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- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
he calls "the click heard around the world." Gerstner learned, as we have in our work, that the "free-for-all of problem solving" so essential for high performance "does not work so easily in a large,...
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by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 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
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
man once they saw him through Quiver. This finding suggested that the Quiver functionality helped women to overcome the normative restriction of making the first move. Quiver essentially made the first move for them, providing more of an...
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- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
further growth, and essentially the loss of control of the company by the board, which was even required to remake its composition. At Volkswagen, eerily similar things happened, this time with engineering practices and goals. This sad...
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by James 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
- 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
- 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
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
computer companies prominent in 1975; it has entered and exited businesses, but it is recognizably the same institution. Common vocabulary and guidance for consistent decisions. The need for fast decisions and actions in far-flung or differentiated operations makes...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
members rather than one-off contacts made only when needed. It is both present- and future-oriented since it includes those you need to accomplish the daily work and those whose support will be critical in the future. It’s essential to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 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
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
patients undergoing thoracic surgery is essential for their comfort and for improving their ability to function after surgery, but it can significantly increase costs. Here, we demonstrate how time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 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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- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
you." At the factory, the workers were essentially "managing up" by protecting their managers, themselves, and their company from unproductive attentional capture. The findings indicate that it may behoove managers to...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
ranging from subtle suggestion to social ostracism, if not outright retaliation. Absentee and anonymous shareholders are unlikely to experience such influences. Thus, as a practical matter, shareholders cannot be made more accountable because they are, in many cases,...
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by Carla Tishler
- 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
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
crises) is the essential job of a leader" and go on to say that "with good judgment, little else matters; without good judgment, nothing else matters." To make good judgment calls, a successful leader must, among other...
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by Jim Heskett
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
negotiation. Yet unlike professionals such as litigators, journalists, and doctors, who are taught how to ask questions as an essential part of their training, few executives think of questioning as a skill that can be honed—or consider...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 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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- 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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