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- 03 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed With Your New Boss
things fast when you know that the business has serious structural problems. So it is wise to get bad news on the table early and to lower unrealistic expectations. Be careful to assess your new organization's capacity for change before...
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by Michael Watkins
- 30 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most
commutes: “Firms need to care about this,” he says, “not just employees.” About the Author Lane Lambert is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: Unsplash/Alexander Popov] Will you resume your daily commute after the COVID-19...
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by Lane Lambert
- 26 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates
advocates who feel responsible for and try to personally overcome the credibility deficit they have with historically marginalized communities. For the best chance at DEI success, Jackson advises that companies start emphasizing the value...
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by Kristen Senz
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
employee departures. Company officials kept a careful count of departing workers and doled out bonuses to managers based on the number of workers in their groups that left. Managers and workers alike exhibit stress Many managers,...
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by Michael Blanding
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
mountain, Everest has never been a cakewalk: 148 people have lost their lives attempting to reach the summit since 1922. Newspaper and magazine articles and books—most famously, Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the...
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by Michael A. Roberto
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
cares about their well-being. Many realize that this needs to change. Practicing active, habitual kindness can transform the remote workplace and it can start today. A little reassurance, compassionate listening, a conscious effort to...
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by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory
domain of the government in its rule-setting function. Those who care about resolving these issues will not succeed if they look to firms to resolve these issues voluntarily. Firms that try to do so either will be eliminated by...
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by Michael C. Jensen
- 22 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted
exposing themselves to the risk that a single person getting run over by a bus may blow up the whole company.” For hiring managers, there’s clear reason to recruit and retain open source experts. “Companies are recognizing that there's...
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- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
When your boss asks you to meet with clients for last-minute drinks, are you tempted to clear your calendar, even if it means missing your child’s piano recital? If so, you’re among the many professionals who tend to prioritize professional relationships over View Details
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by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
“I was so struck by that. He clearly felt he was going to become untethered from the person he’d been for many years, in a fundamental way,” says Amabile, a Baker Foundation professor at HBS, who is semi-retired herself. In preliminary...
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- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
a folding chair across the court to protest a referee's call. Mike Krzyzewski, also known as Coach K, leads the men's basketball program at Duke University. Instead of fear, Krzyzewski relies heavily on positive reinforcement, open and warm communication, and View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
morality and decrease people's ability to justify dishonesty. The second principle, Visibility, aims to restrict anonymity, prompt peer monitoring, and elicit responsible norms. The third principle, Self-Engagement, increases motivation to maintain a positive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make
What if businesses could learn from their worst mistakes without actually making them? How might the same progress and innovation occur, without firms incurring the costs associated with such errors? The results of a recent study about close calls in health View Details
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?
for misleading consumers on how they planned to use their personal information. On Friday Twitter executives who served on a governance board the FTC had ordered into existence left the company, prompting Senate Democrats to urge the FTC...
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- 30 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date
there’s a third, darker reason. Potential questioners, such as a manager, may not ask because they don’t care about the answers—they may feel apathy or disinterest in what the other person has to say. “This...
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by Rachel Layne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
employed mother spend more time caring for family members than men whose mothers stayed home fulltime, and daughters raised by an employed mother spend less time on housework than women whose mothers stayed home fulltime. The pattern of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Publications 2006 pub Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond By: Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which governments owned and ran...
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Anna Secino
- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
employers’ past transgressions. Generational factors and burnout Leaders must realize that their workers are their greatest assets in their quest to achieve institutional goals. Instead of paying lip service to caring for employees or...
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by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
personal rapid transport, or PRT for short, has been percolating since the mid-1950s and is finally gaining ground, according to HBS professor Benjamin G. Edelman. Business and communities small and large are increasingly aware of PRT as...
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