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- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
The Build from Scratch team eventually realized its system wouldn't meet the company's requirements, but members were assigned to work on a next-generation system and many of those ideas were eventually used. Coughran gave the teams the...
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by Kim Girard
- 21 Feb 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Developing the Guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): Elite Commitment and Inclusive Growth
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by Lant Pritchett & Eric D. Werker
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
In trying to encourage good moral conduct, it's common for a company to come up with a list of don'ts—wording policies such that they focus on unethical behavior employees should avoid rather than on ethical acts they should strive to...
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by Carmen Nobel
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Collection on the Business Aspects of Aviation | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
× Please sign in You need to log in to use the bookmarking feature. Sign In Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Search Find Services Ask Browse Databases Collections & Archives Guides Exhibits Find Books, Articles & More More Places HOLLIS...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation
tours, and interactive remote experiences. An important piece of the conversation around innovative recruiting is ensuring that recruiting events support diversity, inclusion, and belonging. When moving an event online, organizations...
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All Industries
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
currently have waiting periods.) Yet this research shows that even if a waiting period isn’t necessary to complete a background check, it can serve the important purpose of slowing down gun purchases long enough to prevent deaths. “If the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery | About
through truth that we can learn from the tragic mistakes of the past. The report documents a deeply troubling history. You may need time to process what you learn and to reflect on what it reveals. And, if...
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The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation
By: Karen Mills
Small businesses were among the hardest hit in the Great Recession, accounting for more than 60% of the total jobs lost. The economic crisis was one focused on the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses,...
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- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
patent pools has questioned conventional thinking about the need for strong patent laws to encourage innovation. Other studies have shown that independent inventors continued to play a major role in innovation in the early twentieth...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
hospitals with its nursing workforce management platform. “We’re building the technological layer that hospitals and health systems need to adapt to the expectations of modern nurses in a post-Covid world,”...
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Margie Kelley
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
In the online marketplace, oodles of retailers and developers rely on “platforms” such as Amazon.com, the Apple App Store, Facebook, and Twitter to get their products and services into the hands of users....
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
Global Initiative and the establishment of research centers in California and overseas have also heightened the need for faculty training and the recruitment of new teachers...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
disease are likely to multiply. If the Midwest is able to maintain its high standards for agriculture, it has an opportunity to supply the needs of growing populations in other parts View Details
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Agriculture
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
(or lifelong learning) is critical if one is to keep up with a rapidly changing business and social environment. All agreed that the School is in a unique position to strengthen connectedness by offering educational programs that meet the View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
Staffing, risks, benefits, and regulatory compliance are all increasingly externalized, most often to parts of the world where need routinely trumps prudence. Rather than manage their own corporate assets,...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Sign of the Times: General Management Course Evolves
announcing the change, MBA Program Chair and Senior Associate Dean W. Carl Kester emphasized the need to address new management challenges, such as increased competition from abroad and from companies that are taking advantage View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge
By: Heidi K. Gardner
In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing team motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I conducted a...
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Experience and Expertise;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Expectations;
Groups and Teams
Gardner, Heidi K. "Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-126, April 2009. (Revised January 2012.)
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
companies and their shareholders. It’s no secret that companies with similar financials often pay very dissimilar amounts of tax in a given year. The same is true of individuals. One View Details
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by Roberta Holland
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
those thousands of pieces, they start moving through the plane's wing and through the plane itself like shrapnel from a bomb. And they start cutting through hydraulics lines and fuel lines. Ultimately, it knocked out, in just under 30...
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- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
focus on the educational side because that’s what’s needed immediately?” she asked. “The crisis emphasizes the necessity of agility.” Within days, the Mayor’s Office redirected their efforts to help schools...
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