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- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
of race in the workplace. "umm, He Has Pants" In efforts to be politically correct, people often avoid mentioning race when describing a person, even if that person's race is the most obvious descriptor. (Comedian Stephen Colbert often...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
typically adopt the strategy of remaining silent about race and inequality to avoid being labeled “agitators.” In a 2017 study by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and colleagues, 78 percent of black professionals said they have experienced...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2022
- Op-Ed
Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services
congenial work atmosphere for doctors and nurses, and handsome economic returns for its owners. The hospital’s leadership has forsworn expansion to avoid diluting its unique offering. But then we also have Narayana Hrudalaya, a cardiac...
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by Ashish Nanda
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
International, a company publishing 70 editions of its free newspaper in 20 countries. Metro had been a pioneer in the free newspaper market, fighting incumbent publishers distributing traditional paid-for newspapers. Looks at the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Blog
What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?
are especially effective at encouraging change. Avoid being complacent. Even the organizations most dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion still have some work to do. Be on the lookout for gender disparities in how employees are...
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- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
conduct an analysis to determine how companies were responding to the crisis. Were they retaining their staff and providing essential workers with extra pay, or were they cutting expenses through layoffs and furloughs? "It gave us a rare opportunity. Every View Details
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by Lane Lambert
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
"Innovators avoid proposing a wide range of product signs and languages as a way to protect brand identity," says Verganti. "They tend to adopt strategies that allow customers to easily reconnect specific product signs to...
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- 28 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Master the Team Meeting
Several pro tips can help to avoid this: Ask one or two members of the team to take the lead on the hot topics in each meeting. They do not need to be subject matter experts, just the topic leader. This includes having them facilitate...
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by Julia Austin
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
says Beer, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. “So there’s this organizational silence, where no one feels comfortable speaking truth to power.” Avoiding a cynical organization This silence is not only a...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
make your decisions nonreversible; regret less; control expectations; and learn to love constraints in order to cope with uncertainty and avoid depression." Now the genre includes another book, which...
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by Jim Heskett
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
decisions about whether to quit the job he loves at Hewlett-Packard to join Apple Computer, how to define his role within Apple, whether to take on Jobs as his co-founder, whether to accept a third co-founder proposed by Jobs, and how to...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
(2) structure-oriented approaches that redesign specific incentives, tasks, and decisions to reduce temptations to cheat in the environment. This paper explores how these approaches can change behavior. We argue that integrating both...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
believe that surgery is the proper course of action, but her perception is biased: She has an incentive and makes money off the decision to operate. Another surgeon might just as easily come to the conclusion that if it’s not bothering...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
must have a bias for action. TEM teaches you how to decompose such complex situations, identify critical choices confronting the enterprise, and make high-risk/high reward decisions with limited data. Andrews, Kenneth. The Concept of...
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- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
hamper productivity through “human obstruction” tactics, by purposely and surreptitiously making poor decisions and being uncooperative. “Making a faulty decision may be simply a matter of placing tools in...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but...
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- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
that we don't allow our decisions to get sidetracked (or sidetrack them ourselves). In their book Decisive, the Heath brothers cite four major reasons—all linked to common human traits—why we make poor choices and how to View Details
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by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
geographically, including some home grown production capacity will ensure a much more resilient operation.” Among other things, Chris Taylor suggested that leaders in this crisis will have learned that it paid to be calm in bearing, View Details
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by James Heskett
- 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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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
ignores their defending drive to avoid significant losses of their capital, and often their satisfaction from simply being associated with a distinguished and interesting firm. The relation between firms and their suppliers, to be sound...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria