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- 23 May 2013
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Board Games: Timing of Independent Directors’ Dissent in China
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by Juan Ma & Tarun Khanna
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Principal Research Interests
My research is principally focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century subjects, with an emphasis on economic and especially financial history. I am interested in the role of banks and capital markets in the process of economic development as well as in the political...
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- March 24, 2014
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Like a Boss: How Corporate Negotiators Would Handle Nuclear Talks With Iran
While the Obama team deserves high marks for launching the interim talks, its approach doesn't sell the upside of a comprehensive deal persuasively enough to transform more Iranian skeptics into active supporters—a necessary condition for success if there is an...
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Winning Coalition;
Blocking Coalition;
Strategy;
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China;
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United States;
Russia;
Negotiation;
International Relations;
Conflict and Resolution;
Public Administration Industry;
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Germany;
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China;
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Russia
Sebenius, James K. "Like a Boss: How Corporate Negotiators Would Handle Nuclear Talks With Iran." ForeignPolicy.com (March 24, 2014).
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) - MBA
Academic Honors 1.9 Course Registration 1.10 Cross-Registration 1.11 Leaves of Absence 1.12 Clearance for Return 1.13 Satisfactory Academic Progress 1.14 Academic Review/Academic Withdrawal 1.15 Official Transcripts/Certificates of...
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
2035, with the aim of achieving climate neutrality by 2050. The company also committed to investing $50 billion in clean energy projects. The sustainability committee had to take stock of the company's progress and determine whether the...
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- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. In studying 100 founders of Indian software companies, they found that those who exert more hands-on management—keeping close tabs on workers with regular evaluations, setting expectations, creating shared milestones, and...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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AASU50 - Alumni
Business Leaders Series (HBS Cold Call podcasts) The Road to Zero Wealth (Prosperity Now report, pdf) Racial Progress is Real, But So Is Racist Progress (New York Times, January 21, 2017) Fighting Racism is...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation...
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- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
number of readers put forward well-tempered comments questioning research on whether diversity and inclusion enhance organization performance. The implication is that this may account in some part for the slow pace of progress on this...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
Generational Changes In The Family Business Board The board of directors in the family firm usually changes over generations and as the ownership of the firm progresses through three distinct stages. 2 Figure 2: Ownership Stages of the...
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- 19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
veiled pursuit of perfection, which is the enemy of progress and itself can be paralyzing. And so we really, and this is the work of Tuesday in our plan, we give you a job to do, Monday through Friday. But on Tuesday, we really want you...
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1.16 Student Educational Records - MBA
Academic Honors 1.9 Course Registration 1.10 Cross-Registration 1.11 Leaves of Absence 1.12 Clearance for Return 1.13 Satisfactory Academic Progress 1.14 Academic Review/Academic Withdrawal 1.15 Official Transcripts/Certificates of...
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1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School - MBA
Requirements 1.7 Grading 1.8 Academic Honors 1.9 Course Registration 1.10 Cross-Registration 1.11 Leaves of Absence 1.12 Clearance for Return 1.13 Satisfactory Academic Progress 1.14 Academic Review/Academic Withdrawal 1.15 Official...
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- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
difficult times. Authentic leaders are constantly growing. They do not have a rigid view of themselves and their leadership. Becoming authentic is a developmental state that enables leaders to progress through multiple roles, as they...
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by Bill George
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
benefits of performance-based pricing. The problem is that the savings from the software utilization might take months to determine, thus delaying payment to the software vendor. Most startups can't wait for cash flow. A possible solution in some cases would be View Details
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classroom to you—putting you at the center of the learning experience. What sets HBS Online apart? Our learning model is built around three key characteristics: active, case-based, and social. You complete coursework on your own time while meeting regular deadlines to...
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- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
companies advancing racial equity. Bower is hoping to harness the understanding derived from companies addressing the problem of institutionalized racism. True progress will demand more than just increasing the diversity of case...
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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
School’s Social Innovation + Change Initiative is a rigorous co-curricular program for change-makers committed to addressing pressing social problems in new and creative ways. The Fellowship selects and supports students – known as Cheng Fellows – advancing View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
with protagonists’ consent, data on race and ethnicity. So far, we know that just under 30 percent of cases used in first-year MBA instruction feature a protagonist of color. There is more work to do, but by investing in data collection, analysis, and reporting, we can...
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by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg