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  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

thirty-nine-year-old fellow we interviewed cashed out his start-up software business for a cool $19 million in 1999 and felt ashamed to tell his peers he hadn't made more! When records break at such earth-shattering speed, being all we... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 18 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

It was hardly the first industrial conglomerate to spin off major divisions; Tyco International PLC, ITT Corporation, Illinois Tool Works, Johnson Controls, and Ingersoll-Rand PLC had made similar moves in recent memory. However, its View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 30

a road map that will enable you to defy conventional wisdom, resist peer pressure, and carve out a path that fits your unique skills and passions? Harvard Business School's Robert Steven Kaplan, leadership expert and author of the highly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

across lines of cultural and geographic division entails modes of interaction that are fluid and complex. Fourth, there is generational change. As millennials and other younger workers gain a foothold in organizations, they bring an expectation that View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

Finally, we overcome the computational burden of solving games of complete information with multiple equilibria by utilizing the GPGPU technology, using multiple processing cores in a graphics processing unit to noticeably increase computational speed. Incentives,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

Dina Gerdeman is a senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStockphoto/sharrocks] Related Reading How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Biden and Other Incoming Leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

Physical Health By: John, Leslie, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—This research examines how access to information on peer health behaviors affects one's own health behavior. Methods: We report the results of a randomized field experiment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

community-based organizations. COVID-19 has disrupted GPP’s school-based activities, which include teacher training and the Teen Advisory Council, a program that supports students as they educate their peers about the dangers of... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

without informing other departments, leading to waste and duplication. Respect among peers declined. Employees regularly went to the press to air grievances, reinforcing the BBC's culture of blame.— Rosabeth Moss Kanter BBC: In 1999, the... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 29 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 29

inventions as the top 1% of U.S. inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is significantly higher in cities and technologies where breakthrough inventions occur after 1984 relative to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

mobility effects of workgroup demography by integrating the social identification processes of cohesion, competition, and comparison. Using five years of personnel data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match with workgroup superiors and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

propensity to air dirty laundry on Facebook, John explains. In fact, with so many Facebook members oversharing, it's gotten to the point that people get suspicious when their peers don't overshare. In a recent experiment, John and HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

morality and decrease people's ability to justify dishonesty. The second principle, Visibility, aims to restrict anonymity, prompt peer monitoring, and elicit responsible norms. The third principle, Self-Engagement, increases motivation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

five-and-a-half seasons. Many of the coaches in this group achieved some success and remained in their positions for multiple seasons. However, on average, they experienced declines in performance in the second halves of their tenures, and none lasted for six full... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

harshly penalized than their less distinguished peers in the wake of a retraction, but only in cases involving fraud or misconduct. When the retraction event had its source in “honest mistakes,” we find no evidence of differential stigma... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

influence of stewards and creators in the organization, so neither group always wins; (3) cultivate people who have credibility with both creators' and stewards and can help resolve conflicts; (4) use peer review to more accurately... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Emergency Medicine What Does It Take to Change an Editor's Mind? Identifying Minimally Important Difference Thresholds for Peer Reviewer Rating Scores of Scientific Articles By: Callaham, Michael, and Leslie John Abstract—Study... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

investing" by creating a new asset class for investors who care about social impact. Doing so will require working with competitors in the field in order to establish benchmarks and standards of measurement. How can Acumen build industry-wide benchmarks when View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

resentment, envy is both ubiquitous and painful. Will employees "level up" with their envied counterpart through self-improvement behaviors? Or will they "level down" through sabotage and undermine their peers and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Apr 2013
  • Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

Yankees," she sees workplace issues as more structural than gender-based. "Women in corporations are canaries in a coal mine," she said, pointing to a steep decline in traditional families that she believes will affect their male View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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