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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
MBA elective curriculum and teaches Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations. Salter believes that "all great courses at HBS communicate performance hypotheses - notions about what makes for good business practice - for...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
antagonists in a tug-of-war. They tend to focus on regulating workers’ behavior, often putting a damper on commitment, innovation, and performance without realizing it. But freedom and control aren’t zero sum, argues the author. By giving...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
on effective professional feedback, honing it in roles at tech icons Apple and Google. The idea? Radical candor, or as Scott (MBA 1996) defines it, caring personally while at the same time, challenging directly. At its base, she says, it’s about being humble enough to...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
step-by-step, room-by-room guidance on how to create a welcoming and functioning space that expresses your unique individuality. Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top Performing Staffing Firms by Mike Cleland and Barry Asin...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
community—a community with shared purpose. I see them moving to positive feedback and worrying less about productivity. Any “win” that they can celebrate, they celebrate it. They’re thinking more about the whole person. If employees think...
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- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
strategically significant moments to obtain feedback and support. Ironically, by exercising his power to give orders, the CEO actually reduces his real power, saps his energy and his organization's, and slows down progress. Ironically, by...
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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) - Course Catalog
direction, and functioning of organizational processes. The aim of MDD is to develop students' understanding of highly relevant, practical skills, and how to use them in day-to-day activities to make better decisions and to improve their own and their team's View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Tracking Performance Indicators By: Beveridge, Christiana, Sofia Warner, Greg Leya, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—Given that accountable care organizations (ACOs) have not achieved the degree of cost reductions and quality improvements...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
traditional offerings. Tell us about that.Silas: Yeah, so this is another really great one where, again, we went to first-principle thinking, and we said, “What do we want from our compensation system?” Taking into account some of the View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
fact that the experience of applying for a job was rather complicated, the requirements weren’t very clear. The fact that they never got any feedback about why they had not been considered was really very varied—not merely made it hard...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
positive feedback loop through which value is created for both parties. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47436 The Logic of Agglomeration By: Duranton, Gilles, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This review...
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- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
West: Origins, Evolution and Resilience The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy, and Performance By: Collis, David J., Bharat Anand, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng Abstract—In spite of surging interest in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies are women, such an opportunity is indeed rare for female executives, most of whom have always worked in male-dominated workplaces. "While they're able to perform very well in predominantly male...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment of students' class participation, particularly in large classes. This article offers a solution that mines the practices of peer-to-peer View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services and effects on users' choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which different results were shown to users...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
you and blinking at you. And you sort of step back from that and think about cognitively what helps us perform at our best. It’s common knowledge, we perform at our best when we can focus, when we’re not...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
and skills implications of doing business in the cloud and how automation could help advance environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives. Bill Kerr: In the enterprise software feedback loop, applications catalyze business...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
intelligence replacing HR professionals, performing the tasks that were completely done by humans since the Industrial Revolution. And that is a completely different conversation than generative AI, than ChatGPT. So that has been my...
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- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
to get good feedback that would help us understand how VCs would be looking at our business model," adds Weng. (Battery Ventures and a few private investors bought into FashionStake's vision early on.) FashionStake and other consumer...
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