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  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

A Place in the Sun

Seattle cable television company, and in 1969 sold the enterprise -- by then a multimillion-dollar business -- to CBS. He then "dabbled in real estate" and during a trip to the South Pacific to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
  • Web

Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

understanding of common leadership styles, and explore how you can unleash the potential in yourself and others. Access Your Free E-Book Our Difference Power View Details
  • Research Summary

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
  • July–August 2019
  • Article

Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions

By: Yanhua Bird, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set forth in those codes. Yet little is known about whether organizational structures such as codes... View Details
Keywords: Organization Theory; Economic Sociology; Social Responsibility; Sustainability; Auditing; Process Improvement; Organizational Structure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Supply Chain; Labor; Working Conditions
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  • September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
  • Case

IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created a social and organizational innovation in public education through a business-school partnership. IBM's Stanley Litow was the key architect in designing Pathways in Technology Early College High School, known as P-TECH. The... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Partnerships; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Innovation and Invention; Education Industry
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  • 14 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

and capabilities (e.g., a reliable supply chain). Leaders are discovering they must proactively invest in the ecosystem and build partnerships (turn vendors into partners; join with competitors to solve... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

After graduating Cum Laude from Harvard College in 1974 and earning his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1976, Bujalski had a successful business career as CEO of several health care services companies. His journey into... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 22 Sep 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Task and Temporal Microstructure of Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Financial Services

Keywords: by Bradley R. Staats & Francesca Gino; Banking
  • July 2024
  • Case

Negotiating in a Hurricane: John Branca and the Michael Jackson Estate

By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green
When the "King of Pop," Michael Jackson, unexpectedly died in 2009, he left behind an estate that was over $500 million in debt, with largely illiquid assets, and legions of creditors poised to begin to seize assets in as soon as 60 days. The task of managing Jackson’s... View Details
Keywords: Bargaining; Dispute Resolution; Negotiation; Entertainment; Financial Management; Financial Condition; Assets; Music Industry
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  • June 1995 (Revised August 1998)
  • Case

Welsh Water (B): General Information and Confidential Instructions for M. Harrington, Lead Negotiator for Welsh Water

This is a four-player negotiation simulation in which a newly-privatized British water utility must deal with contentious unions and national collective-bargaining agreements. Explores the question of coalitions and multi-lateral negotiations, and the value of... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Privatization; Labor Unions; Utilities Industry; Wales
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  • 19 Apr 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice: The Case of Goodwill Impairment

Keywords: by Francois Brochet & Kyle Welch; Accounting
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Private and Public Decisions in Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Children's Behavior

Substantial research with adult populations has found that selfish impulses are less likely to be pursued when decisions are publicly observable. To the best of our knowledge, however, this behavioral regularity has not been systematically explored as potential... View Details
Keywords: Research; Age Characteristics; Behavior; Decisions; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Announcements; Situation or Environment
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  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

explore the mechanisms underlying the relationship between managerial discretion and future performance. Strict ID Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008–2016 By: Cantoni,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890-1940

    American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term fair trade from the late nineteenth century through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with... View Details

    • 28 Feb 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

    auction may not be a good predictor of the final outcome, because much of the bidding activity takes place just before the end. One good reason for this delay is that early bidding reveals intentions and information that may be View Details
    Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology
    • 12 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

    forthcoming Research in Organizational Behavior Self-Managing Organizations: Exploring the Limits of Less Hierarchical Organizing By: Lee, Michael Y., and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—Fascination with... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 14 Oct 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

    and information, and reconfigure activities and industries that today are separated by artificial boundaries. We have already seen entrepreneurs View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • September 2012
    • Other Article

    An Interview with Michael Porter: Social Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Capitalism

    By: Michaela Driver and Michael E. Porter
    In this interview Michael Porter explores social entrepreneurship in the context of a larger transformation of capitalism. He suggests that social entrepreneurship is an important transitional vehicle toward the creation of shared value and a capitalist system in which... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Economic Systems; Social Entrepreneurship; Transformation
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    • March 2022
    • Article

    Winner Takes All? Tech Clusters, Population Centers, and the Spatial Transformation of U.S. Invention

    By: Brad Chattergoon and William R. Kerr
    U.S. invention has become increasingly concentrated around major tech centers since the 1970s, with implications for how much cities across the country share in concomitant local benefits. Is invention becoming a winner-takes-all race? We explore the rising spatial... View Details
    Keywords: Clusters; Invention; Agglomeration; Artificial Intelligence; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Applications and Software; Industry Clusters; AI and Machine Learning
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    Thin Slices of Teams with Professor Jeff Polzer, Patricia Satterstrom, and Lisa Kwan

    How do people evaluate team effectiveness from short observations of interactions among team members?  What are the cues people take in in such narrow windows of experience?  What contributes to the accuracy of evaluations based on thin slices of... View Details