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01 Nov 2019
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What Does It Mean to Lead?

11 Jan 2012
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How leaders kill meaning at work

August 1999 (Revised February 2000)
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What It Really Means to Manage: Exercising Power and Influence

Describes the realities versus the myths of what it means to be a manager. In particular, it focuses on the limitations of formal authority as a source of power and identifies other sources of power that effective managers rely upon. Also outlines a framework of... View Details

Keywords: Framework; Management Teams; Alliances; Power and Influence

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18 Oct 2021
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How to Reframe What Work Means to You

January 2012
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How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work

By: Teresa Amabile and Steven J. Kramer

Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in four avoidable ways. This article is based on analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Creativity; Performance Productivity; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation Strategy; Performance; Strategic Planning; Leading Change; Balanced Scorecard; Mission and Purpose

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19 Feb 2013
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Highly Connected Boards Mean Better Returns

02 Aug 2021
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What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

It’s a sticky but common dilemma for managers: A valued employee finds out that a coworker earns more, gets upset, and demands a raise. If gender or race figure into the wage gap, tensions can escalate fast. Companies, including Whole Foods, Starbucks, and the social... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

03 Sep 2019
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At Booking.com, Innovation Means Constant Failure

Keywords: Re: Stefan H. Thomke; Travel

May 2022
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Maestro Pizza (D): This Means War

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais

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2002
Other Unpublished Work

Making Sure Independent Doesn't Mean Ignorant

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Colin Carter

Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage

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03 Sep 2019
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At Booking.com, Innovation Means Constant Failure

24 May 2011
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June 2011: Where Conservation Means Business

01 Aug 2012
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What the Blackout Means for India's Economy

14 Aug 2008
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What the Olympics Means for China, IT

What Does "Stakeholder Capitalism" Mean to You?

Business leaders are being urged to adopt a multistakeholder approach to governance in place of the shareholder-centered approach that has guided their work for several decades. But through hundreds of interviews with directors, executives, investors, governance... View Details

09 Jun 2015
Blog Post

Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree

Originally from Mexico City, Mexico Paulina Ponce de Leon moved to the United States in 2001 to attend Wellesley College. After graduating from Wellesley, Paulina spent a year travelling and pursuing a Master’s degree at MIT. Paulina then joined The Boston Consulting... View Details