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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne conducted an email interview with Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria about their new book, Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices.Silverthorne: How did the concept of the four-drive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
inspired-makes all the more impressive what the design firm IDEO has already achieved. Its help-seeking and help-giving culture is behind the firm's success. But how has IDEO managed to make helping the norm? To answer this question, the authors spent two years... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
Q: How did you come to see charismatic leadership as a potential double-edged sword? What observations led to your decision to investigate this topic in depth? A: As we conducted our interviews with employees, there was a recurring theme:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
pandemic has motivated and facilitated lift outs in two key ways: Market volatility has motivated searches. Market agitation at any level, from firm to industry to global, can motivate people to browse job ads and take or make that first... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
features designed to enhance safety and effectiveness had the unintended effect of changing how men enacted their masculine identities at work. Interview and participant observation data show that the major reorientation was away from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
course, VCs I interviewed didn't use the word "career imprint"; still, what they did point to were important differences in the kinds of capabilities, connections, confidence, and cognition that people developed at these... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
When Congress passed President Obama's JOBS Act in March 2012, one of the most intriguing provisions would enable crowdfunding—the ability for large groups of anonymous investors to fund startups. More than a year after the law was... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
actions and motives are constantly under scrutiny. Time to manage your own professional image before others do it for you. An interview with Laura Morgan Roberts. Music Downloads: Pirates-or Customers? Published: June 21, 2004 Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
leadership has the courage to initiate the measures necessary to do so. We've discovered that standard initiatives such as employee surveys, interviews by external consultants, and even relatively straightforward, one-on-one conversations... View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
organizations. Ndidi Nwuneli is working to spur a systemic response through interviews and op-eds in Business Day Nigeria and Business Africa Online, and is writing a book called African Entrepreneurs Nourishing the World. Sahel... View Details
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
closely related to marketing management. Based on interviews with one hundred large Moscow firms in the late 1990s, the new kinds of organizational forms (privatized or private) had more entrepreneurial and less bureaucratic corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
also show how these same principles and tactics can be applied in everyday life, whether you are making corporate deals, negotiating job offers, resolving business disputes, tackling obstacles in personal relationships, or even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
to be published by Princeton University Press. In this recent interview conducted by e-mail, Lodge is hopeful that the World Development Corporation will be formed. He explains why nonprofits aren't the answer to ending poverty and asks... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
faculty colloquium in May intended to frame the issues for potential curriculum changes at HBS. (To ensure open discussion, comments made during the two colloquia were not for attribution.) For their research project, Datar and Garvin View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Publications April 2015 HarperBusiness Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs By: Yoffie, David B., and Michael A. Cusumano Abstract—The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
research had not, it's not our idea, it is Emerson's original idea. Q: I thought that the methodology that you used was interesting. We wondered why you chose a job interview negotiation to test the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
consequences of homer making seem cut and dried. But not so fast, says Harvard Business School assistant professor Michel Anteby. In interviews with retirees of the French Pierreville aeronautics plant, Anteby found, perhaps not... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
success and (b) develop a set of instruments to assess RE risk factors and to design, evaluate, and apply effective measures to mitigate those risks. The data collection consists of interviews with RE experts and other experienced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
performance and succession, corporate strategy, and executive compensation. In a recent interview at Harvard Business School, governance expert Jay Lorsch, the School's Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, offered his insights.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
role is appropriate for the board? And how can the directors understand enough about the company to meet their responsibilities effectively? In this excerpt Lorsch looks at how directors are rethinking their roles. (For more about the book, see our View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch