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- 07 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 7, 2015
ways in which firms' business models may impact their negotiation outcomes. Several of the proposed pathways work intuitively through the intrinsic characteristics (motivation, personality, etc.) of agents negotiating on behalf of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
Harvard Business School Case 214-091 Texas Teachers and the New Texas Way In 2011 Britt Harris, the chief investment officer for the $107.4 billion Teachers Retirement System of Texas (TRS), was considering whether to pursue strategic...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
How would you advise them? Leemore Dafny: What I’d say is something that holds true in most health care service markets in the United States: You should think about what market position you occupy, how it is differentiated from others’,...
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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
customers stuck by us in ways we never could have imagined," Burke says. "A company credo that put customers first and shareholders last ultimately benefited both groups." General Johnson taught Burke other important lessons as well,...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
brands best use social media to collaborate with consumers? One way is to use social media as a sounding board in advance of major decisions. Social media makes it easy for us to identify customers who are highly involved in the brand. We...
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April White
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
and skills can make it harder for these experts to transfer what they've learned to people who know very little about what the experts do," says Ting Zhang, a doctoral student in the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets unit at Harvard...
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- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank-are no more likely, on average, to get a negative quality rating than other projects. When aid is given to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
illustration by Pablo Amargo illustration by Pablo Amargo There is a doctor shortage in the United States, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which predicts that the deficit could increase to more than 90,000...
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April White
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
her devotees books on pies and wreaths, the king of hip hop has published a best-selling biography of slain rap star Tupac Shakur and will soon release an illustrated history of hip hop. Both multimedia franchises are continually finding new View Details
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Susan Young
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
parents together in a way that is respectful so they can learn from each other," she says. She leads with an outlook honed at HBS, that "every person brings a unique perspective." "That's something I apply every hour," she says. "Everyone...
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- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
various directions within different departments. For example, human resources might initiate a United Way gift program that involves a company match; operations might work on waste reduction; and marketing...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
publicly traded firms in the United States under scrutiny. This case examines perceived excessive pay and severance packages at several firms implicated in the credit crisis of 2008, the executive compensation provisions in the Emergency...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
consumers in more-developed markets. There are few government bodies or independent publications, like Consumer Reports in the United States, that provide expert advice on the features and quality of products. Because of a lack of...
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- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
client service and threatens to further accelerate misguided growth. The way forward There appears to be a misalignment between management consulting firms’ internal practices and the advice they offer their clients. While most are taking...
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- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over the prior decade. We both document and provide a framework to understand the changes in the investment strategy of VCs in recent years—an increased prevalence...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
South Asian Women at Work
interviews. She was starting to get depressed and couldn’t figure out what she was doing wrong. Then an interviewer told her, “I think you’d be a wonderful fit for this company but I do have one quick question to ask you: Do you plan to dress the View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
more than a material exchange in labor relations). Third, we study survey data for the 1990s on the beliefs of Peronist and non-Peronist voters in Argentina and Democrat and Republican voters in the United States. While income and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
saw it as a way to learn the business—by understanding the craft that the crews put into their work. I came to see the line crews as heroes restoring power during some of the worst weather conditions. The guys in the power plants are...
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Margie Kelley
- Profile
Patrick Chun
Center, thinking through ways students interested in entrepreneurship can be better served by the school as a whole." Overall, Patrick views his student government experience as a lesson in leadership and teams. "The executive...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
River. The people were watching a German shepherd dog out in the water, in a hole in the ice, struggling to get some traction to get up onto solid ice. Fred and I continued on our way to I cannot recall where, and when we returned it was...
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