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- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
into their negotiating approach. It's a lesson many companies have learned the hard way. And influence on negotiations need not be driven by an informal, underlying power structure, as U.S. Stone Container Corporation learned. While... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political and nonprofit consultant, she saw it as her duty... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
returns but who also use the unique access and voice we have as investors to engage management and redirect corporate efforts toward long-term sustainability.” The firm has been active in encouraging... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Corporate Information Strategy and Management by Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, and F. Warren McFarlan (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) This extensive collection of HBS cases devoted to IT gives an overview of contemporary information systems... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought By: Kapossy, Béla, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert, and Richard Whatmore, eds. Abstract—When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
"presumes two things about corporate life today: That enough corporate executives can be 'deep.' That it pays to be 'smart' in today's corporation." If the presumptions are not correct, as she... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
4.5 University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities | MBA
appropriate means. The University must affirm, assure and protect the rights of its members to organize and join political associations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate and picket in orderly fashion, advocate and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
poses to large corporations as well as the key activities the open innovation unit engages in to deal with them. In particular, it must manage relationships with various stakeholders to leverage the value of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
Congress enacted legislation that had become known as "the Federal Express bill." It was designed to test the idea of deregulation by allowing air freight carriers to fly planes of any size on any routes, without federal price controls. The bill accommodated... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Mi Zhou
of Chinese businesses,” she says, “is rapid growth that overtakes corporate governance. In many cases, there’s very loose control over the business. I worked with one client that had business units making up their accounting numbers. In... View Details
- Career Coach
Ildi Nielsen
job market. Students and alumni appreciate her direct approach that includes breaking down the job search into action steps. Ildi is a graduate of Dartmouth College and is an active alumni interviewer. She and her husband manage a... View Details
- November 2019
- Supplement
United Technologies Corp.: Are the Parts Worth More Than the Whole?
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
After spending more than 50 years creating a diversified industrial conglomerate that Fortune Magazine described as “arguably the most profitable conglomerate in America” in 2014, UTC’s CEO Greg Hayes was under pressure from activist investors (Dan Loeb and Bill... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Financial Management; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Diversification; Valuation; Investment Activism; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Value Creation; Aerospace Industry; Electronics Industry; Industrial Products Industry; United States
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
accounting "reliability." Broadly, the evidence, by highlighting the influence of standard setters, can broaden our understanding of the political economy of standard setting beyond the role of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
The second in a series of profiles of the twelve new members of the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since 1987, H. Perry Driggs, Jr. (MBA '61), has been president of Great Lakes Capital Corporation in Farmington Hills, Michigan. He serves as a... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
increase in employee retention,” she observes. Makarov says Apli is currently working with its corporate partners to expand internationally and developing selection models for an increasing variety of job types. Etienne Lacroix (MBA 2011)... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
[see sidebar] further reflects the wide range of issues covered by our faculty. What can we learn from this region? The Asia Pacific, where 2,000 languages are spoken, is home to 60 percent of the world's population. The region's diverse economic, cultural, legal, and... View Details
- October 2017
- Teaching Note
Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Teaching Note for HBS No. 216-057. View Details
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
and closed the previous day, in order to show that government was actively responding to requests. In the second condition, they included pins on a map showing the location of these issues; when users clicked on a pin, a window opened... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
help you take active steps toward achieving your dream life. Former Wall Street investor, adviser, and author Tiffany Kent infuses specific investment advice with her personal story to show you how to take control of your finances and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- September 2003
- Case
Executive Compensation at Reckitt Benckiser plc
By: V.G. Narayanan, Krishna G. Palepu and Lisa Brem
Investors felt betrayed by the increasingly lucrative pay packages awarded to CEOs and other top executives at multinational companies. Yet, board members charged with adequately rewarding executives were forced to compete with rising packages of salaries and stock... View Details