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  • 26 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change

concretely show what this buys humans over AI.” With many companies looking to AI to streamline processes and increase productivity, the research shines a light on the limitations of the technology, says De Freitas, who is also director... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

slow to change, and fraught with obstacles to learning. We describe “strategy-as-learning” to contrast with the traditional concept of “strategy-as-planning.” Practicing the work of organizational strategy as a learning process implies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

looking for talent in a tight job market. “A company has to understand that rigidity around job descriptions and work processes artificially constrains the pool of talent that they can access for a position.” The data were culled from... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 27 Sep 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Conformance and Experiential Quality on Healthcare Cost and Clinical Performance

Keywords: by Claire Senot, Aravind Chandrasekaran, Peter T. Ward & Anita L. Tucker; Health
  • 06 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Truth About Authentic Leaders

with others. They don’t hide behind their flaws; instead, they seek to understand them. This lifelong developmental process is similar to what musicians and athletes go through in improving their capabilities. How leaders develop their... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • Program

Advancing Women of Color in Leadership

inclusion, this program emphasizes practical steps to advance women of color and enhance their leadership ability and fulfill their ambitions—while helping others do the same and leveraging the contributions made by different generational... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

practices that act exactly as a new technology would, like advanced machinery might help companies increase output. Universal management practices can help increase a company’s productivity, just as technology can do. Credit: Kadmy “The point for practitioners is that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 09 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

followed in each organization to gain influence. Success At Saxon The paper highlights the rise of a feisty, ambitious chief risk director at Saxon, analyzing the steps she took to gain influence after she joined the bank in 2003.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship

By: Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn
Co-locating knowledge workers from different disciplines may be a necessary but insufficient step to generating multidisciplinary knowledge. We explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Business Processes; Groups and Teams
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  • 25 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams

mostly female workers tend to have less rapport—which can hamper productivity. Tamayo notes that prior research has emphasized the importance of soft skills, such as communication, for both workers and managers, yet this paper goes a step... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Food & Beverage
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It

By: Malcolm S. Salter
What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer is not entirely clear, I argue in this essay that any effort aimed at restoring... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Economic Systems; Trust; United States
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  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

learn the unvarnished truth from relevant stakeholders about how the design and behavior of the organization is misaligned with its goals and strategy. The Strategic Fitness Process (SFP) was designed to enable leaders to overcome... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Making Strategic Trade-offs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

customers. In every major value-adding step in the process of creating and selling home furnishing, IKEA has made different choices from the “traditional” home furnishings retailer. IKEA vs. Traditional... View Details
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

familiarity could aid in the process of team learning. In an experimental study, we find that familiar teams learn at a faster rate than unfamiliar teams. Additionally, we find that team familiarity leads to the development of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

limbic system of your brain. And then you deliver that information into your prefrontal cortex and you decide how to act on it. And once you understand how that process works, which is what we're writing about in this book. Look, this... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 29 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

workers temporal flexibility, ‘work from anywhere’ goes a step further and provides both temporal and geographic flexibility,” says Choudhury, who co-authored the paper, (Live and) Work from Anywhere: Geographic Flexibility and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 07 Jul 2022
  • HBS Case

How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

Hills was running out of money and may not make it through the lean winter months, Smith and Cuscuna were surprised. Sales had been brisk. “They built a giant factory costing almost $7 million that required sales that were beyond their reach,” says Eisenmann. “And in... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 21 Nov 2023
  • Op-Ed

The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?

In my recently published book Deeply Responsible Business, I write about business leaders since the 19th century who have acted responsibly, often by putting the welfare of their communities above the idea of maximizing profits. I make a sharp distinction between... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • Web

Help - Alumni

number to your Duo account. What is Duo? Duo is the name of service that HBS has employed to provide two-step verification for online authentication. What is Two-Step Verification? Two-step verification (sometimes called two-factor authentication) is a View Details
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

evolved in those markets. New business processes had to be created from scratch as a network originally intended for research and military defense had to deal with network interconnectivity, the needs of commercial users, and a host of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne