Coalition - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

13 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

work together to reach important goals, and by building coalitions to support needed change. Leading is a very personal activity where the leader connects with people and convinces them, making use of compelling ideas and character... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis

Research Summary

Overview

Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details

Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

05 Jul 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?

successful leaders in nonprofit organizations) "legislative leadership," the ability to create coalitions both within and outside of organizations. While concluding that leaders have less control than most people think, Pfeffer... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

House of Representatives and the Senate and approval by the White House. “There have been a lot of coalitions coming together,” said Cohen. “What we’re all realizing is that all of these small restaurants coming together collectively have... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

espouse their point of view. Lobbying for that through a coalition such as the Council for Institutional Investors (CII) can help. We are a nation of laws. And we can have individual freedoms because we enforce our laws. If we reduce the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

"harmony" among his personal life, business life, and philanthropy, he said, "is as close as I'm going to come to being a spiritual person." He cited with pride the fact that his daughter works with the Coalition for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

mistake some leaders make is lining up investors, advisers, and champions for their venture and then neglecting them in favor of spending their time trying to wrestle with opponents. Those initial allies can start to lose interest, or they each move in different... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

aid and increased support for poor farmers in developing countries) instead created a predicament. If the nonprofits supported the legislation, they would be severing ties with their long-standing coalition partner, the American farmer.... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

sometime incubate those. We sometimes partner with people that have those. But what we do is create economic coalitions between those atomic units in order to provide for the delivery to the customer of a complete solution." With... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

09 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 9

two countries reveals that America's love affair with credit was not primarily the consequence of its culture of consumption, as many writers have observed, nor directly a consequence of its less generous welfare state. It emerged instead from evolving View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

and on and on—a coalition of associates that spanned the earth and in the end proved nearly as dysfunctional as the real United Nations often seems. Outsourcing woes cost the 787 an estimated three extra years of development, required... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

How often have you heard that, when entering a negotiation, you should get your allies onboard first? Conventional wisdom, but not always the best advice. When the United States sought to build a global anti-Iraq coalition following... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209067 PublicationsTransformation: The Quiet Role of Coalitional Leadership Authors:Stephen Friedman and James K. Sebenius Publication:Ivey Business Journal (forthcoming) Abstract The top management... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

perspective, the illegality of the practice and its misalignment with official organizational goals might be most salient. Thus, the topic of homer making puts the person disclosing it in a position of vulnerability, one in which hasty judgment is likely. The unusual... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

may not involve government. Value-net games have to do with cooperation and competition among businesses. 7 Public interest games pit coalitions of businesses, and even entire industries, against nonbusiness organizations like unions,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

that assigns a real number to any coalition, S N, such that d(S) = -d(N\S). A game of threats is not necessarily a coalitional game as it may fail to satisfy the condition d(Ø) = 0. We show that analogs of the classic Shapley axioms for... View Details