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- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
the center of global trade disputes. World Trade Organization (WTO) disputes between Europe and the United States over hormone-treated beef and genetically modified crops evoke how difficult it can be to reconcile different consumer...
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- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
ideas in theory, the jury is still out on whether or not they are viable for the typical negotiator. Negotiation With More Than Two Players As the number of parties in a negotiation increases, the complexity of the dispute expands...
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by Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
pipeline imports, public policy became the object of intense disputes among oil and gas producers, manufacturing and petrochemical interests, utilities, and environmentalists. Exporting gas (or oil) could affect higher prices in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
more so when your uncle, mother, or daughter is your business partner. Harvard Business School's John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra outline 5 ways to analyze and improve dealmaking and dispute resolution while protecting family ties. As...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
you've witnessed in your professional life and tell us why it went badly? A: I've done work in land use and environmental disputes and sometimes seen questionable behavior on both sides of the table. In one case, a developer filled a...
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by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Confidential Instructions for Johnson & Johnson Guhan Subramanian and Rhea GhoshHarvard Business School Exercise 911-045 This two-party negotiation exercise features a real-life dispute between Merck and Johnson & Johnson...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
Second, the emphasis on local laws as being all-important may be misplaced given the large role of foreign investment in emerging economies and the ability of these investors to avail themselves of nonlocal laws. The web of bilateral investment treaties and the growth...
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- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
representatives. Ultimately, however, the centralized appellate court for patent cases in the U.S., the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, decided that Rambus' behavior was acceptable. In effect, the appeals court did not dispute...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
haunting benchmark not only for Exxon-Mobil but for global corporations at large, which have since become keenly aware of their exposure to this type of episode. Shell was also deeply affected by the 1995 dispute with Greenpeace over...
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- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
education, not for use as a political weapon. The board conditionally agreed to end the disputed investments. The result: With investments constricted over a number of years, the fund experienced a $3 million performance shortfall, which...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
developing products created by hard-to-find customer-centered software engineers. But now Microsoft's proposed settlement of its dispute with an even bigger sumo—government—would involve giving computers equipped with its operating system...
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by James Heskett
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
dispute to court can be an expensive proposition. Cohen shared an example: Lumen View Technology, which had initiated patent lawsuits in the past against numerous companies, sued FindTheBest and several other firms, claiming they...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
in the middle of disputes that hurt their future prospects. And poor countries will fail to benefit from what investors can bring them. Absent strong protections, managers must ask themselves a series of questions before investing in...
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- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
pose a problem for the economy. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52111 Harvard Business School Case 917-012 Three Problems in Protecting Competition In three mini-cases, readers see a range of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
pole may not appeal to everyone, but it is fundamental to how the FDA functions. Conflagrations concerning products like RU-486 and COX-2 inhibitors are almost inevitable considering how many divergent interests and disputes over evidence...
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- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
renegotiations, and the personal interests of highly placed individuals. The resulting power purchase agreements had led to high prices for electricity, imbalances of risks and rewards, and an unwillingness of officials to use the most effective defenses when View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
and the University of California, Berkeley were in the middle of a contentious patent dispute over which entity controlled a breakthrough gene editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9. With CRISPR-Cas9, scientists might soon be able to cure...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
the union movement in North America. On a larger scale, sizeable groups of workers primarily in service industries recently disengaged themselves from the AFL-CIO, which they perceived as being dominated by smaller, more traditional, industrial unions. The Northwest...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
Impossible, I draw out scores of actionable lessons using behind-the-scenes stories of fascinating real-life negotiations, including drafting the U.S. Constitution, resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis, ending bitter disputes in the NFL and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
“raises similar issues in the context of building more personal connections and relationships in the workplace.” Others disputed the notion that these values are making a comeback. J. T. Goh commented: “I don’t see these values as trendy...
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by James Heskett