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- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!), which laid the groundwork for the garden through irrigation basins, a solar-powered pump, and, most importantly, training cooperative groups of village women: “It’s just stunning to...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
short-term “fixes” to move up in the rankings rather than focusing on long-term educational quality. As tensions rose, HBS and Wharton declared in 2004 that the media rankings were “meaningless beauty contests,” and they would no longer View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
weighed in on the current economic crisis but quickly moved on to advocate for energy independence and cross-sector cooperation between business and government. The panel featured John Doerr (MBA ’76), Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82), Anand...
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- September 2009 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk, Inc. (A)
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Faaiza Rashid
Describes Autodesk's engagement in Integrated Project Delivery—a new model of risk management, inter-firm teamwork, and multi-objective (aesthetic, cost, and sustainability) optimization in building projects. In 2008, Autodesk, Inc., the world's largest design software...
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Buildings and Facilities;
Business Headquarters;
Design;
Risk Management;
Business Processes;
Projects;
Groups and Teams;
Partners and Partnerships;
Cooperation;
Construction Industry;
Service Industry
Edmondson, Amy C., and Faaiza Rashid. "Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 610-016, September 2009. (Revised April 2011.)
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
purpose, along with Chester Barnard’s compatible theory of business organizations as cooperative systems. Aristotle stresses the ethicality of cooperation in transactional settings; Barnard stresses the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- February 2009 (Revised November 2016)
- Exercise
Congo River Basin Project: Role for Dr. Campos
By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Anne Starks Acosta, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer
The director of a research coalition and the founder/coordinator of an NGO consortium meet to discuss the possibility of jointly drafting a proposal for an integrated research and development project in the Congo River basin. Approved projects will receive an annual...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Negotiation Process;
Projects;
Research and Development;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Cooperation;
Congo Basin
McGinn, Kathleen L., Anne Starks Acosta, Deborah M. Kolb, and Cailin B. Hammer. "Congo River Basin Project: Role for Dr. Campos." Harvard Business School Exercise 909-040, February 2009. (Revised November 2016.)
- September 2007
- Case
Collaborating to Improve
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Ingrid M. Nembhard
Madison Memorial Hospital is deciding between a variety of quality improvement strategies. Highlights quality improvement collaborative—organized programs popularized by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in which teams from multiple institutions work together to...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Service Delivery;
Performance Improvement;
Quality;
Groups and Teams;
Cooperation;
Integration;
Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Ingrid M. Nembhard. "Collaborating to Improve." Harvard Business School Case 608-054, September 2007.
- 26 Apr 2022
- News
Leading on Climate Change
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) welcomed Her Excellency Mariam Bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb Almheiri, the Minister of Climate Change and Environment for the United Arab Emirates, and Paul Polman,...
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Margie Kelley
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
need to achieve "a cooperative effort on the part of physicians, hospitals, and yes, even patients." Milton Recht provided a list of responses: "Increase competition, allow medical business failures, remove guaranteed...
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- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
other functional managers, in hopes that they'll work as a team and discover effective ways to cooperate better. "By narrowing their focus in terms of their business portfolio, companies increase the potential for synergies,"...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
benefit allied politicians. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-100.pdf Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Is Voluntary Disclosure a Signal of Effective Self-Policing? Authors:Michael W. Toffel and Jodi L. Short Abstract As regulators increasingly embrace...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
of having cases written about them? How do you work with reluctance or hesitation? A: Most Japanese companies I contacted to ask for cooperation to develop cases have been quite cooperative. I believe that the high academic standards of...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
Abstract—Although Indian tribes and the surrounding states were often bitter enemies throughout much of the history of the United States, recently tribes and states have been able to work cooperatively in a number of areas. In some...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
together to develop laws that are consistent and compatible," she says. "This is incredibly important, to cooperate in law enforcement, to create mechanisms for real-time information sharing—strategically helping them focus on what the UN...
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Sid Shenai
Faso. Their five-year plan reached the finals of the JPMorgan Good Venture Competition in New York City, helping Paper For All attract publicity and new donors. Forming strategic alliances Today, Sid is cooperating with six MBA candidates...
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- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
Abstract—This article presents a clinical study, based on a decade of ongoing research at Samsung Group, which describes how the Samsung Group and its mobile phone division competed successfully in smartphones. The ability to manage co-opetition—simultaneous forces of...
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- March 2023
- Case
Interior Collab
By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
After venture capital-funded online interior design agency Homepolish collapsed, its former freelance designers met to discuss next steps. The bitter experience led some of them to create a workers’ collaborative called Interior Collab. The founding members needed to...
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- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
greater role in WHO governance and if there are guarantees of purchase contracts for new drugs and vaccines at sensible prices. Both seem unlikely, as the WHO's culture has always winced at cooperation with the private sector. WHO's track...
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- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent
he added, Africa really needs the investment of its own people in order to attract healthy global investment. Utomi said countries cooperating on a regional basis would also be a step forward for Africa. Kibuka noted that other countries'...
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by Julie Jette
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
illogical collective decisions we make.” —Dante Disparte (PLDA 6, 2009), founder and CEO, Risk Cooperative Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng “What I love about this novel—particularly given the amount of time I spend thinking about...
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April White