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- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
remained engaged. “On the surface, YouTube’s business model appears to be the work of genius. But it has posed problems.” According to Google investor John Doerr, she inherited a stretch goal set in 2012 to...
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- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
in your organization, join the club. Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. New research by HBS professor Max H. Bazerman and colleagues...
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- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter
Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence A new book explains how managers can increase their understanding of how finance works. (7,014 visits) Most Comments from Readers Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind? Are Super View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
iPhoto Jeff Bezos, visiting a Harvard Business School classroom 21 years ago, told skeptical students his goal with Amazon.com was to "sell everything to everyone everywhere." Even dog food? students wondered, which would...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Charles Duhigg
write my to-do lists is very different, specifically tailored to what science says is the right way to write a list. You put your stretch goal—your biggest aspiration—at the top of the page. Under that, you break that down into tasks, so...
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- 26 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Baker Library's Latest Collection: Little Black Library
Little Black Library was perfect,” said Stark. “This is not Baker Library saying, ‘These are the books you should read,’ this is Cathy’s work. We’re not collaborating, we’re supporting a student-led initiative. It gives our students agency over this topic.” Though...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
amount of tension to stretch my limits while keeping me safe. After an hour, I finally came up over the top of the rock, and to my surprise there was my son on belay. He was given that assignment, without my knowledge, by a very wise...
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- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
organization, join the club. Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. New research by HBS professor Max H. Bazerman and colleagues explores the...
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- Person Page
Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- Portrait Project
Keyne Monson
like to create things – build businesses – either within a larger organization or by nurturing a small venture. I receive a tremendous amount of fulfillment by creating things where they didn't exist before. However, my goals for this...
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- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
was interested in the oil and gas industry, and was drawn to engineering because of the challenge. “I always want to push myself,” she said, “and I saw engineering as an opportunity to stretch myself and take me out of my comfort...
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- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
inclusion. Define goals that define success and that signal how each person contributes to achieving the overall goals. Inspire initiative: Encourage new ideas and treat people with respect as experts in their work. Encourage small wins...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
nature of a manager's goals drives her span of accountability (by determining the trade-offs she can make), the level, or difficulty, drives her sphere of influence. Someone given a stretch View Details
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by Robert Simons
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
further down the ladder—a discussion that could easily stretch beyond business to the lavishly compensated worlds of professional sports and entertainment. There's also the concern over executive pay at firms that received government...
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- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
huge deficits stretching back and forward for a decade,” according to Kautz. “I believe that an emerging disinflationary era, driven by more intelligent machines and continuing globalization, is why they are right. Most importantly for...
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by James Heskett
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
principles of this sort not only speak to high standards of conduct but also stretch the enterprise beyond its own formal boundaries to include the extended family of customers, suppliers, distributors, business partners, financial...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
entrepreneurship. They are striving to transform economies, whether on a local, national, or global scale, and in doing so, are working to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. If you want your lives to have that kind of impact, you must REACH. I use that...
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- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
appropriabilty, Ahuja offers advice as well. "Push for stretch goals in innovation," he says. Under pressure to produce in a short period of time, research teams are necessarily forced to go back...
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- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
like Mills, stressed the importance of having outside researchers analyze agency data. “You would be surprised at the limited resources we have to analyze the data, compared to the way that the academic community can analyze it for us.” “The View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Newman Abstract This paper shows that product prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate organizational View Details
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Sean Silverthorne