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- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
the new book Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business. Battilana co-wrote the book with Tiziana Casciaro, a professor at the Rotman School of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
began to appear in the 1990s, with French historian Laurence Fontaine's Histoire du colportage en Europe: XVe-XIXe siècle, a work translated into English and published by Duke University Press as History... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
difference in the way organizations function. Why do organizations continue to operate in ways that are reminiscent of a white male power structure? Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson: First, most people in... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 2024
- Conference Paper
Quantifying Uncertainty in Natural Language Explanations of Large Language Models
By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Sree Harsha Tanneru and Chirag Agarwal
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as powerful tools for several
high-stakes natural language processing (NLP) applications. Recent prompting
works claim to elicit intermediate reasoning steps and key tokens that serve as
proxy explanations for LLM... View Details
Lakkaraju, Himabindu, Sree Harsha Tanneru, and Chirag Agarwal. "Quantifying Uncertainty in Natural Language Explanations of Large Language Models." Paper presented at the Society for Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2024.
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
cancer and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
corporate responses were not homogeneous. There were major variations between individual managers, companies, industrial sectors, and national business systems. This working paper supports this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
contribution to the team. However, when cognition-based trust is high, people start to believe that they can rely on their teammates to get work done, and actually stop working... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
important for fundamental firm value and is only revealed following the information-rich dual trading by insiders and linked institutions Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
also help your work get noticed. "Keeping your head down under the burden of responsibilities will mean that your personal and strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- Article
Lone Inventors as Sources of Technological Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?
Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative outcome distributions. It has implicitly assumed a symmetric thickening or thinning of both tails, i.e., that... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Patents; Groups and Teams; Creativity
Singh, Jasjit, and Lee Fleming. "Lone Inventors as Sources of Technological Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?" Management Science 56, no. 1 (January 2010).
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
Fox, the Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, analyzes efforts since the Kennedy administration to reform defense spending on aircraft, ships, submarines, tanks, missiles, satellites and... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform
Enforcers of regulatory laws are making some headway, particularly since the passage last summer of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, but their work as a whole needs more teeth,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
Assistant Professor George Serafeim, coauthor of the working paper Short-termism, Investor Clientele, and Firm Risk, with HBS doctoral candidate Maria Loumioti View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
introduction to Ms. Hesselbein in 1988. Case preparation, appearances in my classes, and writing for her later publications then followed. "As Hesselbein put it, 'the power of language is so important in... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
meaning of their lives, and they remain hopeful about achieving them, even when faced with obstacles. Many contemporary brand biographies contain underdog narratives. Product... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?
Easterbrook, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. Rife with bravado, New York Congressman Santos campaigned on being the “full embodiment of the American dream.” The only problem was that many View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- Research Summary
Overview
I study how people collaborate with each other as they define, change, and solve problems while working on creativity and innovation projects in organizations.
Conference Proceedings:
Cromwell, J. & Gardner, H. 2017. High-stakes innovation: When... View Details
Conference Proceedings:
Cromwell, J. & Gardner, H. 2017. High-stakes innovation: When... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
Managers' Cultural Background and Disclosure Attributes
By: Francois Brochet, Gregory S. Miller, Patricia Naranjo and Gwen Yu
We examine how a manager’s ethnic cultural background affects managers’ communication with investors. Using a sample of earnings conference calls transcripts with 26,430 executives from 42 countries, we find that managers from ethnic groups that have a more... View Details
Keywords: Disclosure Tone; Individualism; Conference Calls; Ethnic Group; Management Style; Communication Intention and Meaning; Ethnicity; Corporate Disclosure; Financial Reporting
Brochet, Francois, Gregory S. Miller, Patricia Naranjo, and Gwen Yu. "Managers' Cultural Background and Disclosure Attributes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-027, October 2016.
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
challenging areas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55885 Learning or Playing? The Effect of Gamified Training on Performance By: Buell, Ryan W., Wei Cai, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
support is the "meta-product" under which all aspects of commerce are subsumed. Deep support means "getting my life back." In order to provide this, deep support View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace