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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
overall database. Tony Mayo, executive director of the Initiative, describes the project and what business leaders can take away from it in this interview. Sean Silverthorne: Can you describe the genesis and mission of the Leadership Initiative? Tony Mayo: Chaired...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
process." Steve Carnevale puts it more graphically: "I think blink is very dangerous. Read the book Fooled by Randomness. The author does a good job of explaining that our brain is great at pattern...
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by James Heskett
- June 2016 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
chotuKool: 'Little Cool,' Big Opportunity
By: Rory McDonald, Derek van Bever and Efosa Ojomo
In 2013, a team led by Gopalan Sunderraman, vice president of corporate development at Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.—one of the companies owned by Godrej Group, a large Indian conglomerate—was preparing to launch an innovative low-cost refrigerator. Developed expressly...
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Disruptive Innovation;
Emerging Markets;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
India
McDonald, Rory, Derek van Bever, and Efosa Ojomo. "chotuKool: 'Little Cool,' Big Opportunity." Harvard Business School Case 616-020, June 2016. (Revised November 2021.)
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
On August 31, 2016, many investors celebrated the 40th birthday of one of the world’s most successful financial instruments: the mutual index fund, created by Vanguard founder John C. Bogle. Index funds, which automatically track an index...
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- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
rules. Companies must learn to play by those rules or risk losing out. Gradual changes to the old human resources playbook are no longer sufficient. CORRECTION: The original version of this story identified...
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by Joseph Fuller
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
need to make major calls, which is good news because you have to learn a lot and to begin building supportive coalitions. Q: Of the many challenges that managers face in their first ninety days, which one do you View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
recruits by five to 10 months. McKinsey, for example, has laid off both non-client and client service staff, and for the first time in its history, has offered buyouts to hundreds of senior associates. Meanwhile, public consulting firm...
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- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
In the current squabble over how many skilled immigrants to let into the United States on H1-B visas, academics have fiercely debated whether they create jobs by bringing new skills to companies or whether they take jobs away View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
how best to motivate contest entrants, and the research team has focused on these motivating factors. One important finding: Independent innovators are more likely to enter a contest if they don't know who the other entrants are. While hosts might View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
Pons discusses what it means for US business leaders in confronting environmental challenges. 4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World In the face of today’s many messy problems, businesses must strive to help find solutions, argues George...
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- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
Centennial celebration. Through it, HBS honors the important contributions made by its graduates to the development of the VC industry, and who today are estimated to make up more than 20 percent of the world's venture capitalists. The...
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- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
"Work/Life Balance: Are We Comfortable with the Choices We Make?" moderated by HBS professor Robin Ely, discussed their work/life decisions and the repercussions of those decisions at the 12th Annual Dynamic Women in Business...
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by Wendy Guild
- 2013
- Book
Judgment in Managerial Decision Making
By: Max Bazerman and Don A. Moore
Is your judgment influenced by personal biases? In situations requiring careful judgment, we're all influenced by our own biases to some extent. But, with Judgment in Managerial Decision Making, you can learn how to overcome those biases to make better...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Judgments;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Skills;
Managerial Roles;
Performance Improvement;
Prejudice and Bias
Bazerman, Max, and Don A. Moore. Judgment in Managerial Decision Making. 8th ed. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
- 23 Jan 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sports: Lessons for Managers
capabilities that underlie value creation and enhancement in an event’s portfolio of sponsorship relationships. [Image: Lya_Cattel] What do you think of this research? Share your insights below.
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- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
Margolis said. Then put your body into your best posture, close your eyes, and visualize that you are breathing through your heart. Third, invoke a positive emotion by thinking of something you’re grateful...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 2013
- Book
Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending
By: Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton
If you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Happy Money offers a tour of new research on the science of...
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Dunn, Elizabeth, and Michael Norton. Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
important reason, but by no means the only one, he added. Others include communication problems, a lack of hierarchy for resolving issues—think of Ford and Firestone, and the finger-pointing on both sides—and the potential for data...
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
need to get out there and create data." Collectively, these five discovery skills constitute what we call the innovator's DNA, the code for creating innovative business ideas. By mastering these discovery skills, you can View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's—dominated the credit ratings industry, recently controlling 97 percent of the market. But the status quo was disrupted by the 2008 global...
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- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
some people believe," he emphasizes. The fact that such strategies often do not exist or are ineffective is frequently the result of how CSR efforts start. At many companies, these efforts may begin by executive mandate or somewhat...
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by Dina Gerdeman