Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (743) Arrow Down

Show Results For

Conflict and ResolutionRemove Conflict and Resolution →

← Page 37 of 743 Results →

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web
  • June 1981 (Revised February 1983)
  • Case

West Point: The Cheating Incident (A)

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger
Presents a review of published data on the 1976 cheating scandal at West Point. Written from the perspective of the Academy Superintendent, it raises issues of ethics, organizational change and action planning in the face of conflicting stakeholder interests. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Higher Education; Ethics; Government Administration; Conflict and Resolution; Planning; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry
Related
  • April 1981 (Revised January 1997)
  • Case

Corning Glass Works: The Z-Glass Project

By: Kim B. Clark
Considers decisions facing the leader of a manufacturing staff project team assigned to a plant where yields have deteriorated sharply. The process is complex: the plant organization is not cooperative and there are deep disagreements about what is wrong and how to fix... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Production; Problems and Challenges; Conflict Management; Performance Productivity; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Groups and Teams; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Related
  • January 1980
  • Case

Technotronics, Inc.

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger
Describes the problems of resolving differences between two departments in a decentralized company. Based on Voltamp Electric Co. by T.C. Raymond. View Details
Keywords: Conflict Management; Interpersonal Communication
Related
  • July 1976 (Revised April 1983)
  • Case

Corning Glass Works: The Electronic Products Division (A)

By: Michael Beer
Describes a division of Corning Glass Works that finds itself with deep financial and organizational problems. Severe conflict and lack of coordination exist between functional groups. Employees do not have a sense of direction and morale is low. Provides sufficient... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Transformation; Employees; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Related
  • winter 1976
  • Article

Conflict Avoidance in Concession Agreements

By: L. T. Wells Jr. and David N. Smith
Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Agreements and Arrangements
Related
  • October 1971 (Revised September 1983)
  • Case

Sturdivant Electric Corp.

By: Richard L. Nolan
A unit manager on a field computer installation job is faced with recurring conflict between a programmer and his immediate supervisor. View Details
Keywords: Planning; Rank and Position; Problems and Challenges; Conflict and Resolution; Attitudes; Jobs and Positions; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Public Relations Industry; Computer Industry
Related
  • Article

The Role of Conflict in Economic Decision-Making Groups: Some Empirical Results

By: Joseph L. Bower
Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Economics; Decision Making; Groups and Teams; Information
Related
  • 1965
  • Article

Group Decision Making: A Report of an Experimental Study

By: Joseph L. Bower
When a group of people must decide on some one action, such as where shall we go out to dinner, or in an investment club which stock shall we buy, how do the individual members come to a decision that affords the best resolution of the question at hand for the group as... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Conflict Management
Related
  • Research Summary

By: Ashish Nanda
Ashish Nanda's research focuses on ethics and economics of managing professional service firms.

Nanda is working on a project that studies how management of conflict of interest influences professional identity, the role of professional associations, and the... View Details

  • Research Summary

Corporate Restructuring and Business Insolvency: Economic Impact and Best Practices

By: Stuart C. Gilson
Stuart C. Gilson is studying how severe financial distress impacts corporate policies and economic resource allocation. He is also studying how managers can best respond to financial distress in order to preserve and grow value. He is undertaking this research... View Details
  • Research Summary

Executive Compensation

By: Tatiana Sandino

Professor Sandino’s other stream of research examines players that influence the design of an executive’s compensation. She has examined the role shareholder activists can play in influencing CEO pay and found that a compensation-related shareholder proposal could... View Details

  • Teaching Interest

Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs

By: Tarun Khanna

Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs (GCE) is designed for students who are interested in entrepreneurial approaches to the biggest challenges of our time.  Grand Challenges are near-intractable, global problems that offer the tantalizing... View Details

  • Research Summary

Innovating in Energy: Learning from High-Potential Ventures

By: Joseph B. Lassiter

My work at HBS has always focused on high-potential ventures.  Most recently, these have been professionally financed start-ups and buyouts in newly emerging energy and cleantech businesses. These ventures tend to be based on innovative insights into technology and... View Details

  • Forthcoming
  • Article

It Takes Two to Untangle: Illuminating How and Why Some Workplace Relationships Adapt While Others Deteriorate After a Workplace Microaggression

By: Summer R. Jackson and Basima A. Tewfik
Although scholars largely assume that workplace microaggressions negatively impact the work relationship between the target and the perpetrator, relational deterioration is not the only observable relational outcome. Indeed, there are instances of relational... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Interpersonal Communication; Motivation and Incentives; Relationships; Conflict and Resolution
Related
  • Research Summary

Managing Multiple Identities at Work

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan
Peoples’ work identities, which are often a deep source of meaning for them, may conflict with or complement cultural, familial, or personal identities they value. A central focus of Professor Ramarajan’s work is understanding, on the individual level, how these... View Details
  • Research Summary

Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

By: Michael A. Wheeler

Disputes between organizations and among individuals are an all-too-familiar feature of modern life. Lengthy court proceedings consume resources, damage relationships, and often yield outcomes that do not fully satisfy the real needs of the litigants. As a result,... View Details

  • Teaching Interest

Negotiation

By: Kevin P. Mohan

Managerial success requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors, managing a conflict inside your firm, or resolving a dispute that is headed... View Details

  • Teaching Interest

Negotiation

By: Alison Wood Brooks

Negotiation is an Elective Curriculum course for HBS MBA students. Success at work and at home requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors,... View Details

  • Research Summary

Negotiation

By: Deepak Malhotra
A large part of my work focuses on negotiation, dealmaking and conflict resolution. My latest book is Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks... View Details
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web