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- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
behavior bubbles below the radar An employee may not come forward right away to expose wrongdoing at a corporation for many reasons. In the absence of directly observing egregious behavior by a particular individual, an employee may not... View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
are still out there swinging are getting a lot done and creating a lot of value." Crypto can have that same dynamic. On top of that, it’s more uncertain which technologies are going to be long-run successful. And then, on View Details
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
savings to drive growth. What actually results, however, is something of a surprise, according to a new study. Corporate tax cuts end up widening the income gap between those at the top of the pay scale and those at the bottom, and they... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
Francesca Gino: We can divide leaders out there into three buckets. The first bucket is executives who say, I want to bring more diversity into the organization and think about equity and inclusion, but this is not at the top of my... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
New Video: Books@Baker Interview with Felix Oberholzer-Gee Click to watch. Some companies gain advantage by commanding premium prices. Others lean on their world-class talent. But, a small slice of companies manages to do both—and dramatically outperform peers. What... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
if people do well, it is only right that they should help to pay for the setup that made their success possible. More to FDR's point, people who do better should pay for more of that setup. FDR's reasoning is far from obsolete; our... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
Editor's note: This is part of a series of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this article, Davis discusses when to make changes at the top. No one needs convincing that the View Details
- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
hundred,” Nagle says. Not everyone leaped on the knowledge right away, however. Since the academic community hadn’t anticipated this development, some researchers were quicker to use it than others. In order to figure out who those... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture
excerpt, the authors outline the top 10 lessons of the best practitioners, from ING Direct to Build-A-Bear Workshop to Harrah's Entertainment.We can learn a great deal from organizations whose strong and adaptive ownership cultures give... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
each individual. It is uneven and unstable; it's never frozen at a moment in time. It is both rational and emotional. In the interviews they have conducted so far with successful people—those deemed by their peers to be in the top of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
incentives are disproportionately tied to stock price. Surprise Seven: You Are Still Only Human Warning signs: You give interviews about you rather than about the company. Your lifestyle is more lavish or privileged than that of other top... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
Since March, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has posted more than 80 stories and research papers on the topic of COVID-19, most targeted at managers and the new challenges they face. That's a lot of information to digest. To that end, we went tip hunting to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
interested in improving their conversation styles to create higher quality collaboration. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor at Harvard Business School and author of Rebel Talent, began researching the conversation styles of effective leaders after hearing... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
starts to look more like the past if I make automatic decisions that are all based on inferences of the past. For consumers and the world, we have this opportunity right now to avoid using data from the past. We can create systems, so the... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
Finding and nurturing future leadership talent is a primary concern for most organizations. How can they identify top people, train them, and—here's the catch—retain them? And do so in the face of ever-increasing global challenges?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
top executive. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, we are all taking in vast amounts of new information every day and adjusting to an entirely new set of behavioral habits. In addition, most of us are dealing with unprecedented tasks and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
modern-day sales management. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity: Kristen Senz: What shifts in sales should managers and executives be aware of right now? Frank Cespedes: Prospects are now online and offline throughout... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
different time from operational review meetings. In that way, each meeting has its own frequency, agenda, information system, and participation, as best meets the goals for that meeting. Q: Given the proliferation of tools, how should management choose the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
or internal to the organization. However, the path to greater latitude on the job is not short. It involves, as Pradipta Saha commented, "Selecting the right entry-level employee ." We have found, for example, that high... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett