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- December 2014
- Case
Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments
By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green
Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger's career, this case describes three of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, the easing of geopolitical tension with the Soviet Union,... View Details
Keywords: Kissinger; Negotiation; Bargaining; Diplomacy; Multiparty Negotiations; Dispute Resolution; Mediation; Israel; Sinai; Egypt; Cold War; Detente; China; Nixon; Conflict Management; Negotiation Types; International Relations; Personal Development and Career; Israel; Egypt; China; United States; Soviet Union
Sebenius, James K., and Laurence A. Green. "Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments." Harvard Business School Case 915-020, December 2014.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Henry Kissinger's Negotiation Campaign to End the Vietnam War
By: James K. Sebenius and Eugene B. Kogan
President Richard M. Nixon was elected in 1968 with the widespread expectation that he would bring about an end to the costly and unpopular war in Vietnam. The task largely fell to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. When the negotiations began, North Vietnam... View Details
Keywords: Kissinger; Negotiation; Negotiation Campaign; Bargaining; Diplomacy; Coercive Diplomacy; Multiparty Negotiations; Dispute Resolution; Mediation; Negotiation Process; War; Negotiation Types; International Relations; Negotiation Deal; Viet Nam; United States
Sebenius, James K., and Eugene B. Kogan. "Henry Kissinger's Negotiation Campaign to End the Vietnam War." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-053, December 2016.
- January 1999
- Exercise
Seneca Systems (A): General and Confidential Instructions for C. Stevens, Vice President, Assembly Division
Seneca is a three-party negotiation-mediation simulation. The context is a product failure crisis in a manufacturing company with highly autonomous units. The heads of two divisions are in a dispute over who has responsibility for failures in a key product. The head of... View Details
Watkins, Michael D. "Seneca Systems (A): General and Confidential Instructions for C. Stevens, Vice President, Assembly Division." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-171, January 1999.
- January 1999
- Exercise
Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for R. Thompson, Vice President, Marketing
Seneca is a three-party negotiation-mediation simulation. The context is a product failure crisis in a manufacturing company with highly autonomous units. The heads of two divisions are in a dispute over who has responsibility for failures in a key product. The head of... View Details
Watkins, Michael D. "Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for R. Thompson, Vice President, Marketing." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-172, January 1999.
- January 1999
- Exercise
Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for C. Stevens, Vice President, Assembly Division
Seneca is a three-party negotiation-mediation simulation. The context is a product failure crisis in a manufacturing company with highly autonomous units. The heads of two divisions are in a dispute over who has responsibility for failures in a key product. The head of... View Details
Watkins, Michael D. "Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for C. Stevens, Vice President, Assembly Division." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-174, January 1999.
- January 1999
- Exercise
Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for Dr. D. Monosoff, Vice President, Data Devices Division
Seneca is a three-party negotiation-mediation simulation. The context is a product failure crisis in a manufacturing company with highly autonomous units. The heads of two divisions are in a dispute over who has responsibility for failures in a key product. The head of... View Details
Watkins, Michael D. "Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for Dr. D. Monosoff, Vice President, Data Devices Division." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-173, January 1999.
- January 1999
- Exercise
Seneca Systems (A): General and Confidential Instructions for Dr. D. Monosoff, Vice President, Data Devices Division
Seneca is a three-party negotiation-mediation simulation. The context is a product failure crisis in a manufacturing company with highly autonomous units. The heads of two divisions are in a dispute over who has responsibility for failures in a key product. The head of... View Details
Watkins, Michael D. "Seneca Systems (A): General and Confidential Instructions for Dr. D. Monosoff, Vice President, Data Devices Division." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-170, January 1999.
- January 1999
- Exercise
Seneca Systems (A): General and Confidential Instructions for R. Thompson, Vice President, Marketing
Seneca is a three-party negotiation-mediation simulation. The context is a product failure crisis in a manufacturing company with highly autonomous units. The heads of two divisions are in a dispute over who has responsibility for failures in a key product. The head of... View Details
Watkins, Michael D. "Seneca Systems (A): General and Confidential Instructions for R. Thompson, Vice President, Marketing." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-169, January 1999.
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
Effectiveness of the Hostile Mediator By: Zhang, Ting, Francesca Gino, and Michael Norton Abstract—Contrary to the tendency of mediators to defuse negative emotions between adversaries by treating them... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Article
Sadness, Identity, and Plastic in Over-shopping: The Interplay of Materialism, Poor Credit Management, and Emotional Buying Motives in Predicting Compulsive Buying
By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Masha Ksendzova and Ryan Howell
A comprehensive study is currently lacking to explain why material values strongly influence compulsive buying. The goal of the current study is to test if money management, buying motivations for improving mood and identity, and self-transformation expectations... View Details
Donnelly, Grant Edward, Masha Ksendzova, and Ryan Howell. "Sadness, Identity, and Plastic in Over-shopping: The Interplay of Materialism, Poor Credit Management, and Emotional Buying Motives in Predicting Compulsive Buying." Journal of Economic Psychology 39 (December 2013): 113–125.
- 14 Feb 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Fostering Translational Research: Using Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Firm Survival, Employment Growth, and Innovative Performance
- 2020
- Chapter
Foreign Direct Investment, Finance and Economic Development
By: Laura Alfaro and Jasmina Chauvin
Research has sought to understand how foreign direct investment affects host economies. This paper reviews the empirical literature, specifically addressing the question: How does FDI affect economic development of host countries and what is the role of local financial... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Condition; Development Economics
Alfaro, Laura, and Jasmina Chauvin. "Foreign Direct Investment, Finance and Economic Development." In Encyclopedia of International Economics and Global Trade, Vol. 1: Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Enterprise, edited by Mariana Spatareanu, 231–258. World Scientific, 2020.
- June 2014
- Article
The Red Sneakers Effect: Inferring Status and Competence from Signals of Nonconformity
By: Silvia Bellezza, Francesca Gino and Anat Keinan
We examine how people react to nonconforming behaviors, such as entering a luxury boutique wearing gym clothes rather than an elegant outfit or wearing red sneakers in a professional setting. Nonconforming behaviors, as costly and visible signals, can act as a... View Details
Bellezza, Silvia, Francesca Gino, and Anat Keinan. "The Red Sneakers Effect: Inferring Status and Competence from Signals of Nonconformity." Journal of Consumer Research 41, no. 1 (June 2014): 35–54. (Finalist, 2017 Best Article Award for a paper published in JCR in 2014.))
- February 2012
- Article
CEO Relational Leadership and Strategic Decision Quality in Top Management Teams: The Role of Team Trust and Learning from Failure
By: Abraham Carmeli, Asher Tishler and Amy C. Edmondson
In this study, we examine a complex pathway through which CEOs, who exhibit relational leadership, may improve the quality of strategic decisions of their top management teams (TMTs) by creating psychological conditions of trust and facilitating learning from failures... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Decisions; Management Teams; Trust; Learning; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Managerial Roles; Failure
Carmeli, Abraham, Asher Tishler, and Amy C. Edmondson. "CEO Relational Leadership and Strategic Decision Quality in Top Management Teams: The Role of Team Trust and Learning from Failure." Strategic Organization 10, no. 1 (February 2012).
- 17 May 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
- December 2011
- Case
Peace, Non-Aligned: The Pragmatic Optimism of Lakhdar Brahimi
By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green
Describes the background and career of Lakhdar Brahimi in numerous roles ranging from Algeria's ambassador to Indonesia and the Arab League, to serving as that country's foreign minister, and to his many years at the United Nations, with special emphasis on his actions... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Conflict Management; Personal Development and Career; Government and Politics; Algeria
Sebenius, James K., and Laurence A. Green. "Peace, Non-Aligned: The Pragmatic Optimism of Lakhdar Brahimi." Harvard Business School Case 912-028, December 2011.
- July 2016
- Article
Kicking Off Social Entrepreneurship: How A Sustainability Orientation Influences Crowdfunding Success
By: Goran Calic and Elaine Mosakowski
Research generally suggests that, relative to commercial entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs stand at a disadvantage at acquiring resources through traditional financial institutions. Yet interest in social entrepreneurship appears to be at an all-time high. The... View Details
Keywords: Crowdfunding; Entrepreneurial Finance; Social Entrepreneurship; Capital; Environmental Sustainability
Calic, Goran, and Elaine Mosakowski. "Kicking Off Social Entrepreneurship: How A Sustainability Orientation Influences Crowdfunding Success." Journal of Management Studies 53, no. 5 (July 2016): 738–767.
- Article
Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior
By: F. Gino and S. Desai
Four experiments demonstrated that recalling memories from one's own childhood lead people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the... View Details
Gino, F., and S. Desai. "Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 102, no. 4 (April 2012): 743–758.
- 1998
- Article
Looking Inside the Fishbowl of Creativity: Verbal and Behavioral Predictors of Creative Performance
By: J. Ruscio, D. M. Whitney and T. M. Amabile
This study set out to identify specific task behaviors that predict observable product creativity in three domains and to identify which of those behaviors mediate the well-established link between intrinsic motivation and creativity. One-hundred fifty-one... View Details
Ruscio, J., D. M. Whitney, and T. M. Amabile. "Looking Inside the Fishbowl of Creativity: Verbal and Behavioral Predictors of Creative Performance." Creativity Research Journal 11, no. 3 (1998): 243–263.