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01 Mar 2017
News

The Middle Way

trying to maintain the essence of the pact. “The First Nations wanted to be sure that they had a much stronger say in how their own lands are managed and their place in them,” says Eamer. “And they wanted to... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

organizations which has largely overlooked the changing design of executive power and the means of senior executives, who have more leeway to construct their roles than View Details

26 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

And so the manipulation of the alternatives was really straightforward. Q: What can managers and other professionals learn from this research when they find themselves in negotiations? A: I think the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

kinwun Summing Up: What are the Earmarks of a “New Economy?” Responses to this month’s column rightly focused on the need for measures and standards before deciding whether we are entering an era of social... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Apr 2017
Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

at Harvard Business School who researches the evolution of peer-to-peer online platforms; and Andrei Hagiu, a visiting associate professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture

initially. Through her relationship with Austin, Rachel connected with Alex Iskold, Coach and VC in Resident at the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS and Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures [formerly View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

history courses today. The first HBS course designed specifically to teach entrepreneurial management - The Management of New Enterprises - was introduced in 1947, one View Details

01 Sep 2022
News

Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

with some of firms’ highest-achieving employees often ended with questions about how to manage the demands of parenting and work. Much of the... View Details

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

cover 90 percent of patients, jointly negotiate drug prices with manufacturers. In America's more fragmented and secretive system, pharmacy benefit managers act as mediators during many price negotiations.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

30 Nov 2017
News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

definition of convenience—delivery, mobile ordering, curbside pickup. Whatever way its customers wanted to get their food, McDonald’s should offer it. “People want to control their own experience,” says... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

26 May 2022
News

Bidding Up

management science. It was intended to use a lot of mathematics and probability, statistics, and so on, dealing with risky decisions. And in 1956, he had written this book with Duncan Luce called Games and... View Details

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

transfers by U.S. multinationals increased following reforms. Affiliates also increased their levels of R&D expenditures. These increases were concentrated among firms that one would expect to value IPR reform the most, namely those... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Dec 1996
News

Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business

candidates for this focus on complements. A new system of creating and sharing information is evolving, and it has many complementary parts. It is not enough to invent one part View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

(VIS '79), director of the Graduate Institute of Management and Technology in Johannesburg and longtime president of the HBS Club View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

railroad companies illustrate this industry’s role in creating not only the foundations of modern business, but also a system of capitalism that survives to this day. Buy Now,... View Details

16 Dec 2016
News

An Environmental Epiphany

philanthropic foundation, it struck me how much we could benefit from importing in that community, the management skills, and rational decision making, and the logic that I had been trained in, in the business world for the first 18 years... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Down the Memory Chute

even in 1955, the system was not ‘entirely satisfactory.’ ” Integral to these report-writing courses was the corps of red pencil–toting young women who were hired to assess students’ papers. It was Copeland... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

government, if they hope to see their science & technology initiatives continue into the next Administration. The case allows for discussion of the following: leading innovation ecosystems, building public-private and public-public... View Details

26 Aug 2020
News

What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

power structures and the fact that our economic system doesn't account for the negative externalities of pollution, injustice, etc. And that's why I think it's even more important to emphasize the... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

we actually use it. A shipper driven by overnight deliveries may never before have understood the importance of date-sensitive systems as they relate to leasing, for example. More important, we all are... View Details

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