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- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
coastal areas in West Africa and Sub-saharan Africa. She asks: “How can already dysfunctional governments provide critical water, transportation or education services as the seas rise? The challenges exacerbate urban fragility.” As...
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- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
lose your bearings. Q: How pernicious a problem is denial in business today? A: Denial has always been a problem. What is different today is that the cost of denial has become so high. We are living in a less forgiving world than we once did. Here's an example. General...
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- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
hiring and motivating employees, a dysfunctional relationship with lead investors, and shortcomings in Quincy's go-to-market plan. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815095-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
lead to dysfunctional group dynamics) and the perspectives brought to the table by board leaders and director. Finally, the benefits of two opposing leadership structures are debated: one chapter argues for electing a chairman who is...
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by Julia Hanna
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
explores dysfunctional dynamics, adversarial, and politically charged relationships, and those that are harmful to well-being. Evocative constructs are leveraged, including secrets, betrayals, anthropomorphism, lying, infidelity,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
broad-based therapies. Instead, the focus should be on enrolling subpopulations, based on diagnostic testing, in trials of targeted drug treatments and on monitoring and assessing effectiveness after drugs are approved. A dysfunctional...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
violate the accepted norms and rules of engagement. If someone clearly engages in personal attacks or withholds a dissenting view only to obstruct the implementation later, they need to be held responsible for such dysfunctional behavior....
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
Annual Report 2017 - Annual Report 2017
HBS alumni) and the general public on federal policy changes such as corporate tax reform and immigration reform that could improve competitiveness. Their report cites political dysfunction as the greatest barrier to strengthening U.S....
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
values against what's expected of them as responsible professionals. We don't teach them about the dysfunctional aspects that we've been discussing here, and we should. As someone who's interested in corporate governance issues, I believe...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Father of Modern Management by Bob Buford (OPM 2, 1977) (Worthy Publishing) Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care by Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997) and Stephen Baker (Portfolio) Bush, the cofounder and CEO of athenahealth, calls for a revolution...
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- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
team launch. Describes how to diagnose emergent team processes such as information exchange, collaboration, decision making, impression formation, and underlying identity dynamics. Includes steps managers can take to improve dysfunctional...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
usually have some previous experience working with them. However, they are grounded in work processes and decision-making patterns that may be dysfunctional in the new environment. Their thinking is also likely to remain focused on the...
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by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
that boom to strengthen dysfunctional political systems," says HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu. "It's a real tribute to the Brazilians that they used that decade for a lot of important things—and out of Brazil has emerged some real...
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- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
contrast, the policy-making process in Argentina has been dysfunctional and volatile, as different stakeholders argued and competed for resources. Q: Looking a bit to the future of these areas, much of Chile’s recent growth has come from...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
opportunities to test out their own values against what's expected of them as responsible professionals. We don't teach them about the dysfunctional aspects that we've been discussing here, and we should. As someone who's interested in...
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by Garry Emmons
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
dysfunction had been tracked. Key factors for integrating outcomes measurement into the clinical workflow include ongoing communication between cross-functional teams composed of clinicians and technical professionals, an iterative design...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Many Dumb Things and What You Can Do About It by Steven A. Stanton (MBA 1984) (FCB Partners) Stanton argues that organizational transformation is needed when organizations are trapped in the status quo and employees are frantically busy with email madness and View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
relatively benign forms, such as small acts of nonconformity. But it can also emerge more brutally and with quite dysfunctional consequences. Without meaning, individuals tend to become rigid and hollow. Society itself seems shallow and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
gaining ground in banking. In light of the recent financial crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Power, 2009; Taleb, 2007). This paper asks whether the expansion of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
can also have dysfunctional effects if it is not placed wisely. Though much research has examined conditions that increase individuals’ tendencies to trust others, we know very little about the circumstances under which individuals are...
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Dina Gerdeman