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- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
unconventional way. We typically think of commitments as deep, abiding pledges that individuals and organizations will do absolutely all they can to make good on. In contrast, the kind of commitments that... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
infertility: eggs, sperm, and wombs. Sometimes, these components are sold along with IVF treatment—when a couple purchases eggs, for example, they are subsequently used for an IVF procedure—but they are often provided by View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
to customer demand for inaccurate predictions. Taleb himself, in a new book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, argues that organizations and individuals should build antifragile mechanisms,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
democracy may be a requirement of mandatory service-social service, infrastructure construction, teaching/mentoring or military according to individual talents and interests A couple years contributed in the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
management team meets for two days to decide the details of an upcoming reorganization, they're likely to improvise in this manner. In complex-processing improvisations: Relational acts introduced early in the negotiation bring the... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 2005
- Class Lecture
Organizational Learning in the Face of Ambiguous Threats
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Michael A. Roberto and Richard M.J. Bohmer
Keywords: Learning; Risk and Uncertainty; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams
Edmondson, Amy C., Michael A. Roberto, and Richard M.J. Bohmer. "Organizational Learning in the Face of Ambiguous Threats." Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Class Lecture, 2005. Electronic. (Faculty Lecture: HBSP Product Number 9297C.)
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
things, a person's comfort affects negotiating behaviors. If you want to drive a hard bargain, sit on a hard chair, while making your counterpart very comfortable. In short, control your surroundings and behaviors. But perhaps most... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
administrations can be a hindrance to positive change. “There are huge design opportunities in Africa,” said John Fernandez, an architecture professor at MIT and the director of the MIT Urban Metabolism Group, a multidisciplinary research... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
ChromeOS as the user-facing operating system.” You Might Also Like: Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money? How Humans Outshine AI in... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
founder and CEO, J.B. Schramm; Chief Strategy Officer, Mora Segal; and the College Summit team must now decide whether or not to dramatically redefine their organization's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
summarized in a critique by [Harvard economist] Martin Feldstein, "all property and individual abilities should be regarded as society's common resource." Instead, Equal Sacrifice assumes View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
a me-centric view of life, then what seems rational to me as an individual may appear irrational in the context of social norms." Michael Linz asked to what extent a response to the question relies on how we frame the problem? As Jim... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
if paying a bribe makes the difference between waiting years or mere days for a permit or license, it is tempting to many individuals to just pay up. As the "Against the Grain" case suggests, pervasive corruption entails a... View Details
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
Recent research at Harvard Business School began with the premise that as a state's congressional delegation grew in stature and power in Washington, D.C., local businesses would benefit from the increased federal spending sure to come... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
combined into one “industry” in which those teams compete, independent from the other industry groupings. With each round, teams can see how they’re faring and how their rivals... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
video case studies of laid-off workers, as well as a couple of technical notes for students—one focusing on best practices for managers as they consider workforce reductions; the other on the overall effects of layoffs. Case studies on View Details
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
solving in a multicultural context because it promotes a flow of novel ideas and concepts from cultures other than one's own. New ideas from other cultures can serve as raw materials for recombination or stimulate new thoughts. Combining... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
so she recruited a team of Harvard doctoral students and undergrads to help her. “If I had gone through them systematically by myself, I would have been looking at another three to four years of work,” she... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
norms and how teams will communicate, how they will work together, and how they will ensure psychological safety is established and maintained.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding