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2008
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Great Negotiator Case Study Package

By: James K. Sebenius, Jeswald Salacuse, Daniel Curran, Rebecca Hulse and Kristin Schneeman

This special curriculum package includes the following case studies in the Great Negotiator Case Study Series, each of which features a past recipient of PON's Great Negotiator Award:

2000 PON Great Negotiator: "To Hell with the Future, Let's Get... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation

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The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.

Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the... View Details

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

students. HealthLab: A new University-wide accelerator for student ventures, HealthLab brings together students and postdocs from across the Harvard ecosystem to solve challenges in public and planetary health. Legal support: Harvard Law... View Details

16 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

According to a new book by Harvard Business School's Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. An outside-in perspective means that... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

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Greenhill House | About

research centers around the world—assist faculty, students, and alumni in their work, encouraging a global outlook in research, study, and practice. About the Name Greenhill House was named originally for George M. Humphrey (1890-1970), View Details

23 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

programming challenge. We find that greater amounts of new code and novel recombinations of others' code, in a contest submission, increases both the probability of achieving top rank and the subsequent reuse by others in their own... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

your order.” Gender-tailored marketing messages from these brands and others—including Mangria and Pink Power tools—are common, yet new research shows they can turn off consumers, particularly women. In fact, they often backfire to the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

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Antitrust & Competition Policy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

and new ideas—drive growth in productivity. Antitrust policy, however, remains focused on static goals. While the need for a vigorous antitrust policy is greater than ever, antitrust authorities must use... View Details

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Scandal, Social Movement, and Change: Evidence from #MeToo in Hollywood

By: Hong Luo and Laurina Zhang

Social movements have the potential to effect change in firm decision-making. In this paper, we examine whether the #MeToo movement, spurred by the Harvey Weinstein scandal, led to changes in the likelihood of Hollywood producers working with female writers on new... View Details

Keywords: Gender Inequality; Social Movement; Scandal; Creative Industries; Project Selection; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Social Issues; Film Entertainment; Projects; Change

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25 Apr 2023
Blog Post

How Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) Transform Your MBA Learning Journey

As mentioned in a previous post, Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) are courses that offer a great opportunity for students to think about career choices, gain practical skills, and explore new topics. These are no-fee, no-credit courses... View Details

01 Sep 2021
What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms (Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2015). Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Seeking a Path to Trust,” The New York Times, November 12, 2019. Sandra J. Sucher and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

triggered by fault lines and coalitions. This review sets the stage for describing novel pathways through which identities and interests, when considered together, can affect team processes and outcomes. Design/approach-We use an extended... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

industry to establish its own in-house public relations department, distinct from its marketing division. In 1936, the Pittsburgh-based corporation created a PR department headquartered at 71 Broadway in New View Details

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce this harmful consequence of loss aversion, we propose a View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

depression. Night after night, I laid in bed, agonizingly questioned myself: "Why can't I just be seen as normal? Why can't I be straight? What's wrong with me?" However, what consistently fueled my determination to confront the challenges of each View Details

05 Feb 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

such transparency extend? What do you think? References: Adam Bryant, He’s Not Bill Gates, or Fred Astaire, The New York Times, February 14, 2010, p. B2. Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work, (New York:... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in a Consumer Society

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of... View Details

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

Associates (New York City), in a recent company publication. "Business units have used their budgets as a bargaining chip, bidding high to get a larger slice of the pie while keeping their cards close... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

29 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

and stock different kinds of trousers. Ortega offers new answers And so it is with inequality measures as well: In our analyses of data from the United States, we show that the Gini coefficient—while often a decent measure—is not the best... View Details

Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser

22 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Avant Ski Makes Turns in Ski Media Objectivity

It seems like a former life: Investment banking at Goldman Sachs. Healthcare equity research at Citi. Boutique leadership consulting for aspiring CEOs. While Morristown, New Jersey, native Alli Widman (MBA 2009) cut her teeth in finance... View Details

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