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  • December 13, 2017
  • Article

What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

By: Julia Austin
As an aspiring product manager (PM), there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. The best PMs have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for... View Details
Keywords: Management; Product Development; Personal Development and Career
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  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

on these teams. As non-native English speakers attempted to counter the apprehension they felt when having to speak English, and native English speakers fought against feeling excluded and devalued, a cycle of negative emotion ensued and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2003
  • Background Note

Identity Issues in Teams

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Hillary Anger Elfenbein
This note explains how identity dynamics underlie many of the observable interpersonal problems that team members encounter, ranging from lack of participation and low involvement to misunderstandings and dysfunctional emotional conflict. It provides a framework for... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Managerial Roles; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Emotions; Identity
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  • April 2024
  • Article

An Integrative Model of Hybrid Governance: The Role of Boards in Helping Sustain Organizational Hybridity

By: Anne-Claire Pache, Julie Battilana and Channing Spencer
Hybrid organizations must sustainably attend to multiple goals embedded in different institutional spheres. Past research has highlighted the value for hybrids in recruiting board members representing different logics to avoid attentional drifts; yet, diverse boards... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Business or Company Management; Organizational Structure
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  • 2011
  • Book

True North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development

By: Bill George and Doug Baker
All too often, we find ourselves forced to confront life's challenges on our own. What we need is an intimate group with whom we can examine our beliefs and share our lives. For the past thirty-five years, Bill George and Doug Baker have found the answer in True North... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Opportunities; Personal Characteristics
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  • October 2005
  • Case

Kinko's

Over the decades, Kinko's had forged a deep emotional bond with consumers by easing their anxiety and helping them solve pressing document processing problems. By 2003, however, consumer research revealed that a confusing retail experience had eroded some of this good... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Customer Satisfaction; Service Industry
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  • 11 Oct 2016
  • News

Joke your way to success

  • 05 Jul 2016
  • News

How to Turn Anxiety Into Excitement

  • 2012
  • Article

Evidence for the Pinocchio Effect: Linguistic Differences Between Lies, Deception by Omissions, and Truths

By: Lyn M. Van Swol, Michael T. Braun and Deepak Malhotra
The study used Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count and Coh-Metrix software to examine linguistic differences with deception in an ultimatum game. In the game, the Allocator was given an amount of money to divide with the Receiver. The Receiver did not know the precise... View Details
Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Cognition and Thinking
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    G.I. Joe Phenomena: Understanding the Limits of Metacognitive Awareness on Debiasing

    By: Ariella S. Kristal and Laurie R. Santos
    Knowing about one’s biases does not always allow one to overcome those biases— a phenomenon referred to as the G. I. Joe fallacy. We explore why knowing about a bias doesn’t necessarily change biased behavior. We argue that seemingly disparate G. I. Joe... View Details
    Keywords: Biases; Judgment; Decision-making; Nudge; Debiasing; Illusions; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making; Behavior; Change
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    • January 2014
    • Technical Note

    Learning From Extreme Consumers

    By: Jill Avery and Michael Norton
    Traditional market research methods focus on understanding the average experiences of average consumers. This focus leads to gaps in our knowledge of consumer behavior and often fails to uncover insights that can drive revolutionary, rather than evolutionary... View Details
    Keywords: Market Research; Ethnography; Design Thinking; Innovation; New Product Development; Research; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Innovation and Invention
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    • 07 Sep 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West

    prayer, introspective discussions, therapy, and the use of reflective techniques and exercises. Q: You have said that few leaders lose their jobs because of lack of intelligence, but many do so because of lack of emotional intelligence.... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 31 Dec 2014
    • News

    People We Lost in 2014

    • November 2018 (Revised April 2019)
    • Case

    Nike: Changing the Sneakers Game

    By: Anita Elberse, Bryce Aiken and Howard Johnson
    “Our goal is to be the kind of start-up that would terrify Nike—if Nike didn’t already own us.” Ron Faris, general manager of S23NYC, a Manhattan-based digital studio owned by sports apparel giant Nike, is on the phone with Adam Sussman, Nike’s chief digital officer.... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Technology; Apparel; Fashion; Superstar; Innovation; General Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Management; Sports; Entertainment; Digital Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • 10 Jun 2020
    • News

    Experts on How to Stay Emotionally Connected While Socially Distant

    • 04 Jun 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

    Regina Herzlinger is not afraid to call them as she sees them. And what she sees looking at the American health care industry is a bunch of killers. Not only are hospitals, insurers, employers, Congress, and academics killing health care, they are also killing real... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
    • August 2020 (Revised December 2020)
    • Background Note

    A Note on Ethical Analysis

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh
    To engage in ethical analysis is to answer such questions as “What is the right thing to do?” “What does it mean to be a good person?” “How should I live my life?” Ethical analysis, on its own, is often not adequate for doing the right thing or being a good... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Framework; Decision Making; Prejudice and Bias
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    • February 20, 2014
    • Article

    How to Thrive While Leading a Family Business

    By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
    This article explores the differences between family business executives who thrive and those who struggle. It discusses how family business environments are inherently complex due to the intertwinement of work and life. Thriving leaders exhibit four key behaviors:... View Details
    Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Work-Life Balance; Family Ownership; Outcome or Result; Leadership Style
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    • 30 Sep 2015
    • News

    Four Ways To Get Your Global Team To Gel