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- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
into their negotiating approach. It's a lesson many companies have learned the hard way. And influence on negotiations need not be driven by an informal, underlying power structure, as U.S. Stone Container Corporation learned. While... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
Positive values are a fixture on corporate mission statements these days. But when leaders fail to live up to the values they've articulated, it's a recipe for employee cynicism, according to Sandra Cha and Amy Edmondson. Cha, an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
resources—be it the myriad Amazon product reviews, a rich collection of free videos on YouTube, or Google’s open-source algorithms. Thanks to these tech giants, a significant portion of your ecosystem is... View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
analyzing research publications, we have found three basic trends. First, research has increasingly focused on economic performance. Second, research focusing on how organizations affect other dimensions of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
gain admission to the US. He describes the arcane system that puts a limit on the number of H-1B visas issued each year. Demand fluctuates from year to year depending on... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the while dealing with the need to... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51237 2016 The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
One day in 1966 while Ranjan Kapur was walking in midtown Manhattan, a black limo pulled up alongside. A man he instantly recognized as advertising icon David Ogilvy, founder of the agency where Kapur had recently been hired, stepped out... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
technology and improved digital communication have been explored in a variety of contexts, the impact on economic activity—from consumer and entrepreneurial behavior to the ways in which governments determine policy—is less well... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
capability and into powerful demand-side connections with consumers. One of the most interesting lessons of the recent fallout in dot-com companies concerns the demand side. No matter how efficient the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
Want to get a heated debate going among technologists? Ask them this question: Can the open source software movement defeat (or severely cripple) Microsoft in the marketplace? With little academic attention focused on this question,... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
Spar wants to find out why Botswana is emerging as a "land of potential" on a continent largely left behind in the economic boom of the 1990s.Churchwell: How much is Botswana growing, and how does it compare to other... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to hers. Roche asked how his research was going, and in the... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
telecommunications, power, water, etc.) will create new investment opportunities, not to mention lessons on what kinds of businesses should and should not be managed by the private sector. Demand for... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
inhabited by academics and consultants ...personal advancement may be better served by being provocative than by being right." Others question the importance of the linkage between information technology and the shape of the organization. Allen Roberts suggests... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
flattened landscape left behind, giant construction cranes, clustered over the site's several acres, accentuate its emptiness. It is here that Harvard University is putting down a big bet on the future—and View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
that jobs virtually dried up. "Real estate development companies were rescinding offers to classmates of mine." When the job market for commercial real estate tanked, so did MBA student interest. Today, MBA students again are flocking to real estate courses... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
with unequal endowments, trust is initially lower yet remains relatively stable. The difference seems partly due to the fact that equal start positions increase subjects' inclination to condition their trust decisions on wealth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne