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- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
shareholders of Turkcell, and how its management vied against increasing regulatory intervention and market competition in the absence of a fully functioning board. The battle for control of the Turkish... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
for business strategy, organization, control systems, and sales management requirements. As a result, the case raises issues and analytics relevant to topics such as aligning strategy and organization,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
handles that. And can he use those negotiating skills and those communication skills and create shared value skills in a situation where there’s no walk-away option and he doesn’t have the leverage. Command and control View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
And so the manipulation of the alternatives was really straightforward. Q: What can managers and other professionals learn from this research when they find themselves in negotiations? A: I think the critical piece here is the distinction... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
Rohit Daniel Wadhwani's research and teaching interests lie in business and financial history and public policy. He received his B.A. with honors from Yale College in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a management consultant with APM... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
for firms to capture value in a modular system. This paper brings together the theory of modularity from the engineering and management literatures with the modern economic theory of property rights and relational contracts to address the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
and compensation committees didn't do their jobs responsibly. But boards can only do so much — their members, after all, are part-timers. And while they're expected to be independent, they have to rely heavily on managers and auditors for... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
leadership at some of the nation’s most renowned companies took too many risks and too much in salary, while their shareholders had too little say,” said Schumer. “This legislation will give stockholders the ability to apply the emergency brakes the next time the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
thinks there is no value in it. “I think we can learn things from their systems—because they have the ability to do controlled experiments—that we can then take outside or in more traditional, controlled-environment agriculture,” she... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
scribe started. Bob was really bad at keeping his laughter under control (he sat to my right, so I was flattered). 1981A’s Rick Johansen orchestrated a prank one day in the first semester (late 1979) on all the professors we had that day.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
nonprofit leaders today," says Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim, a member of the School's General Management Unit and Social Enterprise Initiative who focuses on the challenges of performance management, accountability, and governance... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
question the wisdom of using its own stock to hedge merchant investments rather than contracts with bona fide counterparties. It failed to monitor the conflicts of interest that the board itself had approved involving Andrew Fastow’s dual role as Enron’s CFO and the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
an interesting guy. He was trained to fly by the Australian Air Force. When you're taught to fly by the Air Force, you're taught to think in a very specific way, a way of controlling your attention which corresponds to what we know about... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
be. From outsiders we learn that she is a very industrious & prudent old lady, well meaning & will not bargain for more than she intends to pay for, that she is doing a snug business (which is managed by her son ‘Herman,’ aged 24, who has... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
that exists at the top of organizational hierarchies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49601 forthcoming Management Science Financing Risk and Innovation By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
market regulation. New Deal partnerships in planning borrowed from those efforts to manage competitive markets, yet ultimately discredited the fair trade model by mandating economy-wide trade rules that sharply reduced competition. Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the venture capital industry who were on... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
you doing? Hey, are you still at the hotel?” And he goes, “Oh, no, I'm not at the hotel anymore.” And oh, my goodness, our hopes were deflated. We thought that, oh, he's just not made it. And then he said, “But I'm a manager at a moving... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
(VIS '79), director of the Graduate Institute of Management and Technology in Johannesburg and longtime president of the HBS Club of South Africa, recalls how during the apartheid era, HBS alumni helped the country's business community to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons