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- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
practical ends in mind." Dennis Crane added that "true leadership does make a difference." Related to this was Yuko Nakanishi's observation that "any ambiguity in terms of responsibilities . . . must be eliminated... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
approach problems from many different directions and learn there can be many right answers. This mindset has helped me approach problems in a more flexible way in an entrepreneurial business setting.” Surette and Peters continue to face situations filled with View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- Web
“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
actually very helpful,” says Josh, “especially when you work across departments.” The most important contribution of a HBS education, Josh believes, “is helping people think about how to break apart and structure problems. It’s an endless repeat of the case method! You... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
through resolution. In all, the ETS team shot 35 hours of footage. The final case, which was first taught in October 2014 to 940 first-year MBA students, includes just under an hour of video. “Multimedia cases won’t wholly replace traditional cases,” says Buell, who... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
If they go, nobody but the textbook publishers will cry." Disruption Happens The Random House-Kindle case, recently taught in the first-year Strategy course at HBS, prompted some interesting conversations in the classroom, Olson says. Students were excited to... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
planned lecture and an instructor-dominated question-and-answer period for the ambiguity of a hard-to-plan, free-flowing discussion driven by student ideas, which may well follow unusual paths and come to unexpected end points."... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
reversible moves to deepen their understanding of the unfolding game being played, and to build capabilities. They accept ambiguity and some apparent failures in exchange for improved learning and market position. Imperfectionists succeed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
question-and-answer period for the ambiguity of a hard-to-plan, free-flowing discussion driven by student ideas, which may well follow unusual paths and come to unexpected end points.” Although his teaching and research activities were... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
venture funds. Minimizing Organizational Disruption The spinout process was clearly defined in the agreement in order to ensure that disputes did not arise later on and to minimize the disruption to the organization. The XTV officials insisted on a formal procedure to... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
properties help us understand how the intensity of communication among group-members and some select structural characteristics of the group affect recognition outcomes in novel and structurally ambiguous worlds. In particular, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
described by Levy. Finally, a "culture of maybe" exists when companies are highly analytical, yet also quite uncomfortable with ambiguity. They go to great lengths to gather more information and to perform additional formal analysis, in hopes of reducing the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
strength of this greedy signal is normally unobserved, the answer is theoretically unclear, and corresponding empirical evidence is mixed. I overcome this ambiguity by examining individuals for whom the greedy signal strength is likely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
sharper national identities. The interwar disintegration of the international economy also led to the national subsidiaries of multinationals taking on strong local identities. Over the past two decades, as the pace of globalization quickened, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
for anything, so you have to navigate a more ambiguous path—one with fewer role models and fewer people to help you. The problem builds on itself: underrepresentation in the fast-track, post-college jobs that feed into the B-schools... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
statements during the campaign have also raised a sense of uncertainty and ambiguity on several fronts. One of them that I think could result in a significant drawback is trade. Since the companies in the Dow are global, they could be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
for alleged patent violations, and it seems they do so regardless of whether patents were infringed on or not. NPEs are well aware that with intellectual property, the idea space is nebulous—which can lead to ambiguity that needs to be... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
the moral and military ambiguity of profits and power as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a mosaic of imperial theories and practices contributing to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
gender itself is not a good predictor of negotiation performance. Gender differences appear when guidelines for negotiation are ambiguous and environmental triggers are present—such as the number of women in leadership positions—that... View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
what you do, but how you do it. Take Cues From Negotiation Strategy With negative or ambiguous information, "the interests at stake are not necessarily an attempt to persuade or influence," says Danny Ertel, also a partner at... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
organization. If you have fallen into any of these traps yourself, you may be sabotaging your own career. If there are high-need-for-achievement types in your organization, are there ways to help them get out of these traps? A key factor to keep in mind is that View Details