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inconsistent with our most fundamental values; as humans, we must condemn them. The atrocities carried out were heinous and they have left the Israeli and Jewish members of our community, and all of us, reeling. The ensuing days also have been deeply unsettling as the... View Details

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

The COVID-19 pandemic made remote work more the norm than the exception, and now many companies are struggling to map out a hybrid plan that both managers and employees can embrace long term. With return-to-work policies in flux, this is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

negotiations is that family members generally prefer to reach mutually acceptable outcomes in their negotiations. This constructive attitude is due in no small part to the strength of family ties: Typically, family members are genuinely interested in one another's... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra

15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

Authors:Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein, and Drazen Prelec Publication:Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Cases of clear scientific misconduct have received significant media attention recently, but less flagrant transgressions of research View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

conflicts between employees’ personal and professional identities, decreasing their performance and commitment. “Employers should understand the fundamental shift in employees’ lives and recognize that they have to radically alter their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Jul 2020
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Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

on intangible capabilities, such as the ability to assess the value of the knowledge and skills that are already present within the firm and in some instances within its broader ecosystem; to rapidly understand how to redeploy them in new activities; and to establish... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

it was an advertising bro fest, but also a reflection of the cultural norms of the time. After all, the 1960s was the dawn of the golden age of advertising when agencies were evolving from product pitchers to storytellers. That first... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

were unbundling, growing, and diversifying, they were also becoming more globalized. When Clients Compete In combination, these developments greatly exacerbated an old problem: the potential for conflicts of interest to arise when... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

12 Apr 2004
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Waking Up a Sleeping Company

I joined the company. The company's long history of success had led to a soft underbelly that manifested itself in a lack of discipline. The company was extremely values-centered, but its internal norms of consensus decision making, View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Jun 1999
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Joel Bines

another area unfamiliar to him - consolidation and relocation. "Story of my life," the affable Bines laughs. Bines decided to head for HBS to improve his business skills and evaluate his career plans. While at the School, he embraced a new challenge: View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

25 Feb 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

mistakes should I watch out for in starting a new company? Should I Keep Control Of My Company? Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want? It's a fundamental tension many entrepreneurs face, the conflict between wanting to become rich and... View Details

20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

well documented, little is known about why norms of silencing conflict evolve. To explore this evolution, we draw on an ethnographic study that spanned the entire life of a dot.com, starting with its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 May 2013
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A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

equity in their own companies. Bias, underrepresentation, and work-family conflict Analysis of the articles published over nearly two decades in the US business press gave the authors an opportunity to trace shifts in the media's framing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

01 Dec 1997
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Short Takes

winners and losers?" he asks. Bradach will continue to study these issues in future work. Coordinating Patient Care With tight hospital budgets and shorter hospital stays the norm today, hospitals must not only improve the coordination of... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

innovations on their own, the entire corporate R&D budget would now be dedicated to producing breakthroughs. Bradley knew that attempting to manage these projects under the constraints of the old organization would not work. Inevitably, View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

vague, unrealistically grandiose goals. The research also revealed ways in which top managers can avoid these traps. Read the paper: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Governance/Leadership/How_leaders_kill_meaning_at_work_2910 Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

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Andrew Kinard

countries are represented. The section experience is a forcing mechanism that expands your understanding of the world." "It's no accident we're accepting of conflicting opinions," Andrew explains. "We literally had... View Details

20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

designed as modular systems. Finally, it analyzes in detail the strategy of capturing value by maintaining exclusive control of an essential module in an open system. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-040.pdf Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8

Author: Michael C. Jensen Abstract There is confusion between integrity, morality, and ethics. In our much longer paper on the topic (see "Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and... View Details