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- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
those papers for a volume devoted to that topic, a Part Two to accompany the Handbook. This June, we're convening a conference titled Imagining the Future of Leadership to address the kinds of skills, knowledge, and identity that will be needed to be effective in the... View Details
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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade
end of the hong monopolies. The Chinese comprador, who served as a trading house employee and manager and sometimes as an independent merchant, became the essential go-between for American traders. Although neither View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
enough of the right parties to gain agreement on your proposal and ensure successful implementation. Building such a sustainable winning coalition involves systematic steps that my colleague David Lax and I call a "negotiation... View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
experienced negotiators make mistakes in all three dimensions. Let us start with the least familiar kind of mistake. Flaws in our third dimension, the set-up of a negotiation, can take many forms: wrong parties, wrong issues, wrong... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
development? The Social Progress Index was launched in 2013 as a holistic approach to benchmarking countries' social performance, independent of economic measures. SPI has been widely taken up on a global basis in evaluating national... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
this be the subject of a third case? "Time will tell," Ofek quips. In the meantime, Ofek invites Nanda to attend his class when the Clocky cases are taught. "I think she likes it because it gives her a chance to have people... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
superintendent, the teachers. I think about four or five days later, I had my first decision as mayor. The head of the school board called—and in Virginia and in a lot of other states, the school board is independently elected, and also... View Details
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
technological language between suppliers and customers. These standards are primarily business-to-business programs that can be certified by independent agents, similar to how external financial auditors certify a company's financial... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
real-time content delivery solution that complements existing distributed caching services. 3Plex (formerly Truck-it-now) Tania Yannus Ben Gordon Business Track Runner-Up 3plex (formerly TruckitNow.com) is a B2B in transportation focusing on re-intermediating View Details
- 30 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?
"a theoretical sweet spot where scale fosters innovation, beyond which the complexity starts to stifle it?" A third executive will raise questions concerning the impact of the Internet on the management of these processes. He... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
party applications/advertisers and users” assigned the task of making sure third party companies are following company guidelines on privacy. Jim suggested, “Total... View Details
- 28 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)
markets. In the third part of their study, they investigated how 53 chains that don't franchise manage operations across multiple markets. They found evidence that chains serving more diverse markets decentralize their operations by... View Details
- 24 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions
Viroopa Volla is currently a third year in the JD/MBA program at Harvard. Before starting the program, Viroopa worked at McKinsey as a Senior Business Analyst and at Walmart as a Senior Manager. She graduated from Harvard College with a... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
price most observers found generous. The debacle cost both the chairman and president of Quaker their jobs and hastened the end of Quaker's independent existence (it's now a unit of PepsiCo). But that's not the end of the story. In... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
pervasive impact, it remains only a small part of the computing ecosystem. Keystones can increase ecosystem productivity by simplifying the complex task of connecting network participants to one another or by making the creation of new products by View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
reason to trust each other. Without trust, many transactions will never materialize. A crucial feature of any platform is enabling and creating a trust environment allowing independent parties to feel... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
leveraging of assets, on irresponsible banks and mortgage brokers who fabricated applications for no downpayment home loans knowing that the risks could be readily laid off on unsuspecting third parties. But underpinning the collapse of... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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Drug & Alcohol Policy | About
to himself or herself or to a third party. In addition, a social host will be liable for injuries to third parties if the host knew or should have known that the guest was... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
productivities at collecting deposits and making loans. They find that deposit productivity is responsible for two thirds of the value of the median bank and most variation in value across banks. Variation in productivity is driven by... View Details