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  • February 2013
  • Article

Learning from Roger Fisher

By: James K. Sebenius
Roger Fisher's career and writings not only offer lessons about negotiation but also about how an academic, especially in a professional school such as law or business, can make an important, positive difference in the world. By his relentless engagement in vexing... View Details
Keywords: Roger Fisher; Dispute Resolution; Bargaining; Negotiation
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  • April 2013
  • Article

What Roger Fisher Got Profoundly Right: Five Enduring Lessons for Negotiators

By: James K. Sebenius
Roger Fisher, who died in 2012, enjoyed a remarkable career that modeled one way that an academic, especially in a professional school such as law or business, could make a significant, positive, and lasting difference in the world. Distinctive aspects of his career... View Details
Keywords: Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Dealmaking; Negotiation; Personal Development and Career; Conflict and Resolution
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  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

band in 1927, and that the broadcasters themselves were divided at the FRC's hearings. Paper: http://www.tobinproject.org/sites/tobinproject.org/files/assets/Moss%20Lackow%20Capturing%20History%20%281.16.13%29.pdf What Roger View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2008 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

Forecasting the Great Depression

By: Walter A. Friedman
What is proper role of professional economic forecasting in financial decision making? The case presents excerpts from three leading economic forecasters on the eve of, and just after, the stock market crash of October 1929. The first set of excerpts is from Roger... View Details
Keywords: History; Mathematical Methods; Personal Development and Career; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis
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  • 20 Aug 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Decision-Making Perspective to Negotiation: A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future

Keywords: by Chia-Jung Tsay & Max H. Bazerman
  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

  Working PapersThe Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • Web

    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    improve your life right now by making finding greater happiness a choice. Video Recording Perspectives on Harvard Climate Leadership: Veritas vs. Human Nature—Which Future Will We Choose? 2:30–4:00 p.m. EDT Hosted by the Class of 1974 Moderated by View Details
    • Web

    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    1977–Present Victor Emanuel AVCO, 1939–1960 John C. Emery, Jr. Emery Air Freight, 1968–1987 John C. Emery, Sr. Emery Air Freight, 1946–1967 Roger A. Enrico PepsiCo, 1996–2001 Ole Evinrude Outboard Motors Corporation, 1920–1928 John A.... View Details
    • Web

    Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship

    Corporation MBA 1970 Raymond T. Dalio Bridgewater Associates MBA 1973 William Davis Able Lending MBA 2011 Clifton Dawson Fitzeal MBA 2013 Edson D. de Castro Data General Corporation MBA 1963 Roger Huffstetler Zillabyte MBA 2009 Richard A.... View Details
    • 07 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Art of Haggling

    of bargaining, while in Getting to YES, Harvard Law School Professor Roger Fisher and Harvard Negotiation Project Senior Fellow William Ury advocated for an approach that can benefit both parties. View Details
    Keywords: by Katie Johnston
    • 01 Jan 2013
    • News

    Five Receive 2013 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

    Jakurski, MBA 1973 Founding Partner and Managing Director, JGP Asset Management Thomas A. James, MBA 1966 Chairman, Raymond James Financial, Inc. Thai Lee, MBA 1985 President and CEO, SHI International Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960 Cofounder... View Details
    Keywords: awards; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Retail Trade
    • 09 Jan 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

    claim to systematic scientific insight. This book describes the first generation of economic forecasters and the methods they created to predict the future of the economy. The forecasting field was initially developed by entrepreneurs like View Details
    Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
    • 09 Jan 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

    and 1920—and also a time of substantial demographic change, as the country moved from being predominantly agricultural to being industrial and urban. Click on the image to enlargeBabsonchart of United States Business Conditions," January 28, 1929, from View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Jun 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: June 19

    case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312002-PDF-ENG EILEEN FISHER: Repositioning the Brand Anat Keinan, Jill Avery, Fiona Wilson, and Michael I. NortonHarvard Business School Case 512-085 Well-established fashion brand Eileen Fisher... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Dec 1997
    • News

    Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

    ever to win the honor, which he shares with Myron S. Scholes of Stanford University. Merton, the School's George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration, joins more than thirty Harvard University faculty members who have won a... View Details
    • 12 Oct 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

    what set of no-deal alternatives face the participants. Its most familiar element involves what each party will do if there is no deal — in other words, "the best alternative to negotiated agreement" or BATNA (a term coined by Harvard Law School professor... View Details
    Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
    • 10 Jun 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Reinventing the Industrial Giant

    1980s, under the leadership of Roger Smith, GM tried to transform itself into the "21st Century Corporation." 74 The plan was to revamp all of the assembly plants and replace workers with robots and other forms of... View Details
    Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing
    • 04 Dec 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: December 4

    the detrimental effects of each trigger. We conclude by discussing implications and recommendations for organizational scholars to take a more integrative approach to developing and evaluating theory about unethical behavior. Learning from View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 10 Apr 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: April 10

    first-in-the-nation smart grid plan aimed at reducing energy use in the central business district. With worries about a renewed downturn in the financial sector, Rogers and the other leaders in attendance hoped that rallying around a... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel