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- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation
Source: Paradox Strategies, LLC Source: Paradox Strategies, LLC Through her interactions with prominent figures in business and society, Professor Linda Hill explores what is required from leaders to deliver... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
items and are affected by them. For their 1996 study, "The Paradoxes of Technology," HBS assistant professor Susan M. Fournier and David Glen Mick, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, interviewed 29 households about their... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- Mar 2012
- Article
A Jobs Compact for America's Future
over investment in workers; federal policy makers fail to address high, persistent unemployment and underemployment; most people’s wages have stagnated for three decades, despite gains in productivity; and unions have become convenient scapegoats even as their... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 30 Sep 2014
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Building a Global Brand: Why You Aren't Buying Venezuelan Chocolate
Building a Global Brand: Why you arent buying Venezuelan chocolate
The next wave of global challengers will be firms from emergent market countries like Brazil, China, and India. Who are these companies and what are the barriers they are trying to overcome? View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
The Excerpt The past or the future. Personal gain or the greater good. Consistency or change. In their new book, Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems, co-authors Wendy Smith (PhDOB 2006) and Marianne Lewis point out that View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Clusters and Competition
fascinating paradox that we've seen all over the world,” he observed. “In the age of globalization — with open markets, high-speed communication, and rapid transportation — location still matters.” For more on the role of clusters in... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
Noam Wasserman is an assistant professor and MBA Class of 1961 Fellow in the entrepreneurial management unit at Harvard Business School. His paper "Founder-CEO Succession and the Paradox of Entrepreneurial Success," published in... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
both requires and depletes self-control resources (Study 4). Taken together, our findings help to explain how otherwise ethical individuals predictably engage in unethical behavior. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Maliha Khan
quality education regardless of my gender, I see in myself the same pioneering spirit that she possessed in abundance. Pakistan is a seeming paradox of a country – it has had a powerful female head of state, yet was recently also declared... View Details
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
Working PapersThe Judgment-Decision Paradox in Experience-Based Decisions and the Contingent Recency Effect Authors:Greg Barron, Ido Erev, and Eldad Yechiam. Abstract The current paper explores a judgment-decision View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - HBS Online
Bussgang, and Nien-hê Hsieh. Tune in for their insights on negotiation, branding, entrepreneurship, and ethics. Linda Hill on Leading Change and the Paradoxes of Management 22 JAN 2024 | The Parlor Room Great leadership requires being... View Details
- 31 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water
Business School professors Anat Keinan, Mukti Khaire, and Michael I. Norton deconstruct ground grasshoppers, upscale Peruvian cuisine, and other surprising elements that create the perfect culinary experience. The Paradoxical Quest to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Surviving Success
paradox in succession is that a founder who has been doing a good job actually increases the chance he or she will be fired,” observes Wasserman. “Lew fit that profile perfectly.” After developing Wily’s technology, landing some important... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
market capitalization. The book examines how misguided investment and acquisition strategies have created the paradox that, in media, the faster revenues grow, the worse their stocks perform. The Elements of Investing by Burton G. Malkiel... View Details
- 04 Oct 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go
Wasserman identified Wily Technology founder Lew Cirne as the ideal case subject. "An inherent paradox in succession is that a founder who has been doing a good job actually increases the chance he or she will be fired,"... View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
that category and got the executive summary with no condemnation.” Momchil: “A seamless experience that enables you to avoid the paradox of choice and make a confident purchasing decision.” View Details
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
loss—which is how companies often gauge success. As such, they tend to view themselves as overhead, and they paradoxically try to justify their existence by falling into adversarial policing roles in an attempt to cut costs for the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
of a wider pattern for countries with shared geographical positions, cultural orientations, and historical patterns of development. It is a paradox that in a global world so much research on business history remains trapped within... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice
a doctoral student at HBS; Solène Delecourt and David Holtz, assistant professors at the University of California, Berkeley; and Berkeley doctoral student Nicholas G. Otis. While Koning describes the paradoxical outcomes as a “real... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
of quality creative play laid out by its founders. Putting parameters on how people innovate had the paradoxical effect of making them better at it. Knudstorp also did away with many of the unique brick components added during Plougmann's... View Details