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- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
win." Chemistry seems to be the difference between Coach P's more talented varsity boat and his upstart JVs. Embarrassing losses to the JVs have the varsity crew members dispirited and complaining about one another. Confidence is... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
period we are in today, had witnessed a dramatic loss of confidence in business and American institutions more generally. In 1968, 70 percent of the public thought business tried to strike a fair balance between profits and the public... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 09 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual
suppressed the ad hominem insults, and peaked at the right time, confounding the pollsters and media pundits. In every recent speech, he repeated the same messages, inviting voters to imagine the future if they bought into the promises of a Trump administration. He... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
- Teaching Interest
MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models
The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details
- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
word “taguan.” The researchers banked on the notion that most people have never heard of a taguan, which, FYI, is a type of East Indian flying squirrel. If participants claimed to have solved the taguan jumble correctly, the researchers View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
uncertain situation. Confidence. You have to be calm, but not still-water calm. You have to project confidence that you’re going to be able to see this through successfully, with a minimum amount of hurt to the company, but also to all of... View Details
- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
bad . Quantitative metrics serve as best indicators when they are based on qualitative platforms." Along this line, Ken Ackerman reminded us that "Growth is a product of confidence we spend too little time measuring the mood of... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
You have to project confidence that you’re going to be able to see this through successfully, with a minimum amount of hurt to the company, but also to all of the stakeholders who are relying on your leadership to get them through the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
majority and laggards. While instilling confidence is important, it’s equally important to be clear about how and where to get vaccinated and the convenience of the process. Simplicity and transparency in the enrollment process is... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
from Toyota can confidently distribute a tremendous amount of responsibility to the people who actually do the work, from the most senior, expeirenced member of the organization to the most junior. This is accomplished because of the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
zero. Consumer confidence has plummeted with the value of 401(k) plans and retirement nest eggs. Retail sales fell 1.2 percent in September, double the expected decline. Car sales are at a fifteen-year low. And credit card defaults look... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
average the position of 5.8 players in the starting 11 compared to the previous game, Flick changed his starting 11 only on 3.5 positions. This strengthened the integration of all players and increased confidence in the young players from... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
and the department's overall direction. Even John Cho had nodded in response to some of Barton's remarks. His resolute actions had also gained him the confidence of the company's senior leadership. In meetings of that group, Barton's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
power. For example, movie studios are probably more confident that a Tom Cruise movie will emerge as the winner of a competitive July 4 opening weekend than a movie with an unknown actor, and will adjust their release strategy... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
qualities, he said: Modularity. There has to be a natural progression from one part to another—some connection. Healing power. It has to solve an important, visible customer pain. High quality. The supplier must be confident of its... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
open source as in any other field, and developers who flock to high-profile projects—for the aforementioned visibility, future access to venture capital, etc.—could well abandon worthy but less glamorous projects before their time. "Our ability to answer View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
potential investors. To the extent that founders tend to be very confident in their startup's prospects, they may even be more inclined to take money from friends and family, happily imagining those close to them sharing in the startup's... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
suggests, the great challenge for multinational companies in the next decade will be to establish the confidence of society at large, governments in particular, and even of individual consumers, to assure them that they are worthy of... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
possible that the employee was still confident that he would win the case because he did not trust the executive or the firm's record keeping. How could the executive educate the employee regarding his prospects for winning in court?... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
Gran a y Montero (the oldest and largest construction company in Peru) We propose reputation can be an antecedent that allows firms to engage in change. We suggest that reputation, at its core, provides stability; maintaining a favorable reputation engenders... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne