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  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

success, are closely aligned with idealized masculine interests, attributes, and life situations is a hard sell, especially to those who have become successful within this system—whether men or women, rich or poor, white or minority. People, understandably, are View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 30 Apr 2020
  • Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy
  • 18 Nov 2022
  • HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

preserve that collaborative culture, the founder long resisted being acquired by a larger firm. Asset management companies typically are either publicly traded or are limited partnerships, in which top performers work their way up to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 16 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

In a cluttered online world, few can resist the convenience of an automated ranking when deciding what movie to watch on Netflix or which seafood restaurant looks promising in a Google search. But when it comes to finding a job candidate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 14 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

in business communications. "You'll burn out, your team will resent you, your reputation will suffer, and the work probably won't all get done anyway." Conversely, if you offer resistance to new duties when the company is down,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 25 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

begin a study with such distinctly practical footing, the researchers devised a set of experiments to measure executives' and admissions officers' resistance to this phenomenon. The first study asked professional university admissions... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment
  • 06 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

salesperson handles those issues slightly differently. It’s hard to train for that because everyone has a different style and way of talking to customers.” Tackling reticence and resistance at a call center For the study, Stanton and his... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Oct 2020
  • Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

resist the urge to check work email or make phone calls and instead unplug completely, Whillans says. “This is probably our most egregious misuse of our time and the simplest way to increase our happiness,” Whillans says. “When we’re... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Dec 2013
  • HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

its emphasis on individual heroes, cycling is very much a team sport, one where the team supports the leader and works for his success. Riders help shield their leader from other cyclists in tight packs, draft in front of him to reduce wind View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports
  • 08 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

channel may force firms to reduce horizontal inequality, firms do not face resistance to increasing vertical inequality.” Transparency policies, such as disclosure of CEO pay, “may be less effective at curbing inequality than previously... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 23 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

question is, how much behavior change do you embed in the product? People resist change. They like the way they do things now, for the most part. They might wish a familiar product was cheaper or faster, but they've gotten used to the way... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson
  • 26 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

collaborate with the CFO to "integrate" strategy into operational planning and budgeting. We have yet to see a CFO resist the effort to make the planning process more strategic and useful for the organization. Q: You write that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

expects 80 percent of the company’s employees to work either in-office or in a hybrid model after the pandemic—and he cited the reduced quality of informal interactions in the workplace as being the reason he’s resistant to allowing... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 13 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

mean that implementing activities that protect the brand or attempting to update or modify the brand often meets with resistance internally. In some cases, highly decentralized organizations such as Médecins Sans Frontièrs [also known as... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 28 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How to Avoid a Price Increase

standard size, as in the case of eggs and butter. If dairy firms were to sell butter in slightly less than one-pound packages, consumers would notice. In these cases, one could expect more resistance and backlash. With that said, however,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 02 Apr 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

participants face in their new jobs." Like executives, faculty eventually need to resist career pressures that compel them to become too narrow because many, if not most, business problems are multi-dimensional. "When you come... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

managers and executives who purposefully address the behavioral issues in demand planning. They see the problem in demand planning in terms of the behavioral dynamics involved rather than, say, as an optimization problem with objective to minimize forecasting accuracy.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 01 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

stability's sake. "They remain fragmented due to Italian tradition," he says. "Most of these families have been producing cheese for centuries and take pride in what they do, resisting becoming part of larger... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

worked in an organization that crossed far over the line where a pride in being the most prestigious firm in their industry became arrogance The result of this was stagnation and a rigid resistance to change, and the cost of this... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

lining is that many business leaders who have long been resistant to the idea of remote work may open their eyes for the first time to its benefits, including happier workers, less need for office space, and, for some, a possible bump in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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