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are safe, fearless and empowered to win with unbridled ideas. It is a practical guide for creating cultures where knowledge and innovation flourish because people feel safe to contribute their ideas—it also increased the popularity of the... View Details

23 Feb 2011
News

A Capitalist in China

Kuhns: Wrote the book on Chinese business realities. When it comes to investing in China, financier and industrialist John Kuhns (MBA ’77) looks backward to see the way forward. “I have always invested in China based on my belief that it... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

30 May 2019
What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

believe that there exists a much stronger creative and entrepreneurial drive in the West and the Northwest than on the East Coast A culture of creative risk-taking exists on the West Coast more so than on the East Coast. This View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

"then we can more considerately say how big an organization needs to be to accomplish the ends " Srinivasan questioned whether size alone matters, pointing out that size has to be considered alongside such things as "conviction focus ability to create a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

Presentation date: November 2, 2004 The following is a summary of the virtual seminar covering: The definition, levels, and cycles of confidence. How leaders prevent losing streaks and instill organizational confidence. The keys to building an organizational View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

practice. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52649 Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan Skinner, Ariel Dora... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow. Denial The "change journeys" of the leaders and laggards, which often come in three phases, could not be more different. For laggards, that journey looks like this, Kanter said.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2020
News

Steady as She Goes

foods, and, of course, for toilet paper. As for Weckert, she’s back to building things from scratch. This time, it’s cupcakes with her daughter. How to: Diversify your leadership team Believe. “You have to have a resolute belief that... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

organization, but was far from broken. "Women's progress has really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years," says Robin J. Ely, the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and senior associate dean for... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

December 2018
Supplement

The Global-Local Tension: Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao Leading with 'International Values and Local Roots' (B)

By: Tsedal Neeley

Vittorio Colao, CEO of telecommunication giant Vodafone, must respond to reports of disturbing accounting practices at two of Vodafone’s operating companies. In one case, €60 million have been misreported due to a series of failures to check manual accounting... View Details

Keywords: GLOBAL-LOCAL; Global Identity; Local Identity; Accounting Discrepency; Globalization; Leadership; Trust; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizations; Identity; Local Range; Global Range; Values and Beliefs; Accounting Audits

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26 Sep 2024
HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

people, about consequences and risks and benefits for other people, and also in a murkier but important sense, the ethics of an organization’s culture and its values.” Elon Musk and Tesla are at the center of a recent HBS case study that... View Details

Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

beliefs about a group depend on the characteristics of the reference group. Because stereotypes emphasize differences, they cause belief distortions, particularly when groups are similar. In line with our... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Growing CEOs from the Inside

What do you mean by that? A: Well, internal is pretty clear. The great advantage of an internal candidate is that he or she knows the people, systems, and culture of the company. That means the candidate knows the company's strengths and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Employment

21 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 21

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-002.pdf Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity Author:Eric Van den Steen Abstract This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture—in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

and behaviors, is also critical. In this review, we document the often large differences between actual levels of inequality and citizens’ (mis)perceptions of those levels. This inaccuracy extends to people’s beliefs about the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

receive ideas that are different." “You need to start engaging people from different cultures in a more intense way"—Roy Chua Chua confirmed that belief with a pair of studies that linked the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 May 2019
Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

ushered in by AAPI leaders of the past and present, from Daniel Inouye to Jon Chu, must be preserved and carried on. At the same time, I personally feel a deep sense of conviction when it comes to the power of our shared American identity and the potential of this... View Details

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

of their people with marketplace opportunity. These CEOs spent a great deal of time crystallizing their values and purpose and how strategy could be defined in a way that integrated strategy with values. In this way the animating beliefs... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2010
News

Alumni Books

Compare this with the American saying “the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” and it’s clear that different cultures teach different values, which often translate into distinct ways of doing business. In today’s global business world,... View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

obsolete, and (3) it makes suspect much of what we do as managers. Consider two examples that came to my attention this past week. One is a book by Charles Jacobs titled Management Rewired, which concludes that many conventional beliefs... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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