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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
identity and reputation from unjust attacks. And the firm as a whole needs a similar defensive capacity for its dealings with hostile competitive firms, community groups, or governmental agencies. The defending and learning drives can...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
Last year, it took a teenager's 10-minute video of a Black man's murder to shine a light on the raw hostility that Black people face daily in America. George Floyd's death at the hands of a white police officer forced many to acknowledge...
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- 11 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Perfecting the Project Pitch
Overcoming that obstacle can be a difficult process, especially for entrepreneurs who have a background in a technical, engineering, or another non-sales discipline. They are not used to having to convince anyone of the merits of their projects, and can be downright...
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by Dennis Fisher
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
example, finding a comfortable balance between juggling the needs of their young children along with the requests of a demanding boss. This conflict in roles can lead to burnout, guilt, and hostility both at work and at home—and, in the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
seemed confused by, if not hostile toward, an educated Black woman, she found a surprising source. Her two early funders of EcoTech Visions were women who were not known in investment circles. They were referred to her by someone she met...
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- Research Summary
Capitalism as a System of Governance
My research interest is in further exploration of the analytic utility of an original conception of capitalism as an indirect, three level system of governance for the economic relationships within political entities, and mostly within nation states. This three level...
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- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
capitalism at the most abstract level, and hostile level. And you've never met these people and you've never visited their work sites or met businesspeople except in your territory, where the masks are on. I think we feel sympathetic with...
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
inappropriate touching that the person wouldn’t get a promotion or raise or might even be punished or fired? By tolerating bad behavior or allowing it to escalate, did the employer create a hostile work environment? Protect the accuser...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take...
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- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
occupational standing and fostered industrial production and capital utilization. However, despite these economic benefits, it triggered hostile political reactions, such as the election of more conservative legislators, higher support...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
on that need. For line-holders, a higher bribe meant the jumper was more desperate. But there were limits to that generosity. When Oberholzer-Gee tried to cut into the same line a second time, the crowd grew hostile and he felt forced to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
administration as Bush's third term. But he and his advisers managed the political chess board brilliantly. Early on, he anticipated and defused negative criticisms by admitting to past indiscretions in his autobiography. His campaign rebutted the criticisms in a View Details
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by John Quelch
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
economic benefits, it triggered hostile political reactions, such as the election of more conservative legislators, higher support for anti-immigration legislation, and lower public goods provision. Stitching the economic and the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
groups are the company's adversaries. At times, that view is justified; some regulators and advocates are indeed hostile to business. But government and nonprofit organizations will always play a role in environmental management – the...
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by Forest Reinhardt
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
two-year MBA program. Glick's presentation focused on benevolent sexism. Unlike hostile sexism, which is an overt response to a perceived threat to male power, Glick said that benevolent sexism's reinforcement of the male-as-caretaker...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
defending the right to innovate or standing up against the Government's regulatory bias. There was some feeling in this group that Microsoft was unlucky in drawing a judge who turned out to be hostile to their cause. Matt Deter's remarks...
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by James Heskett
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817114-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-059 Central European Distribution Corporation: Hostile Takeover, Bankruptcy Makeover In early 2013, Central European Distribution Corporation...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
with the direction of the company under Iger’s predecessor, Michael Eisner; and Comcast had made a $54 billion hostile bid to take over Disney only one year before. The situation for Disney looked bleak. Yet by December 2015 the tide had...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
A&P lost that position. This fact it learned the hard way in 1972 when it launched a price war. The hostilities were conducted under the banner of WEO, which was supposed to stand for "Where Economy Originates." This ugly, clumsy...
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