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Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

22 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Hedge Fund as Activist

removal of a poison pill (a device that makes it difficult for a firm to be acquired), ask for a share repurchase or dividend increase, or, in extreme cases, ask for the removal of the CEO. While a few... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services

Research Summary

Overview

The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details

22 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

geographic office location," Stuart says. Although the research doesn't try to answer why corporate silos are so difficult to tear down, Stuart hopes the data will help managers understand, pinpoint, and remove bottlenecks within their... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

Bastianelli, vice president of corporate development at ProSkelia Pharmaceuticals in France. Once companies are created, there is little incentive to improve, he said, and labor laws make it difficult to remove unproductive employees.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

to go back and get some video and so forth, it's harder . We are beginning to move toward more exercises in simulation here at HBS, but it's slow going because it's expensive to use the technology and it's hard to be sure it's going to be up to date. At the Business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

removing client-sensitive information, we develop 'knowledge objects' by pulling key pieces of knowledge such as interview guides, work schedules, benchmark data, and market segmentation analyses out of documents and storing them in the... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria & Thomas Tierney; Consulting

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

customers. It is the job of these leaders to facilitate the work of the people they lead by making their jobs easier, and removing bureaucratic impediments and other obstacles. Middle managers who cannot make this shift may have to move... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

03 Apr 2009
What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

revolution. The facts are undeniable. Watch an old movie in which people remove the telephone receiver from the wall, type (either manually or electronically), and even begin to email (as in "You've Got Mail!"). It's always good... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News

05 Dec 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

decline"? Growth at the organizational level opens up opportunities for new customers, new hiring, acquisitions, increased profitability, and generally more liberal policies as a result of the removal of constraints associated with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 26

traditional theories of leader selection describe organizations as picking leaders with particular characteristics, LFT sees organizations as having a filtration process that evaluates a pool of candidates and iteratively removes them... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

remove obstacles and improve local capabilities, and recruiting foreign companies to deepen local capabilities. “There need to be new reasons for companies to do business in the UK...” Finally, the UK needs to take pragmatic steps to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Aug 2006
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Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates

current model is artificial and static, and far removed from everyday social interaction," says Jeana H. Frost, who along with Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely is taking an academic look at online dating and how it can be improved.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Publishing

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

age. Beyond that, to keep the US economy strong, if you want to improve employment levels in this country, you have to consider removing barriers to hiring such as overly liberal interpretations of workers' compensation rules and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

04 Sep 2012
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Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

and remove them from power when situations change. Take seriously the statements made by unfiltered leaders before they take power. Choose unfiltered leaders who have been successful filtered leaders in other contexts. Shape the position... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

21 Apr 2020
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7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

changes in the field aren’t fed back to HQ, where plans can be updated and recommunicated quickly. To remove the fog, Clausewitz believed in light decision-making frameworks that allow adaptability. Napoleon followed these principles when... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

in view of the evidence of failures in U.S. corporate governance. U.S. legislators and others have become more prone to unpredictable and sometimes unilateralist measures. The sudden removal of foreign-owned companies from the S&P 500... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace

24 Feb 2014
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Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

500,000 listings and counting. (By way of comparison, hotel industry giant Marriott offers around 530,000 rooms worldwide.) Airbnb, which has been valued at roughly $2.5 billion, recently closed a $200 million round of financing, according to a February 6 SEC filing.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising

31 Jul 2006
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When Not to Trust Your Gut

contrast, the typical negotiator adopts an outsider lens when removed or detached from a particular situation; the outsider uses rational, System 2 thinking. The insider focuses only on the current situation, while the outsider is better... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

critical role in university admissions across the world. A key question is whether imposing penalties for wrong answers on these exams deters guessing from women more than men, disadvantaging female test takers. We consider data from a large-scale, high-stakes policy... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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