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- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and... View Details
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Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety
By: Alison Wood Brooks, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino, Adam D. Galinsky, Michael I. Norton and Maurice Schweitzer
From public speaking to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that people... View Details
Brooks, Alison Wood, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino, Adam D. Galinsky, Michael I. Norton, and Maurice Schweitzer. "Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 137 (November 2016): 71–85.
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
types of decisions that affect the joint payoffs of the firm and the professionals: nontransferable and transferable. Nontransferable decisions are always completely controlled by the professionals (e.g., how friendly to be to customers)... View Details
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
extra boost in development. A new tool by Harvard and MIT researchers promises to do just that, with the help of machine learning and the biggest library of urban images on the Internet: Google Street View. View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
treasure trove that could help businesses plan their alliance strategy. “If an alliance is so much better, why isn't everything done by alliance?” Firms often ask this question when considering a large project. It can be advantageous to... View Details
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
customize classes so that students received the lessons they needed without reviewing material they already knew? That is the idea behind School of One, an approach to learning piloted by New York City Department of Education, which... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
increase is largely driven by more functional specialists like CIOs or CMOs, not general managers.” “There ultimately is no such thing as effective selling that is not tied to the company’s strategic objectives” The reason for that is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
eyeglasses that can be calibrated by the user to circumvent the need for an optometrist. The second, VisionSpring, follows a different approach, working to build a network of entrepreneurs who sell eyeglasses in their communities. Rather... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
that enable them to predict new patterns for the future. ”We are in a new industrial revolution led by algorithms” We have all seen the process in action, whether it’s Amazon telling us we “may also like” to buy an Instant Pot... View Details
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
partners from other cultures. Even more important, however, was the influence of cognitive from-the-head trust. Far from being a cool, rational appraisal of a partner's ability, it was highly influenced by "trust from the heart"... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
Physicists tell us entropy is the natural state of the world, and that law seems especially true in today's multidivisional company. "When you create organizational subunits of any form, they'll have a tendency to focus internally on their own things," says... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
unfolded, without the usual biases and distortions that come from 20/20 hindsight. The story of how Levy tilled the soil for change provides lessons for any CEO in a turnaround situation. [...] Reinforcing Good Habits Without a doubt, the toughest challenge faced View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
By significantly expanding our understanding of the dynamics of competition, Michael E. Porter's Harvard Business Review article "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy" launched a business... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: Shutterstock/Min C. Chiu] What do you think it takes to succeed as a remote team? Share your insights in the comments below. Book Excerpt Remote Work Revolution:... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
In the current squabble over how many skilled immigrants to let into the United States on H1-B visas, academics have fiercely debated whether they create jobs by bringing new skills to companies or whether they take jobs away View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
competitive challenges facing software companies. Their market success depends largely on persuading the above-mentioned developers to write for their platforms. A new research paper suggests that the two sides can serve their own best interests View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
responsibility programs are basically funded by an internal tax within the company,” says Robert Kaplan, Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. “The good that such... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit. "It's striking how much work has gone into examining this question—including by many truly... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
through narratives and storytelling, or by seeking out members of a common group. One company that has succeeded in this regard, says Wu, is Cotopaxi, a Salt Lake City–based creator of outdoor apparel that Wu explored in a case study for... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
change. Employee surveys, 360-degree feedback, interviews by external consultants, and even relatively honest one-to-one conversations between a key manager and the CEO (remember the courageous discussion Sherron View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat