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- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
achieve actionable transparency by embedding their design in a centralized system with a shared design language and near-real-time updating, where everyone with an interest in improving the design has the right and the means to act on it.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
functioning in that way. From an economic perspective, that deceit is preferable to the realities of tariffs. In recent tweets on auto companies, he’s already changed his language to a “border tax,” from tariffs. I think the risks of such... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
within the organization. "Rather than being pulled by user requirements," he wrote recently, "design-driven innovation is pushed by a firm's vision about possible new product meanings and languages that could diffuse in... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
speak the same language for the most part. In the social sector we don't have nearly that degree of agreement over what constitutes useful, common metrics, even in subsectors like health care, education, and the environment. At the moment... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
point of focus and discipline. Some simple and pragmatic guidelines can be used to make the company's reporting as useful as possible to all stakeholders. By simplifying the language and avoiding the use of jargon or "legalese," the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
mining." The culture problem was partly linguistic. South Africa has 11 official languages: Xitsonga, Tshivenda, siSwati, Setswana, Sesotho, Sesotho sa Leboa, IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, IsiNdebele, English, and Afrikaans. (The national anthem incorporates 5 of them.)... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
enough that they might be able to listen to more complex arguments. Relationships matter. Silverthorne: Words from leaders are important: some soothe, others inflame. What’s your advice to new leaders for setting the right tone? What should the tenor of their View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
design-driven innovation is pushed by a firm's vision about possible new product meanings and languages that could diffuse in society. Design-driven innovation, that plays such a crucial role in the innovation strategy of design-intensive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
in Conference Calls of Non-U.S. Firms By: Brochet, Francois, Patricia L. Naranjo, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We examine how linguistic complexity affects the capital market reaction to information disclosures. We define linguistic complexity as the use of non-plain English... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
"It's a gap that might make you less competitive compared with someone who is of the same ethnic culture." “To the extent that you could speak the language or demonstrate a certain level of understanding of culture, that might... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
descent into violence. For Nepal, these factors for study included poverty, social and language diversity, and even geographical conditions. What Iyer and Do found: poverty trumps all, yet in a complex, nuanced way. As Nepal's conflict... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Putting the Project Puzzle Together
organizations also have an involved information-literate senior management (for example, Cisco), as well as deeply competent, general-management-articulate IT managers who are able to translate their technologies into a language system... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
literature in behavioral ethics and moral psychology on ordinary unethical behavior. Publisher's link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154615000443 April 2015 Academy of Management Journal Unearned Status Gain: Evidence from a Global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Accounting Review The Capital Market Consequences of Language Barriers in the Conference Calls of Non-U.S. Firms By: Brochet, Francois, Patricia L. Naranjo, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We examine how language... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
research is unlikely to influence managers’ day-to-day decisions about whether to apply for patents. Indeed, many companies already attempt to have it both ways, as patent attorneys can use obfuscating language in patent applications in... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
United States in Internet use by mid 2004, he predicted. By 2007, the predominant language on the Internet will be Chinese, he said. As a frequent traveler to Asia in his role as director of the School's Asia-Pacific Initiative, which... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
Choudhury and his team built a “CEO Bot” by providing a large language model with all internal and external communications from the real boss, including emails and Slack messages. The idea was to create a machine “stand-in” that could... View Details
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
what? What will it take to achieve gender equality in leadership? What do you think? To read more: Amy Cuddy, Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are, TED talk, TEDGlobal, June, 2012. Adam Galinsky and Maurice Schweitzer, It’s good to be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant
Some of this surely stemmed from language considerations. To an extent, the Indians' greater command of the world's lingua franca will lubricate the inevitably-difficult integration process. Fourth, the Tatas have built up some experience... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
with contracts, if any agent’s preferences are not substitutable, then the existence of a stable outcome cannot be guaranteed. In many-to-many matching with contracts, a new market design issue arises: the design of the contract language... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne