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- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
scheduling frequent meetings to seek feedback on projects or by subjecting important decisions to large and diverse groups to reach consensus. Thomke recalls working with a company recently where the working group was so large, it became... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2022
- Op-Ed
Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable
sound intuitive, but they can be difficult when working across differences. Throughout the day, we practiced these ideas with short exercises in the hope of building a muscle for discomfort. Discomfort and joy may seem incompatible. As it... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches | About
classrooms and on our campus. We find ourselves facing difficult and complex questions about what constitutes hate speech and private speech, particularly in a digital era; how we navigate free expression and our community values; how we... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
new research paper demonstrates that the fundamental attribution error is so deeply rooted in our decision making that not even highly trained people-evaluators, such as hiring managers and school admissions officers, can defeat its... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
decisions about whether to quit the job he loves at Hewlett-Packard to join Apple Computer, how to define his role within Apple, whether to take on Jobs as his co-founder, whether to accept a third co-founder proposed by Jobs, and how to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Renovating Democratic Capitalism
This in-process work focuses on how best to address the declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider to be a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer to this question is not entirely clear, I... View Details
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
This function of keeping and nurturing values can be more difficult in public companies, where turnover of top leaders is relatively frequent. “Philosophically-wise, families are the key agent for passing on these value sets from one... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
increasing complexity associated with managing larger and more knowledge-intensive organizations,” says Sadun. Past generations of CEOs might have tapped a smaller cadre of advisers or made decisions unilaterally, but today’s leaders must... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
we find it difficult to identify the tangible benefits delivered by brokers. While brokerage customers are directed toward funds that are harder to find and evaluate, they pay substantially higher fees and the funds they buy have lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
"paper" board, existing only on paper, or acts as a "rubber stamp," validating whatever decisions the owner makes. During the Sibling Partnership stage, where two or more siblings have voting control of the company,... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Dialog Services Corporation Mr. McKown is president and co-founder of Health Dialog Services Corporation, a leader in providing evidence-based medical information and decision support to patients facing treatment View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
it is both, depending on such things as the level of complexity, stage of the decision-making process, the purpose of the decision, the context in which the choice is made, whether we are deciding or rationalizing the decisions we've... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
crucial, especially for managers trying to lead widely dispersed teams during difficult times, says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Julian Zlatev. Many managers believe in maintaining emotional boundaries with employees, but... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
International, a company publishing 70 editions of its free newspaper in 20 countries. Metro had been a pioneer in the free newspaper market, fighting incumbent publishers distributing traditional paid-for newspapers. Looks at the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
companies to undo diversity and environmental initiatives; and other social and regulatory changes found boards and business leaders at companies of all sizes grappling with difficult decisions about the... View Details
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The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
to finance ratings. Issuers have no choice but to pay the fee, and are not allowed to choose the rater. By severing the link between issuer and payment, this is supposed to limit potential pressure for favorable ratings. This model has not really been tested, and is... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
difficult question is whether policymakers need to learn more from theorists, or the other way around. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-140.pdf PublicationsInput Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
Managers today have a problem. They know their companies must grow. But growth is hard, especially given today's economic environment where investment capital is difficult to come by and firms are reluctant to take risks. Managers know... View Details
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
Gulati: The difference between the outside-in and inside-out perspectives is central to the book's arguments. When I began this research, I naively assumed that all firms must indeed have an outside-in orientation whereby they put their customers first in all their... View Details