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- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
self-interest in the intentions of others, as contrasted with rational behavior. We also discuss the antecedents and consequences of these naïve and cynical errors, as well as some potential strategies to buffer against their effects and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
would have been thwarted and ABB would not exist. Manage Information Careful sequencing can help manage sensitive information. For a building developer worried about being squeezed on price if her intentions become public, the property... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
never have a perfect image of his or her thoughts and feelings. In light of the strategic incentives to mask intentions in negotiation, the picture can be especially cloudy. Whatever impressions we form at the bargaining table should... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
I’ve also tapped into resources both at the Graduate School of Education and the Law School. At Harvard, you can frontload thinking on your identity, your purpose—that’s a critical component of being able to make the most of your experience. It’s great to be View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
governments rely on honest reporting. Proof of honest intent is typically provided through signature at the end of the document, e.g., tax returns or insurance policy forms. Still, people sometimes cheat to advance their financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
women." Leaders need to set bold goals and provide the resources for people to reach those goals. It doesn't help to have legislation with a very grand sounding name like No Child Left Behind and not give it enough funding so that schools can actually live up to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
meth, and he went to work doing that. And he spent $25 to $30 million of his own money to figure that out and to create a campaign. And so some of those ads were scary, but that was not their intent. Their intent were to be reality based,... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
who have practiced on the Charles for four years." The company announced a strong board of directors and an all-star advisory board of business leaders, educators, and two former governors. It signed a letter of intent with Coca-Cola... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
where he worked on rebuilding subway tunnels at the World Trade Center disaster site. Intent on adding business management skills to his tech-nical tool kit, he applied to HBS. To his dismay, midway through his first year, the Army called... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
for fake list prices but smaller in longer-lived stores and stores closer to regular retail channels. In a complementary laboratory experiment, we find that fake list prices have no impact on purchase intent when consumers have full... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
Tuesday before Thanksgiving, perhaps envisioning a respite ahead, she announced her intention to step aside. Her phone rang the moment the news hit the wires. Hello? It was Jeffrey Katzenberg, whom Whitman first met in 1989, when both... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
result of deregulation, the derivatives market and the market for mortgage-related securities had exploded in both size and complexity. By the end of the decade, there were as an intentional result of deregulation, intense competitive... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to exercise leadership effectively and for the course to contribute to creating a new science of leadership. The course is founded on an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
years, and then something good happening. They came about through intention and openness to opportunity and willingness to act in that hardship and for that opportunity at the right time. An example of this is my father's hearing. So my... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Paulson, and New York Fed President Timothy Geithner were intent on limiting the impact of Bear's problems on the wider financial system. James "Jamie" Dimon, Morgan's Chairman and CEO, was in frequent contact with these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
1953, and he completed his degree in forestry in 1957. At age 23, he and Natty — who had made it clear that she had no intention of spending her life in the Canadian north woods as the wife of a lumberjack — came to Cambridge in pursuit... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
the bonding hypothesis, we analyze markets' reaction to a sudden radical change in the law governing U.S.-listed foreign firms. In March 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court signaled its intention to geographically limit the reach of the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110007-PDF-ENG 1366 Technologies Joseph B. Lassiter, Ramana Nanda, and David KironHarvard Business School Case 810-005 Just months after declaring their intent to become a solar... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
2001. In 1990 the German consumer goods company Benkiser began acquiring fragrance and cosmetics brands with the intent of developing a beauty business. These included the long-established, but relatively small, U.S. fragrance company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019
accordance with the donors’ intentions and the terms of each gift. Harvard is obligated to preserve the purchasing power of the endowment by spending only a small fraction of its value each year. Spending more than that over time, for... View Details