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- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
response in receiver actions after learning that they were profitably deceived. Despite the change in receiver behavior, stated beliefs about sender strategies remain insufficiently skeptical, which suggests that while direct and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
organizational context makes a difference for what Big Five personality factors influence leader performance: extroversion appears to be more influential in highly social and active work environments, whereas conscientiousness has greater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
Authors:Auden Schendler and Michael Toffel Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review 53, no. 1 (fall 2011) Abstract There's a problem with most major environmental rankings of businesses: too often, the ratings fail to incorporate advocacy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
process that comprises many small projects, that evolves to meet the emerging demands of the ever-changing marketplace, that allows for frequent experimentation, and that delivers value on an ongoing basis. "Several decades ago, we View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
challenges, because most projects involve binary "go/no-go" decisions. Esty uses the Euro Tunnel as an example: "You can't build the first 100 yards and learn anything about underlying demand for the tunnel. Instead, you... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
The relationship progresses to the second, or transactional, stage when the two organizations begin to regard each other as partners. As Austin writes, they start to "carry out their resource exchanges through specific activities such as... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
challenging areas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55885 Learning or Playing? The Effect of Gamified Training on Performance By: Buell, Ryan W., Wei Cai, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Gamified... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
prepared to follow in their footsteps. We are approaching this on two levels. First, we are recruiting from a wide variety of disciplines and providing the resources new faculty need to thrive in terms of both teaching and research. The Christensen Center for Teaching... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
Learned from Market Design? Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This essay discusses some things we have learned about markets, in the process of designing marketplaces to fix market failures. To work well,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
the long run. This last element is critical, for there is not enough charity or taxpayer money to make a sustainable difference; only the profit motive can do that. Earning And Learning Rather than merely applying superficial aid, the... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
recognize that expressing dissent can be very difficult and uncomfortable for lower-level managers and employees. Therefore, leaders cannot wait for dissent to come to them; they must actively go seek it out in their organizations. In... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
employees believe it’s too risky to speak up, many decide it’s safer to put their heads down and keep their opinions to themselves—but that muting of views creates barriers to learning and collaboration that can be detrimental to both... View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
other people are willing and able to lead. This image of the shepherd behind his flock is an acknowledgment that leadership is a collective activity in which different people at different times—depending on their strengths, or... View Details
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
This was a growth fueled above all by private enterprise, urban and rural, in what we may now consider the first "golden age" of Chinese capitalism. This new economic activity began and spread outward from China's centers of... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
students get closer to a goal that many bring to the course: to not just learn about moral leadership, but to prepare to exercise it in their own lives. But the real power of the integration comes from the fact that students engage with... View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
New Model for Active Management No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/218046-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-038 Iran on the Brink: The Nuclear Deal and the Future of the Islamic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
entrepreneurship in organizational sectors. Prior research suggests that firm foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity—that is, by patterns of prior foundings—including support from related markets as well as institutional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Abstract—Although documenting everyday activities may seem trivial, four studies reveal that creating records of the present generates unexpected benefits by allowing future rediscoveries. In Study 1, we use a "time capsule"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
now expected to monitor corporate culture and take action if they learn that employees are being sexually harassed. “A board’s oversight over culture and respect in the workplace has become much more important than it was prior to... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
extremely talented people who never do anything, really. Find out where your skills and talents lie, and then look for your "creativity intersection" — for those activities where your talents and your strongest intrinsic... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace