Systems Thinking - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Nov 2016
Blog Post

The Benefits of a Residential Campus

next time I was in class. You get to store five boxes over the summer for free. The second fear I had about living on campus is the lottery system. Frankly, I did not pay enough attention to the rules of the lottery system when entering... View Details

14 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

social comparison, overconfidence, and loss aversion reduce the viability of individual performance-based compensation systems and provides a framework that integrates insights from psychology and decision research into the traditional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

consistent rate, related to the firm’s growth objectives, only works in a stable market, in a stable industry, in a stable region. “That’s a lot of ‘ifs,’” Chung says. Putting artificial intelligence to work Artificial intelligence—an array of approaches that rely on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

business owner and tech entrepreneur from Arizona Programming & System Analysis, Biomedical Engineering, Estrella Mountain Community College Small Business Administration, Northern Arizona University Apply tools and frameworks to... View Details

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

negotiation of safe paths through the complexities of official regulations and government. The easiest way to understand the Unilever organization, observed an article in the U.S. business magazine Fortune in 1947, was "to think of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

differences in leadership across task, culture, and identity. We don't offer a simple answer. Like any complex phenomena, scholars are in the earliest stages of beginning to understand the complexities of leadership. "What we think... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

Whether it’s booking a hotel, renting a movie, or buying a car, many of us consult multiple reviews before deciding. It’s called aggregating opinions, and we do it without even thinking about it. Crowdsourcing works so well, in fact, says... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Events - Business History

Italian example and began to think more broadly about why premodern economic history and business history can and should matter to us today. Nov 19 19 Nov 2018 Business History Seminar Democracy Electric: Energy and Economic Citizenship... View Details

29 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 29

mitigate this exposure? How can they extend this thinking to other cities and countries? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210085-PDF-ENG A Note on Real Estate Research Arthur I Segel, Griffin H. James, and Ann... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

Want employees to think outside the box? Start by taking a good, hard look at how you’re paying them. That’s the implication of new research examining the impact of different compensation structures on employee innovation. While there is... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

23 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 May 2022
Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

grow as a person and a leader. I wanted to develop a new skill set and garner new insights to make me a more effective and diversified instructor for the cadets I will teach at USMA. What do you think helped you stand out during the... View Details

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

on how the economic system works and what history teaches us, business readers might turn to A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know, by Harvard Business School professor David A. Moss, who... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

psychedelics. Through the treatments, she experienced profound relief and recovery from her severe PTSD. She soon began thinking that psychedelic-assisted therapy might help traumatized veterans in Ukraine, too. In 2019, she and Oleh... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

05 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

described the limitations of their current system and gave an overview of their needs and expectations. After the presentation, a dialogue opened up between the executives and the prospective bidders. Representatives from consulting firm... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

identity if it spills over to general consumers. "Often the lovers or haters of a product can be the canary in the coal mine—an early warning system that can alert managers to problems or identify areas where a competitor could come in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

School of Management at Northwestern University.) "From an academic perspective, we thought we could advance the theory of networks by looking at the psychological consequences of networking." Previous psychology research has shown that people View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

when they think through a decision point or reflect on the leadership journey described in the case. But who are these “model” leaders? Since 2015, the HBS Gender Initiative has been analyzing gender representation in HBS cases. After... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

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Media Coverage - Managing the Future of Work

Feb 2025 Workshift To Break the Cycle of Low-Wage Work, Redesign the Workforce System By: Joseph Fuller 12 Feb 2025 HBS Working Knowledge Why Home Construction Has Slumped for Decades Re: William Kerr 10 Feb 2025 HBS Working Knowledge... View Details

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