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- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
MySpace puts the power of individual identity in play. You're not anonymous on a social networking site—you're exactly the opposite. You're presenting a managed self to the world. Q: These sites often have wonderful demographics from an... View Details
- October 2024
- Article
Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective
By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely
This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. organizations and to inform an approach for disrupting it. We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Organizational Culture; Gender; Power and Influence; Employees; Attitudes
Mobasseri, Sanaz, William A. Kahn, and Robin J. Ely. "Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective." Academy of Management Review 49, no. 4 (October 2024): 718–745.
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
management, innovation loses out. At best, leaders of core business units dismiss innovation initiatives as irrelevancies. At worst, they see the new businesses as threats to the firm's core identity and values. Many CEOs take a backseat in debates over resources,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
to test critical assumptions vigorously to root out overly optimistic projections. Fostering constructive dissent poses another challenge for managers. As we see in the Everest case, insufficient debate among team members can diminish the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
- 23 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions
Is it possible to truly empower employees to make their own decisions—even when those decisions could mean life or death? That is the question posed by Dutch home healthcare organization Buurtzorg, which has radically avoided almost all... View Details
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
wondered, “If it feels depressing for me, how on earth did he survive when he was actually there and did not know the end of the story?” (Emphasis in the original.) When he posed that question to the admiral, Stockdale answered: “I never... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
to decide how to best market their innovation. The iconic status of existing electric guitars, and the lack of any recent radical innovations in the category, pose challenges in securing consumer adoption. If the company goes it alone, it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2013
- What Do You Think?
Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?
respondents, (2) it works, and (3) there are a number of reasons why others don't or can't practice it. Timothy Lynn Burchfield provided an eloquent endorsement of the concept this way: "Those who serve (vs. power or buy) their way... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309034 Enel: Power, Russia, and Global Markets Harvard Business School Case 709-046 Although the global trend toward liberalization of electric utilities forced Enel, the largest View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:Journal of Advertising Research (forthcoming) Abstract I offer five rights to protect advertisers from increasingly powerful ad networks—avoiding fraudulent charges for services not rendered,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
economic decentralization and broke what remained of the bank into small pieces. By 1950, facing a proposal from leading German bankers to allow the big banks to begin reconstituting themselves, the Allied powers and the new German... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Business School faculty led in developing the method. A particular challenge in the writing of cases is finding the balance between enough complexity, so that the problem posed reflects reality and supports alternative approaches to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
satellite telecommunications system, $900 million A2 Toll Road in Poland, $20 billion Sakhalin II gas field in Russia, and the $28 billion Dabhol power project. Globally, firms financed $240 billion of capital expenditures using project... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?
PeopleImages What kinds of fear, if any, are appropriate in leading others? Fear has a place in leading and managing others. But if used for short-term achievement, as a negative motivator, or as a source of power over others, it can have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
cortisol, and increased feelings of power and tolerance for risk; low-power posers exhibited the opposite pattern. In short, posing in powerful displays caused advantaged and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
beliefs that foam strikes incurred during the launch of the space shuttle Columbia posed no risk to its fuselage. This propensity to maintain silence, a flaw at once personal and organizational, is "widespread and problematic"... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
arising in clusters, including knowledge, skills, and input-output linkages. August 2013 Harvard Business Review Mastering the Intermediaries: Strategies for Dealing with the Likes of Google, Amazon, and Kayak By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Many companies depend on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?
facing new challenges posed by the rise of what John referred to as the “tribal spectrum” and the polarization that accompanies it. Perhaps the most significant question raised by respondents was that of balance. To what extent should a... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- HBS Case
Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?
was propelling government officials to develop tougher security measures. And law enforcement officials were increasingly asking for access to iPhones, powerful handheld devices that stored information that may help them solve crimes.... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman