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    Shield AI

    Shield AI’s quadcopter—with no pilot and no flight plan—could clear a building and outpace human warfighters by almost five minutes in 2017. This was not to say that it was better than the warfighters or would replace their jobs, but it was evidence that autonomous... View Details
    • 13 Nov 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

    his research, few managers know how to channel innovative thinking into practice by making sense of the overwhelming amount of market, financial, and technical data now available and then sharing discoveries and strategies with other View Details
    Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
    • 1997
    • Book

    Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices

    By: Leslie Perlow
    Why do Americans work so hard? Are the long hours spent at work really necessary to increase organizational productivity? Perlow documents the work life of employees who assume that for their own success and the success of their organization they must put in extended... View Details
    Keywords: Time Management; Working Conditions; Work-Life Balance; Performance Productivity
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    Program for Leadership Development

    that embraces digital transformation and implement strategies that drive breakthrough innovation. Read More Master the cross-functional challenges of corporate leadership Lead organizational change and inspire high-performing global teams... View Details
    • 1965
    • Article

    Group Decision Making: A Report of an Experimental Study

    By: Joseph L. Bower
    When a group of people must decide on some one action, such as where shall we go out to dinner, or in an investment club which stock shall we buy, how do the individual members come to a decision that affords the best resolution of the question at hand for the group as... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Conflict Management
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    • November 2014
    • Article

    Evidence on Self-Stereotyping and the Contribution of Ideas

    By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman
    We use a lab experiment to explore the factors that predict an individual's decision to contribute her idea to a group. We find that contribution decisions depend upon the interaction of gender and the gender stereotype associated with the decision-making domain:... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizations; Gender
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      David Ager

      David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education.  He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders.  The companies hail from diverse sectors including... View Details

      • 07 Jul 2015
      • Blog Post

      From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again

      A native Miamian, HBS alum Maxeme Tuchman (MBA 2012) spent the early part of her career working as a Teach for America corps member in her hometown. Maxeme later went on to work in the New York City Mayor’s Office and the Bill and Melinda... View Details
      • 07 Feb 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: February 7

      pressure increases, team members begin to over-rely on general expertise while discounting domain-specific expertise, leading to suboptimal performance. I use longitudinal qualitative case studies to explore... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • February 2017 (Revised April 2018)
      • Case

      Kameda Seika: Cracking the U.S. Market

      By: Elie Ofek, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
      In spring 2016, Kameda’s CEO, Michiyasu Tanaka, is facing difficult questions from board members over the lackluster performance of the company’s U.S. subsidiary. Kameda was the leading player in the Japanese rice cracker market and was looking to expand overseas to... View Details
      Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Food and Beverage Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; United States
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      • 08 Mar 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: March 8

      impair goodwill when their reputation concerns are low, suggesting that those executives are subject to their own opportunistic motives. We also find that the greater propensity of former auditors and investment bankers to report goodwill impairments is concentrated in... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • June 2013 (Revised September 2016)
      • Supplement

      Governance and Sustainability at Nike (B)

      By: Lynn S. Paine, Nien-he Hsieh and Lara Adamsons
      Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of Nike's board of directors. Set in 2012, the case traces the evolution of Nike's approach to environmental and social... View Details
      Keywords: Nike; Hannah Jones; Mark Parker; Phil Knight; Philip Knight; Eric Sprunk; Jill Ker Conway; Phyllis Wise; Don Blair; Sustainable Business And Innovation; SB＆I; Flyknit; DyeCoo; Footwear; Athletic Footwear; Apparel; Athletic Apparel; Sustainability; Greenpeace; Detox Campaign; Dirty Laundry; Water; Water Use; Water Pollution; Water Resources; Corporate Responsibility Committee; Judgment; Board Of Directors; Board Committees; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Footwear Industry; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Ethics; Fairness; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance; Alignment; Supply Chain; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Judgments; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Asia; China; United States; Oregon; Portland
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      Angela R. Hicks Bowman

      first year, the business began to jell. The work was daunting because it was off-line and Hicks had to manually keep and update all the lists of recommended contractors, current members and prospective View Details
      • Program

      Advanced Management Program

      tackle your organization's toughest strategic challenges, lead with greater confidence, inspire performance at all levels—and contribute more value as a member of your company's senior leadership team. Lead a global organization by... View Details

        Paul Hamilton

        Paul studies the economic complements needed for firms to realize productivity gains from machine learning and artificial intelligence. These complements include data, human capital & skills, organizational processes, and business models. 
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        • 14 Jan 2013
        • Research & Ideas

        Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

        anniversary of the first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year MBA program. Differing Takes On Quotas Last year Groysberg teamed up with researcher Deborah Bell on a comprehensive survey of corporate directors around the... View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
        • 04 Mar 2022
        • Blog Post

        Celebrating Black History Month at HBS

        During the month of February, we appreciated the opportunity to celebrate HBS students, alumni, and faculty who are establishing their own places in history. We are excited to continue to honor the legacy of the Black and African American View Details
        • 11 Aug 2008
        • Research & Ideas

        Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

        committed to strategic issues. We don't advocate abandoning an intense focus on operations and their improvement. But we do advocate planning strategy, not just describing it as important. The senior management team needs to have regular,... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace
        • October 2020
        • Article

        IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice

        By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou and Christopher J. Malloy
        Using a novel database that tracks web traffic on the SEC’s EDGAR servers between 2004 and 2015, we show that mutual fund managers gather information on a very particular subset of firms and insiders, and their surveillance is very persistent over time. This tracking... View Details
        Keywords: Tracked Trades; Return Predictability; Institutional Trading; Insider Trading; Institutional Investing; Information; Investment Portfolio; Decisions; Management
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        • 2007
        • Chapter

        Career Patterns and Organizational Performance

        By: Monica C. Higgins and James R. Dillon
        Traditional research on careers examines how organizations and individuals affect career outcomes. This chapter reviews several specific ways in which career histories have been found to influence organizational outcomes. While we incorporate both upper echelons... View Details
        Keywords: Organizations; Personal Development and Career; Performance
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