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31 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

When Not to Trust Your Gut

Unfortunately, most people—especially busy managers and executives—fall back on System 1 thinking during their negotiations. Reliance on intuition increases when a situation is complex and negotiators reach a state of cognitive overload.... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), a new book about turnarounds, "successful managers exhibit a close alignment between what they commit to... View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

02 Jul 2024
Book

Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

learn to recognize and build their leadership capital—the resources and influence needed to realize their goals, says Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Archie L. Jones. In his recently released book,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

to the study, Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter and Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University. In the edited remarks below, they discuss the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Gautam Mukunda leads off his new book, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, with the results of social science research that executives may wish not to... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

12 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

video we really want to see. But assuming a captive audience on these video sites may not make online marketers more effective at reaching consumers. Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Thales S.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

22 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

patterns of behavior, not the other way around," writes Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti, an expert on innovation, entrepreneurship, and operations. “The planning process we describe is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson and Penn State professor James Detert explored the challenges employees face speaking up to internal authorities. Their research focused... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

09 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unconscious Executive

by our unconscious mind” Both decision-making methods have strengths and weaknesses, says Harvard Business School postdoctoral fellow Maarten Bos. Our conscious mind is pretty good at following rules, but... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

context a moral gray zone.” However, to date I have not found a single person unable to articulate in his or her work context a moral gray zone. Harvard Business School students constantly share with me... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

book, Who Killed Health Care? We asked Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, to discuss her latest work and her more than 30 years of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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