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- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
Enough: True Measures of Money, Business and Life (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009) Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (New Haven: Yale University Press,...
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by Jim Heskett
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
people who are, as John Kotter has said, able to produce "extremely useful change." Recently this discussion has centered around the ability of a leader to discourage subordinates who always say...
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by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists such as Max Weber and Talcott...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly...
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Janice H. Hammond
Janice H. Hammond is the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing. She currently serves as coursehead for the new MBA required course, Data Science for Managers. She serves as program chair for the HBS Executive Education International Women’s Foundation and Women’s... View Details
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apparel;
distribution;
e-commerce industry;
manufacturing;
retailing;
textiles;
transportation
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
(people who experience no hormonal change and cannot adapt) leave or are forced out." While ignoring the question of chemical change, dependencies that were posed by several respondents may suggest opportunities for future research....
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by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
the new Dean, George P. Baker. He then turned his energies to teaching and launching the Central American Institute of Business Administration (INCAE), a project driven by the missionary idealism of the...
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by Staff
- 19 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Company Loyalty
advises Donald P. Rogers, professor of international business at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. John Chappelear, a professional coach and trainer, says, "Clarify your expectations, and make...
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by Lauren Keller Johnson
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
attention paid to this kind of research by corporate leaders? And what does it say about the true nature of effective leadership? If the essence of leadership is, as my colleague John View Details
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by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
but we always have to keep our integrity, values, and goals." Clark Phippen assured us that leadership is up to the task, saying that "true leaders can easily address the challenges you describe without the 'academic' complexity you and View Details
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by James Heskett
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
Balanced Scorecard Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts, with strategy execution lost along the way. A new book by Balanced Scorecard creators Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton aims to make...
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by Staff
- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
retrenchment; think growth. Key concepts include: Companies that survive the financial crisis by identifying and exploiting innovation will serve as economic growth engines in the future—and will be the industry leaders of tomorrow. This...
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by Staff
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
new book, Obliquity, by British economist John Kay. You might guess that Kay thinks profit as a "direct goal" is overrated, otherwise he wouldn't have much substance for a book on the subject. Kay...
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by Jim Heskett
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
It draws from previous work by Urde (an associate professor at the Lund University School of Economics and Management in Lund, Sweden), John Balmer (a marketing professor at Brunel University in London) and...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require...
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- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
understood, and improved. By so doing," Bok noted, "he has exemplified Harvard's commitment to the quality of teaching." HBS Dean John McArthur observed, "Chris has been at the forefront...
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- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
selective anecdotal evidence to pose a question. After all, John Doerr is a graduate of Harvard Business School. But think about it. The Silicon Valley and its neighbor to the north Seattle have influenced management and the conduct of...
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- January 1976 (Revised June 1984)
- Case
Megalith, Inc. -- Hay Associates (A)
By: John P. Kotter
In 1969, Megalith centralized its financial and control functions. John Boyd, senior vice president for finance, hired four brilliant young managers to "bring the group out of the stone age." By 1975, this management team had created a near-perfect finance office of...
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Management Teams;
Compensation and Benefits;
Motivation and Incentives;
Problems and Challenges
Kotter, John P. "Megalith, Inc. -- Hay Associates (A)." Harvard Business School Case 476-107, January 1976. (Revised June 1984.)
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
communications." It's difficult enough to usher in a new set of attitudes when they're consistent with the core of the culture, notes John P. Kotter, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership at...
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by Melissa Raffoni
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
recipients' actual trustworthiness. This lax approach gives rise to adverse selection: the sites that seek and obtain trust certifications are actually less trustworthy than others. Using an original dataset on web site safety, I demonstrate that sites certified View Details
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Martha Lagace