Hard Power - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

that design innovation often involves a high degree of uncertainty in terms of market success. "It's very hard to understand what people want," he says. "If I make a car that can brake in 10 yards instead of 50, that's a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

September 2016 Harvard Business Review How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather the facts and have done the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

Dumas, an assistant professor at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, describe their findings in the paper Unearned Status Gain: Evidence from a Global Language Mandate, forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal (available online ahead of print).... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

you've lost ground on a project. As a pair, progress and setbacks are the main differentiators of the best and worst days." Small Wins Unfortunately, the researchers found that the negative effect of setbacks was more powerful than... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

success—and that mismatch poses a lot of challenges for Japan today. "Unless Japan can come to a consensus on what worked in the past and what didn't, it is pretty hard to create a new economic strategy. "And it is that model... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

reducing counter-party risk between financial institutions; and the strengthening of regulators' abilities to require more capital (and less overall leverage) at our financial institutions. They clearly will have this explicit power... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

environment often demands a team approach to problem solving. This requires a leader who, among other things, is comfortable sharing power and generous in doing so, is able to see extraordinary potential in ordinary people, and can make... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

to make the $3.5 million Roadside Romeo. The first-of-its-kind animated Hindi movie barely broke even. All told, Hollywood studios invested an estimated $100 million on producing films in India between 2007 and 2009. But box-office profits were View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

definition of moral leadership, a definition that they build during the course sessions and document, at the end, in a course paper. Each class is dedicated to debating and drawing lessons from a powerful work of fiction, biography,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

Gaurav Goel: "Analytics is a powerful weapon but we need prudent processes for data capture that ensure a consistent quality of data." The tone of responses suggested that there was little question that the analytics of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

Soviet Communism when Kremlinologists would take a look at who's standing on the Kremlin Wall. Q: There's a pecking order there. A: Right. And they would try to decode who has power by literally seeing where they were standing. That... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

Overall, the findings demonstrate the power of non-financial rewards to motivate agents in settings where there are limits to the use of financial incentives. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/NoMarginNoMission_JPubE.pdf... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Sep 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?

government. After all, many organizations rely on government for fair or outright supportive legislation. This is not a simple decision driven only by personal feelings. On one level, it requires analyzing the economic consequences of any particular action, something... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

immigrants are responsible for a lot of great companies,” says William Kerr, the Dmitri V. D’Arbeloff — MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “After all, they argue, [Google founder] Sergey Brin was an immigrant—look at the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

global leaders I meet are beginning to think quite hard about addressing their role in these problems," Henderson said. "There is so much power at firms. They have the ability to make a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Feb 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

give important insight ...." Stephanie Fuentes said that "It's not hard if you take the time to do the planning and preparation." But the comments of the first group leave us wondering whether theory serves us well when it... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

investing) was a very American activity. Efforts to transplant the model were few and far between, and these efforts were usually unsuccessful. It is easy to see why it is hard to create a new venture capital industry "from... View Details

Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Emerging Art of Negotiation

alter negotiators' interpretations of ethical standards. Researchers are also discovering that people tend to see themselves as more ethical than the next person, and often justify ethically questionable behavior as self-defense. Negotiators have a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

joke and saying, ‘Am I being politically correct?’ is also insulting, and someone needs to let that person know. That’s when you start to tilt the balance in the culture.” Place women in powerful positions Sexual harassment is a View Details