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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
other words, all this energy probably would not be harnessed efficiently to the goals of the larger enterprise. The acquiring drive will lead to ongoing competition as everyone in the organization seeks to boost their relative share of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
and 2000s, and particularly about the expansion of NATO. We are at a genuine impasse, and I fear that a much more thorough and destructive military operation in Ukraine is ahead. Forman: Will this conflict worsen COVID-19 supply chain disruptions? Abdelal: View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
what matters most.” Respondents suggested that not everything can be achieved by remote leadership. Goldshlager commented that if remote leadership “would like to turn-around or transform their operations, they probably need a strong... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
feel an Orwellian disease. Self-regulation within the industry seems to be the answer to the privacy question at this juncture, but Al Silk points out that given that "a series of people have fallen off the wagon," more formal measures will View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 12 May 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)
that it must have been a system error. Since I had just moved, the system probably hadn’t updated correctly yet. However, the new resident had a phone number which wasn’t mine. The concierge called the number, and another Xuefei Bai... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
in my case, that’s probably the largest influence. He had everything from a wrecking yard where they salvaged parts from cars to a machine shop where they rebuilt engines to a distribution supply business. He did lots of things and he did... View Details
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
How "sleepy" or "awake" are you when it comes to your stock portfolio? If you're like most people, you probably don't spend a great deal of time monitoring your investments. So when another company uses stock to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Mar 2016
- HBS Seminar
Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
In the 1950s, most Americans probably couldn’t name the CEOs of the largest companies in the United States, including General Motors, United States Steel, and Standard Oil. But these days, some of the most successful businesses have... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
"demonstrated" why a proposal to allocate many more resources to building a firm's business in Europe went too far. The document is incomprehensible (we have yet to find anyone in that firm who can explain it clearly), but it has successfully undermined... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
be careful to research any organization they’re moving into to make sure it’s diverse and welcoming. “There’s probably no free lunch here because going into an organization that has fewer women and has potentially had more of a problem... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
into the force. They were seeking the power over others that wearing a uniform and carrying (and using) a weapon would afford them. As a result, the selection process was altered, but of course the effects of the change would take years to be seen. This View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
order of highest probability of acceptance—friends, sisters and then parents. I received love from everyone but didn’t make everyone happy. My parents are still processing the grief. They feel a sense of loss as they had planned for their... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
by asserting that a brand might fit better in one company's portfolio than in another's. But a marketing professional would probably explain the improved fit in terms of distribution economies or manufacturing synergies. I would explain... View Details
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. “They didn’t know it would turn out to be a multibillion dollar industry.” “By definition, when an investor makes an investment, it changes the probability of success” In a new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
York after graduating from college. Then, in 1988, Ferguson and Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990) founded Urban Profile, a lifestyle magazine for young African-American professionals. “We didn’t consider printing costs or subscribers,” Ferguson remarks. “It’s View Details
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
Carrier’s leaders probably didn’t anticipate this when they decided to take an action that others had taken before them—moving 1,400 jobs from the US (in this case, Indiana) to Mexico to reduce labor costs by nearly sevenfold and remain... View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
said, “ society has changed a lot. That said, Jack Welch today would probably be different too. For me the worst criticism of him is that his successors all struggled.” Writing by email, Jeff Wilkins, former CEO of CompuServe, commented,... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)
challenge over the next few years,” says Brewer. He describes the mix of business and a sport he loves as “a great and fortunate combination.” Putt-putt: “I don’t remember how old I was when I first picked up a club, which means I was View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
and creativity shines forth. Gross sees this as a very clear indication of the relative risks and rewards of the creative process. “Taking a chance on an untested, new idea is risky, and if the [potential] payoffs are too low—in the View Details