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23 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 23

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

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2016
First Look

February 2, 2016

press Journal of Applied Psychology Cooperation in Multicultural Negotiations: How the Cultures of People with Low and High Power Interact By: Kopelman, Shirli, Ashley E. Hardin, Christopher G. Myers, and Leigh Plunkett Tost Abstract—This... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2017 (Revised April 2022)
Case

Tempur Sealy International (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Lauren G. Pickle

This case explores the long-term relationship between Tempur Sealy (TPX, a mattress manufacturer) and Mattress Firm (MFRM, a bedding retailer and TPX's largest customer). For almost 20 years, the firms enjoyed a mutually beneficial and commercially prosperous... View Details

January 2008 (Revised February 2008)
Case

South Dakota Wheat Growers

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman

As a farmer-owned cooperative, South Dakota Wheat Growers (SDWG) serves the needs of its 3,600 active farmer-members by supplying farm inputs and organizing the marketing and transportation of grain produced in the co-op's service territory. For almost 80 years, the... View Details

Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Production; Rail Transportation; Marketing Strategy; Expansion; Economic Growth; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; South Dakota

August 2009
Article

The Reality and Myth of Sacred Issues in Negotiations

By: A. E. Tenbrunsel, K A. Wade-Benzoni, V. H. Medvec, L. Thompson and M. H. Bazerman

This paper investigates the role of sacred issues in a dyadic negotiation set in an environmental context. As predicted, when negotiators focus on sacred issues, this negatively impacts the negotiation, producing more impasses, lower joint outcomes, and more negative... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Values and Beliefs; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Conflict of Interests; Perception; Cooperation

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10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

such far-flung but tightly integrated subsidiaries? How do you ensure that financial reporting is effective while simultaneously optimizing your tax position? How do you design compensation systems that provide for local accountability but don't make View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

Web

Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

support the war effort.... [T]he Military Planning Division was a key component, benefiting from what proved to be a novel cooperation among science, industry, and the military." Christopher G. Hartman, Advance Man: The Life and Times of... View Details

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

Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

reformers and lenders cooperated to draft the Uniform Small Loan Law, implemented in twenty-five states by the 1930s. Small lenders moved their offices from dark second-floor apartments, open only evenings and weekends, to brightly lit... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

to build shared value over the long term. AACE provides groups like the Jaba Ginger Farmers Cooperative Society—which is made up of 3,000 smallholders, more than half of them women—with a trustworthy customer. In return, by sourcing... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

July – August 2011
Article

Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units

By: I. M. Nembhard and A. L. Tucker

Dynamic service settings-characterized by workers who interact with customers to deliver services in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex environment (e.g., hospitals)-play an important role in the economy. Organizational learning studies in these settings have... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Focus and Relationships; Learning; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Performance Improvement; Quality; Groups and Teams; Cooperation; Health Industry

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30 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

researchers gathered data from Twitter (the platform now called X), Google searches, and high-frequency surveys like The Gallup Poll Social Series, Nationscape, and Cooperative Congressional Election Study to chart the evolution of online... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

June 2010 (Revised May 2017)
Teaching Note

Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research

By: Robert Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg

Teaching Note for 109017. View Details

Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Levers Of Control; Strategy; Risk Management; Decisions; Cooperative Ownership; Product Development; Moral Sensibility; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Expansion; Science-Based Business; Research; Management Practices and Processes; Business Subsidiaries; Biotechnology Industry; Sydney

Profile

Jenny Tison

HBS has helped me to express cogent opinions fast, and back them persuasively.” Infrastructure of leadership In the Rwanda IXP, Jenny worked within a team of six HBS students “to help farmers grow chili peppers as an alternative cash crop to coffee. It was a great way... View Details

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

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