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- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
Leaders remind people of the yin and yang of obligations and opportunities associated with being a member of their team. Leaders keep the mirror of accountability polished and clear. The job of leaders in every sector and system level...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
observations or ask the hard questions of hopeful entrepreneurs. “I want you to think about whether you really are an entrepreneur,” he says to a young woman who hopes to launch a mirror makeup app using facial recognition technology. And...
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Julia Hanna
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
through until you acknowledge your own culpability. If you fire me from my job, I have to look myself in the mirror and ask, "What role did I have in getting fired?" In a CNN interview that I showed in class, Mark puts all the...
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Re: Gerardine A. Doyle
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership. Government,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
also find substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
want to see in your own rearview mirror at age 40, 50, and 60,” he adds. “Begin exploring ideas you have a passion for and might be able to build on when you make the break.” Holden began winding down his business in 1987, at the age of...
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Personal Services
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
entry is an important trait of well-functioning capital markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-033.pdf Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
a rising corporate attorney, was charged with murdering his lover, also a rising advertising executive in Manhattan. The dramatic trial that followed this incident played out for several years, mirroring the loss of sensibility to crime,...
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- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
come by on your toughest days. When leaders and aspiring leaders seek out advice, they’re often told to try harder. Dig deeper. Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Lewis Jr. (MBA 1969), George R. “Bob” Price (MBA 1970), and A. Leroy “Roy” Willis (MBA 1969). In commemoration of this milestone, four of AASU’s founders (Price died in 2012) reflect on their time at the School, the creation of the organization, and the importance of...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
that exists in the public domain and approximate what’s happening inside a company? So let’s say, for example, you’re an employee of Harvard, so you’re in the Harvard HR database, and it says your name, your title, your start date, all this information. But a lot of...
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- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
customer, and so by tracking its "smooth" or "bumpy" ride, we would be able to mirror how the customer would feel. But what we did not realize at that time was the enormous second-order impact of the OMC concept....
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by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
Solution: Move your phone to the basement, and avoid those (often regrettable) midnight emails. What do you do in this new dead time before bed? Read fiction from real books. Research shows fiction opens up the mirror neurons in our brain...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
their mirror position on the other side of the room. This included dress, hairstyle, mannerisms, voice, and style of comment typical of the person in question, and, of course, we traded namecards. Our professor rolled with it quite well,...
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- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
168-184 Abstract Customer metrics are pivotal to assessing and monitoring how firms perform with customers and other publics. The authors contend that customer metrics used by firms today are predominantly rear-view mirrors reporting the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
extreme are commercial software firms, in which the organizational participants are tightly coupled, with respect to their goals, structure, and behavior. At the other, are open source software communities, in which the participants are much more loosely coupled by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
among the three primary actors in the marketing system: consumers, marketers, and government. It raises several questions about optimal marketing systems. Holding a Mirror up to Marketing Authors: John A. Quelch and Katherine Jocz...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
class, venture capital has produced high cyclical returns that mirror trends in capital markets and in markets for new technology. There is a large disparity in median and upper quantize performance. A small number of funds do well on a...
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- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-084.pdf Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis Authors:Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Y. Baldwin...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
Corporate-sponsored venture funds first appeared in the 1960s, about two decades after the first flowering of the venture capital industry. Ever since, they have mirrored the cyclic nature of the industry as a whole. But there are...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner