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- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
firms are able to avoid defensiveness and resulting blindness. HCHP firms institutionalize what I call Learning and Governance Systems, a means for having honest, collective, and public conversations with key people at lower levels about... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
conversation talked about even in Massachusetts, the so-called education Mecca of the world, there are many people who don't have access to broadband, to internet, to the digital tools, to things like Zoom Frazier: Yes. Yeah, absolutely.... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values
several decades—and it's hard to argue that a mild increase in a low minimum wage would cause a lot of unemployment. Nevertheless, a minimum wage increase is controversial. Why is that? Because the conversation is really about much more... View Details
- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
big effect.” Goldenberg says it’s important for managers in workplaces and teachers of online classes to hold synchronous meetings, rather than merely conversations over email or Slack. “Even if the decision will be the same, there is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
But when I first started talking to doctors about a kidney exchange program, I would very quickly at the beginning of the conversation mention that I wasn't going to propose that we buy and sell kidneys—that I knew it was a felony.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
if pursuing a less hectic pace may mean sacrificing career advancement. Also, default to saying “no” for most unplanned, last-minute impositions on your time, especially requests that benefit someone else, like a side work project. While you may say “yes” to a quick... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
"I've heard many war stories," says Harvard Business School associate professor Connie Bagley, reflecting on conversations with former students who have started business ventures. To prepare current students for the HBS Business... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
public conversation to answer a critical question, the researchers write: “How much health care is a right?” It is quite different than simply stating that health care is a right, for that statement is a recipe for everything to be... View Details
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
start (S) doing," and then asking those same people to hold you accountable for what they included on the list. More honest, no-holds-barred conversations with bosses and direct reports are also part of recovery, he adds. Finally,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
unpaid volunteers makes these conversations even more meaningful. “The discussions that voters and canvassers have on doorsteps are very personal,” says Pons, whose past research found that even a five-minute View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
we're using Web 2.0 technology; accompanying essays, debates, and discussion have started on the Harvard Business Review Web site. In many ways, the conference is just going to be the midpoint of the conversation that has already started.... View Details
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
were using the platform to conduct various COVID-19 information campaigns. That conversation planted the seeds for the study. “What we wanted to do was zoom out and say: How cost effective are these interventions as a whole?” Luca says.... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
level, the quality of the conversation between stakeholders and its resolution is very important, and we cannot have a reasonable conversation without the voice of all stakeholders being adequately... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
nothing.” Not social enough Commercial appeals often fall flat on social networks, which many consumers believe should be a place for conversations strictly among people they know. “If you and I are having a View Details
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
poorly, either by taking the conversation to unrelated tangents or by omitting key information that might cast the advice-seeker in a poor light Misjudging the quality of the advice they are given Once advice-seekers have received... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
conversations with their bosses, notes Thomas DeLong, who teaches organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. "I'm amazed that although organizations are willing to set metrics for success in difficult times, so few... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
not going to be incredibly successful. But, if they are, then that’s a conversation that the regulators need to be aware of. In the short run, my great worry is patient privacy. They’re going to get something like 10 or 15 years of... View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
essential skill to master for creating an edge in the innovation economy is the ability to tell stories, to motivate others to join you on an unknown journey. What are the key ideas behind learning to be a storyteller? Kanter: Effective leaders are storytellers. While... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne