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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog
Tillerson—about their most difficult negotiations. As chair of the Great Negotiators Award program and co-chair of the American Secretaries of State initiative, I am deeply involved in a multi-year project to systematically distill the View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
refers to corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company’s core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
financial crisis. The trouble is that investment value and asset volatility are simply the wrong measures if your goal is to secure a particular future income. In this article, Merton explains a liability-driven investment strategy whose...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
candidacy requirements and training programs. Promote constructive engagement in the workplace. Implement policies that encourage respectful dialogue and acknowledge diverse political views among employees. Provide training and resources...
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by Rachel Layne
- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
to be playing catch-up a few years down the line. I don’t want to only understand ongoing technical breakthroughs - I want to actively engage in them. For example, though my neuroscience background allowed me to comprehend machine learning principles, it wasn’t until I...
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- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
review the research on when people expect too little or too much self-interest in the intentions of others, as contrasted with rational behavior. We also discuss the antecedents and consequences of these naive and cynical errors, as well as some potential View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
and Yaron Yehezkel Abstract In the context of platform competition in a two-sided market, we study how ex-ante uncertainty and ex-post asymmetric information concerning the value of a new technology affects the strategies of the platforms...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007
decided to implement the cradle-to-cradle (C2C) design protocol during the design of its mid-level office chair, Mirra. The C2C protocol was a set of environmentally friendly product development guidelines. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
stay away from the small business marketspace. The company inked distribution and implementation agreements with the same IT consulting firms that had served as such capable channel partners for SAP's large-company systems. The product,...
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by Michael Raynor
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
of rapid profit improvement. The question facing CEO Thomas J. Wilson was how to maintain the momentum. This case tracks the evolution of Allstate's strategy over 20 years, examining the logic behind the strategic changes, and the...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
evaluating—and helping to redesign—the posting of restaurant hygiene scores on Yelp.com. Implementing a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that posting restaurant hygiene scores on Yelp leads to a 12% decrease in purchase...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
associated with R&D investment are uncertain, the past track records of firms may give insight into their potential for future success. We show that a long-short portfolio strategy that takes advantage of the information in past track...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Schoar, Jialan Wang Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-024.pdf The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
market clearinghouses around the world, and have recently been implemented in school choice systems in Boston and New York City. In addition, the study of markets that have failed in ways that can be fixed with centralized mechanisms has...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Lady Gaga, and LeBron James? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge over their rivals? In this book, drawing on my case studies and other research on the worlds of media and sports, I...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-046.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBroadcast Television in the Broadband World Harvard Business School Note 707-486 What strategies have the top four (NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX) broadcast television...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
line—if this had been our own retirement fund or our kids' college fund—I don't know if we would have necessarily had the conviction to stick with it," says Singhal. (She and Higgins now work together at AQR Capital Management, an asset management firm that View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
Basketball Association was a recently launched, little-known organization, and Gelman had accepted a promising post-college job as a strategy consultant with the Mitchell Madison Group in New York. But her decision to defer the consulting...
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Deborah Blagg
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
don't have brand loyalty, you can push back against manufacturers and tell them you won't carry their products anymore if they raise prices." Customer Care An increasing number of retailers are implementing customer loyalty programs,...
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- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
implementation of our organizational strategy and budget. I work with our team and other stakeholders to think through research questions, and partner with funders to identify funding to investigate...
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Health, Social Assistance