Cooperation - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Jun 2013
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managers were showing resistance to the new changes. Meanwhile, the American manager found himself caught in the web of family and company politics, and completing his assignment without the cooperation of the middle management was... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2013
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partner with a government and/or form a joint venture with an existing nuclear power player. Reliance Industries as an investor in TerraPower could provide an entry point into the fast growing Indian market. At the same time, Gilleland and Gates had talked with China... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

game-theoretical agent-based models to explore group genesis in homogeneous populations and find robust group formation with just two basic principles: reciprocity and transitivity. These emergent groups demonstrate in-group cooperation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2009
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first of a series of highly successful projects that established GE Money Bank as a leader in the Swiss credit card market. The business concept was to cooperate with the country's leading retailer MIGROS to develop an innovative credit... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Nov 2008
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Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

render the most complete contemporary picture of MBA education. "The level of cross-school cooperation was unprecedented," Datar said afterward. For Datar and Garvin, the two-day session was a "thank-you" to the... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

Wheat Pool 2005 Harvard Business School Case 906-402 CEO Mayo Schmidt had just guided his firm through five difficult years. Survival had come with the difficult decision to change the 80-year-old agricultural cooperative into a Canadian... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
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Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details

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18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

economies about what these changes meant for them. The concerns manifested themselves in an inward focus, rumblings of protectionism, and questions about the worth of international cooperation and the multilateral system itself. Lagarde... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Oct 2012
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America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

skills that are embedded in the workforce, competitors, suppliers, customers, cooperative R&D ventures, and universities and often support multiple industrial sectors. Although industrial commons are largely supported by private... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

17 Feb 2009
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What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

to cooperate with the physicians in the future. Thus, moral gray zones enable both managers and workers to perform their roles. Q: Gray zones might be detrimental to organizational health, even subversive. When employees do things behind... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Jul 2006
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When Not to Trust Your Gut

land, construction, hiring, and so on. Yet overconfidence remains the norm; in a study by Arnold Cooper of Purdue University, Carolyn Woo of Notre Dame University, and William Dunkelberg of Temple University, more than 80 percent of... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra

23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

in self-confidence, assessments of others, and behavior in a cooperative game. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55101 forthcoming Management Science Effects of a Tournament Incentive Plan Incorporating... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Feb 2009
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This book, in honor of David Messick, is about social decisions and the role cooperation plays in social life. Noted contributors who worked with Dave over the years will discuss their work in social judgment, decision making, and ethics... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

organizational behavior modifications introduced via temporary incentive programs persist beyond the incentive period. In many cases, achieving team goals requires the cooperation of members of the organization external to the team and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Sep 2006
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HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

engineering firm, which helped to create the Volkswagen Beetle. So the alliance and cooperation with VW is reproduced." "In addition, as the founder of Porsche, Ferdinand Porsche also had Central European roots, since he was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

22 Dec 2003
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Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

cooperative problem solving. Parties conducting internal negotiations within well-run companies are likely to improvise in this manner. If you've successfully negotiated a new job assignment after a promotion, you've probably used a... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model responds to the twenty-first century requirements for excellence and relevance in undergraduate education, contributors examine if... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2012
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crises and of the response of western and central Europe to their gas dependence-I find that firms are driving these political outcomes; those firms are motivated by profits but employ sociological conventions along their ways; and firms generally seek the necessary... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

anti-regulation movement that started in the 1970s, voluntary self-regulation programs have emerged in many regulatory agencies, seeking to increase cooperation between government and industry to achieve greater and more cost-effective... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Nov 2012
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reflected on his tenure, which had seen the firm grow from a Canadian-focused agricultural cooperative to an international agribusiness with operations across the globe, including significant operations in Australia. Now he wondered: What... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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