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- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
resisting change as well as having conflicts amongst themselves. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410002-PDF-ENG Savage Beast (A1) Noam Wasserman and Louis-Philippe MauriceHarvard Business School Case 810-051 For... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
transparency and communities it has spawned, new attitudes toward work and the way it is performed, and global competition and cooperation, much of it fostered by the Internet. But will these forces outweigh the natural tendency of those in control to View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB
qualifications, technical skills, and networks required for the job. I thought to myself, “if students at Harvard Business School - one of the leading feeders for venture capital/private equity roles in the world - are facing this level of View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
both arenas.” Having agreed to a five-year term at Yale, Donaldson returned to Wall Street in 1980 to run his own international investment fund. But when the NYSE came calling in 1990, he couldn’t resist another opportunity to upset the... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
masculinity in the workplace. A resulting working paper, "Unmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Male Identity," not only explores how organizations influence the way men enact their gender, but also looks at how "organizational... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
bit about each one of them? Amy Jen Su: Leader A and leader B was a heuristic that I created to try to describe what people were describing to me out in the trenches. Leader A is the part of all of ourselves—it's like a mode we have when we're our best self, we don't... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
Despite its scale and success, Uber often found itself embroiled in controversy, with resistance from a broad range of unhappy stakeholders—regulators, competitors, drivers, and even some customers and partners—across the U.S. and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- Web
Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
realize the different ways in which data can be easily manipulated.” Brandeis Marshall Read the Transcript We know our socialization and education impact how we curate and interpret information, so any cognitive resistance that some may... View Details
- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
creative and downright crafty ways in which scarcity has been used to move product. Although Cialdini admits to a "grudging admiration for the practitioners who made this simple device work in a multitude of ways," he urges readers to View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
entrenched interests are going to resist and regulators are too slow to catch up,” she says. But Kanter calls financial results a “lagging indicator” of a company’s health. “They tell you what you’ve just done. They don’t predict the... View Details
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
them to resist the urge to follow suit. Competitive pressure, I argue, breeds conformity. Q: You discuss consumer devotion to a product or service in your chapter on "category blur." What do you see happening to brand loyalty?... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
research on high-need-for-achievement professionals — people with an insatiable need to keep achieving at all costs — DeLong took stock of the ways in which he and other driven executives can become victims of their own ambitions and View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
declared, American policy needs to become more multilateral, and globalization must be shaped by the international community “to resist the negative aspects and leverage the positive.” Richard haass: The former State Department official... View Details
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
nature of willpower and are reliable predictors of economic outcomes in the adult. The implication is that one might, for example, be able to strengthen a "weak" child's ability to resist temptation, and in so doing offer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
integrate acquisitions quite successfully, including clear strategic intent and the fact that employee resistance was reduced because most acquisitions were agreed. Finally Unilever could take a long-term view because of its size, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
of coercive power as illegitimate and will feel free to violate its terms unless power is applied on an ongoing basis to enforce it. They also understand that backing weak players into a corner triggers resistance and escalation.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- Web
Commencement 2016 Address | About
self-assured you are about your moral compass, you are vulnerable, under stress or in certain contexts, to losing your way. Remember the Milgram experiments you studied in your Leadership and Accountability class. Although we would like to believe that we are the one... View Details
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
threats may not be very effective.” Someone who willfully downloads music or movies may be liable for thousands of dollars or even more in statuary damages. However, fees for inadvertent usage are typically limited to the actual damages, which are smaller in amount.... View Details
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
If there is one job that many software analysts and programmers cannot stand, it is testing software on the path to launch. The grinding concentration and repetitive nature of the tasks serve to drive many techies around the bend. Testing—due in no small part to the... View Details