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31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

event from the day that stood out in their minds. For the average participant, we have about eighteen weeks of daily diaries. As we read and analyzed the nearly 12,000 daily reports we gathered, we noticed that one of the most frequent events reported was some View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

effort, and money to the legal issues? No. That's a good reason to hire a competent lawyer. Excellent legal talent can be retained for relatively little money up front at the early stages. It will cost much less to get it right at the beginning than to try to View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

sorting work into departments, product divisions, and regions. Trouble is, managers in hierarchical organizations don't promote or reward risk and innovation—they rely on routine, and turn to the same trusted people to run key... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

11 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

inclusively." One of the stories that I included in my book Rebel Talent was about the airline pilot Captain “Sully” Sullenberger, who lost power in both jet engines over the Hudson River shortly after taking off from New York City. He had served in the military, flown... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

06 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

Least Resistance," a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics, the authors argue that this sort of passive behavior can have a significant effect on how companies make strategic financing decisions. It all fits under... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2021
Op-Ed

How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

reports delivered to employees at all sorts of companies. I’m often struck by the way the process can break down. First, what the givers intend to convey and what they actually express to recipients may differ dramatically. Second, what... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

22 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

pool of prospective employees grows. -- The cost of selecting among many applicants is offset by cost savings as prospective employees sort themselves into and out of consideration for jobs. -- This self-selection process reduces the... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

database of startups and investors, to analyze collaboration patterns. The authors also sorted through press releases, news articles, and regulatory filings to augment and verify the data. Of the Crunchbase startups examined, 16... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

main classes, and so we can sort of carry the social significance from Sunday into our classroom on Monday and just talk about the ads as consumers, but also turning the tables and examining them as brand managers, and so examining, what... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

18 Dec 2017
Op-Ed

Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs

Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

will take maybe two or three years to sort out whether betting is a medium- to long-term phenomenon versus something that could be viewed as a fad. Also, I think that when betting is an endemic part of any sport, it raises the ante for... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

30 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

Employers are dangling all sorts of sparkling lures to capture hot job candidates in the battle for top talent: Generous compensation. Stock options. Lofty titles. But Harvard Business School research suggests that many companies fail to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

from some 250 million online job listings, sorting them into categories including country, city, job type, and industry. San Francisco and Boston lead remote offerings The pattern in all categories? Variety. “Remote-work posting shares... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

Investment Company, a Connecticut-based hedge fund.280 Banks rarely take a fee for this sort of entertainment. They make their money on trades and other services that are now a big source of revenue to the banks. Hedge funds began in... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

30 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

things by seeing the abuses. In the United States in particular, there are all sorts of labor contracts that appear not to be legal. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlaws involuntary servitude. We ruled it out along with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

not as idiosyncratic or unique as we once thought. You look for the same sort of reasoning you would have used for other skilled labor markets and staff,” Greenstein says. “There are HR people who are used to this. When you get into the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

culprit is what he calls the fixed-performance contract. "The targets for sales, costs, and key ratios that are spelled out in the budget become an implicit contract," he says. A recent Hackett survey found between 60 percent and 90 percent of the top 2,000... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

genuinely good plan, pursuing a great idea, or making a needed vision a reality might be filled with frightening risks—even though that is not really the case. There are all sorts of ways to create fear. You have seen a half dozen in the... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

to 80 in 2014. Another example: Some 70 percent of auditors in 1996 were likely to settle claims with some sort of cash payment. By 2016 the percentage of paid settlements had dropped to a little over 30 percent. “Reducing the bite, the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

It's what gives them the impetus to learn, to change, and to grow. Before continuing with Jeff's story, I'd like you to pause and engage in the same sort of reflection that Jeff did. The following are questions that... View Details