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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

& Melinda Gates Foundation, have begun to see the power of working with businesses to create shared value. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for example, has formed partnerships with leading global corporations to foster agricultural... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

spread such efforts, YALP is slowly but surely beginning to see on-the-ground results of the partnerships and innovation it’s designed to foster. In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, phrases like income inequality and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

son Philip joined the firm as a partner in 1885 and directed Lehman Brothers from 1901 to 1925. While Lehman Brothers increased its number of employees, until the 1920s only male members of the Lehman family could become partners. In 1924, John M. Hancock joined the... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

MBA 2020 Business Track Runner-Up Onramp is a customer partnership platform helping B2B SaaS companies provide world-class onboarding to new customers. Social Enterprise Track, 2020 Mosaic Sarah Schewe, HBS 2020 Social Enterprise Track... View Details

04 May 2023
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Class of 2024 Embarks on Global Immersion

sessions, and immersive design thinking projects—to help students broaden their global perspective. Through partnerships with small- and medium-sized companies in each immersion city, student-led teams work closely with local businesses... View Details

05 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

What began as a misunderstanding about specifications and deadlines between a manager at RLX, a software development firm, and a manager at Impress, one of its clients, had escalated into a conflict charged with growing mistrust. Both RLX and Impress had money to lose... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

01 Dec 1997
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Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

partnerships with others, like Time Warner. Martha had lots of ideas and a great sense of the possibilities of the businesses and the potential for brand building, but what was missing was a real game plan for getting there. Conversely, I... View Details

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Lehman Brothers Gay and Lesbian Network, Lehman Employees of African Descent, the Latin American Council, and Women’s Initiatives Leading Lehman. Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in Business, created in 2006 as a joint partnership between... View Details

07 Jul 2003
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4+2 = Sustained Business Success

its connections with people at all levels of the company. Inspire management to hone its capacity to spot opportunities and problems early. Appoint a board of directors whose members have a substantial stake in the company's success. Mergers and View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

management. To take advantage of unpredictable windows that might open and close quickly, and to spot and avoid unpredictable threats, leadership is required "beyond one larger-than-life executive," he says. An inseparable partnership... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

June 2012
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Leadership Is a Conversation

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind

Globalization and new technologies have sharply reduced the efficacy of command-and-control management and its accompanying forms of corporate communication. In the course of a recent research project, the authors concluded that by talking with employees, rather than... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Management Style; Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Cooperation; Partners and Partnerships

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Competitiveness Partner to Develop Value Measurement Tool for Hospitals Washington, DC (July 18, 2019): Leaders from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness gathered on Capitol Hill today to... View Details

19 Apr 2023
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A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

partnership introductions. One example: Saggioro Leal introduced NotCo, a food-tech company that uses artificial intelligence to create sustainable and accessible plant-based foods, to executives at Starbucks and Burger King Latin America... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

11 Mar 2001
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Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

British companies, the partnership form remained widely employed by many of the parent merchant firms. By 1914 some of the largest merchant groups continued to employ the partnership form. Even the minority... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

06 Jul 2016
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How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

Research has shown that the benefits of globalization are substantial. For example, a study of the effects of the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership by the Peterson Institute for International Economics projects benefits in US economic... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

09 Oct 2001
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Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

can come to the defense of one another by providing help in times of crisis. They can take significant satisfaction in developing bonds of partnership and friendship and feel free of concerns about being double-crossed. Relations of this... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

accumulation. In 2017, together with Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, Bloomberg Philanthropies launched the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative to provide intensive leadership training for mayors and senior city officials. In 2021, that... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team

homebuilders) could be interested in offering your product as an add-on in exchange for revenue-sharing agreements. Presenting a higher initial price and then offering fee rebates through such partnerships increases scalability without... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

example? AM: Yeah, and it was really her partnership with her CEO, Satya Nadella, the two of them together. And there were other people on that team, but they both stood out in how they revealed their commitment to inclusion, led this... View Details

16 Mar 2020
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How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

when life goes back to normal. Forward-thinking leaders can run better organizations by creating conditions that allow customers to be more helpful. When service provision is a true partnership and customers are pitching in, employees... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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