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December 2014
Article

Team Reflexivity as an Antidote to Team Information Processing Failures

By: M. C. Schippers, A. C. Edmondson and M. A. West

This article proposes that team reflexivity—a deliberate process of discussing team goals, processes, or outcomes—can function as an antidote to team-level biases and errors in decision making. We build on prior work conceptualizing teams as information-processing... View Details

Keywords: Team Reflexivity; Team Information-processesing Failures; Team Regulatory Processes; Team Learning; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Management

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23 Oct 2019
News

Training Principals to Build Great Schools

frequently don’t have peers to bounce ideas off of.” Thompson adds, “Participants have found colleagues who intimately understand their work and whose opinions they value.” To... View Details

Keywords: University Collaborations

22 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Moving to the Lower 48 from Alaska for my MS/MBA

preserves, freeze fresh-caught fish, and boil down rhubarb. I’ll be spending the last week before my Elective Curriculum (EC) year at HBS visiting my parents and getting back to that lifestyle. We’re... View Details

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

elite business opportunities, what important factors influenced access, and what obstacles still remain. Q: What are you working on now? A: The HBS Leadership Initiative's Great American Business Leaders Database was the foundation for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

is no chance of meeting it,” says Doug J. Chung, MBA Class of 1962 Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School. "The salesperson will be discouraged, and just as unlikely to View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Apr 2016
News

Are You Too Stressed to Be Productive? Or Not Stressed Enough?

01 Dec 1998
News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

Washington Monument, Robert spontaneously jumped on my back with a happy shout, and it dawned on me that what he needed didn't have anything to do with going places. He needed love, honesty, and someone... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

26 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

negotiation, I'm not sure how I can know whether I'm more powerful than you or you're more powerful than I am or we're equally powerful. One of the things that we've done to further the research is that the past research . . . never found... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

that he really doesn't believe we can follow them. Organizations have sought work arounds to deal with our inability to predict. For example, scenario planning was developed in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

preferable to manic-depressive swings in attitudes about the outlook, if only for purely pragmatic reasons. Q: What research projects will you be working on next? A: I have about a dozen papers and cases... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Feb 2016
News

Why being too nice to new staff can store up problems

24 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

the idea of completing a set, even if it means working harder or spending more money—with no additional reward other than the satisfaction of completion and the relief of avoiding an incomplete set. Imagine arriving at your boss’s summer... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Jul 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Beyond Symbolic Responses to Private Politics: Examining Labor Standards Improvement in Global Supply Chains

Keywords: by Andrea R. Hugill, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel; Manufacturing

2018
Chapter

Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States?

By: William C. Kirby

Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked.... View Details

Keywords: Asia; China; Emerging Country; Students; Education; Higher Education; Globalization; International Relations; History; Society; Education Industry; Asia; China; United States

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06 Feb 2025
News

How to Judge Your Next Job

now. There's just a lot of friction in that job market. Ethan Bernstein: Meanwhile, the way in which organizations and managers have been taught to retain and develop their people is really still rooted in some respects, View Details

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

often approach innovation and disruption much differently. Having worked hard to align strategy and organization to support the current business, they develop tunnel vision,... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

01 Sep 2008
News

Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead

the rarified New York Times from layoffs. Too often, restructuring begets thinner issues larded with generic newswire copy — hardly the recipe to bring back readership and ads. Fine, if all that won’t save... View Details

Keywords: Roben Farzad; journalism; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 Apr 2021
Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

satisfaction that she derives from work. The idea is simple. If compensation were set exactly at WTS, she would be indifferent between work and her next best opportunity—perhaps another job, perhaps leisure. If the firm pays more than... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development

what the employee can do to grow their skills and what extra opportunities they can take on,” said Fitzpatrick. Then, as extra projects will often be within different teams, communication between managers is also critical. Having everyone... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees' Career Development