Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Agricultural cooperatives Land O’Lakes and Ocean Spray have become major players in dairy production and fruit farming, earning hundreds of millions in annual revenue. That’s because a growing number of funders, both social impact funds and traditional institutions, are interested in financing workers’ takeover of a company.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

A lack of clarity, the presence of ambiguity, obviously flawed business logic, or constantly shifting priorities/positions are the death of many a venture. They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. Along the same lines, a large meta-analysis showed that team members’ personalities influence cooperation, shared cognition, information sharing, and overall team performance. How to Handle a Colleague Who’s a Jerk When the Boss Isn’t Around. Amy Jen Su. Kevin Kniffin.

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Skills Team Cooper Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

On average, common ownership concentration has almost doubled in the last 20 years in the construction, manufacturing, finance, and services sectors. They may choose it for other reasons, for example, to encourage cooperation or innovation. However, there may also be positive effects to common ownership.

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CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. Dominant providers leverage their market position to raise prices independently of cost or quality.

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Health Care Cooper Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

cooperation on global trade will be compromised for some time if the tariffs go into effect. SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. Additional meetings are scheduled for August and September, but it is difficult to imagine a positive outcome if an auto trade war breaks out.

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GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This has some clear implications for the long-run fiscal position of the U.S. of Americans aged 15 to 64 had jobs in 2011, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. What's far less clear, as the University of Maryland's William Galston argues in response to Eberstadt , is that it really makes the U.S. "a

Insurance 15

Insurance Policies Bottom-up Health Care 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Over the last year blogs at US News , Daily Finance , Forbes , and articles like this one in the New York Times have questioned the work ethic and entitlement mentality of generation Y. However, groups of cooperative contributors outperform groups of cheating free-riders.

Management 8

Management Cooper Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Wealth management firms acknowledge that they are not yet positioned to give impact investing equal footing to conventional investments. But our generation is remarkably consistent in attitude, regardless of financial position — 92% say business success should be based on more than profit.

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Banking Commitment Class Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Franco-German cooperation can still be a powerful magnetic force in the EU and a bilateral Franco-German bargain can often provide a template for a larger Union agreement. This coalition would include Germany and the eight northern European member states whose finance ministers began to meet in early 2018 to discuss reforming the Eurozone.

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Crisis Politics Policies Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Often, however, the elements that make something profitable work counter to those that maximize positive social impact. The only positive impact, according to the study, was that people who already had higher incomes and established businesses were able to benefit from access to financial services.

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Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

For example, those working to collect farm data by partnering with farming cooperatives and communities are largely protected from what happens online. A good strategy could be to find ways to position startups to build on the existing infrastructure of these ICT utilities instead of directly competing with them.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Listen to the words of a finance manager in a large consumer products company, whose efforts to improve his business team's profit margins were repeatedly undercut by people in the sales department: "I learned that pricing for one of our key accounts has already been confirmed to the customer, without any prior approval or review. [.]

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Management Engineering Price Brainstorming 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Looking forward toward the next decade and beyond, we are seeing countries increasingly prize sovereignty over multilateralism, national interests over international cooperation, and local constituencies over global populations. The positive consensus toward globalization that defined the U.S. The young in the U.S.,

Globalization 14

Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

First, data cooperatives or pooling involve corporations and other entities joining together to create shared data resources. Through our research, we have identified six types of data collaboratives enabling the exchange of data and/or data science expertise across sectors to create public value.

Company 8

Company Policies Media Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

They often provide salary ranges, positive and negative aspects of the firm, and even sample interview questions. Interviewers have a checklist to complete, so it is wise to cooperate and allow them to stay focused on that task," says Sullivan. He soon applied for a third position and was given a test, which he did well on.

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Sample Case Study Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

At the end of the day, organizations are collections of people; this means that superior organizations need more effective ways for them to cooperate and work toward a common goal. My corporate finance colleague Alex Edmans has also systematically examined the impact of intangible resources on firm performance.

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Sports Management Competitive Advantage Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Investors are genuinely concerned that regulators are incapable of making sure that published financial statements of companies in their exchanges accurately reflect the true operating positions of the firms. To reduce the insurance premiums, traded companies must cooperate and engage better with auditors.

Insurance 8

Insurance Incentives Quality Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. What We Actually Measured — and the Limits of Our Knowledge.

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