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  • 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

or a combination—can catalyze leaders' listening skills, reveal what does or doesn't work inside the organization, highlight hidden challenges and opportunities, and generate essential competitive intelligence. It can promote engagement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

Cassidy Wald Wins Dean's Award for Service to the School and Society

co-president of the Future of Work Club, Wald combined her passion for empowering diverse workforces with her interest in rapidly evolving workforce technology and employee cultures—matters upon which she will continue to focus throughout... View Details
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

Transparency Trap By: Bernstein, Ethan Abstract—To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But less transparent work environments can yield more-transparent employees. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 30

Rice. Additionally, three senior executives were appointed to Ireland's team: Lazarus Angbazo was promoted from president and CEO, sub-Saharan Africa, to president and CEO, GE West, East & Central Africa and Africa commercial leader;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

in innovative capabilities, and increased employee engagement as a result. The programs vary but have seven major elements in common. Companies should 1) team with governments or nonprofits experienced in working with people with... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

Piovesan Abstract To encourage worker productivity, offices prohibit Internet use. Consequently, many employees delay Internet activity to the end of the workday. Recent work in social psychology, however, suggests that using willpower to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

Ramirez said. MLT had been on her radar for her own career growth, and she applied to the program to help her reach her goals of attending business school, but she found that joining the team as an employee in partnerships and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

Transition to Democracy Promotion The Pivot: Neoconservatives, the Philippines, and the Democracy Agenda By: Fibiger, Mattias Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54829... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

institutionalize the idea of regular face time between employees and their managers once-removed (that) high potentials 'suddenly appear' So in the case of the board, they should be accountable for assessing potential and long term... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 13 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

Employees regularly turn to managers and other higher-level co-workers to seek advice about job-related issues and next steps for their careers. Yet people don’t always take the advice they receive; they may accept some suggestions and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Alumni Book Briefs

“invisible handshake” of collaborative networks. The Secret of Teams: What Great Teams Know and Do by Mark Miller (AMP 170, 2006 ) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) What is the secret of high-performance teams? Miller tells a business fable about a newly View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

table? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207122 Putnam Investments: Rebuilding the Culture Harvard Business School Case 406-009 Charles "Ed" Haldeman Jr. is promoted CEO of Putnam... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25

too little influence to structural and situational factors. We examine whether this tendency leads even experienced professionals to make systematic mistakes in their selection decisions, favoring alumni from academic institutions with high grade distributions and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 04 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

keep rewarding and promoting them. Managers may feel that they need them, of course, as they do perform well. So it is pretty gutsy to fire them in today's rather poor economic environment. But if you're really serious about building a... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 07 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

of business closures.” “We’re finding that you can’t save businesses by just allowing them to reopen,” Mills says. “Until it’s safe, their employees don’t want to come back. Their customers don’t want to come back. There’s no one out... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

themselves to understanding the needs of less-affluent customers and using this knowledge to devise creative solutions to customer problems. Employees of China's Haier, for example, discovered through visiting rural customers that they... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

geographically insulate their trades from the broader commerce, creating in effect two circuits. Yet the professionals also promote specific practices of trade within their circuit to help them distinguish their own pursuit from an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

employment commitments and the need to promote employees within the organization further encourage Japanese companies to expand operations at home while reaching foreign markets through zaibatsu-linked... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

  Publications August 2013 Social Psychological & Personality Science Matchmaking Promotes Happiness By: Anik, Lalin, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Four studies document and explore the psychology underlying people's proclivity to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

promoting the government's goal of increased homeownership. Although lawmakers had already partially privatized Fannie Mae in 1954 and again in 1968, the agency in 1987 still retained close links to the federal government, including an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace