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  • December 2012
  • Article

Reflected Knowledge and Trust in Global Collaboration

By: Mark Mortensen and Tsedal Neeley
Scholars argue that direct knowledge about distant colleagues is crucial for fostering trust in global collaboration. However, their arguments focus mainly on how trust accrues from knowledge about distant collaborators' personal characteristics, relationships, and... View Details
Keywords: Global Work; Organizational Studies; Knowledge; Trust; Cooperation; Global Range; Relationships; Behavior; Personal Characteristics
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  • 23 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

purpose, along with Chester Barnard’s compatible theory of business organizations as cooperative systems. Aristotle stresses the ethicality of cooperation in transactional settings; Barnard stresses the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning

Africa, an arts and handicrafts cooperative that empowers women to rise out of poverty by selling their own crafts. Another team created a syllabus for teaching entrepreneurship for Mission Schools International, an organization founded... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Water for Life

develop alongside the company through our Vendor Management program. Since 2007, Manila Water has generated more than 20,000 jobs through these local enterprises. Similarly, Manila Water gives community-based cooperatives sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 2011
  • Report

State of the Region Report 2011: The Top of Europe's Quest for Resilience--A Competitive Region Facing a Fragile Global Economy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The State of the Region Reports provide an annual discussion of competitiveness and collaboration across the Baltic Sea Region, covering the Nordic countries, the Baltic countries, Northern Germany, Northern Poland, and Northwestern Russia. The 2011 edition, the 8th in... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Cooperation; Baltic Countries
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  • June 2006 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

MassMEDIC: The Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council

By: Willis M. Emmons III, Michael E. Porter and Spencer Wallace
Set in 2004, as Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council (MassMEDIC) President Tom Sommer contemplates the future direction of a successful medical device cluster association. Focuses on the formation of cluster organizations and their roles and effectiveness,... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Industry Clusters; Nonprofit Organizations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Cooperation; Massachusetts
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  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

The Power of National Identity

International Monetary Fund looked at “the deeply institutionalized economic interdependence” that existed among these states and assumed that continued close economic cooperation would be “an obvious necessity.” Similarly, many world... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • 09 Aug 2011
  • News

A Toast to Macchu Pisco

countries are riding the pisco boom but the Peruvian version has a quality edge, the Times asserted. Explains Asher, “We get our grapes from a cooperative of women growers. We monitor the wild yeasts, use cold fermentation, and generally... View Details
Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

receive multiple evaluations and thereby lowering the incidence of "false negatives." Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-116%20(3)_5dfe7025-e2cc-4e07-bfb4-f4204ae3d52c.pdf   Working Papers The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2010
  • Teaching Note

Diamond Foods (TN)

By: David E. Bell, Natalie Kindred and Mary Louise Shelman
Teaching Note for 510013.. View Details
Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Transformation; Advertising Campaigns; Corporate Strategy; Product; Organizational Culture; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • November 1998 (Revised December 1998)
  • Case

Amul and India's National Dairy Development Board

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Srinivas Sunder
Amul Dairy has been a successful change maker in India's dairy system. How does it move from this success to the new challenges facing the Indian food system--is it an appropriate model? View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Leading Change; Success; Cooperative Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Food and Beverage Industry; India
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  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Christensen Center: Open for Business

and refine their teaching techniques. After he analyzed the tapes of the first-year courses, for example, he worked with the professors to help them learn from videos of their teaching and from each other. Videotaping classes is one of several tools Emmons will use in... View Details
Keywords: Chris Christensen; Christensen Center; case teaching; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • February 2009 (Revised November 2016)
  • Exercise

Congo River Basin Project: Role for Dr. Campos

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Anne Starks Acosta, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer
The director of a research coalition and the founder/coordinator of an NGO consortium meet to discuss the possibility of jointly drafting a proposal for an integrated research and development project in the Congo River basin. Approved projects will receive an annual... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Process; Projects; Research and Development; Non-Governmental Organizations; Cooperation; Congo Basin
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  • September 2007
  • Case

Collaborating to Improve

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Ingrid M. Nembhard
Madison Memorial Hospital is deciding between a variety of quality improvement strategies. Highlights quality improvement collaborative—organized programs popularized by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in which teams from multiple institutions work together to... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Performance Improvement; Quality; Groups and Teams; Cooperation; Integration; Health Industry
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  • June 2018 (Revised June 2018)
  • Teaching Note

Blake Sports Apparel and Switch Activewear: Bringing the Executive Team Together

By: Boris Groysberg, Tricia Gregg and Katherine Connolly Baden
Teaching Note for HBS No. 417-048. View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Groups and Teams; Performance Effectiveness; Problems and Challenges; Behavior; Communication; Cooperation; Decision Making; Leadership
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  • Web

Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

support the war effort.... [T]he Military Planning Division was a key component, benefiting from what proved to be a novel cooperation among science, industry, and the military." Christopher G. Hartman, Advance Man: The Life and Times of... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

The Rites of Autumn

Once again, the weather cooperated for fall reunions with clear skies and mild temperatures welcoming alumni back to campus. On September 21-24, some fourteen hundred graduates and guests from the MBA Classes of 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970,... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 29 Mar 2023
  • News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

and their families were severely affected by the earthquake," says Sirali. Now in the second phase, FIBA Group is quickly procuring and distributing 850 refurbished container homes that will provide shelter to approximately 5,000 people in Gaziantep, Hatay, and... View Details
  • 05 Jul 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?

subject of this column—last year, Joshua Cooper Ramo’s book The Seventh Sense was the centerpiece of the August column. While we can’t assume that CEOs endorse what they read, it’s nevertheless interesting to know what they are thinking... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

subsequently reduced scrutiny of voluntary disclosers, which suggests that self-reporting can help regulators economize government enforcement resources and develop cooperative relationships with firms that are committed to self-policing.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace