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- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
some advice for leading a successful honest conversation: Focus the conversation on the question that matters. What do you want to learn? Make it safe to share the whole truth. A task force of eight or so trusted leaders commissioned by... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
this, in part because the sample size is so small. Several have argued that if we are to tap the potential of people with a variety of backgrounds and demands on their time, we need to rethink work. Among other things, the argument maintains that work needs to be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
much thinking on the importance of regions and the policies that should be designed towards them. But there is comparatively little work on what regional governments’ role should be in implementing these policies relative to that of other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
different kinds of organizations. “There continues to be a wasted opportunity to think about workplace design more strategically.” That hallway encounter evolved into a Harvard Business Review article, “What’s the Optimal Workplace for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
(Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 705-441 Designed as an overview of all aspects of the strategy process: industry analysis, positioning, dynamics and sustainability, and scope issues of corporate strategy, including vertical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
an engineer at Tesla, where I worked in manufacturing and design engineering. I loved my time there and am proud that I played a small role in helping drive the automotive industry towards electrification. Most importantly, I learned... View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
tasks that are relevant to Recruit. For example, an HR manager who had wanted to be a rock star worked on creating large splashy events for Recruit’s annual company gathering and played in the company’s band. "Managers are evaluated on... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
didn't use computers himself and didn't see the value in the strategy. So a group of self-starters went ahead and designed a small, low-risk e-commerce pilot anyway. It tested well, the CEO was at last impressed, and the project moved... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Task Force on Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws, Edelman wrote that the deal could have an anticompetitive effect on Internet advertising. "The proposed... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
Abstract The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis Authors:Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Baldwin Abstract A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
First, it may be more helpful to think about the purposes of the corporation, or at least to ask the question that way—in the plural—even if ultimately one purpose must be deemed preeminent. Second, corporations are instruments designed... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
as pessimism about future economic opportunities and verify that two similar equilibria emerge. Purchase this paper from SSRN: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12641 Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
Experience Economy (Harvard Business School Press, 1999), because "most practitioners have taken the concept of one-to-one marketing and bastardized it into CRM. They're using CRM tools to design better processes for a nonexistent... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
cheaper than the current Gen III+ plants or the proposed Small Modular Reactors, even though much work needs to be done before we know that these Gen IV designs will actually be cheap enough to beat coal in India and China and safe enough... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
within people affect performance in tasks that involve interactions between people through two mechanisms: role-immersion, operationalized as intrinsic motivation, and role-taking, operationalized as perspective-taking. In Study 1, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
it far because there’s a lot of air you’re moving around,” he explains. “This is very much a local business.” Consumer preference for plastic and the marketing trend toward rejuvenating a brand with new packaging designs have been pushing... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
at GoDaddy Scott Wagner has recently joined GoDaddy, a leading provider of cloud-based software and services that helped individuals and small businesses establish a web presence, in the dual role of chief operating officer and chief financial officer. One of his first... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
implications for anyone looking to impress others, for those who are tasked with forecasting consumer behavior, or for salespeople who consult with customers on prospective purchases. In short, it’s dangerous to predict what others will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
CMO tasked with returning a key consumer brand to relevance. Fin Tales is also the rare book about leading business turnarounds not from the top, where most leaders control all the levers of change, but from the middle, where thoughtful... View Details