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- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
manufacturer learned after it entered a joint venture with a Chinese company and hired a local manager to run the Chinese operation. As described in Charles Olivier's 1996 WorldLink article, "Investing in China: 12 Hard... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
trading partners, a considerable amount of time is spent transferring physical documents back and forth between traders, banks, and ports—as well as managing hundreds of emails to keep different parties in the loop. “When you look at the... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
platforms running under eBay or Google or Rakuten. In some countries like Japan and Korea, one can do exactly the same thing on the Internet and over the mobile phone. And in Japan, mobile phones now function as payment devices (one can... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
holders for your stock because they do not trade much. Getting back to Japan, the stock splits can be thought of a form of float manipulation. By limiting the number of shares on the market, and making it difficult to sell, prices can... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
leadership of Deng Xiaoping, there was an energy that you could feel—the possibility of stability and maybe a different face toward the outside world. But there was also the reality that it was a country that had only begun to emerge from a time of massive pain. Q:... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
has its own logistical limitations. Running an fMRI scanner costs researchers up to $1,000 per hour, and studies often use 20-30 subjects, Karmarkar says. And while EEG lets subjects move around during testing, fMRI requires them to lie... View Details
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
same method in your personal life Fortunately, the costs can be amortized by developing such habits in one’s personal life. The same bedrock postulates apply: pay “deep attention” to friends and family. And be judicious in allocating time while performing all the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
which created in me an appetite for exploring and discovering new places and people very early on,” Leger says. At 12, Leger was living in Pondicherry, India, her mother’s hometown, which made her aware of what it meant to live between two cultures. Three years later,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
step back and ask, What are the big projects that we want to work on, and who will be dedicated to these projects? When we had 282 projects, nobody was dedicated 100 percent to anything. Now we have dedicated teams.” Gaining control over... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Girlfriends started back in 1965 by two ladies, two African American ladies, that lived in the Bronx in New York. They would visit each other’s house, drinking coffee and all. And then they just decided, well, let’s invite someone else.... View Details
- Profile
Beau D'Arcy
we announced the project to the public, after two years of pouring in sweat, blood, and tears. The public's reaction to Breakwater Chicago was overwhelmingly positive, and I spent the entire week running (literally!) from interview to... View Details
- Web
Meet the Team | Information Technology
curriculum course. He joined the IT Multimedia Development team in 2022 as a multimedia producer. When not producing cases, Matt spends his time running the back roads of Weymouth and the South Shore, or he... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
also provisions such as limits on the number of maximum votes a shareholder or a proxy could hold, which made large corporations truly democratic in the sense that decisions were consensual. Q: Back then, the salaries and bonuses of top... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
and we will enter an unstoppable virtuous cycle towards renewables and hopefully pull the rest of the world along with us! Heather (March) Takle (MBA 2006) President and CEO, PowerOptions, Inc.In 30 years, I am certain that we will look View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
best young executives and to see firsthand how effective each one really was, what work he was best at, and with whom he worked particularly well. After the war, hundreds of these same executives went back to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
products at reasonable prices and runs a highly popular advertising campaign that spoofs current events. It offers its farmers 80% of the consumer's dollar for milk, compared with 35% to 40% typical in some Western markets. Amul's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
some people numbers speak, but I don’t think numbers speak to him. I give him a lot of credit for realizing this early on. Back in the 1960s a Citibank offer was like a golden ticket in India. People wouldn’t leave that job, and I’m sure... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
may be “extraordinary,” but it runs the risk of missing the mark. Studying “meltdown,” “executive pay,” “reporting,” and “liquidity” could be useful. Those subjects, however, are consequences not causes. Please give some thought and study... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
disappointed. I said, “Oh my gosh, another segregated situation.” I thought that Harvard had run an unfair game of projecting itself as being so liberal. I associated the School with the Kennedy brothers and what they were trying to... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
fascinating. In fact, there is an automatic process that continues to work on your question in the back of your mind. We call that process "unconscious thought." Unconscious thought can do more than just help you remember facts.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace