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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Leading at State
Foreign Service Institute and is now the US chargé d’affaires to India. “A lot of what Harvard Business School has to offer is fundamental leadership training, change management, organizational management, and other things that are very... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
conventional wisdom isn’t enough to produce significant innovation; we must go further. Our thinking can too easily get confined by silos and structures that limit us to what is familiar, what we see every day, what the people around us... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
dots. Tie conversations back to key organizational priorities. Help employees see how their work fits into the organization’s larger mission—and to their personal missions, as well. This has always been good View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
air.” Two critical questions, posed by Hernan Saenz and Dunigan O’Keeffe of Bain and Company, can help organizational leaders frame their thoughts about how to survive in the present and position their companies to thrive in the... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
to break possible “virtual” silos within the organization. In companies that had to maintain physical presence in the plant, we have seen the emergence of new staffing and rotation practices as precautionary measures against contagion, as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Consultant on the Go
publicity and staying on task. While accumulating some 500,000 frequent-flier miles a year, Charan pursues his passion: helping executives solve problems. The northern India native would rather talk — in plain English — about how to break down View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
external markets. In many companies, widening the span of influence counteracts the rigidity of organizational structures based on boxes and silos. For example, although global companies like Procter & Gamble need to be responsive to... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
managers valuable insights, but there are potential pitfalls, Luca says. They include: Failing to tie experiments with managerial decision-making. Some organizations tend to relegate testing to specialized teams without deep managerial involvement, building View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
Date: December 7-8, 2007 Faculty Chairs: Teresa Amabile, Mukti Khaire Faculty Summary Report: What were the overall goals of the event? To elucidate the antecedents, facilitators, and consequences of creativity in the organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- Profile
Kwame Owusu-Kesse
of the world aren't siloed into separate buckets. To be effective, I need to dig deeper into cross-sector leadership." To be "conversant in both worlds," public and private, Kwame applied for and was accepted into the joint... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
organizations in private industry could learn from the example of Data.gov to the extent of unlocking data from individual silos in their firm even though data remain protected within firewalls. HBS assistant professor Karim R. Lakhani,... View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
startup figuring out how to market a 3-D printer. “You should approach a product launch as an organizational process, and start with the buyers, not the product” Although 3-D printers have been around since the 1980s, they didn’t find... View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
illusions and overcommitment, as well as the tendency to stick with the status quo and to discount the future. Organizational vulnerabilities arise because of structural barriers to the effective collection, processing, and dissemination... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
patient, few actually engage them in meaningful ways to help with prevention and wellness, shared decision making, provider choice, expectation setting ,and compliance. The problem is that practical skills such as cost accounting and View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
jointly develops an offshore tract-performs relative to a solo firm. I employ a regression discontinuity strategy based on bids in first-price sealed-bid auctions for the rights to develop leases. By focusing on leases where one View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
early to cope with time zone challenges or living in airports sometimes being 50 percent of a manager’s time. “It comes as no surprise that so many managers are overwhelmed and burned out these days.” Many companies are working overtime to break down the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
are working on the resulting potential breakthrough ideas. In this article, we describe how leaders of Harvard Catalyst, an organization whose mission is to drive therapies from the lab to patients' bedsides faster and to do so by working across the many View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
functional knowledge. But they fall down on "know how"—teaching students how to think beyond information silos and to be more self-aware as leaders. It's the "know how" that's most valued in the business world, Datar... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
students how to think beyond information silos and to be more self-aware as leaders. It’s the “know how” that’s most valued in the business world, Datar and Garvin found in their research. How to bridge the “knowing-doing” gap became a... View Details
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
research accessible to nonspecialists. Academics have a growing tendency to pursue ever-narrower research agendas and to talk primarily to their own discipline, resulting in a chronic problem of knowledge existing in silos and different... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne