Publications

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

approach has extracted its lessons for today’s negotiators. We have extensively interviewed Henry Kissinger about his most difficult negotiations. We studied his writings and those of many others who have analyzed these episodes. This has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2010 (Revised September 2013)
Case

IDFC India: Infrastructure Investment Intermediaries

By: John D. Macomber and Viraal Balsari

Indian financial intermediary matching international capital to local infrastructure decides how to balance range of services, risk-adjusted return, margin pressure, and nation building. IDFC was chartered with partial ownership from the Indian government to help... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Infrastructure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; India

14 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast region of the United States in August 2005, it destroyed homes and lives. A paradoxical effect, however, is that the storm's aftermath created an opening in New Orleans for school leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

Web

Entrepreneurs Promise Signers - Alumni

right for them. This commitment is an affirmation of the importance of HBS in their entrepreneurial journey and of their desire to ensure that the School remains the preeminent institution for educating... View Details

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

firms' partners or leaders, team members, and clients, I was continually impressed with how open people were in revealing difficult issues they faced both personally and organizationally. The problem for me... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

12 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 12

series of studies demonstrates that people confer higher status and competence to nonconforming rather than conforming individuals. These positive inferences derived from signals of nonconformity are mediated by perceived autonomy and moderated by individual... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

identify potential partners in the offline world, and the online worlds are helping them do that, thereby potentially equalizing access to romantic relationships.” Harvard Business School Associate Professor Mikolaj Piskorski has studied... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

June 2007
Exercise

EZAmuse Negotiation Background (A)

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon

This is the background to an exercise in negotiation. A promising venture-capital-backed company, EZAmuse Communications, is raising a B round. Its existing backer, Reality Venture Partners, would like it to raise enough for six or nine months, when it will have... View Details

Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Negotiation Deal; Valuation; Leadership Style; Venture Capital; Partners and Partnerships; Product; Germany

October 2005 (Revised January 2006)
Case

Augusta National Golf Club Controversy, The (A)

By: Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Melissa Tritter

The prestigious Augusta National Golf Club's secret membership is widely believed to exclude women. When feminist advocate Martha Burk receives a mysterious list of "members," she must decide how best to use this information in her efforts to crack the glass ceiling.... View Details

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Attitudes; Decision Making; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Gender; Non-Governmental Organizations; Communication Strategy; Sports Industry

10 Jan 2017
News

Street Smarts

The next time you get to work on time or find a parking spot with ease, you may have Bryan Mistele (MBA 1995) to thank. Since 2005, his company, INRIX, has been working to cure one of modern society’s biggest headaches—traffic congestion.... View Details

22 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Mary-Kate Johnson

Business School but my partner is a first year student at HBS. I can tell you from firsthand experience that students have a lot on their plate. They speak with a lot of organizations and meet many recruiters. It's often difficult View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

19 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411042-PDF-ENG MacroMarkets LLC Robin Greenwood and Luis M. ViceiraHarvard Business School Case 211-006 MacroMarkets co-founder and CEO Samuel Masucci III is meeting with a strategic partner... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 24

Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion By: Alfaro, Laura... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2008 (Revised July 2012)
Case

Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

By 2008, a number of the firm's early cleantech investments were showing promise, and the companies were starting to need significantly more money to create the massive scale required in the energy sector. As Khosla thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Marketing; Entrepreneurial Finance; New Product Development; Partnerships; Entrepreneurial Management; Venture Capital; Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Investment Funds; Environmental Sustainability; Product Development; Biotechnology Industry; Financial Services Industry

13 Mar 2018
First Look

March 13, 2018

fields. A sponsor is someone who advocates for a protégé, and in doing so, takes a stake in her success. We use a laboratory experiment to explore two channels through which sponsorship has been posited to increase advancement in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

companies can set the right incentives and time horizons for investments and create a robust innovation infrastructure in the process. Buy the book: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March–April 2024
Article

Retailers and Health Systems Can Improve Care Together

By: Robert S. Huckman, Vivian S. Lee and Bradley R Staats

Health systems are struggling to address the many shortcomings of health care delivery: rapidly growing costs, inconsistent quality, and inadequate and unequal access to primary and other types of care. However, if retailers and health systems were to form strong... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Retail; Retailers; Consumer; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Consumer Behavior; Business Model; Partners and Partnerships; Health Industry; Retail Industry; United States