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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
turbulent times. Ernest Shackleton Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill Today’s entrepreneurs would find the tasks involved in organizing and leading an Antarctic expedition in the early 20th century somewhat familiar. Koehn notes that the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Publication:Developmental Psychology 44, no. 5 (2008) Abstract The present research identifies an anomaly in sociocognitive development, whereby younger children (8 and 9 years) outperform their older counterparts (10 and 11 years) in a basic categorization View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
Bulletin And then the question around packed stadiums. To get there, we're going to need, again, I mentioned trust. So you're going to have in place a dedicated group—call it a task force— focused on safety. Focused on then investing in... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
feedback. Specifically, providing relative performance feedback improves the mean performance of participants compensated under an individual incentive scheme regardless of the precision or specific content of the feedback. In contrast,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
“Crush it!” I was test-driving a Tesla Model S 75D under the watchful eye of Kristin, the “owner-advisor” tasked with accompanying me while I took one of Elon Musk’s battery-powered luxury cars for a spin on the Far West Side of... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
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corporate confessions presents something of a behavioral paradox. Tasked with monitoring the legality of its own operations, why would firms that identify violations turn themselves in to regulators rather than quietly fix the problem?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
meeting can be boring and repetitive, just sitting at your computer. So the necessary task is to what I call DBB—don't be boring. So you might need to start with playing a high-energy song as people are arriving into the Zoom room. You... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
would serve for three years, from 2012 to early 2015, leading the country through some of the worst years of the crisis. His government was tasked with implementing the austerity measures demanded by its international creditors, the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
and the fluidity of most work structures mean that it's not really about creating effective teams anymore, but instead about leading effective teaming. Teaming shows that organizations learn when the flexible, fluid collaborations they... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
requiring folks to come back. I’ve been talking to the largest technology firms about this: They’ve created task forces to think about how they want to bring people back to the office, when, and why. Based on my own research, especially... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
that the appropriate leadership style did depend upon the nature of the task, specifically how certain or uncertain it was. However Vroom and Yetton defined the task as decision making, while the others were not so specific about the type... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
experiences, and the meaning of leadership. Click on each heading below to read their responses. What career advice do you have for today's female MBAs? As a trailblazer, how did you proceed when there was no established route to your... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
brings real value to our customers. “Innovation isn’t just about engineering discoveries,” Timken adds. “It also means getting close to customers, understanding their needs, and finding ways to address them.” Doing so was part of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
difficult, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be done; if anything, we should devote even more attention to the task so that outcomes can be improved." AFTER: Farmer-training programs and improved feeder roads... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
variability in productivity means the marginal productivity of labor depends substantially on which new workers are hired—which requires not an estimate of a causal effect, but rather a prediction. We demonstrate that there can be large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
caregiving, and the hearts of caregivers. The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain By Kate E. Bingham (MBA 1991) and Tim Hames Oneworld Publications As chair of the UK’s task force charged with developing an... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
years and currently serves as faculty chair for the Managing Brand Meaning program in the Executive Education curriculum. He believes the future of Internet advertising depends on improvements in technology. "We won't really understand... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
accountability are not new. Leaders of organizations, be they nonprofit, business, or government, face a constant stream of demands from various constituents demanding accountable behavior. But what does it mean to be accountable? By and... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
leader where our presence and not scratching the itch ensures that we don't keep leading by our bad habits. And then the final principle of peace around loosening the grip, is really about ourselves against ourselves, and not letting that View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
of the great aspects of this sport is its element of uncertainty,” says DeWitt. “A losing team still wins about 40 percent of the games it plays, while a winning team wins around 60 percent. That means the team with the worst record can... View Details