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- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
consensus in a multiparty deal makes you hostage to the most extreme or reluctant party." This surprisingly common result is why an “A” is often appended to DAD: “DADA” means Decide-Announce-Defend-Abandon. An apparently irresistible...
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- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate...
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by Rachel Layne
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
Harvard Business School Case 324-140, June 2024. (Revised June 2024.) Demographically Biased Technological Change By: Victor Manuel Bennett, John-Paul Ferguson, Masoomeh Kalantari and Rembrand Koning 2024 | Working Paper | Faculty Research Who gets the jobs that...
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- 07 Aug 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective
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by Geoffrey G. Jones
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental...
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by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
significant future consumer of its product. JetBlue's strategic shift isn't quite that radical, but since last year's crisis the airline has begun to take on new aircraft, open new routes, and deliver on IT improvements. "The general View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed With Your New Boss
of the boss in a startup is very different than in turnaround, realignment, or sustaining success situations. So you need to gain consensus on the type of situation. Then you have to think carefully about what role you would like your new...
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by Michael Watkins
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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
meaningful use program that was introduced in 2009 and 2010. However, the capabilities of today’s IT infrastructure fall well short of that needed to truly support value-based care. Consensus among IT suppliers, providers, payers, and...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
break up the airline and lay off thousands of employees if a consensual agreement could not be reached. Management made the threat real by developing an actual restructuring plan, containing detailed financial projections and valuations....
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by Stuart C. Gilson
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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Republicans and Democrats are quietly forging a consensus on a consequential aspect of medical care: improving its value for all Americans by increasing its quality and lowering its cost. This consensus —...
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- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
the board following resolution of the final bankruptcy proceeding.) “It required not just building internal consensus around the legislative path but also creating a coalition externally that thought this was the best—or maybe the least...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
psychology and politics over the centuries. Are two heads better than one, or do too many cooks spoil the broth? Does the collective will of the majority lead to democratic consensus or fundamentalist groupthink? The massive, ongoing...
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- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Three Components of Family Governance
business. It is wise, therefore, in the family council and family assembly to emphasize consensus decisions around family goals and policies, openness to various viewpoints, as well as significant transparency in company operations,...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots
come in to make evaluations without the baggage of being entrenched in a lab or accustomed to the ways big corporations vet R&D projects,” he adds. Consensus has its place in science, Krieger allows, but it can also be the enemy of...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
perennial topic for writers on capitalism, from Progressive historians who argued that elites used the advantages of wealth to skew political structures in their favor to consensus historians who found more widespread support for a...
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Manufacturing
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
sure to involve all the key stakeholders. To address these concerns, GM's Pudar employs an innovative approach to consensus building. Prior to making major decisions about a new initiative, he says, "I meet individually with each...
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by Peter Jacobs
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
displaces human activity, it will also push people out of jobs. To what degree will this happen? Iansiti: There’s a pretty good consensus that there’s going to be a massive transformation in the nature of work. Every job can be done...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
a consensus seeker who wants to remain popular with colleagues that cling to a model that the explorer is committed to breaking. Kovac and her team needed to role model a new way of working for the firm. In her case, that meant hiring...
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by Lane Lambert
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Macroeconomic Expectations By: Pedro Bordalo , Nicola Gennaioli , Yueran Ma & Andrei Shleifer SEP 2020 What does predictability of forecast errors teach us about how market participants form expectations? The authors study the rationality of individual and View Details
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
a board member, I’ve unfortunately had to confront these issues. The McDonald’s board faced these issues in October 2019. The company’s CEO at the time, Steve Easterbrook, was found to have “engaged in a consensual relationship with an...
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by James Heskett