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Lauren Booker

the 1960s and '70s. At Yale, Lauren exhibited the family traits of social activism and leadership, becoming the head of the Black Student Alliance and co-founding a magazine entitled Sphere, "focused on global citizenship... View Details

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

relationships. In many cases, partnerships are a more appropriate way to grow than M&A. Even a company as large as IBM uses alliances in its PC business, which has been deemed unprofitable but still important given its links with... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar

20 Nov 2014
News

Strengthening America's Public Education System

educators, to strengthen education, rather than simply alleviating the symptoms of a weak system. “That’s really needed if America is going to lead in public education and business competitiveness,” says Rivkin. The alliance also... View Details

25 Jun 2019
Cold Call Podcast

In the Platform Economy, Upwork Searches for Better Matches in the Cloud

Keywords: Re: David B. Yoffie; Web Services

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh

in both engineering and creative writing, Yeh helped launch Juno Online Services, one of the pioneers of free e-mail. He then moved on to D.E. Shaw, where he developed strategic alliances for the firm's online brokerage division. But the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2004
News

Starting Off on the Right Foot

Waldroop, the former codirector of MBA Career Development Programs at HBS who is a principal and cofounder of Peregrine Partners of Brookline, Massachusetts. “You need to familiarize yourself with the hierarchy. Who has the power and influence? Are there View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

1995
Chapter

Dealing with Blocking Coalitions and Related Barriers to Agreement: Lessons from Negotiations on the Oceans, the Ozone, and the Climate

By: James K. Sebenius

Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Negotiation; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change

Citation

Web

Best Practices | Information Technology

have an account with a social media platform (like Facebook or Gmail) Anyone who might have used a popular service (like Amazon, PayPal, Netflix, or the U.S. Post Office). Other Resources StaySafeOnline.org The National Cyber Security View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)

Women's sports is one of the hottest growth sectors in the business of sports. A case in point is the National Soccer Alliance (NSA), a new women's professional soccer league currently in the startup phase. With exhibition games, special... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

October 2009 (Revised May 2011)
Case

Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group

By: Lynn S. Paine and Lara Adamsons

Richard Wingfield considers whether to continue a cooperative agreement with industry peers in the deep-sea parcel tanker shipping industry. What are the economic and strategic implications of ending the agreement? What are the legal implications of continuing? Where... View Details

Keywords: Lawfulness; Lawsuits and Litigation; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Cooperation; Ship Transportation; Shipping Industry

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12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

supporting country organizations in Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Palestine, and Israel. If completed, it would eventually extend to encompass Abraham's travels to and from Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. With the endorsement of the U.N.'s View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2008
Book

Managing Up

By: Linda A. Hill

Managing up is not political game playing. Rather, it's a conscious approach to working with your supervisor toward goals that are important to both of you. Through managing up, you build a productive working relationship with your boss and create a way to use the... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Managerial Roles; Alliances; Value Creation

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July 2003 (Revised August 2006)
Case

House of Tata-2000: The Next Generation (B)

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu, Catherine M. Conneely and Kirsten O'Neil Massaro

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Alliances; Business Conglomerates; Emerging Markets; Cost; Management Teams; India

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04 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

details four key Southern responses: cooperation, competition, low uptake levels, and program revision via supplementation. The Southern-led Alliance for Responsible Mining first cooperated with Fairtrade International, then built enough... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2014
News

School Ties

Foundation alliance is to encourage and enable business leaders, with their educator partners, to find innovative ways to do that. "In addition to identifying issues, getting ideas out, and convening stakeholders," says Rivkin, "the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
News

Amy S. Langer

Langer has served as executive director of the National Alliance for Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO), a leading patient advocacy and educational nonprofit based in New York City. “As a patient, I found it very hard to get... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Social Enterprse Forum Discusses Strategy

nonprofit and for-profit partnerships, strategic alliances between nonprofits and corporations, a welfare-to-work partnership, and new strategies for affordable housing. "Nonprofits and NGOs face a host of complex problems that are unique... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Ideas: Books

global alliances and networks, and internationalization. Deep Smarts by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap (Harvard Business School Press) Each time an employee leaves a firm, an asset most valuable to its future is lost: the know-how that... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2014
News

Case Study: Declawing the Competition

and/or alliance with a pet food supplier—get your kit endorsed. 4) Consider the new B Corporation status, which allows additional tax benefits for socially responsible corporations. — Glenn E. Perkins (GMP 11, 2011) Take a page from the... View Details