Bottom Up Attention - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

organization that not only solved crimes but also prevented attacks. “He thought he was signing up to run a law enforcement agency. He ended up with a job he didn’t sign up... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

group of people around a mutual desire for change. “Effective agitators are able to draw attention to a problem and convince others that it requires both some corrective action and collective work to bring it about,” Battilana writes in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

could get up to speed quickly elsewhere. The bottom line So is it wise in a downturn to save expenses by slashing commissions? Depends, Stanton says. If the workers leave during down months, then cutting... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

05 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

If you’re a business leader who oozes achievement, sprints up the corporate ladder, and earns big bucks, your co-workers probably resent you to some extent. New research says high-achievers can win over their colleagues with a simple... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?

consumers don’t necessarily benefit, the researchers say. After all, restricting the amounts of an item to the optimal levels for company profits also constrained the number of people who were able to enjoy it. And, the researchers caution, limiting production could... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

18 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

won a $200 gift card in a community raffle and decided to buy a $200 flat-screen television. Participants were divided into two groups: in one, Joe was described as lower-income, or in the bottom 25 percent of US households, while in the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

general they don't work, and in fact can cause unethical behavior. What's the problem? A: I would say that we see current programs as limited, due to the limited attention given to bounded ethicality—or the ways in which good people do... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
News

In My Humble Opinion: Role Model

One of four daughters of Pakistani immigrants, Salma Qarnain (MBA 2002) grew up in the midwestern “I” states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana before attending Stanford University. “It was my first experience feeling happy and comfortable in a place that had diversity,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; acting; theater; diversity; career path; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

23 Jan 2024
News

A Wide Net

Growing up in Mumbai, Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) spent most of his time on the tennis court, where he was an internationally ranked athlete. Today, as cofounder and partner of Alpha Wave, a global investment group with a... View Details

Keywords: April White

30 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration

up to 22,000 tons of waste, we could hardly smell anything. A key feature of Amager Bakke is its ability to generate both heat and electricity, and switch between the two outputs based on heat and energy prices. Copenhagen is uniquely... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Reset: How the Shift to Skills-Based Hiring Holds the Keys to Growing the U.S. Workforce at a Time of Talent Shortage , Report, The Burning Glass Institute, 2022. With Christina Langer, Julia Nitschke, Layla O’Kane, Matthew Sigelman, and Bledi Taska. Building From the... View Details

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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

critical component of an effective regional expansion program is centralized scheduling of patients and clinicians by individuals who know the various IPUs and the system. The bottom line of transparency is essential and patients and... View Details

28 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Master the Team Meeting

meeting because...” What would they say? Agenda I believe that if a meeting is important enough to have, it should have a time-boxed agenda and always be followed up with notes and action items (AIs). As the team leader, you should... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

18 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

Toxic workers aren’t just a pain in the rear; they’re also a pain in the bottom line, according to a new Harvard Business School working paper. Dylan Minor, visiting assistant professor of business administration in the HBS Strategy unit,... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

“Who are the world’s best negotiators? What makes them effective?” Inevitably Henry Kissinger’s name comes up as an elite, if controversial, negotiator from whom we can learn a great deal. At a time of rancorous divisions in American... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

A: Jim Heskett: One can only speculate on the sources of low job satisfaction. It could be a product of unmet expectations, possibly due to inadequate attention by firms to hiring, training, and subsequent management. Those entering the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

to keep working from home part of the time after COVID-19 abates, researchers are probing how virtual interaction might reshape organizations. In the first large-scale analysis of digital communication early in the crisis, the team—Sadun; Jeffrey T. Polzer, the View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

10 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?

Female representation in movies has been consistently low, with women making up only 4.5 percent of directors and 14.4 percent of writers for top-grossing films. Worse, many women have endured sexual harassment and abuse. In October 2017,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Media & Broadcasting

30 May 2024
News

How to Have Effective Conversations

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details

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