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  • 03 Jan 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)

Anat Keinan shows that people who wear funky outfits to the office are often seen as more confident and as having higher status than those who dress to fit in. As writer Dina Gerdeman explains, “The researchers found that observers viewed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Sep 2011
  • What Do You Think?

What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

facing down the pressures of investors and Wall Street analysts. As Gaurav Goel puts it, "Steve's successors would need courage and confidence to do things differently." In particular, there will be a critical period until the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

day, challenging discussion, etc.) of typical business school study. We were confident that if we deployed our outstanding recruiters to Black and other college campuses across the United States, we would be flooded with students eager to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 14 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?

approval. There won't be any issues with this,” to keep confidence among consumers. But consumers need to go in with eyes wide open and understand that this approval is not equal to an approval of a drug that had 36 months or more and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 31 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The New CEO’s Wrong Message

Some came to obtain consent for new capital expenditures, others for personnel decisions, and others on matters as mundane as whether to host a client conference. They had lost confidence that they understood the CEO's expectations, so... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria
  • 21 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

company. The new moral contract also asks a lot from employees, they write. "It requires that [employees] have the courage and the confidence to abandon the stability of lifetime employment and embrace the invigorating force of continuous... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 6

founder of JetBlue, is forced to confront a crisis in customer confidence following operational difficulties on February 14, 2007. This becomes a vital test of his leadership. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’

care, and other social goods. These are the consumers who are now trading in their sport-utility vehicles. They include the empty-nester baby-boomers, less confident than before, who are tired of heating unused spaces in cavernous... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 25 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

company's sales in 2000 approached $30 million, and it planned to double revenues this year. Krasnow sounded confident about the business at the end of 2000. Zoots had deliberately slowed its growth to focus on resolving operational... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

who handle their clients’ anxieties with more skill and confidence do tend to set more reasonable expectations for their teams. They know how to narrow the scope of a project to exactly what’s needed and avoid unnecessary effort, she... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service
  • 24 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

offered as the high-speed substitute for mail service in the world of tomorrow. Watson was sixty-five years old when the fair opened, an age when many businessmen think about retirement. But Watson had the energy of a man in his thirties, and we can View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

period of minority executives, despite its relative lag, contributes significantly to the fact that they eventually become outstanding performers. "It allows them to add to their professional competence, establish credibility in the firm, develop View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

What better way to drive people to work harder and more efficiently, you may ask, than to offer them a special carrot: more money for hitting specific company targets? The idea seems perfect. Managers want their employees to pull out the stops on Project X, for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’

weeds. Let's recap what we've agreed upon so we can put this particular issue in context." You can also build your confidence by seeking out ideas and techniques beyond your usual experience. If you run a supply chain, for example, read... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
  • 10 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

Review excerpt below, Professor James K. Sebenius describes number six on the list, "Failing to correct for skewed vision." Negotiators are often too confident of their own position and too quick to demonize the other side, he... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

act on them. "Business leaders need both frameworks and sound judgment to effectively leverage data and experiments." In his course and book, Luca aims to instill a scientific mentality in students so they can confidently apply these... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 15 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 15, 2015

an associated 90% confidence interval of (2.3%, 17.8%). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49523 2015 The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy Information Technology and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

corporate headquarters. As Howard Schultz once said, successful businesses cannot sustain themselves on exhilarating ideas alone.—Nancy F. Koehn Lasting Dedication Each of the entrepreneurs in Brand New had the ambition and confidence to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

in-depth Harvard Business School case studies of almost two dozen companies in order to chronicle their activities and their changes over time. I wanted that scope of research because I wanted to be confident that I really understood this... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

Furthermore, the manager will rely more on persuasion when employee motivation is more important for the execution of the project, when the employee has strong intrinsic or extrinsic incentives, and, for a wide range of settings, when the manager is more View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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