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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
"Today's top management needs to move beyond its focus on strategy that defines a rational product-market position to a sense of purpose that captivates employees' attention and commitment," Bartlett... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
Standardized metrics of cath lab efficiency are proposed, which can be used in public reports on this topic moving forward. Attention is paid to understanding balance sheets to track the financial health of the cath lab. Specific... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
Business I think there are lessons here for people in business, in terms of managing themselves and trying to do their own best creative work, and also in terms of managing other people. If you want to do your most creative work, you shouldn't View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model responds to the twenty-first century requirements for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we define as their span of activity. Span of activity provides a direct measure of the CEO's management style, including the attention devoted to specific subordinates and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
it could not raise equity capital, due, in part, to some accounting problems. Should El-Nazer bring this deal opportunity to the attention of TA's CEO, or should he do precisely what the CEO had told him two months earlier, "stop... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
well as our video-based facial expression sentiment variables, we conducted factor analysis to construct four distinct CEO oral communication “styles,” which we label Expressive, Stern, Dour, and Contented. We also reveal that CEOs who communicate with certain styles... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
"G" (governance) component of ESG reporting. The governance matters we identify in this paper must be addressed before turning our attention to the broader set of ESG considerations in credit ratings. Failure to put these... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
success and failure in organizational learning, to date the phenomenon has received little attention at the individual level. Drawing on attribution theory in psychology, we investigate how individuals learn from their own past... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
literature on willpower. Understanding how willpower develops can shed important light on time-inconsistent economic decision making, a topic that has received substantial attention over recent decades. In particular, we argue that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
much media fanfare. Then, if the actual performance failed to met expectations, people wrote them off and shifted their attention to the next innovation. Examples include multimedia kiosks, voice recognition, artificial intelligence,... View Details
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
attention to the disruptive proposal. For example, when DEC launched the minicomputer, IBM might have looked at that new business and said, "let them have it." IBM's mainframe customers didn't need it, the small business market... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
disillusioned because while the names and faces changed, the partisan-driven gridlock in Washington and politicians’ focus on primary voters, special interests, and donors did not. “I was always looking for ‘who’s the right candidate?’”... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
oft-discussed issue of temporal shortsightedness—the very human tendency to focus on present-day concerns without considering how our actions will affect the future. But there's also ideological myopia—a failure to realize that... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
special focus is the influence that the EU accession process has on the Latvian economy and on economic policy choices in the country. Challenges students to discuss how the environment changes as EU membership is achieved, and which new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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How do you navigate that process? What are the danger zones and warning signs that leaders need to pay attention to? Course Content and Organization: The course will be divided into two main modules. The first module will View Details
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One-Year Action Plan Update - Advancing Racial Equity
of areas. Do you want to maybe give an example of where you think we might not have made as much progress as we would like to? Jan Hammond: We had, in our initial plan, the idea of setting up a racial equity initiative at HBS that would View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
attentional focus improves perceivers’ ability to judge group effectiveness. Finally, we find that perceivers with higher levels of social sensitivity are more accurate at judging group effectiveness. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
Online Sales By: Teixeira, Thales S. Abstract—Consumers have become avid media multitaskers, moving seamlessly between their TVs and digital devices. Shorter TV commercials have reduced both the quantity and quality of consumer attention... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
Alcatel would be able to recover growth in the Chinese market. Initiatives were underway to increase focus on services over equipment, to increase Chinese research and development presence, and to merge with U.S. competitor Lucent.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne