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- 01 Aug 2022
- What Do You Think?
Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?
the question is extended more broadly to organizations in general, there is little for us to go on in responding to the question. The impact of culture on performance has interested me for several decades, having teamed in 1992 with John...
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Re: James L. Heskett
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HBS Veteran Spotlight: Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025) - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Christensen's many qualities as a master teacher, pointing not only to his wisdom and experience but to his compassion and attention to every detail. Christensen also worked extensively with Harvard Medical School to introduce the...
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- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
conventional wisdom isn’t enough to produce significant innovation; we must go further. Our thinking can too easily get confined by silos and structures that limit us to what is familiar, what we see every day, what the people around us...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
Moreover, moral and ethical considerations may decisively influence how the law is applied. As a result, purely technical legal advice is often inadequate. CEOs should be looking for lawyers with wisdom and the courage to push back if...
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- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
those on the receiving end. However, our data do suggest a high level of psychological engagement that we did not anticipate based on conventional wisdom and our reading of prior academic literature. When we put these patterns together...
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by Martha Lagace
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Prizes & Benefits - New Venture Competition
meeting without the pressure of a Board meeting. SUP sessions are high-touch, low commitment opportunities to tap into the collective wisdom of experienced entrepreneurs and executives (who just happen to be HBA Alums) to help you:...
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- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
of 145 globally distributed members of nine project teams of an organization, we found that uneven proficiency in English, the lingua franca, disrupted collaboration for both native and non-native speakers. Although all View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
community influences on organizations; sheds new light on the temporal dynamics of both endogenous and exogenous punctuating events; and provides more nuanced understanding of corporate-community relations. When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
off to meet with older client executives, Marvin insisted that we all wear hats during our travels to and from the firm. The only non-American among us was a Brit." Daniel made his mark as part of the team that advised Mobil Oil. That...
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- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
Furthermore, we found that the resulting products were rated as equal to or higher in quality than competitive offerings. These results often surprise people, given the perceived wisdom that incumbents have difficulty responding to major...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
for neural networks increase, as does accessibility to off-the-shelf APIs from big tech and academic institutions that help speed up innovation. Entrepreneurs have also learned the wisdom of targeting AI applications toward specific,...
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by Rocio Wu
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
and (f) profitability ratios. We show that SBPs are not constrained by standard industry classification and are more dynamic, pliable, and concentrated. We also show that co-search intensity captures the degree of similarity between firms. Our results highlight the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
one ultimate leader of the family business system or a team of leaders?" Unitary Leadership Vs. Leadership Teams There are two basic models. A family business system can either consolidate leadership with...
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
architecture in their own organizations. Slides Improving Performance with Operational Transparency Professor Ryan W. Buell (MBA 2007, DBA 2012) + More Info – Less Info Conventional wisdom suggests that the more contact an operation has...
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- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
likely is that managers have OVERESTIMATED the need for face-to-face contact and during the pandemic were (finally) compelled to question the wisdom of spending time and money (not their own!) to travel to often distant places for...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
Their skill-set is wrong." We chase stars for a number of reasons: " corporations and the media encourage stardom and discourage team work" (Nauman Lodhi); "It is the expectation that some 'miracle worker' or 'hot...
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by Jim Heskett
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Competing arguments become difficult to judge, since advocates will suggest using those measures (net income, return on capital, market presence, share of mind, and so on) that favor their preferred alternative. Fuzzy thinking and long delays are the likely result. To...
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
with a focus on gender. A few years ago, the two of them decided to team up on a laboratory study on the value of sponsorship. “We took her applied interest—how companies are actually using sponsorship programs to address [the gender...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 24 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors
explicitly mentioned identity in the email, including the line, “I was hoping you might be willing to write back with a few words of wisdom for a young [person]/[man/woman/Black man/Black woman/Latino/Latina] hoping to one day become a...
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by Pamela Reynolds