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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
individuals who can and want to embrace the disruption, who understand how to thrive in ambiguity and respond quickly to its unforeseen challenges. These aspects, the leader realized, depend more heavily on an individual’s temperament and... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
statements during the campaign have also raised a sense of uncertainty and ambiguity on several fronts. One of them that I think could result in a significant drawback is trade. Since the companies in the Dow are global, they could be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
for alleged patent violations, and it seems they do so regardless of whether patents were infringed on or not. NPEs are well aware that with intellectual property, the idea space is nebulous—which can lead to ambiguity that needs to be... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
the moral and military ambiguity of profits and power as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a mosaic of imperial theories and practices contributing to the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
venture funds. Minimizing Organizational Disruption The spinout process was clearly defined in the agreement in order to ensure that disputes did not arise later on and to minimize the disruption to the organization. The XTV officials insisted on a formal procedure to... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
strength of this greedy signal is normally unobserved, the answer is theoretically unclear, and corresponding empirical evidence is mixed. I overcome this ambiguity by examining individuals for whom the greedy signal strength is likely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
needed to identify the sometimes small number of patients who could benefit from expensive targeted drugs. This case focuses on the array of possibilities and the ambiguity surrounding these regulatory and reimbursement issues. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
say, ‘I’m not allowed to bribe.’ Others prefer ambiguous instructions so they can do what they have to do to get the business and keep up with the competition.” But managing in such a culture where signals are mixed can be a tricky... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
principles: putting patient care decisions, tasks, and workflows first; separating complicated, ambiguous diseases and conditions from those that are understood; ensuring that infrastructure and practices such as the mix of staff,... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
other contributors to NASA's failed Columbia mission in 2003. Addresses the question of how organizations should deal with "ambiguous threats"-weak signals of potential crisis-and explores why ambiguous threats are so... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
collective, the nature and importance of relationships, how personal space and the role of time are viewed, the extent to which authority and hierarchy are accepted, how ambiguity and risk are regarded, and so on. Extending this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
different people. The power of measurement was to take the ambiguity out of words so that everyone had a clear, coherent picture of exactly what the strategy is. Partnering With Employees Several forces highlight the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
what you do, but how you do it. Take Cues From Negotiation Strategy With negative or ambiguous information, "the interests at stake are not necessarily an attempt to persuade or influence," says Danny Ertel, also a partner at... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
organization. If you have fallen into any of these traps yourself, you may be sabotaging your own career. If there are high-need-for-achievement types in your organization, are there ways to help them get out of these traps? A key factor to keep in mind is that View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
We examine how the company's founders, facing the high ambiguity inherent in very early phases of a new industry, developed an idea for a new venture. Our qualitative data reveal the company's founding as a social, integrative process... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
sanction of the law. To make this argument, we review the history of two earlier breakthrough technologies—the birth control pill and in-vitro fertilization (IVF)—both of which were developed in the United States without federal funds and in an environment of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
development has never been more urgent. Companies of all sorts realize that to survive in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment, they need different leadership skills and organizational capabilities from those... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
ambiguous effect on high-quality output. To evaluate this trade-off, I develop a procedure to estimate agents' effort costs and simulate counterfactuals under alternative feedback policies. The results suggest that feedback on net... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
There’s a lot of self-learning that goes on in the process of adjusting to a different environment. “Some students are better at reaching across cultures and being effective communicators in ambiguous situations,” continues Abrami, who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
where the rules are ambiguous (as in structured finance transactions) and the risks to reputation high (as in opaque financial reporting); Continuous monitoring of senior executives for evidence of what sociologist Philip Selznick... View Details