by Tsedal Neeley - Publications - Faculty & Research

manage talent effectively. It illustrates how law firms can significantly increase the performance, engagement, and retention of their lawyers by giving them the tools to develop and support the development of others. It also describes... View Details

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21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

article reviews recent research conducted by the authors that finds that intellectual property rights reform increases technology transfers, foreign direct investment inflows, and industrial development. It also places the findings of... View Details

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Organizational Behavior - Doctoral

Jillian J. Jordan Rakesh Khurana Shirley Lu Joshua D. Margolis Edward McFowland III Kathleen L. McGinn Tsedal Neeley Michael I. Norton Leslie A. Perlow Jeffrey T. Polzer Ryan L. Raffaelli Lakshmi Ramarajan... View Details

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Professor of Administration and Robin Ely , Baker Foundation Professor and Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Emerita; Co-chair, Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative Video Recording Women & Tech 10:30–11:15 a.m. EST Faculty Moderator: View Details

July 2008 (Revised July 2020)
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Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A)

By: Tsedal Neeley and Thomas J. DeLong

Greg James, a global manager at Sun Microsystems, Inc., sets out to meet with his entire 43-member customer implementation team spread across India, France, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America to resolve a dire customer system outage as required... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Global Range; Management; Customer Satisfaction; Service Delivery; Crisis Management; Conflict and Resolution; Technology Industry; India; United Arab Emirates; France; United States

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August 2011 (Revised April 2013)
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Language and Globalization: 'Englishnization' at Rakuten (A)

By: Tsedal Neeley

Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO of Rakuten, (Japan's largest online retailer), is at the helm of an organization that is rapidly expanding into global markets. In a critical stride toward becoming the world's No. 1 Internet services company, Mikitani announces... View Details

Keywords: Teaching; Human Capital; Change Management; Transformation; Social Enterprise; Communication Strategy; Internet and the Web; Disruptive Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Leadership; Global Strategy; Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Japan

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2021
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Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere

By: Tsedal Neeley

The rapid and unprecedented changes brought on by COVID-19 have accelerated the transition to remote working, requiring the wholesale migration of nearly entire companies to virtual work in just weeks, leaving managers and employees scrambling to adjust. This massive... View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; Health Pandemics; Employment; Disruption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management

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School Leadership | About

Associate Dean for Culture and Community V.G. Narayanan Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean, Executive Education; Senior Associate Dean, HBS Online Tsedal View Details

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Organizational Behavior Faculty - Faculty & Research

Professor of Leadership Development Anthony Mayo Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator Tsedal Neeley Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of... View Details

February 2022
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How Global Leaders Gain Power Through Downward Deference and Reduction of Social Distance

By: Tsedal Neeley and Sebastian Reiche

We theorize about how people with positional power enact downward deference—a practice of lowering oneself to be equal to that of lower power workers—based on a study of 115 top global leaders at a large U.S. company. These leaders were charged with advancing... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Style; Global Range; Relationships; Rank and Position; Power and Influence; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues

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