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  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

business affairs. As vice chairman of the Keidanren, Japan's most influential business organization, he specialized in trade issues. At the same time, he fostered understanding and cooperation with the United States as chairman of the... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2005
  • News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

cooperation of all our employees made the difference." Although he stepped down from IBM in 2002, Gerstner has not slowed his pace. In addition to serving as chairman of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm with nearly $30... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

and educational programs in social enterprise with the partnership of AVINA, a foundation that supports sustainable development in the area; the HBS Latin America Research Center (LARC); and six cooperating universities throughout the... View Details
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

Cooperation and Reciprocity in the Workplace Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Publication:Chap. 21 in Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity. Vol. 2, edited by Serge-Christophe Kolm and Jean Mercier Ythier, 1371-1435.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

administrative, cultural, and corporate capital of the Ruhr, Germany's industrial heartland of smoke, coal, and steel. Art became a source of competitiveness. Through creative cooperative efforts, which we could call cluster activities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2008 (Revised October 2012)
  • Case

Affinity Plus (A)

By: Dennis Campbell and Peter Tufano
The executive team at Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union has pushed the concept of members first deeply throughout the organization, empowering employees to put member-owners' interests ahead of either the organization's interests or their own interests. As a result of... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Financial Institutions; Financing and Loans; Profit; Cooperative Ownership; Conflict of Interests; Strategy
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  • March 2023
  • Case

Interior Collab

By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
After venture capital-funded online interior design agency Homepolish collapsed, its former freelance designers met to discuss next steps. The bitter experience led some of them to create a workers’ collaborative called Interior Collab. The founding members needed to... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Cooperative Ownership; Employee Ownership; Trust; Service Industry; Technology Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)
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  • 2009
  • Chapter

Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail
We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Identity; Cooperation
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  • September 2006 (Revised October 2007)
  • Case

Shinsei Bank: Developing an Integrated Firm

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Masako Egawa
Tom Pedersen, newly appointed chief learning officer (CLO) of Shinsei Bank in Japan, pondered how he could facilitate development of an integrated culture and transformation of the organization. Shinsei Bank had not developed longstanding tradition or a strong... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Cooperation; Diversity; Japan
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  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

A Message from Dean Clark

initiatives in Europe and Japan, the Latin America center is part of the School's continuing strategy to deepen the international content of our curriculum and research while opening new opportunities for cooperation with business and... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
  • 27 Mar 2014
  • News

From Marx to Marketing

my long experience dealing with Soviet organizations, I knew that the way decisions were implemented and what actually happened depended more on the lowest echelon of the hierarchy than the top." In addition, Vlachoutsicos, in close View Details
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

professor Robert S. Kaplan and Acorn Systems founder and chairman Steven R. Anderson (HBS MBA '95) introduce a system that calculates product, customer, and regional or branch P&Ls quickly and inexpensively. The work marries the Activity-Based Costing system... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

Economy, "Recognizing that people who need to cooperate are often separated by a gulf of potential divergent interests and potential mistrust, the best one can do is try to identify and promote a set of values to which most of the... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
  • Web

Finalists | New Venture Competition

Braid Yinka Ogunbiyi (MBA 2023) We reduce braiding time from hours to minutes, empowering Black salon owners to double or triple their business, and addressing the 8 billion hours spent braiding hair each year. Pathways Vasilis Mantzios (MBA 2023) Leise Sandeman Alex... View Details
  • 17 Jul 2020
  • News

Support System

midwife who turned to shea butter to help treat women and infants in her practice. Her mother, Eugenia, built shea-butter cooperatives and strengthened existing organizations; became president of the Global Shea Alliance; sat on the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling

developing world, and they must take the special needs of small-scale producers and malnourished consumers into account. They see how to adapt the developed world’s technology to the developing world. They see a new kind of cooperation... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • March 1993
  • Background Note

Note on Information Technology and Strategy

By: Richard L. Nolan and Katherine Seger
Provides a context for the evolution of information technology in business organizations, explains the emergence of information as an important resource to be managed, and provides a framework for assessing the strategic potential of information in the firm. View Details
Keywords: Information; Information Management; Information Technology; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Adoption; Body of Literature; Archives; Annual Reports; Information Technology Industry
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing

By: Kristina McElheran
Recent contributions to a growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decision Choices and Conditions; Operations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Power and Influence; Adaptation; Cooperation
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  • 01 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.

under-conceptualized. That’s why the subject of climate and peace matters so much for business.” Ms. Grande continued: “There’s currently no global cooperation on a range of climate issues that impact business and the private sector. One... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2020
  • Blog Post

A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business

necessity. It’s almost like survival or death,” she says. “Because my parents are not tech-savvy, this is where I’m able to help.” The ethically-sourced specialty beans the company offers are from farms and cooperatives in Guatemala,... View Details