Cooperatives - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

holistic consultants who offer classes and seminars on topics such as yoga and meditation, improving communications, creating more balance between work and home life, and expressing oneself using theater exercises. At Coopers &... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

14 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

quality when networks of schools cooperate with each other. When school districts work well, they create these scale advantages; when they do not work well, they are cumbersome bureaucracies. Because of the number of independent charter... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

25 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

Cooperatives: Origins, Structure, Financing, and Partnerships Ray A. Goldberg and Matthew PrebleHarvard Business School Note 911-410 This technical note explains how agricultural cooperatives are structured and financed, as well as how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

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

09 Nov 2010
First Look

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
First Look

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

25 Sep 2007
First Look

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