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- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
own frustrations: Peterson’s as a venture capitalist and Wu’s as an entrepreneur. "When people like me miss timelines, people like Aticus Peterson have to bail me out,” Wu says. “And so, we have a lot of conversations about that. And this... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
gets lost in this conversation is the extent to which the US needs immigrants. We need their youth, their willingness to work at any job, their productivity, their contributions to a social security system being weighted down by the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
industry? How will better data collection transform the ways in which we do clinical trials for new cancer drugs? It is both staggering and exciting to imagine how data and analytic capabilities will transform entire industries and it was thrilling to engage in these... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
will pay off. Join the conversation You can read more about my thoughts on hiring for startups here. Please share other ideas on this topic in the comments! Adapted from the author’s blog post, Are You Being Strategic About Hiring? View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
and in some cases, priming individuals to feel powerful and in some cases not. They found that in cases when someone felt powerful but was not recognized as being in a position of authority, team members were able to override that person's domination of the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
and one that uniquely combines the leader's numerous talents. It requires the fortitude to promote conflict while accepting ambiguity, the wisdom to know when to bring conversations to a close, the patience to help others understand the... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
program successful. Neeley, who has studied this unmined subject for nearly 10 years, worked closely on the case with Mikitani, described by some as Japan's Bill Gates. Mikitani expected that the initial global English-only conversion... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Question: How has the coronavirus affected financial flows?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
only lead people to make healthier choices, but encourage companies to work with public officials for the greater good. “I hope it can inform some of the conversations firms are having with policymakers,” he says. “These firms can respond... View Details
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
put management tools—such as finance, strategy, operations, and leadership—together to take on larger leadership roles.” Handling hard conversations The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of these skills, the authors say. As... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
conversation of Web 2.0, many museum websites have become increasingly antiquated, serving as little more than static virtual brochures for the institution. To remain current, museums must find new ways to digitally interact with... View Details
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
contributed an essay on creative capitalism to the blog Creative Capitalism: A Conversation (No longer available, -ed.), run by Michael Kinsley and Conor Clarke. We reprint her comments here with permission from the site. Bill Gates has... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
everyone needs to measure impact.” "There are two big conversations among nonprofit leaders," says HBS associate professor Alnoor Ebrahim. "One is around accountability. The second focuses on performance, particularly impact." Ebrahim is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
was a marketing executive at American Express. Shelly, thanks for joining me today. Santana: Thanks for having me. Kenny You're listening in on the 100th episode of Cold Call, so we're excited to be here today to share this with you. We're going to engage the audience... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
capable of and what I expect from them,” he said. Flick sought many confidential conversations to restore self-confidence and harmony in the team. Especially in a diverse team of competing players, it was important to him to discuss each... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
someone with whom they can have conversations about their skills as a manager. My worry is that the higher people go in management, the harder it is to get the truth. As people rise we are less willing to be as honest with them as we... View Details
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
needed for major programs or decisions to be approved. There were continuous conversations among the owners and family about important issues and these drove out consensus. Consensus never required unanimity but rather the feeling that... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
different ways. As we saw in the study involving the collision, people tend to reach self-serving conclusions whenever ambiguity surrounds a piece of evidence. While it's true that many accounting decisions are cut-and-dried—establishing a proper View Details
- 04 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?
temptation on work performance. The idea for the study came from a conversation that Piovesan and his research partner Alessandro Bucciol of the University of Verona had with Daniel Houser, head of George Mason's Interdisciplinary Center... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding