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  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Letters to the Editor

more than you will eliminate disease. The whole range of human incentives is involved, not just money. In the UK, people like to say “We are not corrupt,” but we’re not all as squeaky clean as we like to suggest. Hugh Quick (MBA ’56) Ilminster, Somerset, England No... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

Refugees' Attitudes Towards Compromise and Civil War Termination By: Fabbe, Kristin, Chad Hazlett, and Tolga Sınmazdemir Abstract— Civilians who have fled violent conflict and settled in neighboring countries are integral to processes of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

and Creative Sparks: Enhancing Individual Creativity through Conflict and Integration Authors:E. Miron-Spektor, F. Gino, and L. Argote Publication:Enhancing Individual Creativity through Conflict and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Short Takes

altruistic reasons for serving, many also reported that such participation allowed them to practice business skills and make professional contacts not always possible through their everyday duties. "One focus group of top-level managers... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 02 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

versus items they should buy (salad). In their research on online grocery-buying habits and DVD rentals, Harvard Business School's Katy Milkman and Todd Rogers, along with Professor Max Bazerman, provide insights on the want-should View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel

Like countless others in the summer of 2023, HBS professor Elie Ofek went to the theater to see the blockbuster film Barbie and found himself enveloped by the pink-drenched marketing blitz that had all but taken over the world. To Ofek, who teaches in the Marketing... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; Illustrations by Miguel Porlan; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Bringing Hope to a Violent Land

earned a bachelor’s degree in government and international studies before moving to Washington, D.C., where she worked from 1973 to 1979 for several nongovernmental organizations. Starting as a receptionist, she rose through NGO View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; UNICEF; nonprofit; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War

BILMES AND STIGLITZ: Among a costly war’s casualties, American prestige and power. PHOTOS: (LEFT, RIGHT) DOMINICK REUTER, DAN DEITCH The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (W.W. Norton, 2008) is not just about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • June 2008 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Patient Flow at Brigham and Women's Hospital (A)

By: Anita L. Tucker and Jillian Alexandra Berry
Brigham and Women's Hospital challenged a team of physicians to improve patient flow from the Emergency Department to Intensive Care Units (ICUs). One of the team members, Selwyn Rogers, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at Brigham and Women's... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Operations; Business Processes; Performance Productivity; Conflict and Resolution; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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  • February 1997 (Revised July 2004)
  • Case

Walden Woods

By: William J. Poorvu and Arthur I Segel
In 1984, Mortimer Zuckerman and Ed Linde, through their firm, Boston Properties (BP), acquired land in Concord, MA to build a 147,000-square-foot, first-class suburban office building. BP proceeded to go through the permitting and approval process with the town and was... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Property; Environmental Sustainability; Conflict and Resolution; Real Estate Industry; Massachusetts
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  • Profile

Justine Lelchuk

"You're in constant contact with peers, professors, administrators, other schools – it makes you walk the talk in being a leader. As conflict arises, you have to reflect. Before, challenges would've made me defensive. After just one... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students

dealing with conflicts of interest, and setting an ethical tone within an organization. 2003 Alumni Achievement Awards James E. Burke (MBA ’49), chairman and CEO emeritus of Johnson & Johnson, where he spent almost forty years helping... View Details
  • April 2007 (Revised July 2011)
  • Case

The Tale of the Lynx (A)

By: Noam Wasserman
The founders of Lynx Solutions have survived major challenges within their board of directors, the firing of Lynx's founder-CEO and departure of its successor CEO, and a crisis sparked by media allegations that it had been spying on its users. Now that the company is... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Business Strategy; Computer Industry
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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

"As different cultural traditions meet in the marketplace and inside organizations, managers face tough choices about the values that they and their organizations will live by," HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine told participants... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 15 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation, published in the October 2015 Academy of Management Journal and co-written with Emily Cox Pahnke and Benjamin Hallen of the University of Washington and Dan Wang of Columbia... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

http://hbr.org/2011/04/why-leaders-dont-learn-from-success/ar/1 Too Guilty to Deceive: How Feeling Burdened Can Reduce Deception in Negotiation Authors:F. Gino and C. Shea Publication:In ,em>Handbook of Conflict Resolution, edited by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

Sebenius, James K. Abstract—Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Apr 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?

mergers and acquisitions fail to achieve their objectives, suggesting possible remedies to this "flawed process." Kathryn Yates, for example, cited three primary reasons for M&A failure: "1) Forgetting to plan for the cost of integration… 2)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

touched controversial issues including gender equality and the conflicting emotions experienced both by women who work and those who stay home to raise families. Other popular stories, listed below, looked at such diverse topics as the... View Details
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

has chosen to examine make them difficult to manage and generate conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. Indeed, he points out that managers often forgo... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna