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      • 2009
      • Article

      Silenced by Fear: The Nature, Sources, and Consequences of Fear at Work

      By: Jennifer Kish Gephart, James R. Detert, Linda K. Trevino and Amy C. Edmondson
      In every organization, individual members have the potential to speak up about important issues, but a growing body of research suggests that they often remain silent instead, out of fear of negative personal and professional consequences. In this chapter, we draw on... View Details
      Keywords: Organizations; Working Conditions; Research; Emotions; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Theory; Behavior
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      Kish Gephart, Jennifer, James R. Detert, Linda K. Trevino, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Silenced by Fear: The Nature, Sources, and Consequences of Fear at Work." Research in Organizational Behavior 29 (2009): 163–193.
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Etiquette and Process Puzzles of Negotiating Business in China: A Questionnaire

      By: James K. Sebenius and Cheng (Jason) Qian
      Cultural differences can affect negotiations in many ways, from influencing the basic motivations and perceptions of the players to guiding the surface aspects, such as etiquette, protocol, and process, of business interactions. Navigating the challenges of these... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance; Questionnaires; Negotiation Process; Behavior; China
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      Sebenius, James K., and Cheng (Jason) Qian. "Etiquette and Process Puzzles of Negotiating Business in China: A Questionnaire." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-077, December 2008.
      • September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
      • Case

      Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1)

      By: Fabrizio Ferri, V.G. Narayanan and James Weber
      Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge fund manager, seek to improve board oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979, they... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict of Interests; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      Ferri, Fabrizio, V.G. Narayanan, and James Weber. "Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1)." Harvard Business School Case 109-013, September 2008. (Revised October 2008.)
      • September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
      • Supplement

      Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A2)

      By: V.G. Narayanan, Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
      The A1 and A2 versions of the “Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A)” split the original A case into two parts. The A1 case ends as activists Sardar Biglari and Phil Cooley prepare to meet with CEO Don Smith at Friendly's headquarters in September 2006. The... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Conflict and Resolution; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      Narayanan, V.G., Fabrizio Ferri, and James Weber. "Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A2)." Harvard Business School Supplement 109-014, September 2008. (Revised October 2008.)
      • September 2008 (Revised April 2009)
      • Supplement

      Wyoff and China-LuQuan: Negotiating a Joint Venture (B)

      By: James K. Sebenius and Cheng (Jason) Qian
      Through stalled joint venture talks between Pennsylvania-based Wyoff Corp. and Jinan-based China-LuQuan, strategic and cross-cultural negotiation challenges are explored both from American and Chinese perspectives. Wyoff, a leading U.S. chemical company, has been... View Details
      Keywords: Joint Ventures; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Chemical Industry; China; Pennsylvania
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      Sebenius, James K., and Cheng (Jason) Qian. "Wyoff and China-LuQuan: Negotiating a Joint Venture (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 909-014, September 2008. (Revised April 2009.)
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      Can the Virtuous Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After?

      By: James E. Austin and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard
      What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant opportunities for creating both business value and substantially expanded social value, but they also pose unusually difficult challenges... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Style; Agreements and Arrangements; Social Enterprise; Social Issues
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      Austin, James E., and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "Can the Virtuous Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After?" California Management Review 51, no. 1 (Fall 2008): 77–102.
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Can the Virtuous Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After?

      By: James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard
      What happens when small iconic socially-oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant opportunities for creating both business value and substantially expanded social value, but also pose unusually difficult challenges because... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Style; Agreements and Arrangements; Social Enterprise; Social Issues
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      Austin, James E., and Herman B. Leonard. "Can the Virtuous Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-047, September 2008.
      • July 2008 (Revised July 2020)
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      Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A)

      By: Tsedal Neeley and Thomas J. DeLong
      Greg James, a global manager at Sun Microsystems, Inc., sets out to meet with his entire 43-member customer implementation team spread across India, France, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America to resolve a dire customer system outage as required... View Details
      Keywords: Groups and Teams; Global Range; Management; Customer Satisfaction; Service Delivery; Crisis Management; Conflict and Resolution; Technology Industry; India; United Arab Emirates; France; United States
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      Neeley, Tsedal, and Thomas J. DeLong. "Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 409-003, July 2008. (Revised July 2020.)
      • July – August 2008
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      Buy-Side vs. Sell-Side Analysts' Earnings Forecasts

      By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Craig James Chapman
      We compare the earnings forecast performance of analysts at a large buy-side firm to that of sell-side analysts. Our tests show that the buy-side firm analysts make more optimistic and less accurate forecasts than their counterparts on the sell-side. These performance... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Business Earnings; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Effectiveness
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      Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Craig James Chapman. "Buy-Side vs. Sell-Side Analysts' Earnings Forecasts ." Financial Analysts Journal 64, no. 4 (July–August 2008): 25 – 39.
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Wellsprings of Creation: How Perturbation Sustains Exploration in Mature Organizations

      By: David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman and David M. Upton
      Organizations struggle to balance simultaneous imperatives to exploit and explore, yet theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap: the missing mechanism by which organizations break free of old routines and... View Details
      Keywords: Disruption; Innovation and Management; Business Processes; Opportunities; Creativity
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      Brunner, David James, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman, and David M. Upton. "Wellsprings of Creation: How Perturbation Sustains Exploration in Mature Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-011, July 2008. (Revised June 2009, September 2010.)
      • June 2008
      • Case

      Professors Sven Larson and Kenneth Carpenter (A)

      By: James L. Heskett and Tor Askild Aase Johannessen
      Professor Kenneth Carpenter has received word that he has inadvertently offended one of his students. He is pondering a possible response. View Details
      Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Higher Education; Learning; Teaching; Conflict and Resolution
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      Heskett, James L., and Tor Askild Aase Johannessen. "Professors Sven Larson and Kenneth Carpenter (A)." Harvard Business School Case 908-408, June 2008.
      • June 2008
      • Supplement

      Professors Sven Larson and Kenneth Carpenter (B)

      By: James L. Heskett and Tor Askild Aase Johannessen
      Professor Kenneth Carpenter has received word that he has inadvertently offended one of his students. He is pondering a possible response. View Details
      Keywords: Higher Education; Teaching; Learning; Interpersonal Communication
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      Heskett, James L., and Tor Askild Aase Johannessen. "Professors Sven Larson and Kenneth Carpenter (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 908-409, June 2008.
      • June 2008
      • Supplement

      Professors Sven Larson and Kenneth Carpenter (C)

      By: James L. Heskett and Tor Askild Aase Johannessen
      Professor Kenneth Carpenter has received word that he has inadvertently offended one of his students. He is pondering a possible response. View Details
      Keywords: Higher Education; Teaching; Learning; Interpersonal Communication
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      Heskett, James L., and Tor Askild Aase Johannessen. "Professors Sven Larson and Kenneth Carpenter (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 908-410, June 2008.
      • June 2008
      • Supplement

      Professors Sven Larson and Kenneth Carpenter (D)

      By: James L. Heskett and Tor Askild Aase Johannessen
      Prof. Kenneth Carpenter has received word that he has inadvertently offended one of his students. He is pondering a possible response. View Details
      Keywords: Higher Education; Teaching; Learning; Interpersonal Communication
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      Heskett, James L., and Tor Askild Aase Johannessen. "Professors Sven Larson and Kenneth Carpenter (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 908-411, June 2008.
      • June 2008
      • Supplement

      Professors Sven Larson and Kenneth Carpenter (E)

      By: James L. Heskett and Tor Askild Aase Johannessen
      Prof. Kenneth Carpenter has received word that he has inadvertently offended one of his students. He is pondering a possible response. View Details
      Keywords: Higher Education; Teaching; Learning; Interpersonal Communication
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      Heskett, James L., and Tor Askild Aase Johannessen. "Professors Sven Larson and Kenneth Carpenter (E)." Harvard Business School Supplement 908-412, June 2008.
      • June 2008
      • Case

      Rackspace Hosting in Late 2000

      By: James L. Heskett and W. Earl Sasser
      The leadership team of Rackspace, faced with accommodation of its service offering and dwindling financial reserves, decides to make customer focus the rallying cry of its new strategy. This short case was designed as the discussion igniter for a series of short video... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Finance; Management Teams; Service Operations; Customer Ownership; Strategy
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      Heskett, James L., and W. Earl Sasser. "Rackspace Hosting in Late 2000." Harvard Business School Case 808-166, June 2008.
      • April 2008 (Revised September 2008)
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      Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A)

      By: Fabrizio Ferri, V.G. Narayanan and James Weber
      Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge-fund manager, seek to improve board oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979 they... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict of Interests; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      Ferri, Fabrizio, V.G. Narayanan, and James Weber. "Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A)." Harvard Business School Case 108-024, April 2008. (Revised September 2008.)
      • March 2008
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      Market Reactions to Export Subsidies

      By: M. A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr.
      This paper analyzes the economic impact of export subsidies by investigating stock price reactions to a critical event in 1997. On November 18, 1997, the European Union announced its intention to file a complaint before the World Trade Organization (WTO), arguing that... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Systems; Trade; Development Economics; Financial Markets; Profit; Taxation; Volume; Value Creation; Market Design; Business Subsidiaries; Utilities Industry; Financial Services Industry; Europe; North and Central America
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      Desai, M. A., and James R. Hines Jr. "Market Reactions to Export Subsidies." Journal of International Economics 74, no. 2 (March 2008).
      • February 2008
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      Attracting Skeptical Buyers: Negotiating for Intellectual Property Rights

      By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
      Expropriable disclosures of knowledge to prospective buyers may be necessary to facilitate the sale of intellectual property (IP). In principle, confidentiality agreements can protect disclosures by granting the seller rights to sue for unauthorized use. In practice,... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Intellectual Property; Knowledge Sharing; Lawsuits and Litigation; Rights; Agreements and Arrangements; Competition
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      Anton, James J., and Dennis A. Yao. "Attracting Skeptical Buyers: Negotiating for Intellectual Property Rights." International Economic Review 49, no. 1 (February 2008): 319–348. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
      • January 2008 (Revised April 2009)
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      Wyoff and China-LuQuan: Negotiating a Joint Venture (A)

      By: James K. Sebenius and Cheng (Jason) Qian
      Through stalled joint venture talks between Pennsylvania-based Wyoff Corp. and China-based China-LuQuan, strategic and cross-cultural negotiation challenges are explored both from American and Chinese perspectives. Wyoff, a leading US chemical company has been seeking... View Details
      Keywords: Joint Ventures; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Style; Strategy; Chemical Industry; China; Pennsylvania
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      Sebenius, James K., and Cheng (Jason) Qian. "Wyoff and China-LuQuan: Negotiating a Joint Venture (A)." Harvard Business School Case 908-046, January 2008. (Revised April 2009.)
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