Cooperation - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

subsequently reduced their scrutiny over voluntary disclosers, which suggests that self-reporting can help regulators economize government enforcement resources and develop cooperative relationships with firms that are committed to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52284 Cooperative Strategic Games By: Kohlberg, Elon, and Abraham Neyman Abstract—We examine a solution concept, called the “value," for n-person strategic games. In applications, the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

important for [managers] to ask the question, 'Do you work best autonomously, or do you work best cooperatively in a team?' " Putting workers in the right environment, Lakhani says, may be a crucial way to motivate them to better... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

U.K., Germany, the Netherlands, and the EU can be made to cooperate on such a project. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707016 System on a Chip 2008: Ardentec... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

first—about thirty people—and their salaries could be paid by the rich member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. These employees would look for promising sites for the initial projects, seek out local... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

attention to the question of when to mix qualitative and quantitative data in a single research paper. We discuss implications of the framework for educating new field researchers. Cooperation and Equity in the River Sharing Problem... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2025
Case

Constitutional Fiction: John Miller & the Legitimacy of Family Constitutions

By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati and Sophia Pan

John Miller sat reviewing his family’s Constitution, grappling with how best to implement and enforce its provisions. Designed to prevent ambiguity in governance, the Family Constitution set out core values and guidelines to promote harmony and cohesion among family... View Details

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09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

primary customer? Decided whether shareholders, employees, or customers come first? Narrowed down which performance variables to track? Have you set creative boundaries? Are you generating creative tension? Are you promoting cooperation... 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

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Gratitude Invites Exploitation by Competitors By: Yip, Jeremy, Kelly Kiyeon Lee, Cindy Chan, and Alison Wood Brooks Abstract—Previous research has revealed that expressing gratitude motivates prosocial behavior in cooperative... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

November 2017
Teaching Note

Tencent

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-426. Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking... View Details