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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
leaders might say they value inquisitive minds, in reality most stifle curiosity, fearing it will increase risk and inefficiency. Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino elaborates on the benefits of and common barriers to curiosity in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
gain strength from vulnerability: putting the past behind us and seeking honest feedback. Packed with practical advice and inspiring stories, Flying Without a Net is an invaluable resource for all leaders seeking to thrive in this age of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
taking his company private. The company, which he had founded in his dorm room as a college freshman and which had made him the youngest Fortune 500 CEO in history, had been the market leader in PC sales in the early 2000s. In recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales,” “a parasitic economic logic,” “a rogue mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth,” “as significant a threat to human... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
the experience at Airbnb provides an important lesson for other businesses with similar web platforms. Companies should be reviewing their web design and building in more anonymity. If it’s necessary to provide identifying information of... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
Selling is changing, but broad generalizations and false dichotomies about ecommerce, big data, and other trends—hallmarks of current sales advice—are keeping business leaders from making sound decisions, says Frank Cespedes, author of a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
was launched. The results were stunning. Sales rose more than 85 percent over the previous year and the initial shipment sold out within weeks. The U.S. Army's Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL), based at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is a View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
well) to the thoughtful adoption of social media technology. And they offer guidance on how to balance the benefits of open-ended talk with the realities of strategic execution. Drawing on the experience of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
lead for offering a customer relationship management (CRM) solution as a Web-based service. Siebel, the leader in CRM packaged software sales, has to devise a strategy to compete with salesforce.com. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
flat top of the S). “Miles Davis forced the musicians to approach the music without any expectations or preconceptions, often by giving them minimal sketches and sparse instructions."—Carl Størmer: Companies experience a lot of... View Details
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
for the phenomenon. Munyaradzi Mushato suggested that, "my experience in industry tells me that most jerks are created by the very systems that are designed to improve performance that is, about 70% of the jerks are bred! Most... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
ultimately be reflected in long-term earnings and benefit for shareholders? Should they resolve the dilemma in some other way? What do current trends and experiences say about the future of stakeholder management? Is it becoming too... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
physical experience of weight is associated with the emotional experience of guilt and thus that weight intensifies the experience of guilt. Across four studies, we found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
notes, the uncle’s experience and institutional knowledge offer huge potential benefits—but Tam isn’t sure how accepting he will be to the proposed changes. “When his father managed the food flow, they were fast,” Schlesinger says. “Now... View Details
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
discovery—talking with customers and understanding what you need to get to product market fit or grow adoption—then these priorities set the hiring agenda. For example, if you’re realizing that your onboarding process is too complicated, then hiring a User View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
remain after controlling for a large number of observable factors, including the experience of the writer, the agent, and the identity of the studio. “These are big differences, “ says Luo. “It shows that despite all of the potential... View Details
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
take root? It starts with the leader and senior team taking a hard look at management or organizational barriers, including the senior leadership team itself. To do this, they must enable truth to speak to power. But Beer says that even... View Details
- Research Summary
Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
forthcoming American Political Science Review Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France By: Braconnier, Céline, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons Abstract—A large-scale randomized experiment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
people have been working from home for a few weeks, leaders need to hold a “working from home” relaunch to help their teams learn to reorient based on the new realities. While team launches set the course of a group at the moment it comes... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley