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- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
weapon. Introduced about thirty years ago, this system of very small loans to grassroots entrepreneurs such as street vendors, subsistence farmers, or home-based businesses has enjoyed widespread success. Indeed, the 2006 Nobel Peace... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
Moss Kanter: Transitions are smooth and peaceful when there is wide consensus that the team or company or country is on a successful trajectory—what I call a winning streak. Then it is also likely that the successors have been endorsed by... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
advisor to Liberian president and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a 1971 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, wrote the policy memorandum at the request of the Liberian government, which seeks fast growth of its own. To... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
campaign backfired because the Electoral Commission failed to fulfill its commitment to deliver a transparent and peaceful election. The decrease in trust is stronger in areas that experienced election-related violence and for individuals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... 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
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
John Maynard Keynes. The book that made Keynes famous, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920), is an easy read, a model of concision and argument. Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) is much more... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 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