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  • 24 Oct 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

study. “These effects depend on the specific area and population that is targeted.” How to support Black-owned businesses While the study’s findings are encouraging, Luca cautions that it’s not enough for corporate leaders to simply... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage
  • 13 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

researchers conducted an experiment in which white participants engaged in a two-person guessing game designed—unbeknownst to them—to measure their tendencies toward attempted racial colorblindness. Each participant was given a stack of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

Professor Amy C. Edmondson, who studies psychological safety and organizational learning. Incidents that almost result in loss or harm often pass unnoticed, in part because workers worry about being associated with vulnerability or failure. But when View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

or her convictions to accept their intergenerational responsibility for the quality of life in our society and at the same time deliver long-term profitability. Q: What company or companies are leaders in conducting and communicating... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

  PublicationsHow Leaders Kill Meaning at Work Authors:Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer Publication:The McKinsey Quarterly, no. 1 (January 2012) Abstract Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Jul 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

distribution channel on overall inventory levels and costs. One thing that may have helped generate the HBS offer was an experiment I performed using my own crude version of what would become known as the “beer game.” In my approach, my... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

research led to my new book, Discover Your True North, which profiles 101 leaders and describes how they developed. It also draws heavily upon classroom experiences in the Authentic Leadership Development... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 2011
  • Book

Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

By: Chet Huber
Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details
Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry
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  • May 2010 (Revised June 2012)
  • Case

From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group

By: Willy Shih and Nancy Hua Dai
As Zuo Zongshen drove the transformation of the Zongshen Industrial Group from an early imitator in the motorcycle business to a company that increasingly focused on innovation as a way to get out of the hyper-competitive commodity business, he continually faced new... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Investment; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge Acquisition; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Motorcycle Industry; China
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  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

(Experiment 2), and non-suppression (Experiment 3). However, when firms honor these implicit promises, voting can mitigate the disappointment that arises from receiving an undesired outcome (Experiment 4). Finally, Experiment 5 identifies... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

an HBS alumnus in Vienna, Georg Kasperkovitz (HBS MBA 1999), and decided to highlight Slovakia's experience when we realized that the flat tax was one of the hot topics. Meanwhile, we were witnessing "reform fatigue" within the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

organizational design so as to reinforce and enable each other. August 2013 Harvard Business Review 91, no. 9 (September 2013): 68-76 Great Leaders Who Make the Mix Work By: Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine Connolly Abstract—Business View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2006
  • HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

primarily around rewards and punishments. Tight supervision, a controlling type of leadership style characterized by a great deal of social distance between leaders and led." That's what you want to do, to get people to broaden the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports
  • 23 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

fail to meet their projected targets and 75 percent of new products fail.” McDonald and co-author Christopher Bingham explore eight central tensions in the new book, Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

professional domains, readers gain insight into why teaming across fields is so challenging, and what leaders can do to help. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50682 May 2016 Harvard Business Review Learn to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2022
  • Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

Devices because they've got 50-plus years of being an advanced leader in electronics in the world. People see lots of entrepreneur successes, and they say, boy, that must be easy because they're free and autonomous and they can do this.... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Mission-Driven Governance

By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation
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  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

relationship between the diffusion of advanced internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early 1990s to the early 2000s and, similarly, that counties that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

Nineteen years ago, Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill wrote the first edition of her book Becoming a Manager, detailing the experiences of several first-year supervisors who were making the daunting transition from star... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

December 4, 2017 Harvard Business Review How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Mattson Abstract—It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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