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- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
agreement about decision-making criteria. At an off-site meeting, for example, the CEO can reveal his priorities and concerns by setting the agenda while giving his team a chance to participate View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Australian headquarters. The outcome of these efforts was the inception of a unique corporate-community negotiation process known as the Tintaya Dialogue Table. In December 2004, after three years of negotiation, BHP Billiton and the five... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
Working PapersAn Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s Author:Diego A. Comin No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-065.pdf (When) Are Religious People Nicer? Religious Salience View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
economy, and 87 percent believe that the United States should allow more highly skilled immigrants to move here to work and live (see Figures 2 and 3). Figure 2: Net View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
system in biotech. Parties entering into agreements bring different levels of information, causing valuation problems and high governance costs. IP rights are also tricky. The lawsuits that crop up in... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
speak the same language for the most part. In the social sector we don't have nearly that degree of agreement over what constitutes useful, common metrics, even in subsectors like health care, education, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
four non-mutually-exclusive types: constitutive norms; social purposes; relational comparisons with other social categories; and cognitive models. Contestation refers to the degree of agreement within a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Elfenbein Publication:Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 28, no. 1 (2012) Abstract We explore the relationship between exclusivity and state-contingent control rights using a sample of over 100 Internet portal alliance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
(New York Times, 2001), while Former President Clinton used his "bully pulpit" to urge corporations to attend to social problems (New York Times, 1996) and later advocated that minimum labor standards be a part of international... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 04 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should You Outsource Your Marketing?
Most companies already outsource a portion of their marketing function—advertising. But what about direct-mail management, lead management, or customer analytics? Increasingly, expertise in these and other marketing areas lies outside... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
expectations prior to any equity grant and using a template like the FAST agreement to solidify an adviser relationship. Most startups have at least two or three advisers filling in complementary areas,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- March 2008 (Revised June 2012)
- Background Note
ADR Choices
By: Michael Wheeler, James Sebenius and Marjorie Aaron
Six different business disputes, all in the shadow of pending litigation, are described. Students are asked to recommend the appropriate method of dispute resolution (mediation, arbitration, mini-trial, etc.) for each one, depending on the circumstances, especially to... View Details
Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Managerial Roles; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Conflict Management
Wheeler, Michael, James Sebenius, and Marjorie Aaron. "ADR Choices." Harvard Business School Background Note 908-040, March 2008. (Revised June 2012.)
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
urban development at the national level and in three cities in a single Chinese region. The study reveals that the initial liberalization of land was reversed after China's first contemporary real estate bubble in the early 1990s View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
policy issues. The climate agreement is only one of their many concerns. Many CEOs are assuming leadership for global issues essential to their business strategies. For example, PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi is advocating for healthier foods,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
and led the conference, everyone agrees that infrastructure is important and that problems exist—but not for the same reasons. The result: a lack of agreement on solutions.... View Details
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
the CEO of the African Capital Alliance (ACA), a private equity firm based in Nigeria. ACA has spent more than a year arranging a $500 million consortium bid to acquire and recapitalize Union Bank, Nigeria's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
market share that could only be lifted in a crisis by agreement of top regulators. It's also important to keep in mind that the FHA, which already guarantees mortgages for low- and moderate-income... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Working Papers Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting Authors: Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Goal setting is one of the most replicated View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details