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  • Research Summary

Innovating in Energy: Learning from High-Potential Ventures

By: Joseph B. Lassiter

My work at HBS has always focused on high-potential ventures.  Most recently, these have been professionally financed start-ups and buyouts in newly emerging energy and cleantech businesses. These ventures tend to be based on innovative insights into technology and... View Details

  • Career Coach

Fran Davis

Fran has a Ph.D. in Psychology and has worked at Harvard for over 25 years. Over these three decades she has provided career coaching for MBA students, HBS Alumni, and in Executive Education programs and has taught psychology courses... View Details
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Bringing Worlds Together: Cultural Brokerage in Multicultural Teams (Dissertation)

Multicultural teams are becoming increasingly prevlaent and crucial for organizational success, yet they face many challenges that stem from their cultural differences. How can multicultural teams mitigate the risks of working across... View Details
Keywords: Cultural Brokerage; Multicultural Teams; Cross-cultural Collaboration; Creativity
  • January 2013
  • Article

Level Two Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its 'Behind-the-Table' Challenges

By: James K. Sebenius
A long analytic tradition has explored the challenge of productively synchronizing "internal" with "external" negotiations, with a special focus on how each side can best manage internal opposition to agreements negotiated "at the table." Implicit in much of this work... View Details
Keywords: James Baker; Internal Negotiation; Dispute Resolution; Bargaining; Two-level Games; Negotiation; Germany; United States
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  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52122 January 2017 Strategic Finance Managing Healthcare Costs and Value By: Kaplan, Robert S., Michael E. Porter, and Mark L. Frigo Abstract—Rising health care costs are a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

  Working PapersHedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers Authors:Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor Abstract We examine long-horizon stock returns around hedge fund activism in a comprehensive sample of 13D filings by portfolio investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Operational Effectiveness vs. Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Business Strategy Business Strategy The Five Forces Strategic Positioning The Value Chain... View Details
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer

By: Anette Mikes
This paper tracks the evolution of the role of two chief risk officers (CROs), and the tools and processes they have implemented in their respective organizations. While the companies are from very different industries (one is a power company, the other is a toy... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Managerial Roles
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  • 2018
  • Flash Talks

Minimizing Identity Threats While Increasing Safety: Attending to Diversity Ideologies

    From Cotton Mill to Business Empire: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China

    The demise of state-owned enterprises, the transformation of collectives into shareholding cooperatives, and the creation of investment opportunities through stock markets indicate China’s movement from a socialist, state-controlled economy... View Details

    • March 2011 (Revised June 2011)
    • Case

    QuikTrip

    QuikTrip, a large convenience store chain with over 500 stores, was known for its outstanding labor practices and fast, reliable, and friendly customer service. In November 2010, the CEO Chet Cadieux, had to decide how many new locations to open when QuikTrip entered a... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Employees; Growth and Development Strategy; Logistics; Service Delivery; Performance Effectiveness; Expansion; Retail Industry; United States
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    Programs & Events - Alumni

    questions about alumni events. Dec 31 TBD Executive Education HBS Campus Investment Management Workshop Acquire insights you can apply to your business as you explore recent changes in the industry, emerging strategies, and best... View Details
    • 30 Jan 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Looking Behind Bad Decisions

    African government take a stand against an effective AIDS treatment drug? The inability of government to make wise tradeoffs—give up small losses for much larger gain—has been investigated by HBS professor Max Bazerman and his research colleagues for years. Much of... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Salls

      Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research

      I think that most business school research should examine and help solve real-world problems that managers are facing--or that they might face in the future. This means that these scholars need to choose relevant research questions, and propose and test hypotheses... View Details

      • October 2006
      • Article

      Location Choices across the Value Chain: How Activity and Capability Influence Collocation

      By: Juan Alcacer
      There has been a recent revival of interest in the geographic component of firm strategy. Recent research suggests that two opposing forces—competition costs and agglomeration benefits—determine whether firms collocate in a given geographic market. Unexplored is (1)... View Details
      Keywords: Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Sales; Research and Development; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Markets; Production; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Distribution; Cost vs Benefits; SWOT Analysis; Telecommunications Industry
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      • 09 Aug 2017
      • Sharpening Your Skills

      Productivity Tips You Probably Haven't Considered Before

      Source: rawpixel Hit a wall trying to increase your productivity? Recent research by Harvard Business School professors might help. The following articles address some basic questions: Should we deal with easy tasks first? Do employees know better than View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 09 Feb 2016
      • News

      America has near record 5.6 million job openings

      • April 2008 (Revised September 2008)
      • Case

      Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A)

      By: Fabrizio Ferri, V.G. Narayanan and James Weber
      Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge-fund manager, seek to improve board oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979 they... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict of Interests; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      Aligning Strategy and Sales

      marketing, HR, finance, service, or general management Executives in business-to-business product or service companies—or business units of large enterprises—that depend on a direct sales force for all or... View Details
      • August 1996 (Revised February 2000)
      • Exercise

      Decision-Making Exercise (A)

      By: David A. Garvin and Michael Roberto
      Provides questionnaires so students can compare their experiences with different decison-making processes. Students read "Growing Pains," a Harvard Business Review (HBR) case study, and then work in teams to come up with recommendations using a consensus approach to... View Details
      Keywords: Conflict Management; Decision Making; Management Skills
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