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- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
Many business leaders are mystified about how to reach potential customers on social networks such as Facebook. HBS professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski provides a fresh look into the interpersonal dynamics of these sites and offers guidance...
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by Staff
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
a destructive interpersonal emotion, when they compare themselves to successful peers. Across two online experiments and an experimental field study, we identify an interpersonal strategy that can mitigate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British management practice. For reasons View Details
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
about the best location or locations for managerial talent, for instance, they should be aware that reallocating talent is neither costless nor easy. Interpersonal relationships and internal communication networks rise in importance. As...
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by Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
this new stream of research, which focuses on two related but distinct themes. The earliest theme to be explored, in a literature dating from the 1990s, is the story of how and why some conventional industries sought to become less...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
economy. Success requires a continuous influx of new ideas, new challenges, and critical thought, and the interpersonal climate must not suppress, silence, ridicule, or intimidate. Not every idea is good, and yes there are stupid...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
significantly enriched. We then discuss several applications related to online and brick-and-mortar intermediaries. American Exceptionalism?: A Comparative Analysis of the Origins and Trajectory of U.S. Business Education Development...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
somebody to show it. And we show it.” Related Reading: Master the Team Meeting Leading a Team to the Top of Mount Everest When Good Teams Go Bad What do you think of this research? Do your teams communicate too much? Is it time for some...
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by Roberta Holland
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
office architecture on employees’ interpersonal and electronic interactions. Working with co-author Stephen Turban, who was introduced to Bernstein by the late HBS professor David Garvin, their study yielded surprising findings about the...
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Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
liquidated include Borders Group in 2012, Circuit City in 2009, and Linens `n Things in 2008; the value of inventory sold during these liquidations alone is $3B. The store liquidation problem is related to but also differs substantially...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
about our interpersonal relationships, when people share things with us—as long as they don't overshare—we tend to like them better," Buell says. "We find it interesting that we're seeing evidence of the same thing in our relationships...
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- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
crises, the Dasheng cotton mills became a state-owned enterprise in 1953. In the wake of the economic reforms, the successor to the original Dasheng Enterprise was restructured as the Jiangsu Dasheng Co. Ltd. in 1996. Issues of corporate governance, legal environment,...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
conjectured that a distinctive way of relating likely accompanies this way of thinking—men who attend to failure, for example, would relate to each other differently than would men who are focused on...
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- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
debilitating effects of interpersonal fear on collective learning processes. Q: How do you define learning? How does learning promote performance? A: I define learning as a process: A process of action, reflection, and new (often...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business education and the growing appeal of "scientific" approaches to decision-making and management. We also show that these transformations were homologically...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Negotiation Strategy: Pattern Recognition Game Harvard Business School Note 908-015 In negotiation, correctly identifying your counterpart's strategy is vital. Only then can you constructively influence their behavior—or adapt appropriately to what they are doing. This...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
in the physical distance between sites and culture differences that multinational corporations have to deal with and, yes, creating a positive setting for voice can be a serious challenge. However, bosses can be arrogant or busy or lacking in View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
rescue of 33 Chilean miners. More and more people in nearly every industry now work on teams that vary in duration and have constantly shifting membership. Teaming presents technical and interpersonal challenges: people must get up to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
Cappelli says the research is clear: “The evidence is unbelievably huge. Basically, older workers perform better on just about everything.” Specifically, they have lower absenteeism, less turnover, and superior interpersonal skills....
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- 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23
feeling anxious shapes intrapsychic aspects of cognition, much less is known about how anxiety affects interpersonal aspects of cognition. Here, we examine the influence of incidental experiences of anxiety on perceptual and conceptual...
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Carmen Nobel