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26 Nov 2019
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Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream

Source: Mills Source: Mills Drawing on her experience leading the US Small Business Administration as a member of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, Senior Fellow Karen Gordon Mills explores the ways technology is changing financial institutions’ View Details

Keywords: fintech; Artificial intelligence; Small business

13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground

departments—with the goal of improving the health of honey bees in general and especially in production agriculture. Building trust is crucial to the relationships CollaborateUp fosters. Activists fear business executives will take... View Details

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By: V.G. Narayanan

I teach accounting to MBA students, executives, and Harvard Extension School students. I teach topics from both financial and managerial accounting. I also train professors in teaching by the case method. View Details

Keywords: Financial Accounting; Management Accounting; Case Method Teaching; Corporate Governance; Customer Relationship Management; AI and Machine Learning; Health Industry; Education Industry; Banking Industry; India; North America

2023
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Rapport in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Parker Howell, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo

Common identity often provides a foundation for workplace rapport. Though gender is perhaps the most frequently studied dimension of identity among workers, little is known about how gender match between managers and their workers might affect team performance. Using... View Details

Keywords: Management; Relationships; Gender; Labor and Management Relations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry; Colombia

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July 2012
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iPhones for Friends, Refrigerators for Family: How Products Prime Social Networks

By: Lalin Anik and Michael I. Norton

We show that priming consumers with products associated with specific social networks increases the salience of those networks, influencing both word-of-mouth intentions and consumption. Consumers were exposed to friend- or family-related products (e.g., game consoles... View Details

Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Product; Customers; Familiarity; Social and Collaborative Networks

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How to Be Happy at Work

Are you truly happy at work? Or, like most people, do you have some good days but most of the time work is stressful, all-consuming, and not as fulfilling as you'd like? Annie McKee will share that outdated myths and mindsets are a big part of the reason so many of us... View Details

September 1999
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Hewlett-Packard Global Alliance Program (B): Managing Alliances

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Keywords: Alliances; Information Technology Industry

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2003
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The Mediator as Coalition-Builder: George Mitchell in Northern Ireland

By: Daniel F. Curran and James K. Sebenius

Keywords: Alliances

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February 1992 (Revised December 1992)
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European Retail Alliance: (Ahold--The Netherlands, Argyll--United Kingdom, Casino--France)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Keywords: Alliances; Retail Industry; Netherlands; United Kingdom; France

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1990
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter on Syngeries, Alliances, & New Ventures

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Alliances

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May 1994
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Ice Dancing: The Perils of Alliances

By: R. M. Kanter and P. A. Yatsko

Keywords: Alliances

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January 2020 (Revised November 2020)
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Crisis at the 11th Hour

By: David G. Fubini, Rebecca Henderson, Sarah Gulick and Trevor Fetter

A successful lawyer describes an important decision she had to make as a young attorney about whether to disclose information in a contract. View Details

Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Attorney and Client Relationships; Rank and Position; Trust; Decisions; Legal Services Industry; New York (city, NY)

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Screening and Analytics tab, select People to screen by criteria such as company, location, and education. Hover over the Companies tab at the top, in the Relationships section, select Relationship... View Details

November 2010
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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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01 May 2013
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Patricia F. Bilden & Philip M. Bilden, MBA 1991

From the day he first set foot on Soldiers Field, Philip Bilden, managing director of HarbourVest Partners’ Asia business in Hong Kong, knew the relationships formed at HBS would have an enduring impact beyond Aldrich Hall. “For me as... View Details

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Government & Public Policy Club | MBA

Club at Harvard Business School is to provide a forum for students to explore the intersection of and relationship between business, government and politics domestically and internationally. Annual Events Coffee discussions and debates on... View Details

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Maliha Khan

leadership from the outset: What would you do if you were the CEO or the CFO?" Building relationships at HBS and beyond Before her first semester began, Maliha participated in the pre-MBA program for international students. "I... View Details

May 1999
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Network Location and Learning: The Influence of Network Resources and Firm Capabilities on Alliance Formation

By: Ranjay Gulati

Keywords: Networks; Learning; Power and Influence; Business Ventures; Alliances

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January 2002
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IBM's Reinventing Education (B): West Virginia

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Daniel Galvin

Describes IBM's ongoing Reinventing Education initiative to improve K-12 public education via information technology developed by IBM's engineers and consultants. Focuses on one site, West Virginia, to reveal how IBM and the state created a mutually beneficial... View Details

Keywords: Programs; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Education; Business and Community Relations; Information Technology Industry; Education Industry; West Virginia

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