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- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
careful to avoid saying things that might inhibit input. When an employee complains about a problem, for example, managers should resist the urge to correct the record or say things like, “That’s not true,” because it’s the kind of thing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal 4-5 May 2023 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Location: Harvard Business... View Details
- 05 Jun 2023
- What Do You Think?
Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?
Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Morra Aarons-Mele, The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears Into Your Leadership Superpower (Harvard Business Review Press, 2023) Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
are as passionate about how they partner and collaborate with their peers as they are about how their own teams perform. Resist fiefdoms and resolve rifts between teams as soon as you suspect there’s an issue. These issues can be toxic... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- Web
Curriculum - Business & Environment
work, and in society. It is meant for those who want to make things happen, despite the obstacles that might stand in your way. This course is also intended to prepare you to use power responsibly, resist its corruptive perils, and... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells
considered if the company hadn’t hyped their gender, according to a study by Harvard Business School. Why do these gender appeals alienate the very audience they aim to attract? People resist being categorized—or made to feel like they... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
story, people would rather stick with the known, which seems safe even if it is inadequate. The ultimate art of leadership is encouraging people to let go of their fear of the unknown and plunge into the work of innovation. It’s always amazing to me to see how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
work, and resistant employers may have to compromise on this dimension even more if retention becomes harder. In addition, without the threat of a non-compete to curtail more entrepreneurial and innovative employees from starting their... View Details
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
COVID-19 variants snuffed out the brief period of vaccination-injected optimism earlier this year, as childcare and school disruptions lingered. Despite such resistance and health concerns, some employees have joyfully returned to their... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
field sales mangers might need to fine tune the final number. From resistance to productivity The success of using such a system, Chung says, depends on two things: the amount of data a company includes, so as to create the most accurate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
make tradeoffs, or to stick with them. The need for trade-offs is a huge barrier. Most managers hate to make trade-offs; they hate to accept limits. They'd almost always rather try to serve more customers, offer more features. They can't View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Again and Again
other half resists. “They say, ‘I don’t like that. It wouldn’t feel right. I wouldn’t be able to start my day.’ ” That resistance helps illustrate the distinction between a habit and a ritual: When emotions or significance are assigned to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
its availability and help legalize other psychedelics for use in serious conditions such as treatment of resistant depression and severe PTSD. Both Ames and Orlov said they didn’t know what the attendees would make of the conference.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Neda Navab
my relationship first? Fifty years later, I choose to use Rose’s sacrifice as my guidepost. I will resist the easier path – the default decisions – to put relationships second. I will build a professional life around my most important... View Details
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
want to hear," he says. "In fact, I've have learned that when I'm most resistant to the advice I'm hearing from her, that's when I need to listen even more closely." View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
in very senior positions or are the designated successor and close to assuming this leadership role. A board should not include the company's service providers such as banker, lawyer, or accountant. One should also resist enrolling on the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
salesperson handles those issues slightly differently. It’s hard to train for that because everyone has a different style and way of talking to customers.” Tackling reticence and resistance at a call center For the study, Stanton and his... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
A New Healthcare Model at Royal Philips Show Hide Details Concepts Overcoming Developer and User Bias Strategies for Communicating Value Managing an Innovation Culture Featured Exercises Stakeholder Analysis: Compare the resistance and... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
begin a study with such distinctly practical footing, the researchers devised a set of experiments to measure executives' and admissions officers' resistance to this phenomenon. The first study asked professional university admissions... View Details
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
Ayelet Israeli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor in the Marketing Unit and cofounder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the Digital, Data, and Design (D) Institute at HBS. Iavor Bojinov: Those who resist AI risk falling behind Like... View Details