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- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
online will likely worry about receiving gifts on time. Training staff to enforce rapidly changing health guidelines and diffuse tension with customers who don’t comply mask-wearing regulations will also be critical to keeping the peace... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
this fact. "Where the consensus today is that eighteenth-century economists believed that free trade would bring peace and prosperity to all, the mainstream of political economy at the time was actually preoccupied with how trade... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
contracting structure has important strategic implications. Preferring Balanced vs. Advantageous Peace Agreements: A Study of Israeli Attitudes Towards a Two-State Solution Authors:Deepak Malhotra and Jeremy Ginges Publication:Judgment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
given the issue new visibility alongside Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, it raised some eyebrows among investment analysts who asked what sustainability has to do with Google's core business of making the world's... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
ever-wealthier, more peaceful world economy. An international system needs to be nurtured. We can’t take it for granted—that is one thing we’ve learned. Again. This story first appeared in the Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin under... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
authority who don’t like that. One joy of these series is that you can become deeply absorbed in the characters and their worlds and keep going for dozens of books—like one big War and Peace in many pieces. (This is almost like an HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
organizations diagnose and solve the various types of trust problems that they face internally and externally. I also study issues related to international and ethno-political conflict (e.g., the effects of terrorism on the prospects of negotiation, the determinants of... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?
this when she said "To be blunt, I am concerned about security in a way I have not been since the '70s. And I am prepared to put up with greater inconvenience and higher taxes (note taxes, not prices) to have more peace of mind.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
United Kingdom. So stay tuned. Retirement as we know it is an evolving concept. For one person it may be the classic vision of a condo on a golf course in Florida. For another, a sojourn in Africa with the Peace Corps. Now it seems that... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
products to perform a particular job, and that it behooves companies to focus on the job rather than the product. For Project Beacon, which would become OnStar, that job was to provide peace of mind. While Huber knew next to nothing about... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/214107-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-011 Colombia and the Economic Premium of Peace Colombia, the fastest growing country in Latin America, continues to struggle with productivity. Both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
outcome, even though that was the effect you wanted in a Western market. On the other hand, a sense of peace might be misconstrued as a failure." Valid Concerns For businesses looking to enlist the services of a neuromarketing... View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
lost); differing interpretations of what constitutes fair play. Be it a straightforward business transaction, a divorce or an international struggle to reach a peace agreement, there's much that can go wrong. But there's also much that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
production; (c) development of peaceful interpersonal relations; and (d) education of committed and solidarity-conscious citizens. The first axis was implemented through alliances with labor cooperatives, while the remaining three were... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
direction. That means listening for some nugget, some idea that they put forth, that you can shape in a way that advances your mutual interests." Similarly, the great negotiators—people like George Mitchell, who negotiated peace in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
messages across these audiences, that's where our true value is." “Rating systems should take into consideration a company's political contributions, advocacy work, and engagement with nongovernmental organizations” And yet, in the words of Al Gore, the former US... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict Authors: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer Publication: In Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict, edited by Michelle Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas. Oxford University Press,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
Eastern agreements. These include the opening to China after decades of mutual hostility with the United States; détente and the first nuclear arms control treaty with the Soviets at the height of the Cold War; the Paris peace treaty with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
the brink of becoming a new battleground in the Cold War. In light of these developments Kissinger decided to intervene, seeking a negotiated solution that might bring about a peaceful end to minority rule. The account in this case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Publication:Journal of Peace Research (forthcoming) Abstract This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic, and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace