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- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Working PapersUnmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity Authors:Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Abstract This paper presents a case study of offshore oil platforms—a workplace that has traditionally...
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Martha Lagace
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
forward and challenge the status quo. Singh is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital India, where he has spent more than 15 years investing in hundreds of founders in India and Southeast Asia, believing in their potential to use...
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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
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
in business. There has been an explosion of books, articles, instructional tapes, and CD-ROMs aimed at defining, analyzing, and honing the qualities that have raised the likes of Jack Welch, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos to the status of...
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
"deviance" to foster innovative behavior and boost productivity. March 2015 Module Note Power and Influence in Society By: Julie Battilana This module aims to help students understand how power and influence are employed, both to reproduce the View Details
- 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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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that costs and constraints on the ability to...
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- 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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- 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
- Web
Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
(10) Non-Renewable Energy (2) Nonprofit Organizations (55) Nonverbal Communication (2) Online Advertising (16) Online Technology (32) Open Source Distribution (18) Operations (225) Opportunities (7) Order Taking and Fulfillment (3) View Details
- 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
- 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
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach By: Lakshmi Ramarajan Psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers have long recognized that people have multiple identities—based on attributes such as View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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- 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
- 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
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
efforts to improve and expand the use of PROMs to accelerate the shift toward accountable, patient-centered care. Keywords: Patient-reported Outcomes ; Value Based Health Care ; Health Care and Treatment ; Transformation ; Outcome or Result ; View Details