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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
individuals to whom you are speaking or writing to begin thinking, 'You know, maybe this guy . . . does have a valid point.' " From Pareto's optimal outcomes to Plato's Republic, the authors draw on academic research, classical... View Details
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
office architecture on employees’ interpersonal and electronic interactions. Working with co-author Stephen Turban, who was introduced to Bernstein by the late HBS professor David Garvin, their study yielded surprising findings about the View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
their network to overcome resistance to change. We argue that strong ties to potentially influential organization members who are ambivalent about a change (fence-sitters) provide the change agent with an affective basis to co-opt them.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
benefits of learning) from that attempt. Finally, external innovation appears to be fast—solutions arrive quite quickly and can often exceed the capacity of the seeker. Q: And potential downsides? A: The main concerns about working with... View Details
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Alumni for Imp... The Power of Relationships: Leveraging Mentoring for Greater Educational Outcomes Max Polaner 09 Mar 2018 Mentoring is one of oldest ways that people have found to connect with each other and be changed ... NEW VENTURE... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
exploration and exploitation has drawn substantial interest from scholars studying phenomena such as organizational learning, knowledge management, innovation, organizational design, and strategic alliances. This framework has become an essential lens for interpreting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
payments—single payments that cover all the care for a patient’s medical condition or treatment over a specified timeframe—are increasingly being deployed to motivate the delivery of better patient outcomes at lower costs. Hoag Orthopedic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
bolster their bargaining power, and channeling the flow of the process through time. They understand that actions taken away from the negotiating table can be as important as what goes on at the table, if not more so.1 Specifically, skilled negotiators recognize that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Experiment 1 compares a condition where participants sequentially predict the colored outcomes of a roulette wheel with a condition where the wheel's past outcomes are presented all at once. Subjects are... View Details
- 20 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care
DaVita’s program is not only an attractive benefit to potential recruits, but a powerful way for the company to instill its values throughout its leadership team. These reciprocal benefits should drive leadership development programs... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
had affected the outcomes of the portfolio companies in the study. (For the purposes of the paper, a successful outcome was defined as one in which a company eventually filed for an initial public offering.)... View Details
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
potentially controversial business activities—outsourcing, for example—understate their earnings if it might boost a candidate's chances of election. The research by HBS professor Karthik Ramanna and a colleague from MIT, Professor Sugata... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
student as a DBA-- doctor of business administration--student.”) David Wittenberg was more to the point, arguing that it is not inadequate recruitment efforts that are producing disparate enrollments. “Let’s do everything in our power to improve View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
Cultural differences can influence business negotiations in significant and unexpected ways, as many a hapless dealmaker has learned. In some cases, it's a matter of ignorance or blatant disrespect, as with the American salesman who presented a View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
outcomes (through, for example, market-mediated trading systems, so-called "decision markets," for predicting the outcomes of things such as presidential elections and even View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
outcome with potentially significant positive results. This change will allow debtors and creditors alike to better understand and acknowledge the risk inherent in sovereign debt lending. If you lend to... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
many Cicero employees now volunteer or work pro bono on company time mentoring, coaching, and training, as well as gathering and analyzing data to frame the best approaches to ending homelessness. One outcome of this work is a database... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 31 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent This Summer Coding
The summer between RC and EC year represents a great opportunity for risk-free exploration. Encouraged by our outcome at the New Venture Competition and the funding I would receive as a Rock Summer Fellow, I forwent a business internship... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
and the bar is set very high in the medical field. Third, it has to have defensible intellectual property. The timelines are stretched so much that it's hard to raise investment capital if there isn't the potential of a substantial reward... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
lab and fieldwork. How do you settle on a particular research question to investigate? Katherine Coffman: I’m looking for two things. The most important one is whether it has the potential to really make a difference for outcomes. It has... View Details