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- 25 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
crucial, especially for managers trying to lead widely dispersed teams during difficult times, says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Julian Zlatev. Many managers believe in maintaining emotional boundaries with employees, but...
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- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
not universal. However, there is evidence of a mirroring “trap”: firms focused on the current technical architecture may fall victim to architectural innovations arising outside their boundaries. Thus in technologically dynamic industries, partial mirroring, where...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, technological progress in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
mind that communities are governed very differently than companies. User communities operate outside the boundaries of the firm even in cases where the community organizes around a firm’s core products––and firms can therefore not control...
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
must learn the ins and outs of a specific client, sector, and geography. This involves understanding how decisions are made, the culture of the decision-makers, and the historical context of the topic. We learn to push boundaries and...
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- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
principles of this sort not only speak to high standards of conduct but also stretch the enterprise beyond its own formal boundaries to include the extended family of customers, suppliers, distributors, business partners, financial...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture
only their communication skills and their professional abilities, but also their remote working capabilities. “When you’re remote, transparency is key. Communication is key, and the ability to set boundaries and understand when you do or...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
through teaching the course that I’ve come to believe that corporations have to think beyond their own boundaries to a broader concern with the health of the institutions on which we all rely. In the second year I taught the course with...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
cover in one of the chapters in the book. A network approach requires leaders to focus not only on management challenges and opportunities at an organizational level, but also more broadly on how to mobilize resources both within and outside organizational and sectoral...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
establish a demilitarized buffer zone under the Egyptian flag rather than continue a vain zero-sum search over where to draw the boundary line in the sand. Although shared interests matter, Sebenius says, skilled two-dimensional...
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by Anita M. Harris
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
he said, for a number of reasons. First, the 'Net removes the "tyranny of distance." "Life is not limited by national boundaries on the Internet, nor is it limited by how far a van can travel in the night to deliver a...
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restaurants, and salesmen assisted storeowners in arranging advertisements for store counters and window displays using trade cards as well as larger formatted show cards.19 Marketing images also came to adorn home interiors. “Amid multiplying commercial images, the...
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- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in 1997 as a member of the Strategy Unit. His special area of interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the...
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- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
may induce secretive behavior, thus reducing real transparency, whereas boundaries may actually increase it. To learn more, read Carmen Nobel's story Hiding From Managers Can Increase Productivity.
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by Carmen Nobel
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Polaroid | Harvard Business School: Invention of the Polarizer
firm worked in parallel on inventions of insistent practicality as well as expansions of human perception," Victor McElheny explains. "Riding a storm of ever-altering customer specifications, Polaroid adapted its innovations again and again."97 Land had the foresight...
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- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
secretive behavior, thus reducing real transparency, whereas boundaries may actually increase it. “This race to full observability on everything can have consequences.” Bernstein hastens to add that not every company should erect walls or...
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- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
critical role in developing institutions for better—and occasionally for worse. The boundaries between business and government need to be clearly defined, said several panelists. Mauritius is one example of an African country that...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Creating an Inclusive Recruiting Process for Candidates with Diverse Abilities
unintentional, nevertheless create boundaries to employment. We asked four HBS alumni with diverse abilities to share their perspective on recruiting, both as candidates and as hiring managers, recruiters, and interviewers. The advice...
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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog
The resulting ability to retain or outsource various subsets of production stages within firm and country boundaries fueled the fragmentation of production and the emergence of global value chains. A key driver of this phenomenon is the...
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