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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
officers below the CEO, except to make sure that compensation practices are well designed and fairly implemented. Guarding Decisiveness Because of a family's desire to avoid conflict or protect traditions,...
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- 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
- 09 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs
compared the productivity of the latter against those who had opted out of mentoring, the result was clear: Those who opted in but received no mentoring still generated substantially more sales revenue than those who had opted out. Why some new hires View Details
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
best practice, its rivals tend to copy it quickly. Best practice competition eventually leads to competitive convergence, with many companies doing the same things in the same ways. Customers end up making decisions based on price,...
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by Michael E. Porter
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
behind using reserves as a means to avoid the negative effects of crisis: why don't sovereign countries reduce their sovereign debt instead? To study the joint decision of holding sovereign debt and...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
connected to the Internet. Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
decision, but to guide and mentor the team through the decision process. You may interview candidates at this stage, too, but I suggest this be to help a junior manager resolve concerns they have about the candidate or probe more deeply...
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by Julia Austin
- 15 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Promises and Limitations of Big Data
hiring decisions than humans. In these stories from our recent archives, Harvard Business School researchers outline the promises of big data—and the limitations of trying to harness data from a firehose. The Civic Benefits of Google...
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- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
and Bazerman observe, negotiation geniuses are made, not born. Excerpt from Negotiation Genius What appears to be genius actually reflects careful preparation, an understanding of the conceptual framework of negotiation, insight into how one can View Details
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by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
was Su's early decision to downsize his own career. Originally hired to cover the northern Asia-Pacific region, he departed from the usual managerial growth path of taking on larger geographic assignments and instead argued that he should...
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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
In the classic game of Chicken, two drivers on a crash course speed toward each other. The rules are simple: Whoever swerves first and avoids collision loses, and whoever is brave enough to stay the course wins. Of course, when both...
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by Deepak Malhotra
- 25 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
When Your Passion Works Against You
Passion: When and How Expressing Passion Elicits Status Conferral and Support from Others, was published in July 2019 in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. “Passion, like a smile, is contagious.” In the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated...
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- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
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 approaches while View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
members of the investment team are at par and make investment decisions together, instead of having someone who ultimately makes the investing calls. This is possible when teams are designed to avoid the...
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- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
headquarters were built, much of New York’s congressional delegation could be counted on for political support . . . in addition to that from Washington State and elected officials from its other new headquarters in Virginia. Apart from View Details
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
starts to look more like the past if I make automatic decisions that are all based on inferences of the past. For consumers and the world, we have this opportunity right now to avoid using data from the...
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by Barbara DeLollis
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
(iStockphoto/tofumax) A corporate board’s most important decision is selecting the organization’s CEO. By the same token, one could argue that a board’s most distasteful decision concerns firing a CEO. Once...
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by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
would avoid a "one size fits all" approach to the practice of making compensation known. These are the views put forth by participants in this month's discussion of transparency in compensation. Disclosing pay ranges vs....
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- 24 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things
the idea of completing a set, even if it means working harder or spending more money—with no additional reward other than the satisfaction of completion and the relief of avoiding an incomplete set. Imagine arriving at your boss’s summer...
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by Carmen Nobel