Cooperatives - Publications - Faculty & Research

October 1993
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03 Nov 2008
HBS Case

Economics of the Ethanol Business

What happens when a group of Missouri corn farmers gets into the energy business? With consumers paying more than double for gasoline than they did a year ago, turning crops into fuel, not food, seems like a good way to go—but not so fast. In "Mid-Missouri... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Energy

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Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Team Structures Enable Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups

By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson

This paper shows how mesolevel structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Health Care and Treatment; Cooperation; Health Industry

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2014 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Suhasini Belle Derks speaks at 2014 Gender & Work Symposium: Relationships among Women Suhasini Kiran Gandhi & Becky Cooper Kiran Gandhi & Becky Cooper speak at 2014 Gender & Work Symposium Kiran Gandhi &... View Details

2003
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Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision Making

By: Howard Raiffa, John Richardson and David Metcalfe

Keywords: Negotiation; Theory; Cooperation; Decision Making

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01 Dec 1997
News

Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

and strike deals long before the Hebron agreement was signed, and this continues even in the wake of the Har Homa settlement at Jabal Abu Ghneim. Today, business-to-business cooperation and alliances across borders are being pursued... View Details

Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz

December 1998
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The Architecture of Cooperation: Managing Coordination Costs and Appropriation Concerns in Strategic Alliances

By: Ranjay Gulati and Harbir Singh

Keywords: Design; Cooperation; Management; Cost; Strategy; Alliances

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September 1998
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Producer Network Positions and Propensities to Collaborate: An Investigation of Strategic Alliance Formations in a High-technology Industry

Keywords: Cooperation; Strategy; Alliances; Information Technology; Networks; Technology Industry

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1988
Chapter

Joint Ventures and Collaborative Arrangements in the Telecommunications Equipment Industry

By: Gary P. Pisano, Michael Russo and David Teece

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Cooperation; Communication Technology; Telecommunications Industry

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The inventor of the first electronic iron with the unique "Hotpoint" feature, Richardson is credited with laying the foundation for the billion-dollar household appliance industry. Hotpoint's irons were very successful in the early 1900s, owing in large part... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

December 1994
Case

Hewlett-Packard: Boeblingen Manufacturing Operation (BMO)

By: Patricia Bost, Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Cost Accounting

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December 2016
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The Effects of Endowment Size and Strategy Method on Third Party Punishment

By: Jillian J. Jordan, Katherine McAuliffe and David G. Rand

Numerous experiments have shown that people often engage in third-party punishment (3PP) of selfish behavior. This evidence has been used to argue that people respond to selfishness with anger, and get utility from punishing those who mistreat others. Elements of the... View Details

Keywords: Third-party Punishment; Norm-enforcement; Strategy Method; Economic Games; Cooperation; Emotions; Fairness

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December 2019
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When Do We Punish People Who Don't?

By: Justin W. Martin, Jillian J. Jordan, David G. Rand and Fiery Cushman

People often punish norm violations. In what cases is such punishment viewed as normative—a behavior that we “should”or even“must”engage in? We approach this question by asking when people who fail to punish a norm violator are, themselves, punished. (For instance, a... View Details

Keywords: Punishment; Norms; Cooperation; Societal Protocols; Adaptation

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01 Mar 2015
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New Idea: State of the Art

Photos courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum On the subject of art’s relevance in the digital age, Scott Belsky (MBA 2008) has never been one to mince words. “Art institutions need to change the way we think about the... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Adobe; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

December 2005
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IBM and Eclipse (A)

IBM faces a collective action problem: It open sourced its $40 million application platform and has to convince other companies to contribute. Explores the events leading up to IBM's decision to make the Eclipse platform available as an Open Source project. In 1998,... View Details

Keywords: Digital Platforms; Open Source Distribution; Cooperation; Adoption; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry

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The Production - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Production Chapter Introduction Chapter Images The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Production: A Cooperative Enterprise Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email: histcollref@hbs.edu... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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New York Club Focuses on Entrepreneurship

April, the club hosted "Untethered New York: Strategies for Success in the Mobile Internet World," in cooperation with the New York Times and angelbeat.com. Carl Yankowski, CEO of Palm, Inc., and Microsoft's SVP Craig Mundie were featured... View Details