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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
competitive advantage. About the Unit The NOM Unit seeks to understand and improve the design and management of systems in which people make decisions: that is, design and management of negotiations,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
In its public communications with analysts, United Air Lines' management could not aggressively tout the size of the wage/benefit concessions that employees made to acquire the airline's stock, since many... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
will do well to manage your time carefully. Some angels think that evaluation starts with the first meeting and continues right up to the moment of writing the check. In order to structure this book effectively, we address evaluation as a... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- Web
Research Services - Faculty & Research
collecting/purchasing data from various sources such as “scraping” public information off websites. Writers and researchers HBS provides a pool of experienced and centrally managed case writers and... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
In When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager, David A. Moss explores government's role as insurer of last resort in everything from crafting consumer protection law to bailing out airlines after September 11th. He discusses the historical evolution... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B10): Pittsburgh Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Coelin P. Scibetta and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B5): Detroit Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
of 1906 further assisted the management of product color in the food business by regulating and endorsing the industry's color control practices. By 1938, food dyes had achieved such widespread use, and had raised such View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2001 (Revised November 2001)
- Case
Provident Life and Accident Insurance: The Acquisition of Paul Revere
By: Mihir A. Desai, Frank Williamson, Mark Veblen and Yuming Zou
Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co. has made an initial bid to acquire a primary competitor, Paul Revere, from conglomerate, Textron. The due diligence process uncovers a significant block of problematic disability insurance policies. Provident is forced to assess... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Financial Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Investment; Business Strategy; Cash Flow; Price; Bids and Bidding; Financial Reporting; Business Conglomerates; Insurance Industry; Service Industry
Desai, Mihir A., Frank Williamson, Mark Veblen, and Yuming Zou. "Provident Life and Accident Insurance: The Acquisition of Paul Revere." Harvard Business School Case 202-044, October 2001. (Revised November 2001.)
- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B1): Birmingham Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Natania Elias and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B9): Nashville Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
- June 12, 2019
- Article
Business as Usual Will Not Save the Planet
By: Mark R. Kramer, Rishi Agarwal and Aditi Srivinas
The United Nations’ 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) were explicitly designed to engage the private sector in addressing the world’s most pressing challenges. Four years into the UN’s 15-year timeline, the question is whether companies are advancing serious... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Development; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Planning
Kramer, Mark R., Rishi Agarwal, and Aditi Srivinas. "Business as Usual Will Not Save the Planet." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (June 12, 2019).
- 2020
- Book
Le Manifeste travail: Démocratiser, démarchandiser, dépolluer [The Working Manifesto: Democratize, Decommodify, Decarbonize]
By: Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana and Dominique Méda
Authored at the height of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, this book is the result of an international collaboration between twelve female academics who apply their expertise to offer a blueprint for a more resilient, dignified, and sustainable society. The extension of... View Details
Ferreras, Isabelle, Julie Battilana, and Dominique Méda, eds. Le Manifeste travail: Démocratiser, démarchandiser, dépolluer [The Working Manifesto: Democratize, Decommodify, Decarbonize]. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2020, French ed. (English edition is forthcoming in 2022 by University of Chicago Press.)
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Trachtman had learned how to manage founders who had strong relationships, but those experiences had not prepared him for the current situation. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807173... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
2018 Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences By: Hanson, Gordon H., William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner, eds. Abstract—Immigration policy is one of the most contentious View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55597 2019 Academy of Management Annals Turning Lead into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities? By: Clough, David R., Tommy Pan Fang, Balagopal Vissa, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54665 forthcoming R&D Management An Exploratory Study of Product Development in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Medical Device Testing in India By: Gupta, Budhaditya, and Stefan... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
organizations around the world was delivered to the IMF's managing director in the first week of September, 2009 (Lombardi, 2009). Long-term governance reforms are central to the Bank's legitimacy as a global View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
drives to acquire and to bond are in tension with each other because the first is competitive and the second cooperative. A major part of management is to keep these two drives in healthy balance, for example by giving rewards for both... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
drives to acquire and to bond are in tension with each other because the first is competitive and the second cooperative. A major part of management is to keep these two drives in healthy balance, for example by giving rewards for both... View Details