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- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
Similar sequencing calculations face investors who seek to quietly purchase a series of blocks of stock for a possible acquisition or take positions in various debt securities to improve their position in a bankruptcy negotiation. Beware... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
than eliminate or relax it. The analogy to the keiretsu system has been widely touted in the Internet era. Companies such as CMGI billed themselves as new economy keiretsu. We are seeing a similar outcome as in Japan. The model turned out... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- Web
The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams | Working Knowledge
says. Two other teams make remote work Yet the researchers also found that remote teams can work together harmoniously if they carefully manage the relationship. About four months into the study, the researchers observed a much different reaction to a View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
create a startup. But it always felt good because you were always in the unchartered territories, things that have never been done. What has changed since then? I think a lot right now, you have almost a unicorn coming out every week, if not faster. I kind of look at... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
impact, or service. I believe this drive to find something that resonates in a similar way as my military service is leading me towards a career in global humanitarian/crisis response operations. As my second calling becomes clearer, I am... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
to mention the Suez Canal). Since I found similar results in an effort by Brazilian corporations to attract small shareholders, I thought that Brazil was also a financial democracy. Yet, in Brazil there was a clear cycle: It started in... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
a small subset of the database available to the public on the Leadership Initiative Web site, the full database is available to other scholars interested in studying the business leadership landscape. There is no similar database that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders
Impact at Facily Dzodan co-founded Facily in 2018 after a successful career in technology, serving in senior leadership roles in Latin America at SAP and Facebook. While at Facebook, he traveled to China, saw how social e-commerce operated there, and identified an... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
natural resources of a similar kind - if, say, the money from tree harvesting were used to plant more trees. It's very difficult to achieve consensus on these issues." Richard H.K. Vietor, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Meta-analyses of published studies show that those ideas are myths—men and women actually have similar inclinations, attitudes, and skills. What does differ is the way they are treated on the job: Women have less access to vital... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
Supreme Court's 9-to-0 ruling on March 29, 2012, against another company in a case similar to Myriad's. Within five days of that decision, the Supreme Court remanded the Myriad case back down to the court of appeals for reconsideration.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
likely to implement MV proposals after industry-peer firms implement a similar proposal. Finally, proposals aimed at removing anti-takeover measures or instituting certain shareholder rights are more likely to be implemented. With respect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
began to chip away at LEGO’s market share with its construction blocks, including a popular line of warrior play sets. “Their products are based on a building system very similar to ours,” explains Moynihan. “They’ve done a really good... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
their workplace “unit” similar to military life. “A driving motivation among the frontline workers was not letting down the people around them,” she explains. “Leading in a civilian setting is not unlike in the military: if you do your... View Details
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- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
targeted ads on the lockscreen and home screen, consumers clamored for an ad-free version. Amazon backtracked and extended its Special Offers program to the tablet, allowing consumers to opt out from the ads. Q: You're expecting that more companies will come up with... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
rated speakers more negatively, while in Study 3, listeners rated speakers who answered a similar question in a fluent manner more positively than speakers who answered the actual question, but disfluently (Study 3). These results add to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
phrase that has been defined as a "state of rational apprehension that does not result in appropriate action." In her brilliant study of the disastrous decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, sociologist Diane Vaughan used a View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
you don't really care that much. But then when you see that people might react to you differently, it absolutely starts affecting you on a subconscious level. And I honestly think that language barriers are a huge reason why people from View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
it didn’t work out. But it was just the window I wanted. The outgoing CIO said, “They’re not looking for someone like you,” so of course I made it my mission to get the job. After a full stint at the Met, I got the call that the Robin Hood Foundation was looking for... View Details