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- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
so common? A: Our research shows that there are psychological, organizational, and political factors that conspire to keep us from dealing with problems that are worthy of our attention. Psychological vulnerabilities have to do with...
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
Self-confidence is not the real secret of leadership. The more essential ingredient is confidence in other people. Leadership involves motivating others to their finest efforts and channeling those efforts in a coherent direction. Leaders...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
From a leadership perspective, social networking is making authentic leadership a reality and a necessity for 21st century leaders. You can't hide on your social network when you're revealing who you are and what you really believe. Transparency is View Details
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by Staff
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
an assistant professor at HBS in the marketing unit while Ariely is a professor of management science at MIT. Even when we have well-articulated stories about the kind of person we want to meet, we’re often wrong.—Michael Norton While fascinated by the View Details
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
have to learn, some organizations may still lean toward this model. "Clearly there are some benefits to tighter control. If your goal is control and minimizing risk, that's going to perform well because people will stick to the script," Campbell says. "If you see each...
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- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
mode of governance in the American economy: business schools became essential sites for the development of tools and methods for the management of the new large, diversified conglomerates (input-output approaches, linear programming,...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
structure of the game can have a powerful impact on outcomes. Principle 2: Breakthrough Negotiators Organize To Learn Skilled negotiators learn by doing the necessary preparation to negotiate: They diagnose the essential features of the...
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by Michael Watkins
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
in the period following the second Greek bailout in early 2010. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53996 2018 The New Era of the CCO: The Essential Role of Communication in a Volatile World The Trust...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
entrepreneurial course development. The Management of New Enterprises course of 1947 was joined in the 1950s by Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SME), taught by Frank Tucker and W.A. Hosmer. In 1970, MNE essentially merged with SME and...
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- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
PublicationsFood for Thought? Trust Your Unconscious When Energy Is Low Authors:Maarten Bos, Ap Dijksterhuis, and Rick B. Van Baaren Publication:Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology and Economics 5, no. 2 (May 2012) Abstract Recent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
essentially treats them as means to an end. Why is that? Among other things, Pfeffer speculates that one reason is that we assume correctly that polar bears can't do much to affect their own well-being. Humans, on the other hand, can take...
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by Jim Heskett
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
managers may be trying to categorize their firms as small firms when investors favor small firms. Purchase the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13762 Allocating Marketing Resources Authors:Sunil Gupta and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Marketing is...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
companies batten down the hatches, we need leaders who don't compromise on standards and values that are essential in flush times. Fortunately, such leaders do exist. Their insights can help other organizations weather the current crisis,...
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by Staff
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
in press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others By: Rogers, T., R. Zeckhauser, F. Gino, M.I. Norton, and M. Schweitzer Abstract—Paltering is the...
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- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
essential in demanding and creating attention, they are incomplete alone. If we are to truly operationalize the broad-based awareness this moment has prompted, we must critically examine the ways in which we are all supportive of white...
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- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
by Karen Golden-Biddle and Jane E. Dutton. Series in Organization and Management. New York: Psychology Press, 2012 Abstract How can application of a positive lens to understanding social change and organizations enrich and elaborate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/BFSWIPO.pdf Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children Authors:Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan Publication:Journal of Economic Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract We run an...
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- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
toward a single image, phrase, or movement for a period of time. You can even optimize your daydreaming with a few psychological tricks, such as thinking about yourself in the third person, as if you were a character in a novel or...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
through her decision to publish. So it probably seemed like a no-brainer to send 2 fairly junior reporters to follow up on the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington. But that decision led to a 2-year hunt in...
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- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
a bid to save the planet. The narrative then reaches back to each person’s childhood and shows the individual growing—step by step—into the person he or she will ultimately become. Significantly, as we follow each leader’s against-all-odds journey, we begin to glean an...
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Sean Silverthorne