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- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
Success began with vegetable lentil soup. Ian Carson (OPM 42, 2012) was fresh off volunteering in Australian politics as state president of the Liberal Party in Victoria when he was inspired to take action... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
foreign-corruption legislation extant. High-level bribery is part of the fabric of many societies, Wells says, because in a number of developing countries, the scarcity of well-paying jobs, among other reasons, encourages officials to make money while their View Details
- Profile
Lauren Booker
"I've always been a 'save-the-worlder,'" Lauren Booker says about herself with a laugh. She grew up in a family with "a long, sustained history of service and civil-rights activity." Her grandfather, the late Carl Nichols, led the New Jersey chapter... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
experience working with one another—is one mechanism that helps teams leverage the benefits of variation in team experience by alleviating coordination problems that variation creates. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-145.pdf Traveling Agents:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
and Middle Eastern states, including Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Syria. The issue is that this literature has focused heavily on broad macro-economic trends and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality Authors:Mark J. Roe and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
built international political and military coalitions, and negotiated a U.N. Security Council Resolution authorizing "all necessary means" to eject Iraq from Kuwait. Only after these steps were taken did the Bush administration... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
party to another, spreading it out over large groups, and (in some cases) simply reducing it outright. These policies, in turn, have profoundly shaped the environment in which business operates. Public risk management itself has obviously... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
the case that the Clinton and Bush administrations and members of Congress of both parties pursued an extreme affordable-housing agenda that led to the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If Fannie and Freddie had not failed, requiring... View Details
- 22 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Section Life: Your HBS Family
my section mates hailed from. Sections are diverse on every metric ranging from work experience to political beliefs to undergraduate fields of study. Because you take all your classes together RC year, diversity is critical to the... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
is thus imperfect. "Sometimes this vagueness (and the consequent inability of parties to agree on a negotiated, 'reasonable' license) will lead to expensive litigation whose cost and risk can impede the adoption of a socially... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Clement (MBA ’71) Birmingham, MI Going Straight D Andrew Tobias notes that the political landscape has shifted to the right since he graduated in 1972. The “once-moderate centrist Republican Party has... View Details
- Profile
Elsa Sze
even when it is difficult – and even when it is unpopular on the HBS campus itself. Disturbed by the “heritage” of the Priscilla Ball, an annual party in which male students dress as flamboyant women, Elsa challenged the tradition in an... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
helped large Greek companies and startups compete more effectively. But that hasn't happened.” Greek politicians are blaming, first, one another based on the party affiliation, and second, their European creditors for imposing harsh... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
Global e-Business Leader at Braxton, formerly Deloitte Consulting) urge managers to think as though they were settlers of a new business frontier that has been carved out by forces such as technology, societal change, political strife,... View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
finalize a deal, but that's often not enough. Many countries have webs of influence that are more powerful than the actual parties making the deal, even though those webs don't have the formal standing of, say, government agencies. In... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
greatest crisis since the Revolutionary War. The Democratic Party was so bitterly divided that it had been unable to even choose a candidate at its own convention, so the man the Republicans selected would almost certainly become... View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
non-intuitive places. How SOFWERX unfolds is a fascinating example of why governments struggle to do new things, how entrepreneurs work to remedy those struggles, what they all do to experiment, and what the opportunities and perils are along the way for both View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Propose an Independent Project | MBA
disclosed to management before the project begins. If students will be conducting research in the field on your organization’s behalf, they are required to disclose to any third party from whom they may solicit information that the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
that determines whether two functions or firms can align their planning is how much each party knows about the other's beliefs about demand. Thus, in this paper's setting, improved communication can induce alignment even if no economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace