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  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

be a general trend among countries and the international community at large to strengthen IPR. If this trend keeps advancing, what will be the result on technology transfer? Who will be the big winners? And what becomes of countries where... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

integration begins to take on the appearance of a joint venture, and in some instances the partners have actually created new, jointly governed entities to carry out their collaboration. This stage of collaboration sometimes involves... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 09 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

forces with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Boston Consulting Group to determine how business leaders can partner more effectively with educators to support America's students and schools. "Study after study has shown... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

tax authorities. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=884812   Cases & Course MaterialsAderans Harvard Business School Case 209-090 Steel Partners is a U.S.-based hedge fund that has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

accountability. But partners are not paid until after their work is complete, and advertisers can extend this delay both to improve detection of improper partner practices and to punish View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

capabilities or prepare for growth. Provide opportunities for selected small business partners to participate in in-house training programs or have access to online management tools. Serve as test sites for small companies with a... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 21 Feb 2007
  • Op-Ed

What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

insufficient. Fulfillment of community needs such as clean air and human rights is every bit as important. This concept offers multinationals a mechanism to do well with minimum risk and maximum efficiency. It also provides them with a... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

entrepreneurial communities and four recent trends in entrepreneurial activity. The characteristics that make entrepreneurship thrive, said Stevenson, include: resource mobility; reinvestment in the community; joy in the success of... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract Co-locating knowledge workers from different disciplines may be a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Dec 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

restaurants, dry cleaners, and local grocery stores—form the backbone of communities across America and they are responsible for about 40 million jobs. And, as Mercedes Delgado and I show in research released earlier this year, small... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

a peer at the senior management and board level. The expert's job is to challenge entrenched in-house thinking. He or she should not think ill of technology-averse cultures and must be a skilled communicator who does not hide behind... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
  • 28 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

The Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) invested over $4 billion in 332 institutions, with more than 68 percent increasing their small business lending by 10 percent or more. The federal government also partnered with state governments... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking
  • November 2010
  • Case

Esquel Group: Building a Sustainable Partnership with Cotton Farmers in Xinjiang (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and Jason Cheng Qian
Esquel Group, leading manufacturer of quality shirts, sought to negotiate long-term partnerships with often-exploited farmers in Xinjiang (western China) to procure a superior cotton variety. Seeking to secure a large supply of specialty cotton in an ethical and... View Details
Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Leasing; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Hong Kong; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
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  • November 2010
  • Supplement

Esquel Group: Building a Sustainable Partnership with Cotton Farmers in Xinjiang (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Jason Cheng Qian
Details and evaluates results in Esquel's 2002 initiative to negotiate long-term partnerships with often-exploited farmers in Xinjiang (western China) to procure a superior cotton variety. View Details
Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Leasing; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Hong Kong; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
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  • 08 Jan 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

the words of my colleague Tom Eisenmann, the "get big fast" strategy by focusing on core activities while doing the rest by partnering with others, including competitors. A large, successful firm such as Cisco Systems has used... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

other's beliefs about demand. Thus, in this paper's setting, improved communication can induce alignment even if no economic incentives are changed. While consistent with the predominant view in organizational behavior (OB), this is a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Keeping Your Balance With Customers

and profits could be derived from scale. Customer management was relegated to selling and promoting the company's products. The customer relationship was seldom the issue. The New Economy has changed all of this. With the evolution of computer and View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 04 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

increasingly challenged,” says Robert Regan, a partner at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, a law firm in Sydney, Australia. “To respond to this, and deal with falling margins, law firms need to find new organizing principles.” In March,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

linguistic groups in emerging markets also affects foreign investors. In Malaysia, for instance, foreign companies should enter into joint ventures only after checking if their potential partners belong to the majority Malay View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha
  • 20 Aug 2024
  • Book

Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

products next to Apple’s own products such as charging cables. Anker has also managed to partner with offline retailers Best Buy, Costco, Target, and Walmart and sell through their channels. Through this strategy, Anker has managed to... View Details
Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology

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