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  • 14 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

said, "you are often too late, especially when first-mover advantage is at play." The best explorers: Leave the office. Too often, participants acknowledged, senior leaders "live in a bubble." Explorers go beyond their organizations and their usual experiences and... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

economic decentralization and broke what remained of the bank into small pieces. By 1950, facing a proposal from leading German bankers to allow the big banks to begin reconstituting themselves, the Allied powers and the new German... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

constituency can be given full satisfaction if the firm is to flourish and survive. Moreover, we can be sure, externalities and monopoly power aside, that using this value criterion will result in making society as well off as it can be.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • Article

What Is Your Status Portfolio? Higher Status Variance across Groups Increases Interpersonal Helping but Decreases Intrapersonal Well-being

By: Catarina R. Fernandes, Siyu Yu, Taeya M. Howell, Alison Wood Brooks, Gavin J. Kilduff and Nathan C. Pettit
Individuals belong to multiple groups across various domains of life, which in aggregate constitute a portfolio of potentially distinct levels of experienced status. We propose a two-factor model for assessing the effects of an individual’s status portfolio, based on... View Details
Keywords: Status; Social Hierarchies; Helping; Perspective Taking; Anxiety; Status and Position; Groups and Teams; Perspective; Well-being
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  • 2011
  • Book

Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business

By: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard and Lynn S. Paine
The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly triggered another Great Depression, economies in Europe are still teetering, and powerful... View Details
Keywords: Business And Society; Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Leading Change; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy
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  • 01 May 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?

respondents, (2) it works, and (3) there are a number of reasons why others don't or can't practice it. Timothy Lynn Burchfield provided an eloquent endorsement of the concept this way: "Those who serve (vs. power or buy) their way... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 2008
  • Chapter

Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model

By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis
Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior
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    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
    • Web

    2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    “fail well” in ways that leave their relationships and integrity intact, facilitate learning from the experience, and position them for their next career move. Slides The Future of Entertainment, Media, and Sports Professor Anita Elberse... View Details
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Cross-Boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
    Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular strategy for innovation. Knowledge diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies of practice reveal that teaming... View Details
    Keywords: Teams; Knowledge; Innovation; Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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    • 12 Oct 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

    the Puritan merchants of New England, they used their familial and religious connections to form a tight network of trustworthy relationships stretching over long distances. This kind of system for making credible business commitments is... View Details
    Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
    • April 2023
    • Case

    Burning the Sails to Save the Ship: The Pilati Family Dilemma

    By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Grace Headinger
    Octavian Graf Pilati, rising generation member of an Austrian princely family, prepared to sell the palace his family had held for over three hundred years. In recent years, the Pilati family lands had been leveraged as loan collateral for an international venture that... View Details
    Keywords: Family Office; Family; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Agribusiness; Family Business; Property; Identity; Culture; Ethics; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governance; Crisis Management; Family and Family Relationships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Real Estate Industry; Austria
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    • 30 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 30, 2008

    importance of these effects depends on the nature of the innovation problem being solved. The analysis uses data from TopCoder's software contest platform, on which elite software developers were assigned different problems to solve within assigned groups of direct... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 05 Dec 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr
    • December 2018
    • Article

    Cross-boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
    Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular strategy for innovation. Knowledge diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies reveal that teaming across knowledge... View Details
    Keywords: Teams; Innovation; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Performance Effectiveness
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    • Web

    Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

    path from dirty to clean technology. We then estimate the model using a combination of regression analysis on the relationship between R&D and patents, and simulated method of moments using microdata on employment, production, R&D, firm... View Details
    • March 2018
    • Exercise

    Does It Hurt To Ask?

    By: Alison Wood Brooks
    Does It Hurt To Ask? (DIHTA) is an interactive exercise that pairs students (in groups of two) for a brief, spontaneous, open-ended conversation during class. Each student is given instructions to ask many questions (as many as possible) or few questions (ideally zero)... View Details
    Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Communication Strategy; Perception; Information; Power and Influence
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    • 01 Nov 2017
    • What Do You Think?

    What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?

    team (had been given) sufficient power and resources to do their work.” “Former Employee” maintains that “Wells Fargo has no HR presence at the local level, which means there is no buffer between rogue managers and conscientious... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Banking
    • 20 Jul 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: July 20

    effect is also greater for firms with financial restatements, especially for those involved in fraudulent misreporting. In addition, we find that institutional ownership weakens the relationship between the insider excess control rights... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • January 2008 (Revised May 2008)
    • Case

    Comcast New England: A Journey of Organizational Transformation

    By: Michael Beer and Anita Arun
    This case describes how Kevin Casey, Comcast's New England Region general manager, transformed a low commitment and performance organization. When he took charge of this Comcast region he inherited an organization that was bureaucratic, had low customer satisfaction,... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Interpersonal Communication; Customer Satisfaction; Employee Relationship Management; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Improvement; Telecommunications Industry; New England
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