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- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
Editor's note: On October 1, 2009, the People's Republic of China turned 60 years old. To mark this event, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University held a conference titled "The People's Republic of China at 60: An View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- Web
Powerful Ideas - Annual Report 2014
Powerful Ideas for Worldwide Impact “HBS faculty members pursue ambitious intellectual agendas, producing research that has a major impact: on business education, on management practice, and on society at large. As scholars, they focus on... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
The camel has long been the punch line of the riddle, "Name the animal designed by a committee." But taking a closer look at the features that allow this oddly shaped creature to survive in harsh desert conditions, one can draw a much kinder conclusion about... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- Research Summary
International Comparison of the Management of Information Technology
Having set out to compare Western and Japanese IT-management practices, we were startled to discover that Japanese companies rarely experience the IT problems so common in the United States and Europe. In this project, we seek to further explore the five principles of... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
"Right now we're letting the ends of the ideological spectrum and the entrenched power of legacy interests stalemate a path to the future," Lassiter says. "That's a thing worth fighting." “Right now we're letting the ends of the... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
elicited one of the most powerful feelings of gratitude I had ever experienced. It was on that afternoon I decided that I wanted to help others complete their own journeys to citizenship in any way that I could, which set me off on a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Research Brief: The Power of Could
question unwittingly locks you into a tradeoff, upholding your moral principles in one way but breaking them in another. Instead, strategically asking yourself what you could do often generates an array of new solutions that might satisfy... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
will make significant commitments to nuclear power internally and aggressively export nuclear power plant components, the bulk of its power... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup
enter with its innovative technology. Christina Belsito (MBA 2019), Vice President of Business Operations, along with the Mori leadership team, knew the mountain of work ahead for the newly formed division, and bringing on a summer intern... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup
enter with its innovative technology. Christina Belsito (MBA 2019), Vice President of Business Operations, along with the Mori leadership team, knew the mountain of work ahead for the newly formed division, and bringing on a summer intern... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
technical, and skilled employees to support growing international business. For Jordanian, Egyptian, and Palestinian companies, cooperation with Israeli firms, and with each other, is even more strategically attractive. Companies can... View Details
- 20 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
elicited one of the most powerful feelings of gratitude I had ever experienced. It was on that afternoon I decided that I wanted to help others complete their own journeys to citizenship in any way that I could, which set me off on a... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 21 May 2018
- Blog Post
Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
Operating Officer of Accion Chicago, a nonprofit that helps communities grow by providing capital, coaching and connections to aspiring entrepreneurs who build businesses and generate jobs in their neighborhoods. I spent most of my career harnessing the View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
Introduction to Power and Influence for Positive Impact ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Power and Influence for Positive Impact $1,850 Next 6-week... View Details
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The Radical Flank Effect and Cross-occupational Collaboration for Technology Development during a Power Shift
By: Emily Truelove and Katherine C. Kellogg
This 12-month ethnographic study of an early entrant into the U.S. car-sharing industry demonstrates that when an organization shifts its focus from developing radical new technology to incrementally improving this technology, the shift may spark an internal power... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Power and Influence; Perception; Behavior; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Truelove, Emily, and Katherine C. Kellogg. "The Radical Flank Effect and Cross-occupational Collaboration for Technology Development during a Power Shift." Administrative Science Quarterly 61, no. 4 (December 2016): 662–701.
- 2007
- Other Unpublished Work
Influence and Inefficiency in the Internal Capital Market
By: Julie Wulf
I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew capital budgets in their favor. Corporate headquarters receives two types of signals about investment opportunities: private signals that can be... View Details
- November 2009 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
International Lobbying and The Dow Chemical Company (A)
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
This case explores company strategy, business-government relations, and collective action challenges associated with international and domestic lobbying regarding regulation of the chemical industry. In the fall of 2006, a five-year legislative process for a major new... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Chemical Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Europe
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "International Lobbying and The Dow Chemical Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 710-027, November 2009. (Revised July 2011.)
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice
industries, and companies. HBS faculty also work hand in hand with organizations in the field to find solutions to complex problems, often with actionable results. Among them is Robert S. Kaplan, senior fellow and the Marvin Bower... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
untapped power of smallholders—increasing their yields, rebuilding supply chains, and opening access to economies of scale—Masha believes he is on the way to helping more than a million Nigerian farmers climb out of poverty. Ibrahim... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power to change nuclear waste into cost-efficient energy
overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Although Wilcox did not know it at the time, that disaster would lead him to his next business—Transatomic Power—which he hopes will transform the energy sector. “I’m not sure how the... View Details