Mirroring - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2022
News

Blissful Thinking

Solution: Move your phone to the basement, and avoid those (often regrettable) midnight emails. What do you do in this new dead time before bed? Read fiction from real books. Research shows fiction opens up the mirror neurons in our brain... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

through until you acknowledge your own culpability. If you fire me from my job, I have to look myself in the mirror and ask, "What role did I have in getting fired?" In a CNN interview that I showed in class, Mark puts all the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

25 Aug 2010
News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

their mirror position on the other side of the room. This included dress, hairstyle, mannerisms, voice, and style of comment typical of the person in question, and, of course, we traded namecards. Our professor rolled with it quite well,... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

28 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

entry is an important trait of well-functioning capital markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-033.pdf Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Dec 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

controlled, hierarchical organization, which would mirror the buildings' design structure, the Manchester City Council created a "commons organization," and chose to share decision-rights with local claimants. Each school's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

develop strategies for managing their own emotions, as well as those of the people on the receiving end, in order to facilitate successful task performance. Watching others, role-playing with a colleague, doing a dry-run in front of a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

information systems tend to mirror the traditional, functionally oriented organizations that they are supposed to help transform. While purchasing the right technology is part of the answer, Coote declared, "There has to be something... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

class, venture capital has produced high cyclical returns that mirror trends in capital markets and in markets for new technology. There is a large disparity in median and upper quantize performance. A small number of funds do well on a... View Details

07 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 7

extreme are commercial software firms, in which the organizational participants are tightly coupled, with respect to their goals, structure, and behavior. At the other, are open source software communities, in which the participants are much more loosely coupled by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

among the three primary actors in the marketing system: consumers, marketers, and government. It raises several questions about optimal marketing systems. Holding a Mirror up to Marketing Authors: John A. Quelch and Katherine Jocz... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

mirror and you say, "Gosh. You're the best looking person on earth." DM: [laughs] JI: "There's nobody that was ever born that is better, better than you. Better looking, better acting." And you just have this ability to kind of keep... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

heading a services company that provides end-to-end technology solutions to over 150 Fortune 500 clients. With 28,000 employees located in 54 countries, Satyam, founded in 1987, had revenues of $1 million when it went public in 1992. In 2005, that figure topped $1... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

correspondence is called "mirroring.") In this essay, I explain the concept of modularity and describe how systems can be modularized. I then explain why mirroring is likely to be a commonly observed organizational pattern and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2004
News

New Horizons for Iraq

been the UN’s under-secretary-general for internal oversight services. He is responsible for all manner of oversight of UN programs, including audit and investigative functions, to ensure that UN efforts internally mirror its global... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

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semester, offer opportunities to practice and apply course frameworks. The midterm and write-ups comprise 20% of the grade. A written final exam will be scheduled during the exam period following the last day of class. It will mirror the... View Details

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