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  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003

rigorous case discussion at any HBS section including people with knowledge of Iraq and the Middle East, we would never have gone to war. The best way to avoid post-conflict problems is to avoid conflict. If conflict were forced upon us,... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • Profile

Nabihah Sachedina

Although Dr. Nabihah Sachedina loved practicing pediatrics in the UK, she found herself increasingly frustrated with inefficiencies in the health-care system. “Because of conflicts over funding, it was sometimes difficult to discharge... View Details
  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

their dominance has lulled them into somnolence. Private insurers could compete by reducing the estimated waste in the health care system of $900 billion; experts estimate that at least $250 billion could be saved without diminishing the quality of care. They could... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance
  • Profile

Maura Sullivan

Forces clubs are far and away more developed than those at other schools." Joining private sector to public policy Thanks to "generous financial aid" and a merit scholarship to the Harvard Kennedy School, Maura is pursuing... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas

inform managerial decisions. IDinsight’s clients include NGOs, foundations, governments, and other international development organizations that seek evidence to inform their policy and programming decision-making. In the fellowship... View Details
Keywords: contests; awards
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Maintaining a Resilient Democracy

nationwide high school use.“Sometimes—as in the lead-up to the Civil War—they were right. But more often, times of heightened conflict and concern were when we fought the hardest to revitalize democracy by engaging together in the process... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • News

A Taxing Question

so-called territorial system that would permit corporations to pay taxes only to the country where income is earned. Such territorial tax policies have been adopted by a number of industrialized countries, including Canada, France,... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Accounting, Tax, Bookkeeping, Payroll Services; Professional Services
  • 07 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

cost estimating, contracting, implementation, project control, and evaluation managerial performance. Too Hot to Handle? How to Manage Relationship Conflict Authors:A. C. Edmondson and D. M. Smith Periodical:California Management Review... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 1994 (Revised May 1999)
  • Case

Manville Corp. Fiber Glass Group (C)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Sarah Gant
Manville Corp.'s senior managers are surprised when Japanese government officials advise them not to go forward with their plan to add a cancer warning label to diatomaceous earth (DE) products sold in Japan. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has ruled... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Ethics; Conflict of Interests; Health; Safety; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Policy; Japan
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  • February 1997 (Revised September 2000)
  • Case

3M: Negotiating Air Pollution Credits (B)

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Thomas Dretler
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Negotiation Types; Pollutants; Negotiation Participants; Laws and Statutes; Policy; Government and Politics; United States
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  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Alumni Books

Johnson. Understanding College and University Organization: Theories for Effective Policy and Practice. 2 vols. by James L. Bess (MBA ’60) and Jay R. Dee (Stylus Publishing) The authors aim to show how college and university... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 04 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

percent increase in new patents between firms in those places. "Even in a hybrid world, even in a world of work-from-anywhere, we still need to occasionally meet colleagues in person for social purposes." Choudhury and colleagues teased... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

contingent claims analysis (CCA). We illustrate how to use the CCA approach to model and measure sectoral and national risk exposures, and analyze policies to offset their potentially harmful effects. This new framework provides economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

importance of organizational governance, and the role of governing boards in particular, in prioritizing and aligning potentially conflicting objectives and interests in order to avoid mission drift and to maintain organizational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

and increases the chance that governments will under-invest. Policy suggestions that may alleviate this problem are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-040.pdf A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

differentials. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-089.pdf The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia Author:Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper documents the short-term and long-term trends in internal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

  PublicationsBuilding Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations Authors:Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We explore how new types... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Alumni-Authored Books | Baker Library

Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change , Conflicts of Interest: Challenges and Solutions in Business, Law, Medicine, and Public Policy , Negotiation Theory and Research .... View Details
  • October 2001 (Revised December 2001)
  • Case

EU Takeover Directive

By: Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka
The draft 13th Company Law Directive, originally written in the 1980s and first formally proposed in 1990, was intended to harmonize the takeover laws of the member states of the European Union (EU). From its inception, though, this bill was controversial. Nations... View Details
Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Mergers and Acquisitions; Laws and Statutes; Policy; Problems and Challenges; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Germany; United Kingdom; European Union
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  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

on retail prices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52208 January 2017 Journal of Conflict Resolution Beyond Zeroes and Ones: The Intensity and Dynamics of Civil Conflict By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne