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      • May 2012
      • Supplement

      Columbia's Final Mission (Abridged) (B)

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Kerry Herman
      Keywords: Cognitive Biases; Teams; Organizational Learning; Ambiguous Threat; Risk and Uncertainty; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Corporate Disclosure; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Public Administration Industry; Aerospace Industry
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      Edmondson, Amy C., and Kerry Herman. "Columbia's Final Mission (Abridged) (B) ." Harvard Business School Supplement 612-096, May 2012.
      • May 2011 (Revised December 2011)
      • Case

      Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village: America's Largest Foreclosure

      By: Arthur I Segel, Gregory S. Feldman, James T. Liu and Elizabeth C. Williamson
      In July 2010, William Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square, is considering a potential new opportunity: the acquisition of the distressed Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village ("ST /PCV") complex. The property had recently been abandoned by its owners and had come... View Details
      Keywords: Property; Risk Management; Opportunities; Valuation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Outcome or Result; Acquisition; North and Central America
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      Segel, Arthur I., Gregory S. Feldman, James T. Liu, and Elizabeth C. Williamson. "Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village: America's Largest Foreclosure." Harvard Business School Case 211-106, May 2011. (Revised December 2011.)
      • January 2011
      • Article

      Does Intellectual Property Rights Reform Spur Industrial Development?

      By: Lee G. Branstetter, Ray Fisman, C. Fritz Foley and Kamal Saggi
      An extensive theoretical literature generates ambiguous predictions concerning the effects of intellectual property rights (IPR) reform on industrial development. The impact depends on whether multinational enterprises (MNEs) expand production in reforming countries... View Details
      Keywords: Development Economics; Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Intellectual Property; Rights; Production; Expansion; United States
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      Branstetter, Lee G., Ray Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi. "Does Intellectual Property Rights Reform Spur Industrial Development?" Journal of International Economics 83, no. 1 (January 2011): 27–36.
      • 2010
      • Conference Presentation

      Compensatory Fit in Integrated Architectures: The Upside of Structural Ambiguity

      By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri
      Keywords: Ambiguity; Collaboration; Organizational Design
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      Gulati, Ranjay, and Luciana Silvestri. "Compensatory Fit in Integrated Architectures: The Upside of Structural Ambiguity." Paper presented at the Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, London Business School, London, UK, 2010.
      • 2010
      • Conference Presentation

      Compensatory Fit in Integrated Architectures: The Upside of Structural Ambiguity

      By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri
      Keywords: Integrated Design; Ambiguity; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure
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      Gulati, Ranjay, and Luciana Silvestri. "Compensatory Fit in Integrated Architectures: The Upside of Structural Ambiguity." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montréal, Canada, 2010.
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Assess, Don't Assume, Part I: Etiquette and National Culture in Negotiation

      By: James K. Sebenius
      When facing a cross-border negotiation, the standard preparatory assessments -- of the parties, their interests, their no-deal options, opportunities for and barriers to creating and claiming value, the most promising sequence and process design, etc. -- should be... View Details
      Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Process; Societal Protocols; Competitive Advantage; Cooperation
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      Sebenius, James K. "Assess, Don't Assume, Part I: Etiquette and National Culture in Negotiation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-048, December 2009.
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Assess, Don't Assume, Part II: Negotiating Implications of Cross-Border Differences in Decision Making, Governance, and Political Economy

      By: James K. Sebenius

      When facing a cross-border negotiation, the standard preparatory assessments—of the parties, their interests, their no-deal options, opportunities for and barriers to creating and claiming value, the most promising sequence and process design, etc.—should be... View Details

      Keywords: Decision Making; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Corporate Governance; Negotiation Process; Organizational Culture; Business and Government Relations
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      Sebenius, James K. "Assess, Don't Assume, Part II: Negotiating Implications of Cross-Border Differences in Decision Making, Governance, and Political Economy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-050, December 2009.
      • June 2009 (Revised November 2020)
      • Case

      Busse Place

      By: Arthur I Segel, William J. Poorvu, Richard Kessler, Justin Seth Ginsburgh and Eric Fleiss
      Busse Corporate Center's largest tenant recently declared bankruptcy, leaving the building 38% occupied and significantly overleveraged. In a depressed suburban Chicago office market, Hannah Sanchez, the leasing agent, has to negotiate lease proposals with three... View Details
      Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Mortgages; Investment; Leasing; Property; Real Estate Industry; Chicago
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      Segel, Arthur I., William J. Poorvu, Richard Kessler, Justin Seth Ginsburgh, and Eric Fleiss. "Busse Place." Harvard Business School Case 209-154, June 2009. (Revised November 2020.)
      • September 2008
      • Article

      Firm Heterogeneity and Credit Risk Diversification

      By: Samuel G. Hanson, M. Hashem Pesaran and Til Schuermann
      This paper examines the impact of neglected heterogeneity on credit risk. We show that neglecting heterogeneity in firm returns and/or default thresholds leads to under estimation of expected losses (EL), and its effect on portfolio risk is ambiguous. Once EL is... View Details
      Keywords: Volatility; Credit; Investment Return; Outcome or Result; Risk and Uncertainty; Loss; Diversification; Complexity; United States
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      Hanson, Samuel G., M. Hashem Pesaran, and Til Schuermann. "Firm Heterogeneity and Credit Risk Diversification." Journal of Empirical Finance 15, no. 4 (September 2008): 583–612.
      • 15 Nov 2006
      • Keynote Speech

      Profit in Purpose: Can Corporations Make the Connection?" Panelist. "Leading in the Age of Ambiguity

      By: Lynn Paine
      Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Mission and Purpose
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      Paine, Lynn. Profit in Purpose: Can Corporations Make the Connection?" Panelist. "Leading in the Age of Ambiguity. Corporate State New York, Metropolitan Club, New York, NY, November 15, 2006.
      • November 2006
      • Article

      Facing Ambiguous Threats

      By: Michael A. Roberto, Richard M.J. Bohmer and Amy C. Edmondson
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      Roberto, Michael A., Richard M.J. Bohmer, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Facing Ambiguous Threats." Harvard Business Review 84, no. 11 (November 2006).
      • 2006
      • Article

      The End of Nationality? Global Firms and 'Borderless Worlds'

      By: G. Jones
      This article provides a historical perspective to current debates whether large global firms are becoming "stateless" and whether this is a historically new phenomenon. It shows that a great deal of international business in the nineteenth century was not easily fitted... View Details
      Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Trade; Ownership; International Finance; Economic Systems; International Accounting; Globalized Economies and Regions; Geographic Location; Nationality; Boundaries; Global Strategy
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      Jones, G. "The End of Nationality? Global Firms and 'Borderless Worlds'." Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 51, no. 2 (2006): 149–166.
      • 2005
      • Chapter

      The Recovery Window: Organizational Learning Following Ambiguous Threats

      By: A. Edmondson, Erika Ferlins, Laura Feldman and Richard Bohmer
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities
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      Edmondson, A., Erika Ferlins, Laura Feldman, and Richard Bohmer. "The Recovery Window: Organizational Learning Following Ambiguous Threats." In Organization at the Limit: Lessons from the Columbia Disaster, edited by M. Farjoun and W. Starbuck, 220–245. Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
      • July 2005
      • Class Lecture

      Organizational Learning in the Face of Ambiguous Threats

      By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Michael Roberto
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation
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      Bohmer, Richard M.J., Amy C. Edmondson, and Michael Roberto. "Organizational Learning in the Face of Ambiguous Threats." Harvard Business School Class Lecture 605-093, July 2005.
      • 2005
      • Class Lecture

      Organizational Learning in the Face of Ambiguous Threats

      By: Amy C. Edmondson, Michael A. Roberto and Richard M.J. Bohmer
      Keywords: Learning; Risk and Uncertainty; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams
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      Edmondson, Amy C., Michael A. Roberto, and Richard M.J. Bohmer. "Organizational Learning in the Face of Ambiguous Threats." Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Class Lecture, 2005. Electronic. (Faculty Lecture: HBSP Product Number 9297C.)
      • 2004
      • Working Paper

      The Recovery Window: Organizational Learning Following Ambiguous Threats in High-Risk Organizations

      By: Amy C. Edmondson, Michael A. Roberto, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Erika M. Ferlins and Laura R. Feldman
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      Edmondson, Amy C., Michael A. Roberto, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Erika M. Ferlins, and Laura R. Feldman. "The Recovery Window: Organizational Learning Following Ambiguous Threats in High-Risk Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 05-012, August 2004.
      • September 2003 (Revised June 2006)
      • Case

      "American Challenge, The:" Europe's Response to American Business

      By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Meghan Gallagher-Kernstine
      Examines the tensions multinationals cause by focusing on Europe's reaction to the growing U.S. multinational investment in the 20th century. Initially, Europeans rarely felt threatened by U.S. investments, however, tensions grew over time. After the Second World War,... View Details
      Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; United States; Europe
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      Jones, Geoffrey G., and Meghan Gallagher-Kernstine. "American Challenge, The:" Europe's Response to American Business. Harvard Business School Case 804-057, September 2003. (Revised June 2006.)
      • May 2000
      • Article

      Maxmin Expected Utility over Savage Acts with a Set of Priors

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Peter Klibanoff and Emre Ozdenoren
      This paper provides an axiomatic foundation for a maxmin expected utility over a set of priors (MMEU) decision rule in an environment where the elements of choice are Savage acts. This characterization complements the original axiomatizations of MMEU developed in a... View Details
      Keywords: Uncertainty Aversion; Ambiguity; Expected Utility; Set Of Priors; Knightian Uncertainty; Decision Making; Game Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Mathematical Methods
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Peter Klibanoff, and Emre Ozdenoren. "Maxmin Expected Utility over Savage Acts with a Set of Priors." Journal of Economic Theory 92, no. 1 (May 2000): 35–65.
      • December 1995
      • Case

      Assessing Foreign Business Practices

      By: Debora L. Spar
      As businesses expand worldwide, corporations are increasingly being forced to grapple with definitions of "acceptable" foreign conduct. What differentiates a "bribe" from a "commission"? Should managers abroad refer to local custom or their own national laws in... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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      Spar, Debora L., and Zanley Galton. "Assessing Foreign Business Practices." Harvard Business School Case 796-105, December 1995.
      • November 1993 (Revised April 1995)
      • Background Note

      Orientation to the Subarctic Survival Situation

      By: Linda A. Hill
      An orientation to the "Subarctic Survival Situation" (designed by and available from Human Synergistics, Inc., Plymouth, MI, tel. 313-459-1030), an experiental exercise that gives students an opportunity to learn about their personal influence style and their... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Style; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Decisions; Power and Influence; Groups and Teams; Decision Choices and Conditions
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      Hill, Linda A. "Orientation to the Subarctic Survival Situation." Harvard Business School Background Note 494-073, November 1993. (Revised April 1995.)
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