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02 Oct 2018
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Modern Project Finance: A Casebook

Written as a guide to the dynamic and increasingly important field of project finance, this casebook provides detailed descriptions and analysis of 20 project-financed transactions. Other books describe what project finance is and how it works. In this book, Benjamin... View Details

2011
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Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors

By: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell

Accelerating energy innovation could be an important part of an effective response to the threat of climate change. Written by a stellar group of experts in the field, this book complements existing research on the subject with an exploration of the role that public... View Details

Keywords: Energy Sources; Innovation and Invention; Climate Change; Policy; Competition; Demand and Consumers; Finance; Energy Industry

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22 Jan 2019
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Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Curt Nickisch

Amy Edmondson, professor at Harvard Business School, first identified the concept of psychological safety in work teams in 1999. Since then, she has observed how companies with a trusting workplace perform better. Psychological safety isn’t about being nice, she says.... View Details

Keywords: Psychological Safety; Trust; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness

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08 Dec 2015
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Control the Negotiation Before It Begins

12 Apr 2021
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Healthier by Design

02 Jun 2020
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Great Leaders Use Tough Love to Improve Performance

02 Jul 2019
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‘VC: An American History’ Review: The Seed Spreaders

06 Feb 2017
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A Harvard professor on the five questions to ask when facing tough decisions

3D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals

Unlike the vast majority of negotiation books that focus almost exclusively on interpresonal tactics "at the table," 3D Negotiation also emphasizes the substantive side of deal design, as well as setup moves "away from... View Details

15 Mar 2024
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Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

time in the workplace and can be addressed wisely—or poorly—says Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Christina Wing, whose forthcoming book Unspeakable offers advice for managing weighty interactions. She has also created a... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

learn new tricks: conventional companies can adapt to a platform world with a buy, build, or belong strategy. And 5) Platforms are a double-edge sword: abuse of power, bullying poor labor practices, and bad actors can undermine even the most successful platforms. The... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

(CareMeasurement.com) enables providers to apply concepts from the research to improve quality and profitability across the care continuum. Derek and Avant-garde Health were recently featured in a book by Professor Howard Stevenson,... View Details

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About Michael Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

management and competitiveness . The author of 19 books and over 130 articles, he is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School and the director of the school’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness,... View Details

2019
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A Claim to Own Productive Property

By: Nien-hê Hsieh

BOOK ABSTRACT: The status of economic liberties remains a serious lacuna in the theory and practice of human rights. Should a minimally just society protect the freedoms to sell, save, profit, and invest? Is being prohibited to run a business a human rights violation?... View Details

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A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

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Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine

2013
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The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Pernille Røge

This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical foundations and dynamic experiences of early modern imperialism. The imperial encounter with political economy was neither uniform across political, economic, cultural, and religious constellations... View Details

Keywords: Political Economy; Early Modern Imperialism; Economy; Government and Politics

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International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications

By: David J. Collis

This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies that compete internationally or face international competitors. Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across... View Details