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- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
apart; the less they share, the more likely they are to be best executed separately. Nevertheless, managing multiple models is a tall order. LAN has had to face greater complexity, broaden its organizational skills, increase the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side
"obstacles to creativity" (time pressure and organizational impediments like political problems, harsh criticism of new ideas, and emphasis on the status quo) and enhance the "stimulants to...
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- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
on a standard set of demand-side product features. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-007.pdf A New Paradigm of Individual, Group and Organizational Performance Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, and The...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2021
- Book
The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
Fubini, a senior lecturer in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, poured that knowledge, along with a list of lessons learned from researching leaders past and present into the book Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need...
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by Michael Blanding
- 22 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make
Professor Amy C. Edmondson, who studies psychological safety and organizational learning. Incidents that almost result in loss or harm often pass unnoticed, in part because workers worry about being associated with vulnerability or...
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- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
then-headquarters in Schenectady, New York. He relied heavily on GE’s employee directories, which listed all the managers within the company’s organizational structure. He also used US Census data, and other public and private documents...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
that lives and dies by its ideas." Edmondson says this reluctance to speak up stems variously from fears that superiors will not like the idea or that it may appear to criticize the status quo, which most people find reassuringly...
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by Garry Emmons
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
learn if a standardized and institutionalized organizational learning process like SFP can enhance dynamic capabilities. The SFP model is illustrated with an application to Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division. 2006 Journal of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies
technology. Much of the research to date on innovation has focused on factors in an organization—timing of adoption decisions, overall organizational support of innovation, and an organization's history of innovation—that are one step...
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by Hilah Geer
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
to revert back to the old status quo of office life, but it could be a mistake to impose a pre-pandemic mentality on a post-pandemic reality, says Harvard Business School Professor Tsedal Neeley. She has been studying remote, virtual, and...
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by Michael Blanding
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
changing the tax laws to render tax-free those capital gains earned on stock held for ten years or more. Shann Turnbull suggested the need for education in “new organizational forms” such as “Network Governance” that are currently “mostly...
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by James Heskett
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
In trying to prevent discrimination and prejudice, many companies adopt a strategy of "colorblindness"—actively trying to ignore racial differences when enacting policies and making organizational decisions. The logic is simple: if we...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
value, though they all understand profit as an essential outcome. HCHP firms are able to show sustained performance because they achieve the following three paradoxical goals: Performance alignment: Managing with their head, leaders develop an View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?
years, information technology contributed to more complete knowledge about inventory status as well as more dependable transport. Both made a strategy with less safety stock more viable. The result, of course, was what came to be known as...
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- 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...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
defining integrity as honoring one's word, as we have defined "honoring one's word," 1) provides an unambiguous and actionable access to the opportunity for superior performance and competitive advantage at both the individual and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
IP is to acquire the other firm. Senz: Why do you think more states haven't restricted non-compete agreements, given the innovation that has emerged out of California? Wu: We should think about the existence and enforcement of non-compete agreements as the View Details
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
policy, and public spheres, inequality has received growing attention in recent years, with many calling for change to the status quo. Indeed, a recent survey suggests that a majority of Americans think there is too much economic...
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- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.
In examining the way governments choose a structure in which to conduct investment promotion activities we found that most of the organizational issues fell within the realm of the public-private choice of management of certain...
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by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
averted pollution laws in many countries over a ten-year period. The second involves Zappos’ sudden initiative to eliminate all but one manager, the CEO. The two examples share at least one thing in common: they both involve changing View Details