partnerships - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2003
News

Books

partnerships to personal relationships. She documents how we often silence our differences, believing it is the best way to preserve relationships and get work done as expeditiously as possible, and yet, these very acts of silence build,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

our community, but we need to share information.” Adams, an Emmy Award–winning CBS News correspondent and former White House correspondent, and Stewart, VP of Global Partnerships at Google, surveyed 4,000 cross-generational women across... View Details

October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
Case

ghSMART & Co: Building and Scaling a Time Smart Firm

By: Ashley Whillans and Sara Coronel Rodriguez

"For ghSMART, freedom is the first principle from which all good things flow”—Geoff Smart, Chairman and Founder, ghSMART. ghSMART was a leadership advisory firm that was grounded in the principle of freedom. Talented Consultants and Partners could work remotely from... View Details

Keywords: Time; Consulting Firms; Time Management; Talent and Talent Management; Employee Relationship Management; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Reputation

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Educators

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September 1999
Case

Project Dreamcast: Serious Play at Sega Enterprises Ltd. (A)

By: Stefan H. Thomke and Andrew Robertson

Focuses on the ongoing competitive battles in the global home video game market that is estimated to exceed $15 billion by 1999 in the United States and Japan alone. Describes how Sega Enterprises has redesigned its development processes to create a revolutionary... View Details

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Competitive Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Product Development; Business Growth and Maturation; Market Entry and Exit; Sales; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Computer Industry

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Educators

Purchase

14 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

managing a master limited partnership with over $35 billion in infrastructure assets. In the summer of 2006, Richard Kinder, the founder and chairman of Kinder Morgan, led a consortium of buyers to take the company private. The... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

eight months, and quickly established offices in Europe and Asia. Within a year it had announced forty strategic partnerships with companies such as Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, and Citibank. Pandesic executives boldly announced their first... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

20 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 20

attention to increase financial inclusion among individuals with historically no access to banking or financial services in countries around the world with large underserved populations. The effort included partnerships with governments... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 3

investors. We find that solo investments by institutions outperform co-investments and a wide range of benchmarks for traditional private equity partnership investments. The outperformance is driven by deals where informational problems... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

dots of these disparate actors. Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong by Neil Monnery (MBA 1987) London Publishing Partnership In the fifty years from the end of the Second World War to its handover... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

reason why private equity partnerships were able to borrow money left, right, and center to finance leveraged buyouts. And Chimerica — or the Asian “savings glut,” as Ben Bernanke called it — was the underlying reason why the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

percent of Fortune 500 board members, a number that has grown only by a percentage point a year in recent years. Groysberg’s research—published in 2012 with Deborah Bell in partnership with WomenCorporateDirectors and Heidrick &... View Details

Keywords: April White

17 Apr 2017
Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

partnerships with providers, because restrictions would turn them off–and thus limit supply. Rover.com teamed up with dog sitters even if they also offered services on a competing platform. Panelists argued that there are bigger issues... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service

30 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

workers from both the private sector and the government-an unusual partnership in a country that has rarely seen the two sectors mix. "The private sector and the government have traditionally kept each other at arm's length,"... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Consumers Value Global Brands

In 2002, we carried out a two-stage research project in partnership with the market research company Research International/USA to find out how consumers in different countries value global brands. First, we conducted a qualitative study... View Details

Keywords: by Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch & Earl L. Taylor

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

Mixing Risk And Reward The basic model that the biotechnology industry has followed for over twenty years is also changing, and for the better, according to panelists at a session titled "Will Equal Biotechnology-Pharma Partnerships... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

overestimates of the actual substantive conflict. To an outsider, those caught up in disintegrating partnerships or marriages often appear to hold exaggerated views of each other. Such partisan perceptions can become even more virulent... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

Profile

Michael R. Bloomberg

launched the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative to provide intensive leadership training for mayors and senior city officials. In 2021, that partnership grew into the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, which... View Details

Web

Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

stretching over a century and a half, reflects the role of investment banking in the development and growth of the U.S. economy. Founded in the mid-19th century, the family partnership evolved from a general store to the fourth-largest... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Embracing Activism for Social Change

much of her first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative informed by the best practices they gathered from local stakeholders and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2016
News

Case Study: Paper Chase

Barnett (MBA 1983) Partnership is critical to your distribution growth. Reaching out to companies like Hallmark or Things Remembered (already in the card/gifting space) could be mutually beneficial—providing access for your company and... View Details

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