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- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
response to unexpected endogenous or exogenous threats to meeting work goals. Managers employed two distinct forms of redundant communication to mobilize team members toward mitigating potentially threatening discrepant events—unforeseen... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
When you think about which countries have produced the greatest management innovations, the United States and Japan are likely to top your list. But it was Germany in the late 1800s and early 1900s that was a cauldron of innovative and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
took from the experience. READ MORE Dan Morrell: I want to talk to you about the Operation Red Wings mission in Afghanistan in 2005. Tell me about that mission and your role in it. Matt Brady: Operation Red Wings came about one night... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
switch to CD format, sales picked up considerably as customers rushed out to replace their vinyl record collections with the same music reissued on the new technology. Now, explains Zelnick, the CD boom has played itself out. "The CD market is View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
We conclude with directions for future research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55591 February 2019 American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Does It Matter If Your Health Insurer Is For Profit? Effects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
development of theory with the teaching of it in a single enterprise we'll call course research. Conclusions such as those that Shugan and others have reached stem from misconceptions about the relationship of research, theory, case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
stall. Why? Because how you lead yourself directly impacts your ability to lead others, and that, in turn, can prevent you from reaching your full career potential. Value as a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
says Srivastava, recalling that he reached out to classmate and HBS associate professor Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999, PhD 2002) to get a better sense of whether academia would be a good fit. Now, Srivastava is following three streams of... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
Denmark West (MBA 1998), founding partner of Connectivity Ventures and Culture Shift partner and advisor (photo by Brian Ach) It’s a common scenario: A company wants to increase diversity on its board or in its C-suite, and its high-ranking leaders View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
forthcoming Harvard Business Review Press Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—Part of a manager's job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
also a building block in making the chemicals that go into things like plastics, road materials, and a wide variety of other products. And Brix sees another potential use in the clean tech sector: to transport green hydrogen. TB: We think... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
people likely contracted the virus several days (and up to two weeks) before showing symptoms and, thus, would have been in contact with other people (solid line in Figure 1), unknowingly spreading the virus. Quarantining an infected person after reactive testing only... View Details
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
with somebody else in the industry; we looked at these three or four other companies and we think there's potential for fraud there." I would love to dig into the blogs and figure out how much of what they're doing is noise and how... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
tree placed in anticipation of a beaning. Or better yet, think of your own brilliant analogy. Inspiration below. Josh Lerner And Tom Nicholas: Blue-ribbon Innovation On the morning of October 4, 2004, the star-spangled fuselage of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
PublicationsHow Will You Measure Your Life? Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon Publication:HarperBusiness, forthcoming Abstract In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
young, impulsive, “self-righteous, entitled, narcissistic” visionaries realize the full potential of organizations that were formed around them. It suggests the question: Does West Coast Management need adult supervision? What do you... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
information from an SEC form The researchers also collected information from the Security and Exchange Commission’s Schedule 13D forms for the same time period. And here’s where the potentially shady broker activity starts to become... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
women. Without the ability to create a company that transcends the talents of its founder, even initially successful entrepreneurial enterprises are not likely to endure. Lessons For Business Leaders Today There are clear lessons for entrepreneurs in this. If you want... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
media and provoked him to initiate a $16 million damages suit against the government. “One of the things Marty Marshall stressed in our OPM classes,” Knott says, “was that to succeed as a business owner, follow what you know is right, even if other people don’t see it... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
some tips on surviving.” Among the lessons she learned that helped her and her 103-year-old mother cope: you must fight the despair by exercising your mind, keep your emotions in check by taking the long... View Details