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- 22 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center
get any larger. However, as of 2019, new blades measured up to 107 meters long, or 8 times longer than the blade shown in the picture! With each incremental increase in the length of the blade, the swept area of the wind turbine increases... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
field. Although they come from very different backgrounds, the three panel members presented a unified view of why management really matters. HBS assistant professor Raffaella Sadun described her groundbreaking research on the impact of management on hospital View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
loyalty, tradition and internal maintenance, are the monkeys. Organizations frequently show aspects of different cultures, making for dragons. Competitive and entrepreneurial firms consistently perform better than do more bureaucratic and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Joshua Jarrett
will I do with this knowledge? Give away my salary to charity or dedicate my life to social equity? Probably not. Respect others and find opportunities to positively impact my community? Most likely. Be thankful for my blessings and... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
portfolios of its conduits. The question is, how has the firm performed over the past four years? Has it earned $5 billion or lost $5 billion? Fair value accounting plays a key role in the dilemma. How should a financial services firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2020
- Working Paper
Directors' Perceptions of Board Effectiveness and Internal Operations
By: J. Yo-Jud Cheng, Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Rajesh Vijayaraghavan
- 2015
- Working Paper
Expertise vs. Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH
By: Danielle Li
Evaluators with expertise in a particular field may have an informational advantage in separating good projects from bad. At the same time, they may also have personal preferences that impact their objectivity. This paper develops a framework for separately identifying... View Details
Li, Danielle. "Expertise vs. Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-053, October 2015.
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
very different perspective. Then George joined us the third year. I have to say that I had never realized how important accounting was to the future of civilization until I started working with George. We can talk about saving the planet, but if you can’t View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
in business in any event, were socialized in corporate ethics courses with the rest of the world's best and brightest?" Others objected to the assumption that teaching values to adults is difficult at best and impossible at worst.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 2020
- Book
Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company's Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy
By: Michael Beer
Is Silence Killing Your Strategy?
In his thirty years of working in corporations, Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer has witnessed firsthand how organizational silence derails strategic objectives. When employees can't speak truth to power, senior... View Details
In his thirty years of working in corporations, Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer has witnessed firsthand how organizational silence derails strategic objectives. When employees can't speak truth to power, senior... View Details
Keywords: Honesty; Communication; Organizational Culture; Trust; Strategy; Performance Effectiveness
Beer, Michael. Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company's Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
- March 2016
- Supplement
Advertising Experiments at RestaurantGrades
By: Weijia Dai, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
This exercise provides students with a data set consisting of results from a hypothetical experiment, and asks students to make recommendations based on the data. Through this process, the exercise teaches students to analyze, design, and interpret experiments. The... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?
potential. Whillans explains that our exposure to feedback most often occurs in a setting like a performance evaluation, where someone either has or has not passed a measurable threshold. As a result, we... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
have distilled six counterintuitive practices these organizations use to improve the world. They offer lessons for readers interested in creating significant social change, including nonprofit managers, donors, and volunteers. The... View Details
- 27 Jul 2021
- Interview
Amy Edmondson on How to Create a Psychologically-Safe Workplace and What to Do If You Don't Work in One
By: Amy C. Edmondson
Harvard Business School Professor and renowned business expert, Amy Edmondson, talks about the growing link between psychological safety at work and the results that high-performing teams accomplish.
She details what psychological safety is, how to create a... View Details
"Amy Edmondson on How to Create a Psychologically-Safe Workplace and What to Do If You Don't Work in One." Episode 430. Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast, July 27, 2021.
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
opportunity to misreport their performance or having their performance verified by an external monitor. To study the effect of social factors on the willingness to be subject... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
this point before. But we want to review the key differences briefly from the perspective of the CEO because the implications are crucial: for how the job of the senior leader is defined, and for what successful performance in the job... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- September–October 2013
- Article
Changes in Work, Changes in Self? Managing Our Work and Non-Work Identities in an Integrated World
By: Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin M. Reid
Diverse workplaces are challenging the boundaries between workers' personal and professional lives, as workers today navigate employer pressures regarding who they are and who they can be outside of work. Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin M. Reid consider how the attunement... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Identity; Boundaries; Power and Influence; Performance Effectiveness; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Ramarajan, Lakshmi, and Erin M. Reid. "Changes in Work, Changes in Self? Managing Our Work and Non-Work Identities in an Integrated World." European Business Review (September–October 2013): 61–64.
- Mar 2012
- Article
The Incentive Bubble
The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea--that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock... View Details
- February 2004
- Article
Leader Behaviors and the Work Environment for Creativity: Perceived Leader Support
By: Teresa M. Amabile, Elizabeth A. Schatzel, Giovanni B. Moneta and Steven J. Kramer
This exploratory study investigated leader behaviors related to perceived leader support, encompassing both instrumental and socioemotional support. The study first established that leader support, proposed to be a key feature of the work environment for creativity,... View Details
Amabile, Teresa M., Elizabeth A. Schatzel, Giovanni B. Moneta, and Steven J. Kramer. "Leader Behaviors and the Work Environment for Creativity: Perceived Leader Support." Leadership Quarterly 15, no. 1 (February 2004): 5–32.