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- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation should invest significant energy in studying artificial intelligence and computer-assisted human intelligence, the ways in which...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
value-in areas once inhabited by organizations alone. Hence we posit that organizations may be in the shadow of communities. Rather than push for a common definition, we link communities to an organization's evolution: its birth, growth,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
primary customer? Decided whether shareholders, employees, or customers come first? Narrowed down which performance variables to track? Have you set creative boundaries? Are you generating creative tension?...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
by the new Information Age economy and redirecting it into the neighborhoods and communities of the country, and toward the creation of jobs and the rebuilding of the social commons ." Lanier's solution lies in View Details
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by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
said, "maybe the only thing that can help is common sense and learning to keep our mouths, and e-mails, shut." The most prevalent attitude about dealing with a leaky Internet was to assume the worst and act accordingly. In Mike...
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by James L. Heskett
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
type of ketchup or laundry detergent they prefer, a ZMET interview at the Mind of the Market lab of HBS offers a far more creative approach. Typically, the ZMET interview combines elements of neuroscience, art, linguistics and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
while hiring and assigning conventional managers to deal with more familiar and common tasks and goals.” “The right question is therefore not the amount of ‘rebel talent’ but how to focus it on the right causes.” Grace was more cautious....
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by James Heskett
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
negotiators interact to influence cooperative behavior of low-power negotiators. Managers from four different cultural groups (Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, and the United States) negotiated face-to-face in a simulated power-asymmetric View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
she has espoused. Charismatic leadership has been defined in various ways, but a common thread across definitions is that charismatic leaders motivate people by creating a vision that revolves around some set of meaningful higher ideals...
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
and from electronic communication servers—the effect of open office architectures on employees' face-to-face, email, and instant messaging (IM) interaction patterns. Contrary to common belief, the volume of face-to-face interaction...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
early in a relationship. We show that certain kinds of exchange partners can systematically reap differential returns from a common history of interaction. Organizational similarity significantly enhances the ability of exchange partners...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms make investment decisions that purposefully do not maximize expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015
identity of a corporate heritage brand. In a networked situation, understanding the role of stewardship in collaborating organisations is essential: the network entities maintain their own identities and goals but share common values of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
in which you don't or can't know the results in advance are common and consequential. All businesses face them. If you're not too narrow in what you're willing to call "management," you can manage these situations. You can...
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by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
managers do can have great impact on their workers, says Professor Teresa Amabile. In this conversation with Professor Mike Roberts, she updates her ongoing research on creativity in the workplace by investigating how people's intense...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
how much relative weight do they place on each element? How do they frame the advantages and disadvantages between central London and Canary Wharf? What type of items should they program into the new facility (cellular or open floor plans, ceiling heights, View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-060.pdf Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM Authors:Timothy Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca Henderson Abstract We address a longstanding question...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
British Parliament replaced common land with private property--a process that prompted better management and made Great Britain the leader in the Industrial Revolution. I then began to think about the relationship over time between new...
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by Jim Aisner
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
are witnessing the dawn of a new model of corporate power: The coordination of actions and decisions on the front lines now appears to stem from widely shared values and a sturdy platform of common processes and technology, not from...
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Martha Lagace