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- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
objective associates or making small tests; (3) seek ways of attaining distance by looking at a decision through someone else's eyes or focusing on the long-term impact of the decision; and (4) prepare to be wrong by setting limits on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
the necessary behavioral changes. Poor communication. A change initiative is like the start of a marathon: change will be occurring rapidly in some units, whereas in others it won't even have gotten under way. Change leaders need to be View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
class based on some of its contents, regardless of the material assigned for that day. Some of the columns we’ve shared over the years have been prepared based on newspaper reporting. Last month’s column on the decisions facing Disney’s... View Details
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
For the general business practitioner, what are the major takeaways from your observations? How will their businesses be affected, and are there things they should be doing now to prepare or react? Answer: The pandemic has made more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
critical areas. Our body is prepared for one of two actions: fight or flight. Incumbents naturally choose flight. What looks highly attractive to the entrant continues to look relatively unattractive to the incumbent. The asymmetric... View Details
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
the context matters. Corporate training is most effective when leadership has prepared the organization for change. Source: MonkeyBusinessImages Take the example of Swedish industrial conglomerate Cardo. The CEO commissioned a training... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
Technology and Operations Management Unit. He discussed with students how German soccer team TSG Hoffenheim deploys analytics in scouting and player development. He also noted how New Zealand’s yacht designers and crew prepared for the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
an electric utility was actually looking forward to deregulation as a means of unfreezing a tradition-bound monopoly that was not adequately preparing for a more competitive future. But deregulation came slower than he anticipated and... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
involve initially educating the senior leaders, as these are the folks who can open the right doors, make the needed resources available, and align the D&I process with all of the business objectives. Additionally, leadership must be View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
prepare content that will suit everyone and cover every situation, the authors necessarily strip out the nuance of how things really work in a corporate context. “What we often get in a knowledge management system is the least common... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
healthcare capacity. Again, the researchers speculated that underreporting was worse in these areas because policymakers feared that citizens would blame them, in this case, for not adequately preparing for the health crisis. While such... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
not come at the expense of developing capacities, like critical reasoning, that prepare learners for long-run success in careers. Work-based learning, especially when combined with mentorship, can foster both skill sets. [div... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
Rogoff (ebs.), NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2000. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Rodrik, Dani (2009), Growth after the Crisis, Paper prepared for the Growth Commission, Cambridge: 2009. Rodrik, Dani (2008), Is Export... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
to students. I hope to create an environment where students know I care about them, or at the very minimum know that I care about them by extension. My love of my subject and my preparation extends to them. But I must convince them that I... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
forecasting, strategic planning, and statistical decision making have not prepared them for this amount of flux in the environment. In short, these rapid-fire changes are putting extreme pressure on business leaders to lead in ways not... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
typically unstructured time and allows people to feel prepared for the day ahead. (It’s effective in the same way other rituals, like exercising before work, can help people transition between their home and job roles, the researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Teaching Interest
Decision Making Under Uncertainty
By: David E. Bell
Many of the decisions we face are made complicated by having uncertain consequences: how should I set my inventory when I don’t know what demand will be, should I refinance my mortgage when rates might go lower, how big a bet shall I make in a new business, and so... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
prepared for it.” Click Here Cote also emphasized to students that, as important as it was to avoid the disruption of layoffs and to preserve the company’s workforce, Honeywell also continued its process of “seed planting”—investing in... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details