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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
across a variety of countries and sectors. The results of this exploration show that managers are trying to ensure safety and maintain profitability with tremendous energy and creativity. While specific tactics vary by company, they share... View Details
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
self-sabotaging their companies by mistakenly adhering to practices on the list. When Thomke shares portions of the field manual with business executives in class, they tend to respond with a nervous chuckle. But then the room grows quiet, the sober realization that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
in the book the different roles, frequencies, participants, and agendas for operational review meetings and strategy review meetings. We open the book with a great quote often but perhaps inaccurately attributed to Sun Tzu in The Art of War: "Strategy without... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
Parties are often motivated to discount and devalue each other's concessions and contributions, because doing so relieves them of the obligation to reciprocate. As a result, many concessions go unnoticed or unacknowledged. This may lead to confusion, resentment, or an... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
with external partners to identify and solve customer problems. The first four levers are the tactics for integration that rebuild an organization around a customer axis. Connection is what finally busts down the silo of the company... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements
"Paltering" is the active use of truthful statements to influence a target’s beliefs by giving a false or distorted impression. It can pervade all kinds of personal interactions, from romantic relationships to foreign affairs, whenever people are tempted to mislead... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 2007
- Book
Negotiation Genius
By: Deepak Malhotra and M. H. Bazerman
Whether you've “seen it all” or are just starting out, Negotiation Genius will dramatically improve your negotiating skills and confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral research plus the experience of thousands of business clients, the authors take the mystery out... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Negotiation Preparation; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Behavior
Malhotra, Deepak, and M. H. Bazerman. Negotiation Genius. Bantam Books, 2007. (Winner of International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. CPR Award for Outstanding Book presented by International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. Published in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Italian.)
- 19 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control
tactical and understand living and responding in the now." The Wii Fit parody is an example of a parody video that can hurt a brand. Click to watch. This Snuggie parody video actually helps the brand, Avery says.Click to watch. View Details
- June 2011 (Revised December 2013)
- Case
FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?
By: Francesca Gino, Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van Sice
Seeking to go beyond global best practices in reducing environmental impacts, FIJI Water, a premium artesian bottled water company in the United States, launched a Carbon Negative campaign that would offset more greenhouse gas emissions than were released by the... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Footprint; Carbon Offsetting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Brands and Branding; Negotiation Tactics; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Fiji
Gino, Francesca, Michael W. Toffel, and Stephanie van Sice. "FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?" Harvard Business School Case 611-049, June 2011. (Revised December 2013.)
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
strategy of demanding and defining reciprocity plays out in a variety of contexts; those who understand how to use it can profit from it immensely. A great example is a tactic consultants and contractors use. When a client praises her... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
tipped not only toward opposing a proposal, but also toward using attack tactics that tip still more people. Anxiety then builds like an infection. People use fear-mongering strategies with voices that are beastly or, more often, ones... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
when adjustments are necessary. Surprise One: You Can't Run the Company Warning signs: You are in too many meetings and involved in too many tactical discussions. There are too many days when you feel as though you have lost control over... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
Microsoft has been criticized as a company that relies more on predatory tactics than great products and innovation to succeed. What can you say about Microsoft's product development performance over the years? A: We analyzed the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
environment for doing marketing." Deighton, who is the coeditor of the Journal of Interactive Marketing, heads the required MBA course in marketing and teaches an interactive marketing elective. He explains that traditional marketing View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
dealership can be effective tools, although sales staffs also know the walk-away tactic and sometimes even encourage it to put a deal in play. Experts also suggest buyers hunt down dealerships that are moving away from sales commissions... View Details
- March 2023
- Case
Ransomware Attack at Colonial Pipeline Company
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
On the morning of May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline Company became aware that the company had been the victim of a malicious ransomware attack that had stolen and locked up company data. The extortionists demanded 75 bitcoins (worth about $4.4 million at the time) in... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Communication; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Policy; Employees; News; Cybersecurity; Digital Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Information Management; Internet and the Web; Crisis Management; Business or Company Management; Resource Allocation; Risk Management; Negotiation Tactics; Failure; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Attitudes; Behavior; Perception; Reputation; Trust; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Infrastructure; Distribution Industry; United States; Alabama
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Li-Kuan Ni. "Ransomware Attack at Colonial Pipeline Company." Harvard Business School Case 123-069, March 2023.
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
project across the organization, he gathered useful technical and tactical information that he then brought back to the team. He frequently recognized good work on the project, almost always in a public setting (such as a team meeting).... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
(virtually) talked with more than 50 “resilient” businesses across a variety of countries and sectors. The results of this exploration show that managers are trying to ensure safety and maintain profitability with tremendous energy and creativity. While specific View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
bold, not the meek and timid. Adaptability – If ever there were a need for leaders to be flexible in adapting to this rapidly changing environment, this is it. Long-range plans are often obsolete by the time they are approved. Instead, flexible View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 02 Jun 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?
hope the comments were as helpful and thought-provoking to you as they were to me. Those of you willing to venture to place weights on the determinants of success gave the nod to culture by a wide margin. As Mouaz AlZayyat put it, "Growth plans and articulated... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett