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- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
feedback, managers should ask themselves whether they're getting truthful evaluations from their subordinates. (In all likelihood, they aren't.) It takes time and discipline to persuade your employees to tell you about your failings.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
Pentagram (A) Harvard Business School Case 408-127 This case focuses on Kit Hinrichs, a 65-year-old partner at Pentagram, a privately owned multidisciplinary design firm. One of the world's most prestigious design firms, Pentagram was founded by five designers from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
R&D organization had established a culture of collaboration across scientific disciplines that some worried would diminish with larger functional departments. Others were concerned that an interdisciplinary team-based design would be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
accounting performance. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1964011 August 2013 Journal of Financial Intermediation Good Cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities Between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
approaches can be reconciled through the Lean Strategy process, which ensures that startups innovate in a disciplined fashion and make the most of their limited resources by knowing "what not to do." Deliberate strategy sets the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
abundance of principles, guidelines, and standards. This paper portrays ERM as an evolving discipline and presents empirical findings on its current state of maturity, as evidenced by a survey of the academic literature and by our own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
renewal. This change process involves disciplined conversations, actions, and associated learning by the senior team, diffusing these learning capabilities to the extended senior leadership team and, over time, to the larger leadership... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Susie Mulder at NIC+ZOE Susie Mulder must decide how to lead NIC+ZOE-the women's apparel brand she had recently joined as CEO-from its start-up phase into a disciplined growth phase. With growing revenues, a successful product line, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
data-id=_/G1ysztH5yi6ahExAmeUm][/div] Scientists working in different disciplines were affected unevenly, according to the research. “Scientists working in fields that tend to rely on physical laboratories and time-sensitive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
Kahneman's diagnosis, but not his remedy Whether the decision is to be made by an individual, a team, or 'the bureaucracy', I would say that all would be well served by the discipline imposed by adherence to a rational process (which)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Network Utilization and the Impact of Academic Research in Marketing By: Rosenzweig, Stav, Amir Grinstein, and Elie Ofek Abstract—The forces that drive the impact of academic research articles in the marketing discipline are of great... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
of providing high-quality health care. One solution is to increase and improve coordination, communication, and teamwork. The orthopaedic surgeon also needs to work effectively and efficiently to manage a fluid and shifting mix of health-care personnel partners from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
contemporary corporate governance reforms, with an abundance of principles, guidelines, and standards. This paper portrays ERM as an evolving discipline and presents empirical findings on its current state of maturity, as evidenced by a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
in any leadership situation that is a spontaneous and intuitive effective response to what one is dealing with. In creating leaders we employ the ontological discipline (from the Latin ontologia "science of being," see... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
the work doesn't need to involve curing cancer in order to be meaningful. It simply must matter to the person doing it. The actions that set in motion the positive feedback loop between progress and inner work life may sound like Management 101, but it takes View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
"control" or "structure" that may inhibit freedom of inquiry. If it's done well, we know that discipline and excellence of execution can enhance the research environment and learning process. In fact, it's liberating.... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
attribution and construal processes, and motivated illusions was incorporated into our understanding of negotiations. Several promising areas of research have emerged in recent years, drawing from other disciplines and informing the field... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
among historians and scholars from other disciplines who are taking a historical approach to their work has demanded intellectual leadership. Al Chandler has provided that leadership for more than forty years. Early in his career, he... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
capitalization ratio of 70 percent, though the ratios range from 50 percent to 90 percent or more. While high leverage provides several important benefits, these benefits come at a cost. First, high leverage provides managerial discipline... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
examine the effect of increased competition on the disciplining effects of reputation. Using a variety of data sources, we find that competition leads to more issuer friendly and less informative ratings. First, the credit ratings issues... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace