Shaping the Waves - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

handful of overarching ideas about breakthrough negotiation. The seven principles that follow represent an overview of how breakthrough negotiators operate. Principle 1: Breakthrough Negotiators Shape View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

30 Jan 2014
HBS Seminar

Rebecca Henderson, Harvard Business School

25 Aug 2016
News

Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative

University President Drew Faust explained, “Issues that people care deeply about—their safety, their job prospects, their health, their schools, and their pocketbooks—are often shaped largely by local policies. As more and more people... View Details

Keywords: Government

30 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA)

early on I joined grassroots efforts to increase female employee representation in the workforce. Looking back, I can see how this experience ultimately informed why I’ve shaped my career around women’s... View Details

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

the new CEO. Homing in on a candidate who is likely to gain the favor of these external parties has therefore become important to the process. It also gives these outsiders... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

02 Aug 2018
News

Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

started, you've been working with the State of Georgia to help them shape their strategic plan. Can you talk a little bit about how that's going? Langford: That organization is View Details

03 May 2022
News

12 Books for a Smarter, Less Stressed, More Successful Summer, Recommended

17 Apr 2017
News

Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry

As Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) grew Au Bon Pain and then the Panera Bread Company into the nation’s largest “fast casual” chain, he was also shaping a team of highly skilled... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

19 Feb 2025
Blog Post

Meet the HBS African American Student Union Leadership

heights. Here I’ve gained mentors who’ve guided me, peers who’ve inspired me, and friends who’ve become family. AASU has shaped me into the leader I’ve always aspired to be, and leading within AASU has been... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

Teaching you to deal with a problem when it's small. That fair is fair. Unless you're early, you're late. But how do you think your upbringing shaped the way that you managed and led? JI: Yeah, look, I mean,... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

New York Club Names Entrepreneur of the Year

company has been a major force in shaping the deregulated communications landscape. RCN was chosen from among hundreds of nominees in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut... View Details

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By: Debora L. Spar

My work focuses generally on the intersection between technological change and societal structures, and on the many areas in which business both shapes and is shaped by societal norms. View Details

Keywords: Technological And Scientific Innovation; Technological Change: Choices And Consequences; Business ＆ Government Relations; Business And Community; Capitalism; Reproduction; Technological Innovation; Government and Politics; Gender; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Education Industry; United States; Europe; Africa; Asia

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The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog

Spirituality, faith, and religion play a crucial role in many people’s lives. They undergird convictions about right and wrong, help people to persevere through great hardship, inform people’s self-understanding and meaning-making, and View Details

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Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America

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Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery | About

England economy, and powerfully shaped Harvard University. Harvard leaders, faculty, staff, and benefactors enslaved people, some of whom labored at the University; accrued wealth through View Details

20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

January. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/MGM3aQMGBgbEhCgQhOwk][/div] The next wave of small business aid Mills joined the Obama Administration and his National Economic... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

Pundits love a political horse race, parsing the latest polls to predict who might win an election. And in the final runup to the US presidential contest, these forecasts can... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

2010
Casebook

Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

By: Laura Alfaro

All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations

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Ana Antolin is a doctoral candidate in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. She received her B.S. in Quantitative Economics and International Relations from Tufts University. Prior to joining Harvard, she worked as a full-time research assistant in... View Details

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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog

They can also be 100 percent family-owned or have outside investors; value is certainly affected not only by management quality, but also by the level of Family control and ownership. Family businesses come in all View Details

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