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  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

  Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2021
  • Article

Joint Problem-solving Orientation in Fluid Cross-boundary Teams

By: Michaela J. Kerrissey, Anna T. Mayo and Amy C. Edmondson
Using interviews, a national field survey, and an online laboratory study, we have examined teamwork in fluid cross-boundary teams. Across three studies, we qualitatively discovered and quantitatively explored "joint problem-solving orientation" as a new team factor.... View Details
Keywords: Problem Solving; Cross-boundary Teams; Groups and Teams; Problems and Challenges; Performance
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  • 06 Jan 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and Identity Change in a Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008

Keywords: by Ryan Raffaelli; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
  • January 2016
  • Case

Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
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  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

that affect groups of people engaged in collaborative product design affect groups of people engaged in the collaborative production and delivery of goods and services. As with complex technical systems,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 30 May 2023
  • News

Finding PRIDE

students to connect via an untraceable off-campus phone number. Those founding members launched what would become a decades-long tradition—a community within the community. The group’s name, originally borrowed from a similar group at... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 02 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

your agent may not be enough. For example, top executive pay attorney Joe Bachelder once took his client aside after the first negotiating session. The board had selected his client to be its next CEO and was working out his compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • Blog Post

Using an MBA for a Career Change

and do a ten day consulting project for a company in an emerging market.  My team worked for Dafiti.com, the second largest e-commerce retailer in Brazil. I was impressed by how rapidly e-commerce companies could create jobs and started... View Details
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Meagan Hill

Meagan Hill enrolled in Harvard College with the intention of going on to medical school. But through her work at Harvard Student Agencies — a conglomerate of nine businesses that offer students hands-on business experience — she... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
  • 03 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

experienced negotiators, and the ability to structure and execute negotiations strategically and systematically. "All of the strategies you have described work when you're dealing with people who will listen to reason," an... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
  • 08 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

You can also follow individual minority creators over time and see ups and downs in their rates of success,” Kerr says. Certain groups feel it more The heaviest impact was felt by groups that found... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 14 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association

conversation to foster understanding and respect between individuals of different backgrounds. As such, much of our programming is open to the entire campus community and we are looking to co-hosting events with other student groups on... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

access to birth control and health care. Those of us striving to advance gender equity must continue to join with the leaders and thinkers working to advance the rights of other disadvantaged groups to forge... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

explained by their role. Risks and Rewards of Celebrity Endorsements Author:Anita Elberse Publication:CNN, December 16, 2009 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the Article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/12/16/elberse.athlete.endorsements.tiger.woods/  ... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

a virtue? That’s part of the thinking on this idea of neurodiversity; that we do better when we mix people who think differently or are wired a bit differently.” AUTISM AT WORK Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology
  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

  Working PapersSocial Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs Authors:Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu, and Toby E. Stuart Abstract Actors often match with associates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

the jokes that Michael H. Yeomans used in his study. Take the poll   The researchers tested further to see if explaining the machine’s recommendation process would help people accept it more. The team told one group that they would simply... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

processes. In particular, our analysis systematically disentangles the obstacles that members of low status social groups must overcome to elicit verification of their positive self-views. People in this situation are not only View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) is executive director of Precision Camshafts Limited, a large precision manufacturing company in Solapur, India, and a partner in MAYU, a luxury goods startup. What’s a typical View Details
  • 11 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

to help repay $19.5 billion in IMF-backed debt, part of a much larger rescue package backed by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and a group of countries. Kim worked alongside representatives from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park