cross cultural collaboration - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

same battle, participants said. While it is no simple matter to create collaborative relationships for treating disease among workforces, other partnership models unrelated to HIV/AIDS may provide ideas, inspiration, or red flags. The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1997
News

Banking on HBS

Since his arrival in 1995 as its new president, James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) has set in motion sweeping cultural and operational changes at the World Bank. One of Wolfensohn's early initiatives, undertaken together with HBS and several... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

Sadun says. The Importance Of Trust That said, Sadun notes that technology is hardly the only factor that determines whether a firm allows decision-making both up and down the corporate ladder. Another major factor lies in cultural... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Apr 2018
News

A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

tech, but I have a pencil and cross it off.” Along the way, Joyner has collected objects from 1945 to the present. The American artists who comprise her earliest acquisitions were “all mightily overlooked,” she notes. “They were pioneers... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Oct 2001
News

Making a World of Difference

their father ran successful textile and real estate businesses. Both parents believed in the importance of moral values, and in the fourth grade, the twins began studying at the Ethical Culture Society's Fieldston School. "Each week we'd... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

22 Feb 2022
News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

collaboration between small suppliers and large businesses. Cluster research shows that this, in turn, creates resilience during economic ups and downs. “Everyone benefits when large businesses treat their small suppliers as partners in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2007
News

Getting Security Right

seven-year collaboration with University of North Carolina economics professor Steven Rosefielde. Their impressively researched volume challenges global leaders in government and business alike to push beyond View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2014
News

All For One

Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, she’d taught Harvard’s leadership course during the 1990s, but had begun to suspect that the visionary model of leadership on which it was based wasn’t ideal for creating a View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

ladders up to unload our bags,” recalls McFarlan, the School’s Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and a tactful bridge builder who has played a key role in launching and guiding several collaborative... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

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Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library

are safe, fearless and empowered to win with unbridled ideas. It is a practical guide for creating cultures where knowledge and innovation flourish because people feel safe to contribute their ideas—it also increased the popularity of the... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Ink

column was a way to explore the link between a business leader’s workspace and the culture of his or her organization. Along the way, Raje—former chief executive of BP Ergo, her family’s office furniture business—featured the hotel... View Details

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508046 Enterprise Culture in Chinese History: Zhang Jian and the Dasheng Cotton Mills Harvard Business School Case 308-068 This... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

culture that permits dissent and failures. The highly uncertain nature of both creativity and entrepreneurship. Such high levels of uncertainty lead to the dilemma of whether to choose the certain but incremental improvement that... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire

03 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 3

offices. Yet, amid a shaky world economy and an increasingly cutthroat legal profession, Duane Morris' attorneys began to wonder-could collaboration survive as a firm value? Would the firm's culture help it... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

asking her, "Tell me why you're here at HBS taking a place away from a man." HBS professors' attitudes toward women were a mixed bag, too. As early as the 1940s and into the 1960s, several HBS faculty members would cross the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

company as opposed to their department or themselves; hire people whose values and skills fit the culture and strategy, thus reinforcing and sustaining the community of purpose. In addition, leaders spend a great deal of time on... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2017
News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Australia (HPE), launched the Dandelion program in 2015, introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the IT workforce. Dandelion—an innovative collaboration between HPE and the Department of Human... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

building a culture based on collaboration, teamwork, and respect—and not tolerating employees who dominate or treat other employees as if they are there to serve them. Leaders sometimes inadvertently send the wrong message by excusing—or... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

Art Museum By: Lund, Ragnar, and Stephen A. Greyser Abstract—This paper examines cultural sponsorship from a partnership perspective. It studies the collaboration between two international institutions, a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Approach By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Expected return proxies (ERP) derived from a log-linear present-value (LPV) framework—combining the book value of equity, profitability, and market prices—predict the View Details