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Strategies and Tactics in NGO-Government Relations: Insights from Slum Housing in Mumbai
By: Ramya Ramanath and Alnoor Ebrahim
Relationships between nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and government agencies have been variously described in the nonprofit literature as cooperative, complementary, adversarial, confrontational, or even co-optive. But how do NGO-government relationships emerge... View Details
Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Housing; Corporate Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Change Management; Business Strategy; Growth and Development; Non-Governmental Organizations; Accommodations Industry; Mumbai
Ramanath, Ramya, and Alnoor Ebrahim. "Strategies and Tactics in NGO-Government Relations: Insights from Slum Housing in Mumbai." Nonprofit Management & Leadership 21, no. 1 (Fall 2010): 21–42.
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Alibaba Group's transition from a startup to a multibusiness firm with over 15,000 employees in just over a decade. They analyze the evolving dynamics of internal competition and cooperation among Alibaba Group's subsidiaries. Students... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
Neumann-Morgenstern farsightedly stable set (Examples 1 and 2). Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-135.pdf PublicationsThe Global Competitive Position of the Baltic Sea Region Author:Christian H.M. Ketels Publication:Chapter 1.3 in Transnational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
customers to view each brand as a stand-alone business, but they wanted the business units to cooperate by redistributing cash among them and sharing customer lists, credit cards, real estate, vendors, technology, key employees, and... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
incentives to cooperate in cyberspace. (Maintain your belief that conflict is a healthy spur to higher performance; let the victor get the spoils.) Keep reminding divisions that they are separate businesses because they are different, and... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
in to regulate and fund the chemical’s production. In addition, governments could use existing vaccine stores more effectively through cooperative agreements with other countries and initiatives such as COVAX, which aims to distribute... View Details
- February 2010
- Teaching Note
SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool (TN)
By: Mukti Khaire
Teaching Note for [810044]. View Details
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
such far-flung but tightly integrated subsidiaries? How do you ensure that financial reporting is effective while simultaneously optimizing your tax position? How do you design compensation systems that provide for local accountability but don't make View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- July – August 2011
- Article
Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units
By: I. M. Nembhard and A. L. Tucker
Dynamic service settings-characterized by workers who interact with customers to deliver services in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex environment (e.g., hospitals)-play an important role in the economy. Organizational learning studies in these settings have... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Focus and Relationships; Learning; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Performance Improvement; Quality; Groups and Teams; Cooperation; Health Industry
Nembhard, I. M., and A. L. Tucker. "Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units." Organization Science 22, no. 4 (July–August 2011): 907–922.
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
stance on Japan's industrial support model of protectionism, cooperative R&D, and relaxed antitrust was almost entirely negative. "What we found [in our research] was that the government model was applied much more vigorously in... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
developers to either a competitive or a cooperative work regime to create software for NASA's Space Life Sciences Directorate. Half of the subjects-the "sorted" group-were assigned according to their institutional preferences;... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- March 2021
- Supplement
Toyota and Its Labor Union in Argentina (C)
By: Jorge Tamayo, Erik Snowberg and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago
Toyota Argentina (TASA) and the union representing automotive industry workers in the country had been working together since 2011 to address the challenges faced by Toyota’s manufacturing plant in Zárate (Argentina). In 2019, after achieving all the goals set forward... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Alignment; Cooperation; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Goals and Objectives; Auto Industry; Latin America; South America; Argentina
Tamayo, Jorge, Erik Snowberg, and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago. "Toyota and Its Labor Union in Argentina (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-413, March 2021.
- July 2013 (Revised June 2014)
- Case
Collaborating for Growth: Duane Morris in a Turbulent Legal Sector
By: Heidi K. Gardner and Annelena Lobb
By the late 2000s, the law firm Duane Morris had transformed itself from a growing U.S. law firm to a significant global player. The firm's uniquely collaborative organizational culture, which featured a transparent, data-driven compensation system, practice-group... View Details
Keywords: Professional Service Firm; Collaboration; Performance Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Competition; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Performance; Cooperation; Globalized Firms and Management; Compensation and Benefits; Volatility; Growth and Development Strategy; Legal Services Industry; United States
Gardner, Heidi K., and Annelena Lobb. "Collaborating for Growth: Duane Morris in a Turbulent Legal Sector." Harvard Business School Case 414-022, July 2013. (Revised June 2014.)
- June 2010 (Revised May 2017)
- Teaching Note
Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research
By: Robert Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg
Teaching Note for 109017. View Details
Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Levers Of Control; Strategy; Risk Management; Decisions; Cooperative Ownership; Product Development; Moral Sensibility; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Expansion; Science-Based Business; Research; Management Practices and Processes; Business Subsidiaries; Biotechnology Industry; Sydney
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
need to achieve "a cooperative effort on the part of physicians, hospitals, and yes, even patients." Milton Recht provided a list of responses: "Increase competition, allow medical business failures, remove guaranteed... View Details
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
other functional managers, in hopes that they'll work as a team and discover effective ways to cooperate better. "By narrowing their focus in terms of their business portfolio, companies increase the potential for synergies,"... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
benefit allied politicians. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-100.pdf Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Is Voluntary Disclosure a Signal of Effective Self-Policing? Authors:Michael W. Toffel and Jodi L. Short Abstract As regulators increasingly embrace... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
of having cases written about them? How do you work with reluctance or hesitation? A: Most Japanese companies I contacted to ask for cooperation to develop cases have been quite cooperative. I believe that the high academic standards of... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
Cooperation and Reciprocity in the Workplace Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Publication:Chap. 21 in Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity. Vol. 2, edited by Serge-Christophe Kolm and Jean Mercier Ythier, 1371-1435.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace