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- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Information for Euro Elektrische Keramische Vorrichtungen (Euro EKV), GmbH Harvard Business School Exercise 908-033 In a six-party negotiation exercise, the TNDA Corp. plans to sell the Elcer Products Division to one of four potential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
with routine traders are essentially zero. Further, opportunistic trades predict future news and events at a firm level, while routine trades do not. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/pomalco.pdf Course Materials For: 'Being a Leader and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
Richard H.K. Vietor, Rawi E. Abdelal, and Jan W. Rivkin created a classroom exercise that asked HBS students to assess the potential "offshorability" of more than 800 occupations in the United States. The View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
banking industry and Garanti Bank's position within it, and asks students to consider whether partnership makes sense for Garanti and, if so, which bidder it should select. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709401 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Ethics in Globalization
followed along and failed to exercise independent judgment. It is difficult or impossible to regulate against greed and against many of the other ethical shortcomings that have been seen. What can be done is to force greater transparency... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rafael M. Di Tella
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
information about a company he or she manages. The student must make decisions about pollution-reducing investments and production levels in the face of uncertainty about pollution permit prices. Students form groups of five, and throughout the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. If you have resolved to exercise more, try ignoring what your peers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?
let go. Finding a happy medium is far from easy. Diana Baumrind, a pioneering research psychologist, observed that parents often behave in ways that are either authoritarian, permissive, or negligent, with a tendency to bounce among the three approaches. Authoritarian... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
to help themselves. Any public health system must respect the reality of these consumer differences and not withhold care from people simply because they do not engage and do not speak up. As Atul Gwande has stated elegantly, “Patients are pleased to have their... View Details
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
behavior. Indeed, a significant cost for corporations—the cost associated with compensating key employees with stock options—was until recently treated as an expense for tax purposes but not for financial accounting purposes. More specifically, the value of stock... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
fictional three-party negotiation between a primary insurer and two reinsurers. It is appropriate for use in a wide variety of courses, including Financial Institutions, Negotiations, and courses related to the Insurance and Reinsurance industry. This View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
resolve internal conflicts. In the Negotiations course, students not only analyze a number of case studies, but also participate in a series of negotiation exercises that give them hands-on practice with a variety of deal-making... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
planning can and can't do. While scenario planning can't forecast the future, the outcomes from its exercises help managers assign task forces around the necessary actions implied by the scenarios and create early warning indicators that... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
to reduce the total allowable pollution levels for the cement firms. Students are instructed to try to maximize profits and not, for example, install clean technology because they think it is morally responsible. Trading Begins In class, a year of trading is condensed... View Details
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706504 Improving Performance: Boat Building Exercise Harvard Business School Exercise 606-147 Provides a framework for team problem solving and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
accumulation affects the development of organizational capabilities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-035.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsInformation Use by Managers in Decision Making: A Team Exercise Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
Exercises Harvard Business School Exercise 208-045 Introduces students to simple forms and solution techniques for real options found in corporate settings. Revised versions of problems appearing in an older... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
What is missing is any role for market forces in governance, with their promise to achieve better cost effectiveness and innovation in governance practice. The authors argue that governance-linked D&O insurance is a means toward that end of market-based governance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
urgency—with on-your-toes behavior that looks for opportunities and problems, that energizes colleagues, that beams a sense of "let's go." Without enough urgency, large-scale change can become an exercise in pushing a gigantic... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
in the United States, in the 1980s. They started exerting direct pressure on the boards to remove the management of under-performing companies. By the early 1990s, we saw a further rise in institutional investor power and their willingness to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace