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- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
savings difficult by changing the savings decision-making process, the time and place for savings, or the cost-benefit of savings itself. Such ideas could help low- to moderate-income households, and anyone else, build assets and put... View Details
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
Question the Right Way," is available for download [PDF]. Todd Rogers, now Executive Director of the Analyst Institute, explained more. Martha Lagace: What observations or experiences got you interested in studying conversational... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
are not so different from organizational teams in other fields of life, including business. And watching the career moves of football stars may shed light on how you, too, can plan your next step. That's the message of new research by HBS... View Details
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
DNA." Roberto and Levesque joined forces for the following e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: As you write in your working paper, conventional management wisdom says the first step in a change initiative is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
research at HBS, in close collaboration with Harvard Medical School. In addition to researching sleep, creativity, and decision making, he studies influence, persuasion, voice and facial categorization, and communication. Martha Lagace:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
articulate in his or her work context a moral gray zone," says Anteby. What does your office do to sustain one? Martha Lagace: How prevalent are gray zones? Michel Anteby: Very prevalent, but not all gray zones are moral. Following... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
nations must choose their own paths, for better or worse. He later expanded on his ideas in the following interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. As a student at Cornell, Abdelal said, he became fascinated View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
systematically identify opportunities all around them. Martha Lagace: Your work highlights many opportunities for innovation and success despite the serious market conditions facing entrepreneurs. What about past experience and the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
behind Marketing Metaphoria and how insights about deep metaphors can improve brand success. Martha Lagace: What are deep metaphors? Gerald Zaltman and Lindsay Zaltman: Deep metaphors are basic frames or orientations we have toward the... View Details
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration, reflects on the book's implications for managers and executives. Martha Lagace: What is there of interest to a businessperson in this book? D. Quinn Mills: This book is full of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
By day, managers run themselves ragged worrying about their A players: their stars, their rainmakers, their top 15 percent. By night, the same managers fret over their C players—their bottom 15 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
progress in life and in business. HBS Working Knowledge asked Zaleznik to reflect on the inner life of leaders. Martha Lagace: Your book is an intellectual and introspective discussion of leadership that seems rare in the literature of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
that a lot and I think we're providing some systematic evidence now with this study," Lakhani says. He met recently with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss the work and its implications for firms. Martha Lagace: Given your research... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
all people are Utilitarians, and perhaps more important, most people are not all Utilitarian." We asked him to break it down for overtaxed managers. Martha Lagace: You want theory and policy to better agree. What is the basic problem... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
Economic difficulties need not mean that we lower our standards for leadership. If anything, we should raise our sights. New work by HBS professor Michael Beer and colleagues shows that there is still a place for what they term... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
beneficial for society. This theme was later replaced by preference for disciplinary knowledge, and finally by a market logic that regards business education as a marketable commodity rather than a... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
apply their skills and knowledge to improve health-care systems. (A book excerpt from Designing Care follows.) Martha Lagace: How does health-care delivery fit into the greater context of health-care reform? Dr. Richard Bohmer: Broadly... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
a blueprint. What there is is a very deep need for self-reflection and community reflection." Nash expanded on these views in an interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace; the following is an excerpt from that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
More than one decade after the fall of apartheid, and despite ambitious economic reforms by the ANC government, foreign direct investment flows into South Africa averaged around two-thirds less than investments in comparable... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
the importance of delivering a consistent message to different stakeholders, and the risks and rewards of introducing external financial information into a firm's planning and operations activities. Martha Lagace: What important themes do... View Details