Filter Results:
(334)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(610)
- People (1)
- News (209)
- Research (334)
- Multimedia (9)
- Faculty Publications (107)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(610)
- People (1)
- News (209)
- Research (334)
- Multimedia (9)
- Faculty Publications (107)
Sort by
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
danger of failing before, now your anxiety has made failure a foregone conclusion. We've all experienced the crippling effects of job performance anxiety. But far from being uniquely relegated to nightmare scenarios like the one outlined... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
Lillo of Swiss Reinsurance Company. To get consumers to sign onto the technology, the industry must instill trust by focusing on programming the cars to behave with the “common sense” human drivers tend to apply when navigating complex or View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
who create the ballast for the organization," said DeLong. In his talk titled "The Power of Supporting Players in Organizations: What's Right with B Players," DeLong told a classroom filled with visiting alumni about the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
While some lessons can be learned by watching—a parent’s reaction after touching a hot stove can be a good lesson for a youngster on dangers in the kitchen—other lessons are harder to learn through observation alone. No matter how many... View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
subjective, and all too often women or minorities have been excluded because others have not found them to "fit." One way individuals have coped with this reality is to hide who they really are or how they really think until they get a foot in the door. This... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
First, pricing and value are inherently intertwined. Yet, most companies use cost-plus pricing. That's dangerous in an information-rich world. Amazon, for instance, takes thousands of SKUs for consumer goods and distills this into... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
over better workers in favor of those of their own race or background. The danger is particularly high when things are going well. At those times, it may be easy to become complacent, Zhang says, and not realize the drag that subtle... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
dangerous if they become an addiction. The competitiveness framework can help to better distinguish export-oriented policies that make a contribution to long-term sustainable growth from those that do not. 4. Moving on from here There is... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo. Someone must develop a vision for the future and a plan to get there. During the second stage, there must be a real willingness to take on the resisters—the most dangerous of these, warns... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
voters know who the big fish are. That is why when there are fewer audit firms there could be a greater concern on the firms' part about such political costs." Good For The Industry? There is a potential danger in this approach,... View Details
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
the next budget cycle. With a delay strategy, attention can be diverted to some legitimate, pressing issue, the sort of which always exists. There is the sudden budget shortfall, the unexpected competitor announcement, the dangerous new... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
or isn't attractive. One other danger of people working primarily with those they like: They may simply have a good time and get nothing done. An experienced venture capitalist recalls the case of a very capable manager who hired... View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
companies focus on winning now. These are often difficult lessons for veteran leaders to heed. For many leaders, going on offense when they are in the depth of a crisis is most counter-intuitive, yet it is the winning strategy. Like the Chinese character for crisis... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
others—getting the answer 0 percent of the time. That suggests a powerful opportunity to improve performance just by making leaders aware of the dangers of hogging airtime in a discussion. "I want to believe that oftentimes we behave... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
engineering fixes to allow users easier control over sharing information on their Facebook pages. In fact, Zuckerberg reportedly was working with engineers for several days doing just that while the world awaited follow-up to the initial disclosures. View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
2011. In the early 2000s, e-commerce was seen as a threat to entire store formats such as grocery, music, and toy stores. But as consumer behavior evolved over the last decade and as supply chains improved, it became apparent that the View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
columnist and best-selling author). Ultimately, the printed word brought Levitt to HBS, when Edward Bursk, editor of the Harvard Business Review, asked the young University of North Dakota professor and author of a recent HBR article, "The View Details
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
companies, brands, and products are growing stronger in much of the world. The situation is not yet critical, but it is worsening. Yet the U.S. mass media continues to paint a dangerously optimistic picture of the global business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right
million toys manufactured in China with lead paint and/or loose, potentially dangerous magnets. Clearly Mattel did not have sufficiently tight quality control procedures in its supply chain to compensate for the extra risks of outsourcing... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
dangerous working conditions in overseas factories. So the company launched an initiative to reduce the negative environmental impact of its entire supply chain and established a code of conduct focused on compensating employees fairly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman