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- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
bequeath themselves expensive office facilities and luxurious corporate jets make different business decisions than those who do not? In this age of Wall Street excesses, these are pertinent questions that could further our understanding... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu, and Chia-Jung Tsay Publication:Emotion Review (forthcoming) Abstract Moral problems often prompt emotional responses that invoke intuitive judgments of right and wrong. While emotions inform judgment across many domains, they can also lead... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
from 260 employees to 38 in 10 days,” one CEO shared. “Decisions had to be made swiftly. It was heart-wrenching. My mindset has changed. Priorities have changed, personally and professionally.” Executives have turned to a handful of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
success, for example, leads to an unreasonable fear of failure, a mindset that inhibits risk taking, a focus on past performance rather than potential, and blindness to the role of luck in successes and failures. Managers, therefore, need... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
leaders of listed companies in Germany.1 Is Big Change always the right action to revitalize a dispirited organization? Could “Small C” retooling work better in some instances than an exhaustive, complete turnaround? What we’ve learned in... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
graduating or an experienced manager, the most critical global attribute is open-mindedness. There's a curse that Americans in particular face, in that they're born in the world's largest, richest, and most technologically developed market. This can make it harder to... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
total number and length of meetings, Austin says. Could you reduce a get-together that typically lasted an hour in the office to a 30-minute huddle on Zoom if the meeting leader sticks to a clear agenda? One of the simplest ways to trim... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
company's strategic location in the China market, he would have to transform the company mindset and its operating structure from its roots in the manufacturing of DRAMs to the service orientation that was necessary to support the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
At the start of the pandemic, the uncertainty primarily concerned health issues—the diffusion of the virus and its effective threat. As the virus expanded from China to other countries, the uncertainty extended to the economic domain. For example, which businesses had... View Details
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
ambiguous, with several dots appearing near or on the line in the middle of the square. The researchers focused on the results of the "ambiguous" tasks, with the idea that these were the ones that allowed more room for interpretation—participants View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
could choose either an organic or a nonorganic option—a carton of milk, for example. In monitoring what they called "indulgent" purchases, the researchers looked at sugary items like ice cream and candy bars, as well as salty... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
advantage? It's a conscious strategy to play to their strengths? A: I think that's right. For instance, Polaroid identified digital imaging as an opportunity very early on; in fact, you could argue that its View Details
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
company's vision." Charlie Efford added that "The key to self-management becoming embedded is changing the mindset of the management team. Most corporations haven't made this shift." Denis Collet suggested "it's all... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
commented that this mindset "leads to poor morale and burn out," as well as a loss of effective communication skills. Gerald Nanninga added that "it is destroying the art of pondering" and "by valuing work as a... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
resolution and negotiation classes concerning how to enlarge the pie. I believe that the mindset of exploring wise tradeoffs is more common in business schools than in law or policy schools, where adversarial relations are too commonly... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 12 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
forecasts become accurate, which is quite an optimistic finding for cooperation,” Lees says. “If you can actually engender cooperation, people are much more likely to have accurate perceptions that might drive reconciliatory behavior.” In a final experiment, Lees and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
reviews are actually the single most important input to our new product development process. We make sure that our new products start from the needs that customers express,” Yang said in an interview in 2016. “Traditional businesses should embrace the View Details
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
purpose; managers need to answer not just what the team should or could be doing, but also why doing so matters. All of us, particularly the younger generations in the workforce, want to be in organizations where we can make a difference.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
remote monitoring service for cardiac device patients, which hit the market well before 2010 (the FDA approved it in January 2002). It was only by thinking in terms of "reinvention," says George, that this could have been... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “The psychology is powerful. That feeling of being in first or last place affects our thoughts, emotions, and behavior.” Although the research focuses on aircraft design, its findings View Details