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08 Mar 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Successful Negotiation

discussions—be it fairness or competition—strongly influences the equality of payoffs even in complex, full-information multiparty bargaining. Research in this working paper by HBS professor Kathleen L. McGinn View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 May 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

Organizations increasingly rely on teams to carry out critical strategies and operational tasks. How do teams learn, and what factors are most important to team learning? This View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

information about the risk of future economic crashes and deserve more scrutiny from policymakers, economists, and regulators. The paper emerges after years of persistent... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

very powerful and deep strategic alliances between businesses and nonprofits. Q: This Working Paper is No. 22 in the Social Enterprise Series. What's the overall aim of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

crusade in her working paper The U.S. Experiment with Fair Trade Laws: State Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of “Fairness,” 1890–1938, forthcoming in the Business History Review. Gleason,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

Wang and John Zhou, Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors has become one of the top downloaded papers on the online Social Science Research Network, sparking intense interest in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

early stages of entrepreneurial firms and new industries. Her new chapter builds on a huge research project she began several years ago with Ranjay Gulati, a professor of organizational behavior at the Kellogg Graduate School of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

01 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

When Do Alliances Make Sense?

thousands of public documents from the Department of the Interior that detailed bid price and profits from 1954 to 1975. He reported his findings in a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

(iStock) iStock SUMMING UP Who Will Call the Shots in Stakeholder Capitalism? At one time in my checkered academic career I studied, researched, and published papers about interorganizational management.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

right things. If they wanted to, they could then benchmark themselves against other firms of similar sizes and industries in a very pragmatic way. Q: How are you going to take these learnings further? What's next for you? A: We need to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

A recent study by HBS assistant professor Jordan Siegel tests whether foreign firms can leapfrog their countries' weak legal institutions by listing equities in New York and voluntarily abiding by U.S. securities law. The study, which... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

20 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

debt?" The paper explores how the possibility of misvalued debt markets can both fuel merger activity and alter the balance between PE and strategic buyers. One approach... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

(Editor's note: This first in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Small businesses are core to America's... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

11 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

says Groceries $88, Delivery $8? In a recent working paper titled "The Framing Effect of Price Format," HBS Associate Professor Luc Wathieu and coauthor Marco Bertini of the London Business School attempt to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets

Are international firms that interact with U.S. capital, labor, and product markets more likely to be more transparent than companies without those interactions? In this e-mail interview, HBS Suraj Srinivasan delves into a recent working... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

entrepreneurship, and policy making. "It was an exciting effort that joined health care administrators, policymakers, and academics in discussing how to strengthen management education in the health sector,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

How's this for a mission statement: We make crummy products for non-consumers. But if you think that's the idea for an "F" paper in business school, you haven't been paying attention to success stories ranging from Henry Ford's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Social Network Marketing: What Works?

influence consumers' behavior," says Gupta, who coauthored the working paper "Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?" [PDF] with Raghuram Iyengar, of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising; Publishing; Retail

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