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- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
business continuity plan documentation, including contracts with vendors and insurers, to reflect evolving risk exposure and infrastructure needs. Technology: Similar to how you would test your tech systems, review your agreements under... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- October 2002 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
Codex Alimentarius and Food Labeling
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Hal Hogan
Codex Alimentarius is a set of international food standards devised by the Codex Commission, a body within the United Nations jointly sponsored by the FAO and WHO. The purpose of the standards is to harmonize global trade in food products and agricultural commodities,... View Details
Keywords: Standards; Trade; Agreements and Arrangements; Food; Agribusiness; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Globalization; Health; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., and Hal Hogan. "Codex Alimentarius and Food Labeling." Harvard Business School Case 903-417, October 2002. (Revised February 2006.)
- February 2001 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
Balance, Inc. (A)
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michele Lutz
Focuses on an entrepreneur who founded a successful health-food store and seeks to expand his retail concept. Illustrates the challenges he faces as he recruits his top management team. View Details
Keywords: Distribution Channels; Executive Compensation; Agreements and Arrangements; Outcome or Result; Recruitment; Management Teams; Selection and Staffing; Food and Beverage Industry
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Michele Lutz. "Balance, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 801-169, February 2001. (Revised May 2001.)
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
future. We experienced great pressure from both the government and the guerrillas. Threats came from everywhere. Still, we established a cease-fire that is in place today. Other agreements were destroyed, however, in March 1994 when... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
payoff is the ability to reconfigure any landscape in ways that make agreement possible that wasn't possible before." - Margie Kelley by Michael Watkins and Susan Rosegrant (Jossey-Bass) View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for James Austin
For example, the AMA broke off a cause-related marketing agreement with Sunbeam Corporation after its members decided that it was not appropriate to its social mission. This ended up costing the nonprofit association over $10 million in... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
dynamics of successive counteroffers. The second dimension moves beyond process to substance, with a focus on designing sustainable agreements that create value. While a one-dimensional negotiation, especially if inexperienced... View Details
Keywords: Anita M. Harris
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
words of Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics and an adviser to the study, “By far the most important factor in that growth is Wal-Mart.” Second, most of the value created by the company is actually pocketed by its customers in the form of lower prices. There is... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
Government Needs To Reach An Agreement With Creditors Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is right that the old political establishment corrupted Greek institutions and left the country bankrupt, and that the programs imposed by creditors have... View Details
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
offer a compensation increase, or talk about subsequent career opportunities, or even threaten dire consequences if the offer isn't accepted, the PSF managing partner has no such ammunition. His partner's compensation is largely determined by the firm's... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Audit: War & Peace
of the screen plot the discussion of the last hour, which has covered the historic agreement that Santos negotiated to end the country’s 52-year conflict with the FARC in 2016. The Nobel Prize winner is here to share his experiences and... View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
company in Boston, I was recruited by another speech recognition firm in Silicon Valley. At first I thought I wouldn't be able to take the job given the noncompete agreement I had signed in Boston, but I was nonetheless able to make the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Brett Lindsay Laffel
three days after graduation." At MLB, Brett joined the Labor Relations department while the collective bargaining agreement with the players' association was taking place in 2006. Later, she joined the Baseball Operations department... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
description of the euphoric moment in Paris on December 12, 2015, when delegates from around the world jumped from their seats, “crying, clapping, screaming” in celebration of their collective agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions... View Details
- February 1995
- Teaching Note
Vanity Fair Mills: Market Response System TN
By: David E. Bell
Teaching Note for (9-593-111). View Details
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
that have not been already described to them. The facilitator then shuttles this information back to the new leader, to prepare him or her for the discussion with the team. The discussion ends with agreement on action items, issues to be... View Details
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
managers must take a significant role in pushing for a multilateral agreement on foreign direct investment, or at least become active in promoting lesser changes that will lead to more balance and security in the current system. Otherwise... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
board and executive management team are in clear agreement on goals, strategy, and actions. Always involved in rapidly changing environments, nonprofits need to maintain "situational awareness," rethink their approaches, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- May 2007
- Case
Free the Grapes--Direct-to-Consumer Shipping in the Wine Industry
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Dennis A. Yao, Patricia Wu and Libby Cantrill
While wine tourism in the United States was booming, the majority of consumers who tasted a Cabernet Sauvignon in one of Napa Valley's tasting rooms were not permitted to ship the wine directly to their home. In 2002, direct-to-consumer shipping was either banned or... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Lawsuits and Litigation; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Dennis A. Yao, Patricia Wu, and Libby Cantrill. "Free the Grapes--Direct-to-Consumer Shipping in the Wine Industry." Harvard Business School Case 707-472, May 2007.