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- 26 Apr 2024
- HBS Case
Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory
opportunities must be actively cultivated and pursued. “He can shape players into being the most marketable they can be,” says Gibson. “Today, a college football coach needs to understand business and the acumen that goes into external... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction, and challenge of the work itself—and not by external pressures. This is the "Intrinsic Motivation Principle of Creativity" (Amabile, 1996), and it suggests that the social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side
from my research associates and me. I met personally with each participating team four times during their participation: An initial recruiting meeting, where I explained what participation would involve and what the team would get in... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
People make snap judgments all the time. That woman in the sharp business suit must be intelligent and successful; the driver who just cut me off is a rude jerk. These instant assessments, when we attribute a person's behavior to innate characteristics rather than... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
opportunity to misreport their performance or having their performance verified by an external monitor. To study the effect of social factors on the willingness to be subject to monitoring, we vary whether participants make this decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
"So having an external force, whether it's a leader or a compensation system, forces you to do something you wouldn't ordinarily do, the mundane things that make you a better person, a better leader, or a better basketball player.... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage
In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
the single most important public good: defense of national boundaries from external attacks.” Quantifying racism’s toll Economists have looked more frequently at racism’s destructive influence on the US economy in recent years, yet few... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
recommended) being attentive to the changes in the external environment communicating with middle managers and leading by example, motivating employees to speak, listening to customers.” Several asked whether the phenomenon in question is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
explicit goal of creating social value, but they have to mobilize resources from external sources. Leadership style. "For good governance you need continuity," said Reficco. "You need some degree of overlap between... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
versus a "top dog," a well-endowed competitor with superior resources or market dominance, and tremendous passion and determination to succeed despite the odds. The underdog's external environment is largely negative: Underdogs... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
"Three-Party Exchanges: The Case of Executive Search Firms and the CEO Search," he describes how the function of search firms in CEO recruiting differs from the role they perform when recruiting... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
internally focused manner. Innovation today must be managed as an open system, with a far greater external focus. Q: Which companies today are the best examples of open innovation, and why? A: IBM, Intel, and Procter & Gamble all... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
(One cure for stock option abuse, say proponents, is to change accounting rules so that option grants are reflected in a company's principal financial statements. High-tech start-ups blister at that idea, saying it would harm their ability to View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
diffusion of new technologies. A networked incubator can provide tremendous value to a start-up team through connections that help forge crucial strategic partnerships, recruit highly talented people, and obtain important advice from... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
external events in the late 1990s, accelerated dramatically with the accounting scandals of the Enron era plus the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, and then continued to change under the pressure of shareholder activism. There's a lot more... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
caused change to come through external regulation or pressure from newer, nimbler competitors. Until now, American higher education has largely regulated itself, to great effect. U.S. universities are among the most lightly regulated by... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
organization. Its funding was secure through 2006 because of a government-collected licensing fee, but it had lost audience share, experienced declining ratings, and was being outpaced by commercial competitors. Skepticism and cynicism reigned in the company. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
developing countries. After receiving generous amounts of aid in the early years of its development, the country weaned itself off these external flows as quickly as possible. They now maintain a comfortable cushion of foreign reserves to... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell