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- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
employees. For individuals older than 30 in 1930, being in the upper levels of the hierarchy was associated with a 3.9-year shorter lifespan. For people over 40 years old in 1930, Nicholas estimates a 3.3-year “longevity penalty.”...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 20 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators
two-thirds of our innovation skills still come through learning—from first understanding the skill, then practicing it, and ultimately gaining confidence in our capacity to create. This is one reason that individuals who grow up in societies that promote community...
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- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?
purchase a home than to rent one in 95 percent of America. This one racist policy has led to an affordable housing crisis that impacts most White home buyers today. “I often ask how racism harms those at the bottom of the imaginary View Details
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by Danielle Kost
- 26 Apr 2022
- Book
What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
founders “had no hierarchy between themselves, committed to consensus-based decision-making and agreed that clear communication should be a core value of their start-up, going as far as to conduct regular 360-degree reviews of one...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
very fast, agile. They attract people who play around with crazy ideas." The idea is to bring back that agile, experimental, silo-free network. Under his new system, everyone works within a traditional hierarchy, but that hierarchy...
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by Kim Girard
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
refreshes and opportunities to take part in new product work or the chance to work with an industry luminary. Consider Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs when it comes to your employees: They need the basics (a desk, computer, etc.), they need...
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by Julia Austin
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
inequities resulted in team members being unable to bring their whole selves to work, which meant that organizations were operating with sub-optimal contributions. Also, excessive hierarchy that sought to drive efficiencies actually...
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by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
researchers set up camp at a large North American law firm, where lawyers often garnered business via networking engagements. A law firm is an ideal setting for a field study, Gino explains, because it is designed around quantifiable measures of success: billable hours...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Sep 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?
power is always relative. You may have great influence in one relationship and be completely dependent in another. Second, people confuse power with authority, but authority is no guarantee of power, and you do not need to be high in the View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
foster income inequality That being said, the collective corporate hierarchy (needs to) make the long needed effort to voluntarily minimize the gross inequality that now exists." Desiree Halse, after quoting verses memorized as a child...
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by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
authority and hierarchy necessary but decreasingly sufficient, with looser organizational forms, with an increased pace of change, and with greater diversity and global reach, negotiation assumes greater importance. For effective...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
police, telling these kids what to do.” That observation led to another insight: Tutors, charged with pushing behavioral standards associated with a college-bound, middle-class, professional culture, were questioning their role in the View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
there’s always a binary right or wrong answer,” says De Freitas, who has been studying the interplay between moral judgment and attention to one’s surroundings for the past seven years. “It’s more like a hierarchy of preferences. For...
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- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
becomes the smartest (and most strategic) thing you can do.” The inclusive managers we heard about in our survey made employees feel heard and respected. They solicited input from across the organizational hierarchy and focused on what...
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by Kristen Senz
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
served no purpose at all beyond cosmetic appeal. Yet, silly as it seemed, the effect was real in terms of consumer preferences, he said. We talked about brand more and more as a hierarchy of persuasive elements.— Hans-Willi Schroiff...
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- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
provides insight into how the broader management of experience accumulation affects team performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-145.pdf Measuring and Understanding Hierarchy as an Architectural Element in...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
ecosystems, hierarchy is an architectural property that refers to the degree to which transactions proceed in a single direction, from "upstream" to "downstream." It is often assumed that a unidirectional flow of goods...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
follow a general roadmap. The product needs to fit into a company's price hierarchy and also the rough price hierarchy of competitors and the market in general. And in the watch's case, the fact that it was...
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- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
working paper shows that the costs faced by multinational corporations in managing governments and political risk grew sharply. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-003.pdf The Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
inventors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-042.pdf Electronic Hierarchies and Electronic Heterarchies: Relationship-Specific Assets and the Governance of Interfirm IT Authors:Andrew McAfee, Marco Bettiol, and Maria...
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Martha Lagace