blindness - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

how much to adapt a business model is certainly important for extracting value from international operations. But to focus exclusively on the tension between global scale economies and local considerations is a mistake, for it blinds... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

Management control systems and damage control experts serve a critical purpose. But don't let that blind you to an increasingly important reality. Controls can support complacency in an era when complacency can be deadly. Handled... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

standards by two experienced accounting professionals who were blind to the study's objectives. Overall, the results fail to support the proposition that the biggest auditors increasingly consider themselves too big to fail. Rather, the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

06 Jan 2016
What Do You Think?

Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?

bias toward short-term results, as well as any hubris on their part, and to discover blind spots, top management should cultivate and rely on its strategy team, including employees, board members and consultants, to reduce the chance of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto; Fashion

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

inevitable complications Though founders typically allow more time—and often buffer generous time-to-market estimates—they seem blind to the myriad interconnections and changes that subsequent products will require, the study found. That... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

03 Jul 2008
What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

"goals and objectives, pressures, strengths, weaknesses, blind spots, and preferred work styles"; (2) understanding yourself and your needs, including "strengths and weaknesses, personal style, and predisposition toward... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

conversations, or in getting feedback, according to the authors of the book Work with Me: The 8 Blind Spots Between Men and Women at Work. Yet, some 92 percent of men don’t believe they’re excluding women, the survey found. [div... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

overall agenda, but no more than a total of ten agenda items. Create a support system. It can consist of close friends or people close to you in your organization who will help you if you stumble. "You need some people who will tell it to you straight, who know... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

interregnum, there were a lot of questions about my sanity.” Click Here While Honeywell’s experience might be seen as blind luck, academic research on recessions backs up the approach they used. In December 2008, HBS professors Ranjay... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

blind spots.” More than likely, says Gompers, the increased performance is due to a combination of all three factors. He is currently working on a way to determine whether ethnic diversity causes the same spike in financial results.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

strive to keep all employees forever. "You don't want blind loyalty," says Scott Brooks, an executive consultant at Minneapolis-based Gantz Wiley Research. "The best kind is when both parties are benefiting." Leigh... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

the author. I refereed that paper, blind, and wanted to refer to it in my book [Visible Hand], but could not find out who the author was" (since it was blind refereeing). A year later, I won the Newcomen Fellowship to come to HBS to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

raises. Review the outcomes of promotion and compensation decisions by race, gender, and other identity characteristics. Retention. Track attrition and tenure by gender. Combat flexibility stigma by focusing on measurable aspects of performance, and don’t turn a View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

Cancer research, it has been said, is not unlike a group of blind men studying an elephant. One man feels the elephant's tail and says it is a rope. Another blind man handles its tusk and calls it a spear,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change

The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Energy; Utilities

03 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

and we as a society have paid a cost for such blind pursuit regardless of the social and environmental consequences, as the 2008 financial crisis and increasing inequalities have made clear. This kind of systemic change, however, does not... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

redefined," Higgins says. "The younger generation doesn't care as much about cable TV." And for older sports fans, mobile devices are gaining popularity because they allow for multitasking. "Wyc Grousbeck was on a tour of hospitals for the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

04 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs

career choices? A: Women's portability comes from two sources: a greater emphasis on external relationships, and conducting better research about a company before joining it. Men would benefit from conducting more due diligence as well. Don't let yourself be View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

20 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Consumers Value Global Brands

warming, but they expect multinational giants like BP and Shell to do so. Similarly, people may turn a blind eye when local companies take advantage of employees, but they won't stand for transnational players like Nike and Polo adopting... View Details

Keywords: by Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch & Earl L. Taylor

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

product and the activities associated with making and selling it. Selling becomes a function of individual "heroic" efforts, not a scalable platform for profitable growth. Equally important, this inhibits adaptive learning—a crucial requirement for a... View Details