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  • 08 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

interact—everything from how people view the role of the individual versus the group to their attitudes, say, about the importance of time or relationships. In response to these challenges, a great body of literature has emerged to help executives navigate differences... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
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The Price of Equality: Suboptimal Resource Allocations across Social Categories

By: Stephen M. Garcia, Max Bazerman, Shirli Kopelman, Avishalom Tor and Dale T. Miller
This paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived trade-off between relatively bad but equal distribution of resources between two parties and profit maximizing, yet asymmetric, payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 show that people prefer to maximize profits... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Resource Allocation; Societal Protocols; Profit; Decision Making; Prejudice and Bias; Market Transactions; Ethics; Power and Influence; Distribution; Organizations
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  • 07 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

Engineering Task Force (IETF), which defines the protocols of the Internet, is a nonprofit professional society. What is different from professional nonprofits or nonprofits focused on charitable causes is that open source foundations... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 07 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

small-business owners trying to survive. Strict safety protocols haven’t been enough to get customers through the door for some small businesses, and many owners—crushed by inventory and overhead costs—are grappling with hard choices.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

faculty illustrate these points through case studies. Patagonia, for instance, recently teamed up with The Nature Conservancy and Argentine rancher network Ovis XXI to implement a sustainable sheep-grazing protocol that, beyond protecting... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

differences among practice sizes. For example, large practices may devote more time to training and work ow protocols that improve productivity. The Wrong Lesson The research results should not dissuade practices, large or small, from... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises

By: Robert Gibbons and Rebecca Henderson
Social networks and social groups have both been seen as important to discouraging malfeasance and supporting the global pro-social norms that underlie social order, but have typically been treated either as pure substitutes or as having completely independent effects.... View Details
Keywords: Social Norms; Social Networks; Triadic Closure; Social Groups; Group Identity; Groups and Teams; Identity; Performance Consistency; Social and Collaborative Networks; Societal Protocols; Social Media
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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

Software 806-121 Black Duck Software involves a venture-backed start-up that converted software developers' concerns about violating copyright licensing agreements or open source protocols into an opportunity to help firms use technology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

it difficult to secure further venture capital investment. In the meantime, blockchain protocols were growing in popularity in technology circles and many blockchain projects were securing investment via Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs).... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

decide whether the units should allocate their open beds to these two patients. The admitting physician (Martin Zollo) for the Emergency Department (ED) patient closely adhered to the hospital's protocol for requesting an ICU bed, and his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

  Working PapersRunning Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What to Do About It (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract The Internet's current numbering system is nearing exhaustion: existing protocols allow only a finite set... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Nov 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy
  • 26 Jun 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

Microsystems, "The establishment of industry standards, protocols and APIs which allow competition in devices and services is what's going to drive services in the long run. That's where we should be aiming." Jason Bluming (HBS MBA '99)... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 27 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

place several unique institutional characteristics such as a universal healthcare system that emphasized preventive care and a systematic government protocol of testing and tracing, developed after the MERS outbreak in 2015. Furthermore,... View Details
Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Kiatpongsan%20Norton%20PPS_31f17547-5033-401c-8ed2-ccc9b6a2b433.pdf   Working Papers Bitcoin By: Böhme, Rainer, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman, and Tyler Moore Abstract—Bitcoin is an online communication View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2007
  • Class Lecture

The Baby Business (FSS)

By: Debora L. Spar
In vitro fertilization and genetic screening are possible with the advent of biotechnology. International adoptions, surrogacy, and other approaches to family planning are on the rise. But few rules govern these measures, medical costs can be prohibitive, and... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Demand and Consumers; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Genetics; Societal Protocols; Commercialization; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry
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  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

http://www.amazon.com/Land-Bargains-Chinese-Capitalism-Politics/dp/1107539870/ May 2015 Journal of Economic Perspectives Bitcoin: Economics, Technology, and Governance By: Böhme, Rainer, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman, and Tyler Moore Abstract—Bitcoin is an online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

downloads, and other emerging digital media (such as Internet Protocol TV). BBC WW delivered its profits back to the BBC. Since 2004, BBC WW profits had more than doubled. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

and processes are likely to lead the merger of such activities as logistics and financial services. This can provide large-scale platforms with common protocols (the precursors of digital platforms and what we call infrastructure... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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