Filter Results:
(61)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(136)
- News (42)
- Research (61)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (17)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(136)
- News (42)
- Research (61)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (17)
Sort by
- 19 Feb 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Dishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: Self-Preservation through Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting
- October 8, 2012
- Column
Henkel's Culture Shift
By: Robert Simons
This case descriibes a CEO-led organizational transformation driven by stretch goals, performance measurement, and accountability. When Kasper Rorsted became CEO of Henkel, a Germany-based producer of personal care, laundry, and adhesives products, in 2008, he was... View Details
- 05 Jul 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Are Middle Managers Falling Down Most Often on Employee Inclusion?
met in the short term, then missed later on. The culprit? The failure to retain those with diverse backgrounds once they are hired. A number of excuses are given for the failure. At the moment, the favorites are: 1. The new generation of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs
responsibility, and offering to change or make amends, rather than making excuses or digging in your heels. Read another Working Knowledge story about Edmondson's book: Failing Well: How Your 'Intelligent Failure' Unlocks Your Full... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
create a space for them to connect and observe through their experiences. This could be as simple as finding them on Quora or Reddit and looking at threads of questions that are related to what you’re exploring. Test early, test often! With all the options available,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't
play a part in how much good people do in the world. Having looked under the hood, what’s your outlook on our capacity for giving, broadly speaking? “I often ask: How do people develop excuses not to give? Then I try to explore ways to... View Details
- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
disturbances [to those Britain encountered], other imperial powers responded much more harshly than the British did . This does not excuse British abuses but it provides some comparative context.” In the twentieth century, Germany, Spain,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 15 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News
versions, Exley and Judd Kessler, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, took a new approach to exploring reasons people avoid information. Separating excuses from other motives The research, detailed in the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 14 Dec 2007
- Op-Ed
When Your Product Becomes a Commodity
profits? If you've heard it, you've probably wondered if it was just a convenient excuse or if the manager had a valid point. The truth is, even when a raw material has no value added and quality standards are set by law or the industry,... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
high-stakes player contracts involving millions of dollars. He intuitively understood that emotions were an important factor in dealing with people as passionate as athletes. "The last thing I wanted to do was create an excuse for a... View Details
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
over others. With Armstrong's great wealth, he was able to put together a much more sophisticated doping operation than less successful cyclists. By contrast, Armstrong's teammate Tyler Hamilton made no such excuses when he testified two... View Details
- Research Summary
Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?
governments should stop the natural market dynamics, but . . . countries should (not) use the term 'level playing field' as an excuse for exploitation." Paul Jackson points out that "In this country [the United States], let... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
most memorably: “I find myself in a Claude Rains Casablanca moment here: ‘I’m shocked, shocked to find that FB and others are making money off my data when they give me their services for free.’” But “shocked” or not, reality probably will not View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
group decided that I would be the social director!" The benefit was having a good excuse to invite Levitt, who was not teaching in the AMP program, to dinner. "We became good friends," she recalls, adding that she applied a... View Details
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
CEO of Silk Road Technologies. For the true entrepreneur, he continued, reality is the superior teacher; and school is an excuse to delay failure. Although their topic was "Post Boom Internet Opportunities," panelists spent most... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
prerequisite for trust. So why haven’t we seen more of it on an organized basis? Is it simply lack of time? Does it require a support structure that may be lacking in many organizations, something that can’t be created overnight? Or are these just View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
climate legislation such as a carbon fee-and-dividend program. Strong policy in G8 nations is all the more important because it removes excuses for inaction by China, India, and other countries with rapidly growing carbon footprints.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
provides information for detecting root causes. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55759 forthcoming Management Science Using Charity Performance Metrics as an Excuse Not to Give By: Exley, Christine L.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
chosen bag, to give them some skin in the game and make them more serious about their choice. Then, the students were excused for 12 hours. Some did the initial selection of a bag at night and were told to come back in the morning, after... View Details