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  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no one seems to have credit. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

estimates of corruption and study its relationship with organizational ownership. Book: http://www.cmi.no/research/project/?1473=the-international-handbook-on-the-economics-of Knowledge-based Innovation:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

something in return for your concession, try to explicitly—but diplomatically—demand reciprocity. For example, consider the following negotiation between an IT services firm and a client. The client suggests... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • 12 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

Years of bull market bliss gave brokerage clients few reasons to open their account statements—until March. Within one month, stocks in the United States notched their biggest one-day losses—and gains—as mounting fears about COVID-19’s... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 31 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

projects included new product development (e.g., a high-strength fabric; a home health aid, an electronic recording device), solving complex client problems (e.g., developing a database management system for a global hotel chain); View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 30, 2016

identify specific managerial actions that can improve a firm’s architecture and thereby lower the cost of responding to changing future demands. We address this gap in the literature by exploring the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

close friends where phones and PDA's are off limits. "When we're secure in the relationships that matter most," DeLong writes, "it's far easier to take chances at work, to embrace new... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

the folly of not adhering strictly to the company's core beliefs.2 Similarly, we have observed failed consulting relationships in our field research in which the consultants simply blamed the failure on the client, concluding that the... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • 01 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

capital would provide sufficient loss absorption when called upon, would there be sufficient demand for this new instrument, would it be cost effective capital, and what were the risks to Credit Suisse' reputation with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2004 (Revised September 2004)
  • Background Note

Confidentiality in Settlement Negotiations: Ethics & Law

By: Michael A. Wheeler, Dana Nelson and Gillian Morris
Legal policy has a long history of protecting confidentiality of negotiations that are designed to produce settlement. However, within the past several decades there has been a significant push toward openness. Compelling arguments support confidentiality: It helps... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; Attorney and Client Relationships; Policy; Corporate Disclosure; Negotiation
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Wheeler, Michael A., Dana Nelson, and Gillian Morris. "Confidentiality in Settlement Negotiations: Ethics & Law." Harvard Business School Background Note 904-057, January 2004. (Revised September 2004.)
  • 18 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

unlocking the data used in the analysis. Among other services, the consulting company advises clients on how to make better hires by tracking personality traits and skills revealed during the hiring process.... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

fundamental changes to the way accounting firms and their clients operate. If we are really going to restore trust in the U.S. system of auditing, we will need to go well beyond the provisions of the... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services
  • 26 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

though more than 90 percent had detailed strategic plans with much higher targets. Our own work with clients supports the existence of a persistent gap between the strategic goals organizations set for themselves View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

last December, believes that "the real opportunity for the marketing industry lies in developing transactional-based models that enable consumer and client to work together more closely." HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 04 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

periodically raises concerns about audit-industry concentration and suggests ways to boost growth of smaller firms. The consolidation raises the issue of how the surviving big auditors and the nation's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

other more rational. In a typical organization—from the federal government to a pharmaceutical giant—a hierarchical operational structure meets daily demands through clear reporting relationships and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 01 Nov 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

usually have their NCCs negotiated by an attorney before joining an organization, and may get paid substantially for doing so. But non-compete clauses are not just used for high-skill, high-paying jobs. Not... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Sep 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

develop "Gaga-esque" products for Polaroid, and a spot in MAC Cosmetics' "Viva Glam" advertising campaign. Connecting on Social Media Lady Gaga's success was built on more than just her considerable abilities as a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

Meeting." The fact that no one suggested an alternative to the PMM was fairly typical of our findings. Individuals are frequently convinced that keeping quiet is the best way to preserve relationships View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
  • 07 Jul 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

benefits of such things as process improvements and the export of increasingly highly-skilled jobs, among others, with clients. The rationale was that the resulting increasingly lower fees would lock out competitors for View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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