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- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
chapters and a more prescriptive style to reflect today's world of expanding globalization, accelerated change, and increased complexity. This excerpt discusses the importance for young managers to continue to develop as professionals via wise career View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
with a diverse set of companies. "In this way, we could pool all this knowledge and distill it down to the essential principles that CIOs can generally apply, regardless of industry or size of firm, while describing 'realistic' and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
corrective action. Is there any way to find out earlier whether you're on the right track? There is indeed. The trick, we believe, is to periodically assess the decision-making process, even as it is under way. Scholars now have considerable evidence showing that a... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
White people often feel anxious about interacting with non-Whites, and they go out of their way to erect barriers to reduce contact with minorities, according to new research. When routinely making choices about where to live, work,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
says. “Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired.” This might seem an extreme way to motivate employees (and, of course, fails spectacularly in the movie). But companies hold so-called tournaments based on... View Details
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
When booking an international flight, the choice often comes down to “expensive but direct” or “cheap with connections.” But what if an airline warned customers that the direct flight was frequently delayed? Would customers appreciate... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
which a Nash equilibrium exists while the set of Nash equilibria coincides with the solutions of the system of first order condition equations, a property of essential importance to empirical studies. This condition specifies that in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
resources—people, innovation, traction, money, and execution—business is the most powerful force for change on the global stage right now. No other set of institutions—not religious organizations, not the nation-state, not individual... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
varied the set of customers or consumers being studied were in other ways. It was as if we had identified a secret code of thought. The seven deep metaphors discussed in Marketing Metaphoria are those appearing most often across a variety... View Details
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
discovery—talking with customers and understanding what you need to get to product market fit or grow adoption—then these priorities set the hiring agenda. For example, if you’re realizing that your onboarding process is too complicated,... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
German Soccer League over a season. Our research results show that leaders can reinvigorate a failing business using team members already in charge, and without large-scale change of direction. We observed that Small C retooling can unlock the full energy of an... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
supply chain problem space to include, among other things, the assignment of roles and decision rights among the coordinating partners, the selection of partners, the design of incentives, and the design of processes to monitor performance, View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- June 2007 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
The CW: Launching a Television Network
By: Anita Elberse and S. Mark Young
In May 2006, Dawn Ostroff, president of entertainment of the newly formed CW Television Network, was faced with the task of choosing the final set of programs for the 2006 fall schedule, which she would present to advertisers at the annual "upfront" market in New York... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Customer Relationship Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Television Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Strategic Planning; Networks; Media and Broadcasting Industry
Elberse, Anita, and S. Mark Young. "The CW: Launching a Television Network." Harvard Business School Case 507-050, June 2007. (Revised March 2011.)
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
making bad choices that may harm us. "If people know that everyone feels anxious a lot—including themselves—then they can be more self-aware and able to do things that are likely to improve their decision-making," says Brooks.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
all the guidance. They don't allocate all the resources. But because they have considerable authority, influence, and control over resources, we rely on them to do their part in setting direction and guiding their group. Because the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
productive ways.” Setting achievable goals Philosophers and ethicists talk a lot about what it means to be “good.” The problem, says Bazerman, is that they tend to hold up the ideal rather than the achievable. “Philosophers talk about... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
business school faculty, curricula, and research. Chuck Drobny commented, "If the institution places research-focused faculty or graduate students in front of students, and the students lack any perspective gained through experience, the outcome will do little to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
in their attempts. A set of interrelated choices of organization design and senior team process determines which attempts to build ambidextrous organizations are successful. How Much to Make and How Much to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne