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- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Alzheimer's, MS, and Huntington's) and do so by encouraging collaboration among researchers in the HMS community. When Ivinson takes the helm in 2001, he finds a dysfunctional center with little organization or structure. In addition, he... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
platforms, but new industries are also springing up around them; witness the multibillion-dollar ringtone business. To record the impact of software platforms on the economy and look to their future impact, David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
or where they are crossing ethical boundaries for the good of their own group.” Gino and colleagues write about this paradox in a new paper forthcoming in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes with a decidedly... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
without informing other departments, leading to waste and duplication. Respect among peers declined. Employees regularly went to the press to air grievances, reinforcing the BBC's culture of blame.— Rosabeth Moss Kanter BBC: In 1999, the... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
Sadun says. The Importance Of Trust That said, Sadun notes that technology is hardly the only factor that determines whether a firm allows decision-making both up and down the corporate ladder. Another major factor lies in cultural... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
culture that permits dissent and failures. The highly uncertain nature of both creativity and entrepreneurship. Such high levels of uncertainty lead to the dilemma of whether to choose the certain but incremental improvement that... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
techniques to try to predict which deals he should offer to customers based on the purchasing behavior of those customers closest to them. Topics include supervised learning; collaborative filtering; K-nearest neighbor as a modeling... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
practitioner psychologists who expertly analyze and manage their own and others' thought processes. Read the paper: http://hbr.org/2011/07/the-new-psychology-of-strategic-leadership/ar/1 Effects of Cultural Ethnicity, Firm Size, and Firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
night while sheltering at home: A French Village. Its 72 episodes across 7 seasons (one for each year between 1940-1946) tell a story of collaboration and resistance under the WWII Vichy government. It has more than a dozen principal... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
offices. Yet, amid a shaky world economy and an increasingly cutthroat legal profession, Duane Morris' attorneys began to wonder-could collaboration survive as a firm value? Would the firm's culture help it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
In hardball bargaining, is the other side really making its "absolute final offer" or only bluffing? In a collaborative situation, do you understand everyone's true interests? Are valued customers and colleagues satisfied with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
Companies were hyper-responsive to meeting the needs of all their sister companies. Clusters are based on informal relationships among firms. When firms are concentrated in a given area, firms can get the benefits of collaboration and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Building the Water Cube Robert Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Dilyana KaradzhovaHarvard Business School Case 410-054 Arup, an engineering firm, collaborated with PTW Architects and China Construction Design Institute to develop a design... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
has recently opened an office in Hong Kong. Global Director of Research Robert van Brugge must consider how best to organize the firm's research department to enhance cross-sector and cross-geography collaboration among the senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
culture and religion-and among our participants-our results suggest a common psychological mechanism underlying their effectiveness: regained feelings of control. Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton%20gino.pdf Rituals Enhance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
Approach By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Expected return proxies (ERP) derived from a log-linear present-value (LPV) framework—combining the book value of equity, profitability, and market prices—predict the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
partners. What's more, they need to collaborate with Professional Services, the new consulting unit whose mission is to jump-start the solutions-centric approach. Whom should MacLeod hire for the top sales job, and what should he do to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
isolated—their ideas will never catch on. So pick leaders who not only can communicate inside and outside the organization but who also know how to foster a collaborative culture. In short, there are a lot of specific things companies can... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
friend of mine), and the company, were represented. A steering committee met monthly to essentially go over what each one of those constituencies needed to do differently and what they needed to do collaboratively to bring about the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz