scandals, he could have saved his...
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- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
there." At the same time, she has observed, by hogging the discussion, these leaders not only limited their own learning but also made the class less productive as a whole. Gino wondered if the same dynamic could be occurring in...
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by Michael Blanding
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I...
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by Kathryn Haviland
- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
personal humility. Think of how many so-called leaders possess one or the other of these but not both. Primal Leadership, by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, maintains that the primal job...
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by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal
becomes clear you can raise $4 billion for your next fund instead of the planned $1 billion. Professor of Management Practice Nabil N. El-Hage coauthored the case with HBS professor and Finance unit head Richard Ruback. "Very few...
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- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
Summing Up In the judgment of respondents to the October column, repeating the development of disruptive technologies is an admirable but elusive target. Respondents commonly asked whether it is a process disrupted by too many...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
now emerge as managers in hedge funds. But investors who lost their shirts in the Internet and telecom funds managed by these people no longer give them their money. So how can the money managers (once of Internet mutual funds, now of...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- June 2004 (Revised November 2004)
- Case
Restoring Trust at WorldCom
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Ashley Robertson
Examines the changes in corporate governance at WorldCom/MCI as proposed by the company's court-appointed corporate monitor, Richard Breeden. Following the largest bankruptcy ever and the downfall of the company, Breeden wrote "Restoring Trust," a report comprised of...
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Change;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Business and Government Relations;
Trust
Lorsch, Jay W., and Ashley Robertson. "Restoring Trust at WorldCom." Harvard Business School Case 404-138, June 2004. (Revised November 2004.)
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
techniques, the changes in reimbursement for free-standing ambulatory surgery centers, the rise of telemedicine, and consumers’ preferences for surgery outside of the hospitals, will be accelerated by the closing of hospitals for...
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
global challenges on their responses. Sudip Bose put it this way: "Venerated works of Milton Friedman have influenced government policies. . . . But, his shadow will be relentlessly chased primarily by global climatic concerns and...
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by James Heskett