Conflict and Resolution - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1999
News

Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

At a session on information and prices, HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty presented a paper detailing how the price of an unusual security could be used to extract the market's best guess of the size View Details

Profile

Mallika Ahluwalia

wanted to learn how the private sector can contribute to the resolution of international development challenges." Harvard's graduate schools of business and government were among her favored choices.... View Details

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Nathalie du Preez

conflicting viewpoints, challenge my existing preconceived ideas, and help me make business decisions in the future in a more powerful way. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

two that would lead to better results. You may think you're sticking your neck out, but if the conflict is there and neither of you addresses it, you are probably not long for that job anyway. Q: You take... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

districts. Teacher layoffs were also on the table: The number, initially set at 89, was whittled down to 51; after months of debate and conflict with local teacher unions (there are two in Scranton), 16... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Jun 1997
News

Short Takes

interdependencies." Looking Out for Number One The tension between the desire to maintain cordial relations with others and the need to act in one's own self-interest affects all human relations. This View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2004
News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

experienced. Why did the SEC override strong industry opposition and require mutual-fund boards to appoint independent chairmen? The commission felt, and I strongly agree, that there’s an unacceptable View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Jun 2008
News

Alumni Books

Michael Gilbert (MBA ’67) (Hunter Press) Family Wars: Classic Conflicts in Family Business and How to Deal with Them by Grant Gordon (OPM 30, 01) and Nigel Nicholson (Kogan... View Details

Keywords: Management

01 Mar 2009
News

Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems

that his generation “relaxed” after the Vietnam conflict and that it was time to get back to work to make the world a better place for succeeding generations. In the 1960s, Arthur said, he saw how a movement... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

6 PM – 8 PM EST, 01 Feb 2016

Alumnae Circles Open House: Boston

Women's groups are launching- are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details

Portrait Project

Kate Lewis

means to "have it all." Having it all does not mean perfection at work and home. It means daring to pursue seemingly impractical and conflicting goals, View Details

Portrait Project

Oded Eran

devastation that might occur when politicians are at an impasse. I believe it's the responsibility of business leaders to step up and promote prosperity for their communities, where governments struggle to do so. I will work to bridge... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

St. Louis, albeit briefly, since her position was phased out while she was on maternity leave. She then took a short-term consulting job, followed by three months off from working. Now considering the pros and cons of rejoining the... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

05 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

University of Utah not given Myriad an exclusive license to a discovery the university made in its own labs, there may have been no need for a conflict whatsoever. But among other things, the dispute resonates deeply with a call to action... View Details

Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health

01 Oct 2000
News

Three Promoted to Full Professor

Entrepreneurial Finance elective in the MBA curriculum. In the Executive Education Program, he has developed materials for and served as codirector of courses in Conflict and... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)

Kathy Wang (MBA 2011) can pinpoint the very moment she started drafting her first novel, Family Trust. It was January 1, 2017, as soon as her son went down for his nap. Wang was on hiatus from her career as a product manager at Seagate while at home with her first... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

Portrait Project

Kimberly Dionne Spears

hosting Salsa dance lessons, African cooking classes, German language courses; inviting the community to contribute their talents and culture to grow stronger in our respect and appreciation for the... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Sam Hayes

musician, Hayes plays the pipe organ and cello, “but only with family” — a select group that consists of his wife, Barbara, and their three daughters and two grandchildren.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2012
News

Taking Time to Make Time

that would lead to better results. You may think you're sticking your neck out, but if the conflict is there and neither of you addresses it, you are probably not long for that job anyway. You take exception... View Details

Keywords: Time management

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT, 18 Oct 2016
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