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- 22 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning
being, the more they wanted to work with them.” Key to these perceptions, the researchers found, was language. Using a language-processing algorithm designed by Imperial College Business School Assistant Professor Michael Yeomans (then a...
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by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette
- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
skills in executive searches reflects specific firm needs, in particular the need to coordinate more—and more complex—activities within firms,” the paper says. Managers at all levels need social skills Sadun and Fuller, along with co-authors Stephen Hansen of the View Details
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
candidates to become major producers. They were consequently well positioned to diversify into production. A third determinant was the further expansion of imperial frontiers. In Asia, British political influence was extended over the...
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by Geoffrey Jones
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
imperialism, so did the collapse of that imperial system create new demands and sites of contestation for systems of sovereignty and property. Adom Getachew has written about “anticolonial worldmaking,” attempts to reshape international...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
resulting working paper, Conversational Receptiveness: Improving Engagement with Opposing Views, was written in collaboration with Michael Yeomans, assistant professor at Imperial College Business School in London; Julia Minson, associate...
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by Kristen Senz
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
employers cost relief, consumers and physicians will be empowered to make the system work the way it should. Return to Imperial Trade? John Holt & Co (Liverpool) Ltd. as a Contemporary Free-standing Company, 1945-2006 Author:Stephanie...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
attempt to squelch their demands for independence. Cover photo for Imperial Reckoning, Central Province, Kenya, c. 1954 (Photo credit: Popperfoto/Retrofile.com) The research became the basis for her 2005 book View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace Author:Guhan Subramanian Publication:W.W. Norton & Company, forthcoming Abstract No abstract is available at this time. American Democracy: The Perils of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
how such change is best achieved? Does it suggest one more reason why we should put aside the concept of the imperial leader whose wisdom is questioned only at one's risk? What does it say about the need for leadership behaviors that...
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by James Heskett
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
The imperial encounter with political economy was neither uniform across political, economic, cultural, and religious constellations nor static across time. The contributions collected in this volume address, with undeniable pertinence...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
particular use their talents flexibly; (3) encouraging the growth of good companies that can replace imperial excess with values-based capitalism; (4) restoring respect for government by ending decades of contempt for the public sector...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
with the working title Imperial Experiments: The First American Empire. In addition to a chapter on infrastructure projects, the book will include sections on investment, international trade, and political institutions. "The United...
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by Julia Hanna
- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
historian Polybius’s writings on witnessing a friend weep over Carthage, the enemy city he has just destroyed; and a reading from Plutarch on how his fellow Greeks should deal with not being an imperial superpower anymore. When it comes...
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by Julia Hanna
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
became instruments of liberty; economic ideas once marshaled to the cause of imperialism were transformed into a political economy of independence in former colonies, a political economy anchored in the essential necessity of encouraging...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
virtue of its size and growth, high levels of entrepreneurial energy, legalistic culture, and a number of other unusual features. In our essay we show that the business systems of Britain and the Netherlands shared many similarities. Both countries had an View Details
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
multinational resource and related investments were highly enclavist and embedded in the institutional arrangements of Western imperialism and autocratic dictators. Western firms reinforced rather than disrupted institutional and societal...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
encouraging the growth of good companies that can replace imperial excess with values-based capitalism; (4) restoring respect for government by ending decades of contempt for the public sector and ensuring competence in that vital sector;...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
pharmaceuticals, it concentrated on enlarging its OTC business by, as before, exploiting its advertising skills. By 1979 it had developed a broader line of new prescription drugs, beginning in 1968 with Inderal, a beta-blocker drug licensed from View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
still see a connection between a professor from Harvard who comes to their country to study management in 2016 and the Englishmen who brought opium to their country in the early 1800s, ultimately triggering the end to Imperial China. They...
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by Deborah Blagg
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Japan. An entire system of governance was blown away. In 1911, an imperial tradition of more than 2,000 years ended. After the subsequent disasters of world war and Maoist utopianism, China was an impoverished third world economy holding...
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Carmen Nobel