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23 Oct 2019
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Negotiators Share Lessons from High-Stakes Global Diplomacy

Madeleine Albright was interviewed for the American Secretaries of State Project, a collaboration among faculty members at HBS, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Law School designed to extract lessons in negotiation and diplomacy for... View Details

Keywords: University Collaborations

01 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Five Lessons From My First Year at HBS

environment. I’ve learned so much, I’ve been challenged and pushed outside of my comfort zone, and I’ve grown in ways that I could not have imagined. Here are 5 lessons I’ve learned from my first year at HBS: 1. People are less... View Details

04 Jan 2021
Blog Post

Bringing the Lessons of 2020 into 2021

States. It was a year of painful yet important lessons that we will all take with us into 2021. What we have found at HBS, and in working closely with our partner organizations, is that through it all, communities consistently came... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

30 May 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza; Banking

2017
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Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets

By: Laura Alfaro, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari and Ugo Panizza

This paper documents a set of new stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility for emerging market firms following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators during the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Debt; Financial Fragility; Firm-level Data; Large Firms; Emerging Markets; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Financial Condition

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July–August 2013
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Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue

By: Faaiza Rashid, Amy C. Edmondson and Herman B. Leonard

Three years ago, when a cave-in at the San José mine in Chile trapped 33 men under 700,000 metric tons of rock, experts estimated the probability of getting them out alive at less than 1%. Yet, after spending a record 69 days underground, all 33 were hoisted up to... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Crisis Management; Learning; Mining; Mining Industry; Chile

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Business Leadership Lessons from the Cleveland Turnaround

By: J. E. Austin

Keywords: Leadership

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14 Jan 2014
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Lessons Learned From The Original 'Amazing Race'

16 Mar 2013
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Looking for a Lesson in Google’s Perks

29 Nov 2023
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Lessons in Innovation from a Legacy Firm

06 Jul 2011
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Lessons From a $1 Billion Fund Raiser

27 Oct 2020
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Lessons for leadership in a riven nation

12 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

classroom, discuss the case with my students, and find out what business lessons emerge for the rest of us who are not as tall, handsome, and muscular.” Read the first page of Anita Elberse's case study Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. View Details

Keywords: Re: Anita Elberse; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation

2018
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Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level

By: James K. Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns and Robert H. Mnookin (with a forward by Henry A. Kissinger)

As professors and practitioners with careers devoted to negotiation, we are often asked “Who are the world’s best negotiators? What makes them effective?” Inevitably Henry Kissinger’s name comes up as an elite, if controversial, negotiator from whom we can learn a... View Details

Keywords: History; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Personal Development and Career; Negotiation Style; United States

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