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- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
to watch one’s back. Amelio was an able technologist. He held a PhD in physics from Georgia Tech. He had extensive experience in the semiconductor industry and deeper knowledge of technology than Steve. He might have been a successful CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
have-to-do tasks day after day, week after week, many couples carve out special time and space for certain want-to-do moments they enjoy together: They work in the gardens on Saturdays; they share a kiss on weekdays before heading to the office; they eat pizza, drink... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
address. Employees watched closely the numbers of users who might elect the “DeleteMyAccount” button on Facebook. What would you do? Mark Zuckerberg has come to you today to help formulate a plan of action for the company and for his... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
"So is leadership about control, delegation, or theatre? It could be all three, or none of them. The answer lies in the projections of the potential followers." Ken Hedberg said, "You can tell who the leaders are by View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
many products and offer countless tips on how to lower your carbon footprint every day. Julia Austin (@austinfish) is an executive fellow at the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and a former senior lecturer. Jeffrey Bussgang: Civil rights and biotech Ali: A Life: After... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
Working Knowledge. [Image: andresr] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Book Excerpt Layers of Innovation From: Unlocking the Customer Value Chain By Thales S. Teixeira As an advisor to incumbents and... View Details
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
develop negative ideas about marriage, just as citizens of the United States and China may develop bad feelings about each other from watching their leaders squabble. So why wouldn't the same thing happen in the workplace? Testing For... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?
carryover effect with one year’s success spilling into the next year. Growing up in Manhattan, Kansas, Chung became hooked on college football—and Kansas State in particular. The first game he watched was serendipitously one of the most... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
period, they showed us how work was actually done in practice in dozens of plants. Kent and I went to Toyota plants and those of suppliers here in the U.S. and in Japan and directly watched literally hundreds of people in a wide variety... View Details
- 05 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
To Buy Happiness, Purchase an Experience
stuff," explains Norton, an associate professor of marketing at Harvard Business School. "But we have shown in research that stuff isn't good for you. It doesn't make you unhappy, but it doesn't make you happy. But one thing that does make us happy is an experience."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
everything,” watch out. Their ideas might come from the same places: the same customers, same suppliers, same opinion leaders, same universities. Without even realizing it they get grooved. It’s better to talk to different customers,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
serving as vice chairman before leaving the firm in 2005. "I went from being a junior person to running a large business in what seemed like a nanosecond," he says. "And suddenly more people were watching what I did, and I... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
that were clear to us,” he said. “We had this charismatic appeal, this raw authenticity, but we didn’t have the cultural or social capital to access those worlds and people weren’t exactly excited about opening the doors for us, for fear of whatever.” Riley, who had... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
conditions don't prevail, watch out. At risk of oversimplification, that sums up the responses to this month's column, in which most readers accepted to some degree author Duncan Watts' description of how common sense fails us. First... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
better by watching how the best of their peers perform key tasks. They pick up important lessons about how to pitch, how to answer objections, how to deal with competitive comparisons, and other aspects of selling that product at that... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
an open-minded and approachable person in a more powerful position who can take the lead. Certainly we need to be prudent. But in a more rapidly changing world, finding opportunities in crises probably reduces your overall risk. To Learn More: View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
for failure in similarly uncontrollable circumstances. We hire "stars," only to watch them burn out in a new and different managerial environment. We look for "best practice" (à la Jim Collins in Good to Great and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
As the COVID-19 virus pandemic began to sweep across the world, Doug McMillon and his team at Walmart watched in horror. Suddenly, they realized, tomorrow would be nothing like “business as usual” and everything in the company’s marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
21 years. Nowitzki refined his skills by breaking them down into their component parts and focusing intently on the elements that needed improvement—not just practicing jump shots, but watching videos and breaking down the movements and... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
too complex to use? Trialability: Can you try it in small doses? Observability: Can you watch other people use it? All of those things are inherent in the product itself. Rogers's research found that 75 percent of the variance between... View Details