consensus - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

consensus in a multiparty deal makes you hostage to the most extreme or reluctant party." This surprisingly common result is why an “A” is often appended to DAD: “DADA” means Decide-Announce-Defend-Abandon. An apparently irresistible... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction

2021
Chapter

Multinationals' Need for State Protection: The Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s

By: Sabine Pitteloud

This chapter focuses on the role of Industrie-Holding, the Federation of Swiss Industrial Multinational Companies, in the introduction of an investment risk guarantee during the 1960s. The chapter therefore contributes to a) the growing body of literature on how... View Details

Keywords: Investments; Multinational Companies; Political Risk; Business ＆ Government Relations; Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Switzerland

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30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Dec 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Financing Innovation

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda

Research Summary

Health-care Applications

Active postmarketing drug surveillance. There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details

09 Nov 2023
News

From the Brink

the board following resolution of the final bankruptcy proceeding.) “It required not just building internal consensus around the legislative path but also creating a coalition externally that thought this was the best—or maybe the least... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

break up the airline and lay off thousands of employees if a consensual agreement could not be reached. Management made the threat real by developing an actual restructuring plan, containing detailed financial projections and valuations.... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

31 Mar 2008
HBS Case

JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis

significant future consumer of its product. JetBlue's strategic shift isn't quite that radical, but since last year's crisis the airline has begun to take on new aircraft, open new routes, and deliver on IT improvements. "The general View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Air Transportation

03 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed With Your New Boss

of the boss in a startup is very different than in turnaround, realignment, or sustaining success situations. So you need to gain consensus on the type of situation. Then you have to think carefully about what role you would like your new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

Web

Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

meaningful use program that was introduced in 2009 and 2010. However, the capabilities of today’s IT infrastructure fall well short of that needed to truly support value-based care. Consensus among IT suppliers, providers, payers, and... View Details

07 Aug 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

business. It is wise, therefore, in the family council and family assembly to emphasize consensus decisions around family goals and policies, openness to various viewpoints, as well as significant transparency in company operations,... View Details

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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Republicans and Democrats are quietly forging a consensus on a consequential aspect of medical care: improving its value for all Americans by increasing its quality and lowering its cost. This consensus —... View Details

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

perennial topic for writers on capitalism, from Progressive historians who argued that elites used the advantages of wealth to skew political structures in their favor to consensus historians who found more widespread support for a... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

19 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?

psychology and politics over the centuries. Are two heads better than one, or do too many cooks spoil the broth? Does the collective will of the majority lead to democratic consensus or fundamentalist groupthink? The massive, ongoing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Publishing

01 Feb 2022
Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

a consensus seeker who wants to remain popular with colleagues that cling to a model that the explorer is committed to breaking. Kovac and her team needed to role model a new way of working for the firm. In her case, that meant hiring... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Sep 2023
News

Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

come in to make evaluations without the baggage of being entrenched in a lab or accustomed to the ways big corporations vet R&D projects,” he adds. Consensus has its place in science, Krieger allows, but it can also be the enemy of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

09 Jan 2020
Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

displaces human activity, it will also push people out of jobs. To what degree will this happen? Iansiti: There’s a pretty good consensus that there’s going to be a massive transformation in the nature of work. Every job can be done... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

sure to involve all the key stakeholders. To address these concerns, GM's Pudar employs an innovative approach to consensus building. Prior to making major decisions about a new initiative, he says, "I meet individually with each... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

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