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  • 06 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

from Buy-IN: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down By John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead Fear Mongering This kind of attack strategy is... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
  • 08 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

an open-minded and approachable person in a more powerful position who can take the lead. Certainly we need to be prudent. But in a more rapidly changing world, finding opportunities in crises probably reduces your overall risk. To Learn More: Watch a video of View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
  • 29 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Get Off the Dime!

Using real-life stories, John Kotter and Dan Cohen have identified eight steps toward making large-scale change in organizations. The first step: Create a sense of urgency among the relevant people.In... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
  • 1999
  • Book

John Kotter on What Leaders Really Do

By: J. P. Kotter
Keywords: Leadership
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  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

To succeed in today's fast-moving economy, traditional corporate structures are holding back companies, even great companies, from being creative enough and speedy enough to compete effectively. What's needed, argues Harvard Business School Professor View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 19 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States

besieged with global discord that threatens regional peace, faces the same domestic headlines. In 2011, when young Israelis—and extending eventually to not-so-young Israelis, fueled by Facebook—mounted a "cottage cheese... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas, John H. Vogel & Charles S. Laven; Construction; Real Estate
  • September 1989 (Revised October 1994)
  • Case

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By: John P. Kotter
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  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

professor and Dean of the Faculty, provided a brief outline of the landscape as well as thoughts on how to view the proposed bailout. Lecturer Nicolas P. Retsinas, Director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, then... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 27 Oct 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal

Keywords: by Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, John Helliwell, Robert Biswas-Diener, Imelda Kemeza, Paul Nyende, Claire Ashton-James & Michael I. Norton
  • 08 May 2020
  • In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

survey by the Charities Aid Foundation of America. A staggering 97 percent of respondents expect their funding to decline during the next 12 months as the struggling economy and social distancing hurts fundraising efforts. What can... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

Leading in the 21st Century is an HBS Executive Education program being held in January 2000. Professors Gary Hamel and John Kotter talk about the course and the new realities of leadership and competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 2014
  • Book

Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World

By: John P. Kotter
Based on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter. It's a familiar scene in organizations today: a new competitive threat or a big opportunity emerges. You quickly create a strategic initiative in response and... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Organizational Structure
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  • 03 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

sharks can affect efforts to save them. “Negative public opinion and fear of sharks continues to hinder conservation efforts,” says Elizabeth Keenan, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit of Harvard Business School, and a co-author of the study along with Andrew... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting
  • 2008
  • Book

Managing Your Boss

By: John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter
Managing your boss: Isn't that merely manipulation? Corporate cozying up? Not according to John Gabarro and John Kotter. In this handy guidebook, the authors contend that you manage your boss for a very good reason: to do your best on the job—and thereby benefit not... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Decision Making; Information Management; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Tactics; Performance Productivity; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Personal Characteristics
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  • 02 Apr 2024
  • What Do You Think?

What's Enough to Make Us Happy?

ambitious but not always assured. “Career planning provides an opportunity to think about 'enough,' especially in a given timeframe." Our late colleague at Harvard Business School, Clayton Christensen, provided inspiration for this kind of thinking View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508069   PublicationsManaging Your Boss Authors:John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter Publication:HBR Classics.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?

do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Amy Edmondson, Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well (Atria Books, 2023) Amy C. Edmondson, “Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams,” Administrative Science Quarterly 44,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 05 Jun 2009
  • What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

economy without continued expansion." P. Maxson, assuming also that growth has limits, asked, "will we manage this change, or will we let ourselves be mauled by it?" A more basic question may... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Sam Walton: Great From the Start

store business in a serious way. He bought the lease to prevent his "friendly" rival John Dunham from acquiring the property and expanding his Sterling Store. Newport already had a couple of department stores. One of these was... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?

concluded in his classic study, Good to Great, that among the most important attributes of leaders, people who John Kotter maintains achieve "extremely useful change," was the right mix of humility... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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