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- 20 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators
two-thirds of our innovation skills still come through learning—from first understanding the skill, then practicing it, and ultimately gaining confidence in our capacity to create. This is one reason that individuals who grow up in societies that promote community...
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access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those above them in the View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- Book
What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
purpose” as a way to build trust and in so doing achieve both impressive economic results and positive social impact. The book demonstrates how purpose-driven business leaders find success by clearly articulating a purpose for the...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
research agenda to systematically address the social welfare implications of financial innovation. To complement existing empirical and theoretical methods, we propose that scholars examine case studies of systemic (widely adopted)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
refreshes and opportunities to take part in new product work or the chance to work with an industry luminary. Consider Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs when it comes to your employees: They need the basics (a desk, computer, etc.), they need...
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by Julia Austin
- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
Whitehall findings,” he says. “It turns out that top managers might face more health problems.” Past research has seen mixed results when exploring links between stress and high-status positions. In biology, for instance, studies of primate View Details
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 21 Sep 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?
they can gain power or how to use the power they have. Through her research on power dynamics and change agents, Julie Battilana, the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
Additionally, labor quality and the structure of demand and a long tradition of work in organizational behavior suggests that the successful adoption of productivity enhancing managerial practices requires complementary changes in the firm's "culture" or in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?
purchase a home than to rent one in 95 percent of America. This one racist policy has led to an affordable housing crisis that impacts most White home buyers today. “I often ask how racism harms those at the bottom of the imaginary View Details
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by Danielle Kost
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
researchers set up camp at a large North American law firm, where lawyers often garnered business via networking engagements. A law firm is an ideal setting for a field study, Gino explains, because it is designed around quantifiable measures of success: billable hours...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
individual differences in social dominance orientation-a preference for group-based hierarchy and inequality-interacts with perceptions of socioeconomic threat to influence the use of hypodescent in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
authority and hierarchy necessary but decreasingly sufficient, with looser organizational forms, with an increased pace of change, and with greater diversity and global reach, negotiation assumes greater importance. For effective...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
foster income inequality That being said, the collective corporate hierarchy (needs to) make the long needed effort to voluntarily minimize the gross inequality that now exists." Desiree Halse, after quoting verses memorized as a child...
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by James Heskett
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
Knitting together a workforce with diverse backgrounds, cultures, and other demographic differences is challenging even for experienced managers, who must socialize those employees into the organization and also help them form new work...
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by Julia Hanna
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
between portfolio choice and return realizations. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51573 In Press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status By:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors Authors:Luo, Jianxi, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney, and Christopher L. Magee Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change Abstract Many...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
racial/ethnical/cultural backgrounds, yet who feel forced to choose or be bucketed by social perceptions. I co-founded Mixed Millennial with the purpose of bringing a voice, community, and sense of belonging to a silent group. Nori...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
world has ever seen. The current climate crisis is far beyond an environmental issue—it is an existential crisis. Moreover, it converges with—and exacerbates—the crises we face in biodiversity, global health, and social justice. As...
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- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
from them. Discourage exclusionary social activities, and make sure that teams don’t treat women as outliers or extraneous. Development. Assess how managers assign training and development opportunities, and ensure they use objective...
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by Kristen Senz
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
across several measures, including professional status (the hierarchy of each team), psychological safety (the extent to which team members felt comfortable speaking up about work-related issues), and leader inclusiveness (the extent to...
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