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27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

and discussion of business, to distinguish among leadership, management, and administration. They are in fact very different; each is valuable and has its place. Briefly, leadership is about a vision of the future and the ability to energize others to pursue it. View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

May 2020
Teaching Note

Danone: Changing the Food System

By: David E. Bell, Federica Gabrieli, Daniela Beyersdorfer, Amy Klopfenstein and Aldo Sesia

Teaching Note for HBS No. 520-053.
This is a teaching note for the case “Danone: Changing the Food System?” The case examines the efforts of one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies to resolve the social, environmental, and economic issues within... View Details

Keywords: Food; Goods and Commodities; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Environmental Management; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; France; Paris

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10 Mar 2020
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The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

2020 print edition of the Academy of Management Journal. “A big lesson for all organizations is to be more thoughtful about the extent to which our expectations for others are rooted in what worked for us, and also to understand that what... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Current working papers

Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

Your Skills: Managing Teams The ability to lead teams is fast becoming a critical skill for all managers in the 21st century. Here are four HBS Working Knowledge stories from the archives that address... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

28 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Master the Team Meeting

monkeybusinessimages No matter how much we hate going to meetings, there’s a generally accepted best practice that teams should meet with their managers on a regular cadence. More often than not, unfortunately, I hear leaders and their... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

02 Sep 2014
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to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative performance... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 1990 (Revised April 1998)
Case

John Smithers at Sigtek

Describes an ill-fated effort to institute a total quality program. Using the vantage point of one of the managers selected to be a quality instructor, the case traces the rise and fall of the quality effort during its very brief existence over the course of six... View Details

Keywords: Quality; Change Management; Performance

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April 2006 (Revised October 2006)
Case

Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and David Lane

In the autumn of 2002, JAFCO Asia, a subsidiary of JAFCO Co., Ltd., became the first foreign private equity firm to open an office in Beijing's Haidian Science Park. JAFCO was the only Japanese private equity firm operating in China. As such, Managing Director Vincent... View Details

Keywords: History; International Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Performance Effectiveness; Foreign Direct Investment; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; China; Beijing; Japan

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May 2019
Article

Marketplace Lending: A New Banking Paradigm?

By: Boris Vallée and Yao Zeng

Marketplace lending relies on large-scale loan screening by investors, a major deviation from the traditional banking paradigm. Theoretically, participation of sophisticated investors in marketplace lending improves screening outcomes but also creates adverse... View Details

Keywords: Marketplace Lending; Screening; Sophisticated Investors; Adverse Selection; Financing and Loans; Performance; Information

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31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

for managers to openly express support for wellness initiatives and encourage people to use them, Whillans says. For example, managers can ask their staff to block off one hour every week during office hours... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

27 Nov 2006
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Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

company's level of productivity (number of barrels), efficiency (cost per barrel), and reliability (production "up" time) came to exceed the industry's previous benchmark. Two of the company's newer platforms had been designed from the start to reflect the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

induced to behave rationally. Many other disciplines, including economics, finance, and marketing, have successfully incorporated departures from this rationality assumption into their models and theories. In this paper, we argue that operations View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Aug 2003
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Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

management's time. Most companies' approach to budgeting increases the chances that the process will be arduous, expensive, and frustrating, says Jeremy Hope, coauthor with Robin Fraser of Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

05 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 5, 2006

helping intentions; in other words, those participants who did not dehumanize outgroup victims were the individuals most likely to report volunteering for hurricane relief efforts. Internet Companies' Growth Strategies: Determinants of Investment Intensity and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2004
What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

those posing questions about how we should think about "just enough." Bill Thompson put in words what a number of the respondents seemed to assume when he said, "I believe that the current, quasi-obscene disparities [in income] between top View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

city, state and federal level, and explores the role of economic and cluster performance through 2005. Detailed historical economic and social data allows for an evaluation of policy results. The case finishes with Mayor Michael Bloomberg... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2015
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commissions hurt sales. If managers must retain a cap, they should set it as high as possible to avoid reducing reps' incentives. Although overly complicated compensation systems have their downsides, research has found that a system... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jun 2024
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What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

preferences contribute to disparities in the workplace. Ultimately, this study aims to extend this line of research to include non-binary individuals, revealing how their beliefs and preferences compare and providing insights for managers... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

July 1976
Article

Effects of Externally-Imposed Deadlines on Subsequent Intrinsic Motivation

By: T. M. Amabile, W. DeJong and M. R. Lepper

Studied the effects of externally imposed deadlines on individuals' task performance and their subsequent interest in the task. In 1 deadline condition, 20 male undergraduates were given an explicit time limit for solving a series of initially interesting word games.... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Time Management; Social Psychology; Situation or Environment

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