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- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
the valuation work on this somewhat unorthodox deal. After initial contact with the CEO, we spent a great deal of time ensuring that the key analyst bought into the deal. When intensive negotiations finally began with the CEO, the... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
It wasn't empathy. It was a kind of powerful curiosity." Perfecting this intense curiosity is valuable for negotiators, even when the risks aren't as high as they were for these officers. Too often, however, we get so wrapped up in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
partnerships with the accompanying rigidities. Cooperation in some forms co-exists with intense competition in the marketplace. Firms in a cluster interact because it's in their interest to do so, not because they own each other. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
at times in the form of subsidies. For example, Amazon provides discounts on its e-reader prices for customers who agree to receive targeted ads from Amazon and third-party sellers on their devices. Higher intensity of competition between... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Depression? By: Nanda, Ramana, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We find a negative relationship between bank distress and the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation during the Great Depression, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
distress during the Great Depression had a significant negative impact on the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, because a sufficient... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
matter if they come from pure-play online retailers or omnichannel retailers, suck volume out of a store and often lead to more intense price competition. For reasons we'll cover later in this book, neither buy-online-pick-up-in-store nor... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
However, traditional options for improving the algorithm, such as hiring and training new employees, were time intensive and costly. Hastings decided to improve Netflix's software by crowdsourcing and began planning the Netflix Prize, an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
resorts are themselves environmentally intensive operations. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611002-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611003-PDF-ENG Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
provide illustrations from the Toyota Motor Company to show how deliberate perturbation enables efficient exploration in the midst of intense exploitation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf Employee Selection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
intense debate about the appropriate level of protection for intellectual property. The Internet provides a natural crucible to assess the implications of reduced protection because it drastically lowers the cost of copying information.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
on retail prices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52208 January 2017 Journal of Conflict Resolution Beyond Zeroes and Ones: The Intensity and Dynamics of Civil Conflict By: Chaudoin, Stephen, Zachary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
complained of intense time and productivity pressures, these issues were seen as a barrier only for women, defined as "work/family conflict." Meanwhile, measures taken to combat work/family issues pushed women off the partner... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
revisiting the issue of what the company should be. Becoming a successful solar cell manufacturer would potentially be much more lucrative than becoming a successful equipment supplier. But, the latter was much less capital intensive and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
and in sync with the larger interests of the nation— Nancy Koehn Nancy Koehn: As a historian, I would note that this is not the first time that Americans have gone through intense questioning about the system and the conduct of its... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
increased enrollment by 3–5 percentage points. Newly eligible households were also 20% more likely to own a business, with larger effects for incorporated firms. I find large increases in labor supply on the extensive and intensive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
improve education outcomes by coordinating the actions of diverse community stakeholders-nonprofit service providers, school districts, government, parents, businesses, and others. StriveTogether had an intense focus on collective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
MD/MBA '09.) "Negotiating the people challenges involved in launching a company was a great learning experience for me as a future general manager," Puz says. "Working on the business plan for DFA was an incredibly intense experience. I... View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
attracted to skilled labor and specialized suppliers than they are to potential knowledge spillovers, even in R&D intensive industries. We also find that leading firms will be more attracted to pools of labor, suppliers, and potential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace