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- 12 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.
in 2020 amid pandemic closures. While Lakhani’s study focuses on Australian football, the principles apply to any league trying to re-engage fans and revitalize the businesses that depend on them. “We’re talking about billion-dollar leagues that are View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
through a vivid exploration of the political processes determining our system of accounting rules upon which depends our ability to reliably measure corporate profits in the economy. The book shows how some corporate interests, in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Mid-US - Global
address four key pillars: culture, infrastructure, nutrition education, and food access. This case explores how Campbell’s navigated complex partnerships, power dynamics, and contextual differences across cities to drive sustainable community impact, while grappling... View Details
- 22 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
Nordstrom and Apple illustrate some unorthodox performance measurement choices that provide the pathway to superior results. 4. What Strategic Boundaries Have You Set? Every strategy brings with it the risk that an individual's actions... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Aug 2022
- What Do You Think?
Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?
Is it useful to try to measure the impact of ideological and religious differences on organizational cultures and therefore bottom-line performance? Where they are publicized, do they influence the nature of... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
cultural environment. Keywords: Leadership ; Mission and Purpose ; Organizational Culture ; United States Citation Educators Related Riley, James, Alexis Lefort, and Helen Yap. "The Value of Art on Campus as... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
scales. "Everybody has got a little bit of each in them," says John Kotter, who admits he is sometimes guilty of using the dichotomy in an effort at simplification. "It's much better to think in terms of measuring people on a zero-to-ten... View Details
Keywords: Management
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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
stability, pioneered by researchers at Harvard, is that financial instability often follows periods when financial institutions, like investors and policy makers, have underestimated risks. These errors in beliefs were an important cause of a financial crisis. If... View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Derivatives and Swaps (1) Credit (8) Crime and Corruption (43) Crisis Management (51) Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues (23) Culture (10) Currency Exchange Rate (3) Currency (12) Curriculum and Courses (2) Customer Focus and... View Details
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
in diverse markets proved a significant challenge. Still, supreme overconfidence and perverse financial incentives led to a gladiator culture in which executives proposed—and risk managers and the board of directors approved—a growing... View Details
- 01 Feb 2023
- What Do You Think?
Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?
layoff.) He has commented elsewhere that one reason may be the organization’s failure to select, orient, organize, and measure new remote employees in ways that enable them to work as productively and creatively as longer-term, less... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
deconstruction of the strange and wonderful culture in which we live and consume..., a take on differentiation unlike any other found in business today. DIFFERENT shows how to succeed in a world where conformity reigns... but exceptions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
and industry-level evidence. We find a positive robust correlation between de jure and de facto measures of international financial integration and proxies for entrepreneurial activity such as entry, size, and skewness of the firm-size... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
sovereign default induced by legal rulings in the case of Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital. We find that a 10% increase in the probability of default causes a 6% decline in the value of Argentine equities and a 1% depreciation of a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
with the new ones. Organizations are trying so hard to maintain their hybrid work environments and fill offices. They’re trying so hard to get back to the pre-pandemic workplace, but was it so great? No. There was and continues to be a View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
had taken insufficient measures before that to address its long-standing financial problems. Some research suggests that voluntary or preemptive restructuring can generate more value than restructuring done under the imminent threat of... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
we wanted more balls in play, we wanted more action, we wanted more stolen bases. And those are all the things that we've seen from the sport this year. DM: What are your KPIs? What are you seeing, how are you measuring success for these?... View Details
- June 2011
- Article
Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work
By: J. R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson
This article examines, in a series of four studies, the nature and impact of implicit voice theories-largely taken-for-granted beliefs about when and why speaking up at work is risky or inappropriate. In Study 1, qualitative data from 190 interviews conducted in a... View Details
Keywords: Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior
Detert, J. R., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work." Academy of Management Journal 54, no. 3 (June 2011): 461–488.
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
researchers conducted an experiment in which white participants engaged in a two-person guessing game designed—unbeknownst to them—to measure their tendencies toward attempted racial colorblindness. Each participant was given a stack of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel