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- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
companies, that's too simple because it ignores the cost on the firms you’re supporting,” says Roth, author of the new working paper Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Entrepreneurship. Decisions...
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by Rachel Layne
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
parents. The increased difficulty and risks of traveling separated some CEOs from family. One had to make the difficult decision to “move to a different city to be closer to the employees, [leaving] the family behind.” None in our sample...
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- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
In a recent virtual fireside chat, HBS Senior Fellow Bill George spoke with Chad E. Foster (PLDA 21, 2016), who learned that, though he lost his vision in his early 20s, blindness was a “gift” from which he developed the mental stamina and resilience to live his best...
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- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
government, and not-for-profits. To war against COVID To aid the fight against COVID-19, here are seven key frameworks and approaches with roots in military strategy that are taught in leading Agile and strategy programs. They can help your organization adapt quickly...
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by Euvin Naidoo
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
you have a targeted process that accumulates knowledge before the critical decisions need to be made," writes Iansiti, "you're going to run into all sorts of problems." Technology Integration provides an intensive guided tour that...
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Robert Binstock
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
from your computer systems while letting others in. You need systems that determine who gets access to specific information. And you need a way to ensure critical communications aren't overheard. Certain technologies—firewalls, authentication and View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
The problem with big data is that there is, well, so much of it. Analyzing it is like trying to sip from a firehose. Just in time, a new book on the art and science of quantitative analysis arrives this week. In Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding...
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- 13 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
done.” Effective communication must be accompanied with efficiencies in structure. “We have to operate more like a private company in which different departments have their own authority to act without running every View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
authority of running the business. Chandler described this management culture as "managerial capitalism. "Owners' delegation of responsibility to professional managers established a corporate norm that was then carried down...
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- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Publications Forthcoming Berrett-Koehler Publishers What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms By: Heskett, James L., W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger Abstract—Based on decades of collective field experiences, the View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader
authority until people feel like they know you." Coming In With The Answer New leaders who show up with a single answer for complex organizational problems usually do so out of arrogance or insecurity, or because they believe they...
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by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
PublicationsAdverse Selection in Online 'Trust' Certifications and Search Results Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (June 2010) Abstract Widely used online "trust" authorities...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
most likely have an inaccurate perception about what they think—and they have the same of you. All it takes is one person to break the cycle.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: zoom-zoom]...
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by Michael Blanding
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
and co-author of the book, Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work. “They have lots of opportunity to change the structures themselves.” The authors of Glass Half-Broken weave academic research with...
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- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
Question: What is your favorite podcast on finance and why? Cohen: NPR’s Hidden Brain. Look, this is not a podcast about finance, or specifically about finance. It’s a podcast more about decision-making and all the errors and wonky View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started...
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- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
new opportunities. Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility Author Daniel Litvin presented his evidence that modern companies find it difficult to operate on foreign soil. Big companies, in spite of their wealth,...
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- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
PTCA going up against an established and effective procedure known as coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG), but also against the surgeons and other interests in hospitals invested in the older procedure. The authors found that "in...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
accounting and SEC rules throughout that portion of the company where he had direct authority and accountability. Since Enron is certainly not the only company to have engaged in such gaming, the important question raised by this marker...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
given, a day that so many of my dead comrades would love to have?” As an infantry officer, when every decision involves life and death, you develop greater patience with small inconveniences, an understanding of what really matters, and...
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