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- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
form of new capabilities and team-member resilience. We then highlight the critical roles of leadership and of communication and conflict management training as strategies for overcoming the challenges to...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
Leonard and Swap offer managers proven strategies for generating the group dynamics that lie at the heart of innovative thinking, including specific techniques for rechanneling the tension of conflicting...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
companies gain flexibility in the range of projects they may undertake. "Hiring outside contractors is a way for managers to access the talent they need to get the work done," says Bradach. Independent contractors reported a greater sense...
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Judith Ross
- Profile
Sebastien D'Incau
you manage are ultimately touching lives." The people-centric aspect of consumer-product goods is what attracted Sebastien to business in the first place. "I have a math and numbers background," he says. "But I wanted...
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- 2016
- Working Paper
Delay as Agenda Setting
By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
We examine a dynamic decision-making process involving unrelated issues in which a decision may be endogenously delayed by the allocation of influence resources. Delay is strategically interesting when decision makers with asymmetric preferences face multiple issues...
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Decision Making;
Resource Allocation;
Conflict of Interests;
Power and Influence;
Strategy
Anton, James J., and Dennis A. Yao. "Delay as Agenda Setting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-082, February 2011. (Revised January 2016.)
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
finance, it seems, are never far from the minds of anyone in health care these days, even at fiscally sound MGH, the Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital that is recognized as an industry model. Indeed, with its conflicting mix of human...
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- January 2007 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
The Tale of the Lynx (A and B)
By: Noam T. Wasserman
The founders of Lynx Solutions have survived major challenges within their board of directors, the firing of Lynx's founder-CEO and departure of its successor CEO, and a crisis sparked by media allegations that it had been spying on its users. Now that the company is...
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Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Ethics;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Management Succession;
Conflict and Resolution;
Management Teams;
Information Technology Industry
Wasserman, Noam T. "The Tale of the Lynx (A and B)." Harvard Business School Case 807-112, January 2007. (Revised April 2007.)
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind
One function builds relationships with customers, another develops products, and the third oversees the operational infrastructure. Even though these activities often conflict with each other, traditionally they have been bundled together...
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- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
to managers and stimulating reflection among scholars, a new working paper by HBS professors James E. Austin and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard looks at how and why such acquisitions occur and how to View Details
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
often, then, companies will adopt diversity policies more out of fear than anything else, the researchers argue. And this can lead to nonproductive situations. For example, a manager may shy away from constructively criticizing a minority...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
more than you will eliminate disease. The whole range of human incentives is involved, not just money. In the UK, people like to say “We are not corrupt,” but we’re not all as squeaky clean as we like to suggest. Hugh Quick (MBA ’56) Ilminster, Somerset, England No...
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- April 1992
- Case
Malaysia (A)
By: Bruce R. Scott
Riots in 1969 bring martial law and a new, more firmly Malay government which sets out to promote redistribution of opportunity, income, and wealth by race-based quotas. Dr. Mahatherl, a Malay nationalist says Malays have a non-competitive alliance which must be forced...
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Wealth and Poverty;
Change Management;
Race;
Conflict and Resolution;
Power and Influence;
Malaysia
Scott, Bruce R. "Malaysia (A)." Harvard Business School Case 792-101, April 1992.
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Refugees' Attitudes Towards Compromise and Civil War Termination By: Fabbe, Kristin, Chad Hazlett, and Tolga Sınmazdemir Abstract— Civilians who have fled violent conflict and settled in neighboring countries are integral to processes of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- March 2011
- Article
Talking Past Each Other?: Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate
This article analyzes the extent to which two institutional logics around climate change—the climate change “convinced” and the climate change “skeptical” logics—are truly competing or talking past each other in a way that can be described as a logic schism. Drawing on...
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Hoffman, Andrew J. "Talking Past Each Other? Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate." Organization & Environment 24, no. 1 (March 2011): 3–33. (Winner of the 2014 Organization & Environment Best Paper Award.)
- June 2018
- Teaching Note
Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work
By: Boris Groysberg and Amram Migdal
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 416-031, 416-032, 416-033, 416-034, 416-035, and 416-036.
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Communication;
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Human Resources;
Employee Relationship Management;
Management Skills;
Performance;
Performance Evaluation;
Personal Development and Career;
Relationships;
Groups and Teams;
Social Psychology;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Conflict and Resolution;
Conflict Management;
Emotions;
Perception;
Personal Characteristics;
Perspective;
Power and Influence;
Prejudice and Bias;
Reputation;
Satisfaction;
Trust
- September 2012 (Revised September 2012)
- Case
Inkaterra
By: Diego Comin, Rohan Gopaldas and Diego Rehder
The case presents the unique business model of Inkaterra, a leading eco-tourism organization in Peru, and the different strategies the company can pursue to grow. Through the experience of Inkaterra the case studies two general issues. First, it discusses the potential...
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Inkaterra;
Ecotourism;
Tourism;
Environment;
Peru;
Informal Sector;
Regulation;
Economic Development;
Bottom Of The Pyramid;
Technology Diffusion;
Competitiveness;
Business Model;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Natural Environment;
Market Entry and Exit;
Conflict Management;
Tourism Industry;
Peru
Comin, Diego, Rohan Gopaldas, and Diego Rehder. "Inkaterra." Harvard Business School Case 713-022, September 2012. (Revised September 2012.)
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
"As different cultural traditions meet in the marketplace and inside organizations, managers face tough choices about the values that they and their organizations will live by," HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine told participants...
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by Judith A. Ross
- Profile
Nabihah Sachedina
Although Dr. Nabihah Sachedina loved practicing pediatrics in the UK, she found herself increasingly frustrated with inefficiencies in the health-care system. “Because of conflicts over funding, it was sometimes difficult to discharge...
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- Web
TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life Course Number 2227 Associate Professor Alison Wood Brooks Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits12 SessionsFinal ProjectQualifies for Management Science Track Credit We talk to people to...
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- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
the Academy of Management Journal. The paper was featured in the Best Paper Proceedings of the 2004 Academy of Management Conference and of the 2003 Babson-Kauffman Research Conference. Sarah Jane Gilbert:...
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