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20 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

sort into boards of predominantly Republican or Democrat, increasingly, they’re shifting right, the researchers found. Already Republican-leaning to begin with, the share of Republican executives in the companies studied increased from 63... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

18 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

best groups were those who had formal leaders not influenced ahead of time to feel powerful—they solved the mystery nearly 80 percent of the time. “Oftentimes we behave the way we do because we are not aware of the effects of our actions.” "My sense is that the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

"visibility" of your trading partners' performance, thereby reducing risk. Broaden cooperation. Supply chain and risk managers regularly work with colleagues in purchasing, logistics, traffic, and other departments. But sorting... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

answers to the question depend on "the magnitude and complexity of the choices to be made " Yedendra Chouksey and S. Huang appear to agree that, in the words of Chouksey, "creation of choices is more of an art and evaluation (of alternatives) a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

widespread and so toxic in Enron." Salter, a specialist in corporate strategy and corporate governance who is also writing a book on Enron, said he is trying to operate as a sort of forensic analyst. Forensic scientists usually fill... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

Kapil Kumar Sopory raised a caution: "The idea of developing a conscious culture with shared values that reflect the higher purpose is very laudable, but it needs a lot of close attention to what sort of high values are to be focused on "... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

of an airliner. Hundreds of hours may go into gathering and analyzing data to sort out exactly what happened and what can be learned. Compare this kind of analysis to what takes place in most organizations after a failure. As noted above,... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

adapt to "WFH" and now prepare for some sort of return-to-the-office strategy. I am looking forward to getting Tsedal's perspective on this topic! Finally, two books I completed earlier this spring and highly recommend because both are... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

to sort of leverage this subtle change in the founding story over time,” he says. When startups are pivoting to adapt their product or service, they need to be aware of how they frame those changes for external stakeholders and their... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

resources to developing open source products. That sort of behavior is initially puzzling to economists because the firm is participating in the development of something that is going to be given away for free. Once you begin studying... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

sorting all these clothes." But with those additional inventory risks and associated expenses come greater control and higher absolute dollar margins. Growth is much easier and more capital efficient, however, under the MSP model. "eBay... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

got made.” "By seeking out and valuing perspectives grounded in employee’s different experiences, you can deepen engagement." Not only does this sort of inclusion in name only demoralize employees, but it also deprives teams of the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

that's what it takes to make something truly new. Miles had reached the pinnacle by playing and innovating in the bebop tradition. But in Kind of Blue he walked away from all that, in the direction of a very different sort of music called... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

Meeting." The fact that no one suggested an alternative to the PMM was fairly typical of our findings. Individuals are frequently convinced that keeping quiet is the best way to preserve relationships and get work done. In the following pages, we will examine what... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

Clay Christensen has this idea that people hire products to do a job. It's that exact sort of thing. You don't need to add features that really aren't delivering on the job that consumers are hiring the product to do. So relative... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

not be any sort of attack on this very fundamental right. On the other hand social media platforms still have an obligation to the public that they serve YouTube needs to redouble its efforts and be totally relentless in its quest to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

further improve efficiency, the number of stock-keeping units were reduced from about 4,000 to 1,000+, and offered special packages that included vegetables, fruit, meat, and medicine to accelerate sorting and delivery. Case 3: Product... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

16 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 16

discontinuity. This might suggest that financing is not a central input of angel groups. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/KLS-Angels-June2011.pdf Incentive Schemes, Sorting and Behavioral Biases of Employees: Experimental... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 3

goal of residency training. The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Publication:In The... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

Summing Up This month's column resulted in a number of suggestions for sorting out the "bad apples" among applicants to MBA programs across the country. But just as many respondents questioned the underlying assumptions of the... View Details