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- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
governed well, for success. Good governance for any group assures us that plans can be made, problems solved, leaders developed and chosen, and disputes settled in a way that preserves the purpose and unity of the group. Discipline and... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
participants. Questions they considered: What key elements of strategy and competitiveness will help a firm from an emerging market suceed internationally? How can a government assist a company without smothering it? Another point of central interest in the Embraer... View Details
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
legal dispute and negative publicity at a precarious time. Employee sexual harassment allegations at McDonald’s were reaching the media along with efforts to get McDonald’s and its franchisees to raise starting pay to $15 per hour. The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
accelerated since the 1990s. (Work by a number of other economists, disputed at times, suggests that inequality of wealth is associated with slowing economic growth.) To Piketty's way of thinking, forces leading to inequality are so... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
million fee. The situation came to light when the negotiation leaked. (The dispute was apparently resolved when Wahlberg agreed to donate his $1.5 million to Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.) This Hollywood soap opera raises an interesting... View Details
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
restaurants of gaming the system by stacking reviews by friends and family, or simply falling prey to a popularity contest by uninformed palates. "Given the evidence, I don't think many people would dispute Yelp's influence,"... View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
facing a patent dispute in Marshall that threatened to break the company. It paid $10,000 to buy a champion steer during a local county fair, renaming the bull “TiVo” before donating it back. Two weeks later, a jury ruled in TiVo’s favor,... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
experience working on supply chain challenges in China, doesn’t dispute China’s interest in regaining “their historical hegemony over SE Asia.” However, he stressed the need to recognize “we are in a hyper-connected, radically contingent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
as irrational. We will also describe the dangers of doing so and explain how to avoid making such mistakes. Mistake 1: They Are Not Irrational; They Are Uninformed An executive (who is one of Deepak's students) was recently involved in a View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
neighborhoods. Communities with flourishing illicit cannabis markets suffer a host of associated problems, including high incarceration rates (often exacerbated by prosecutorial bias), violence as the primary means of dispute resolution... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
risks of unproductive cultural misunderstandings and costly conflict. These outcomes can often be prevented or mitigated by effective negotiation. In short, negotiation has always been a useful skill for managers to deal with disputes and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
about the misuse and overuse of e-mail, something that they feel encourages disputes to escalate more rapidly than if face-to-face conversations had taken place instead. The latter, however, would require people to listen. Edgar Schein,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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- 02 Nov 2016
- HBS Seminar
Gillian Hadfield, University of California, Gould School of Law
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
if you don't actually follow through? Q: Best guess: Will this dispute be resolved, or will Google be forced to keep its word and abandon China? Does China need Google more than Google needs China? A: The Chinese cannot permit Google's... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Yale, Pearl Harbor and his subsequent service as a U.S. Navy pilot interrupted his plans. Following the war, he returned to Yale to complete his bachelor's degree and launched his academic career teaching ninth-grade English in Honolulu. At the time, however, intense... View Details
- Research Summary
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Sovereignty by Louis T. Wells and Rafiq Ahmed (Oxford University Press) In the 1990s, firms from rich countries invested in projects in the developing world, but soon disputes arose. As projects soured, some investors came close to... View Details