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  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

reform in China, its causes and its implications, and from the perspective of one private equity play, discussed the issues of corporate governance, conflicts of interest,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

  Publications August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The Art of Strategic Renewal By: Binns, Andy, J. Bruce Harreld, Charles A. O'Reilly, and Michael L. Tushman Abstract—In recent years, we have seen well-established companies such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

struggle for custody over divisional control was a micropolitical process of interprofessional competition, played out between accountants and risk controllers who promoted conflicting measures of the key... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

conflict with the government's long-standing policy of transferring some assets from Chinese to Malays. This policy arose because of a perception that the race riots of 1969 were caused by the tension between the Chinese haves View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha
  • 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

underestimate it. Implications for research on perceived control and co-variation assessment are discussed. Conflict and Development: Lessons from South Asia Authors:Ejaz Ghani... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

organizations and in society disrupts the learning cycle at the heart of becoming a leader. Women must establish credibility in a culture that is deeply conflicted about whether, when, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

The $4 Billion Question

It’s no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal in order to learn more about the complexities View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003

rigorous case discussion at any HBS section including people with knowledge of Iraq and the Middle East, we would never have gone to war. The best way to avoid post-conflict problems is to avoid conflict. If View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

Conflict Management Research (forthcoming) Abstract Routine and persistent acts of dishonesty prevail in everyday life, yet most people resist shining a critical moral light on their own behavior, thereby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

Most ethical principles are pretty unambiguously good. Honesty, fairness, compassion—sure they have their downsides (being “honest to a fault”), but that’s more a by-product of something good than it is something evil in and of itself.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 11 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

executives tell me they see an increase in petty conflicts and a parallel pandemic of short tempers, exposed nerves, and increased sensitivity to perceived slights. It's... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

  Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia (revised) Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

personal interests (at the expense of public shareholders) and bail out Tesla. Concerns were raised over possible conflicts of interest, given that Musk owned over 20% of the stock, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2007
  • Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

Fifty-three years ago, Judge Harold Medina dismissed charges brought by the Justice Department against seventeen leading investment banks. A case built up over a decade of investigations and almost three years of trial collapsed when the... View Details
Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • 30 Mar 2017
  • News

Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2002, Wally Eamer (MBA 1979) took a job that no one really wanted: Trying to broker peace between logging companies, environmentalists, First Nations and the government... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

Intrapersonal Conflict Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between how people anticipate preferences View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

Course MaterialsAdobe Systems: Working Towards a 'Suite' Release (A) Harvard Business School Case 409-014 The case examines the tools a manager can use to keep her project on track and manage conflict View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Letters to the Editor

chairman was a conflict of interest. I was both chairman and CEO of one company and chairman of another who had a CEO. If you are a qualified board member to begin with, then... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
  • 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

  Working PapersCollaborative Architectures for Innovation Authors:Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti Abstract Collaborative innovation has become a hot topic in innovation today. Scholars, consultants, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

obligations to shareholders by properly overseeing the activities of the CEO, and that the directors had conflicts of interest, because they were involved with the CEO's non-Friendly business activities. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace