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- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-033.pdf Independent Directors' Dissent on Boards: Evidence from Listed Companies in China By: Ma, Juan, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—In this paper, we examine the circumstances under...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
devote some detail to how managers should communicate. Dissenting managers must speak clearly, recognize opposing views, state the problem as they see it, and recommend a solution. "Your first few sentences, in either a verbal...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
members should be cross-pollinated across other sectors: digital omnichannel, supply chain, and so forth. “You want a group dynamic that allows for fluid and thought-provoking discussion, where fact-based dissent is welcomed and heard.”...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
executives from the aerospace and defense industries, Fortune 500 presidents, general managers in the Boston area, and heads of nonbusiness organizations about their decision-making. Based on his interviews, Roberto concludes that leaders must encourage constructive...
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- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
Avoiding dissenting opinion. People find it comfortable to talk with those who share their views. Managers need to keep their minds open to the new perspectives and new facts that can come from regular conversations with government...
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by Forest Reinhardt
- Web
Ai Weiwei Strength 2019 | About
recognized through the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent in 2012 and Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award in 2015. He is represented by Lisson Gallery and by neugerriemschneider.
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- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
culture that permits dissent and failures. The highly uncertain nature of both creativity and entrepreneurship. Such high levels of uncertainty lead to the dilemma of whether to choose the certain but incremental improvement that...
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by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Feedback
while at the Law School in 1970, one of the last of the Harvard ROTC students for some four decades.) During our two-year stint at the Business School, Cambridge was a hotbed of antiwar sentiment, with police chasing dissenters with tear...
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4.5 University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities - MBA
and reasoned dissent plays a particularly vital part in its existence. All members of the University have the right to press for action on matters of concern by any appropriate means. The University must affirm, assure and protect the...
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- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
for relevant customization and adaptation to specific client needs. This is a significant aspect of maintaining ongoing client relationships. I observed that teams under heightened pressure tend to shut out dissenting points of view and...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
important, particularly in moments when hope frayed, pessimism sunk in, and dissention threatened. Shackleton always understood that instilling credible hope in his followers was one of his most powerful weapons for accomplishing his...
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- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
determination of compensation and, if so, how? Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making Our natural tendency to maintain silence and not rock the boat, a flaw at once personal and organizational, results in bad—sometimes deadly—decisions....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
of balance when it is placed in the context of their personal values, interests, and stage of life." There were a few dissenters to these views. Tom Patterson characterized these in opining that "Most people in an organization...
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by James Heskett
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Informing Dissent By: Greene, Hillary, and Dennis Yao Abstract—The first part of this commentary argues that because the production of dissent depends on the availability of information, greater attention...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
also emphasizes the importance of establishing an atmosphere conducive to organizational learning — a task he entrusts primarily to corporate leaders, who, he says, need to be tolerant of dissent and ready to hear new views. Learning...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
New York City mayor Robert F. Wagner (MBA '36), elicited a torrent of dissenting letters in 1956 and was followed with a similar article from the Republican point of view. Fenn also increased the number of internationally focused articles...
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Deborah Blagg
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
frequent tributes to "science," he gives ample space to dissenting opinions. If this made his book more difficult and less persuasive, then so be it. Striking an almost defiant tone, Schumpeter says in his preface, "The...
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by Thomas K. McCraw
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
American companies, found itself operating after 1933 in a country whose government violently suppressed political dissent and engaged in intimidation and discrimination against Jews. Explores the tensions between IBM's German affiliate...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
issued a dissenting minority report. The partisan clash of views foreshadowed the political debate now echoing in the corridors on Capitol Hill. The Case For More Regulation Looking at the historical record, Moss makes a strong case that...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
into Moss’s analysis and recommendations. Warren and two Democrats embraced Moss’s views on the need for a systemic risk regulator. But the two Republican members issued a dissenting minority report. The partisan clash of views...
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