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  • 14 Jul 2016
  • News

Ball pits, buskers and ‘ninja gardeners’: This business conference is a circus.

  • 2022
  • Article

Is Maximising Creativity Good? The Importance of Elaboration and Internal Confidence in Producing Creative Ideas

By: Goran Calic, Elaine Mosakowski, Nick Bontis and Sébastien Hélie
While knowledge management researchers acknowledge that individuals transition from generation to implementation of ideas, these transitions are not fully understood. The current article focuses on idea elaboration – defined as the transition of an idea from an... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Organizational Culture; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Innovation and Invention; Learning
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  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Competencies and Credentials

Joseph Fuller (photo by Russ Campbell) Joseph Fuller (photo by Russ Campbell) American businesses can’t afford to ignore the reality: The nature of work is changing. If companies hope to hire and hold on to employees, they need to be... View Details
  • June 2011
  • Case

Shelley Capital and the Hedge Fund Secondary Market

By: Luis Viceira, Elena Corsi and Ruth Dittrich
An advisory company has to decide how to sell their client's hedge fund holdings in the secondary market, and thinks about their future. Shelley Capital was a a European advisory company operating in the hedge fund secondary market, a market that boosted in 2008 with... View Details
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment Funds; Marketing Strategy; Financial Crisis; Sales; Leadership Development; Financial Markets; Crisis Management; Business Processes; Risk and Uncertainty; Globalized Economies and Regions; Financial Services Industry; Service Industry; Europe
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  • 2010
  • Casebook

Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

By: Laura Alfaro
All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
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    The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice

    Seeking and giving advice are central to effective leadership and decision making, and they require emotional intelligence, self-awareness, restraint, diplomacy, and patience on both sides. But managers tend to view these competencies as “gifts” that one either has... View Details

    • 27 Aug 2020
    • News

    The value of talking to strangers — and nodding acquaintances

    • 03 Apr 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

    2018 London: Bloomsbury Academic Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World By: Beckert, Sven, and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds. Abstract— In recent years historians in many different... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Article

    Technology, Identity, and Inertia: Through the Lens of 'The Digital Photography Company'

    By: Mary Tripsas
    Organizations often experience difficulty when pursuing new technology. Large bodies of research have examined the behavioral, social, and cognitive forces that underlie this phenomenon; however, the role of an organization's identity remains relatively unexplored.... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Disruptive Innovation; Organizational Culture; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Identity; Perception; Technology Adoption
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Channeled Attention and Stable Errors

    By: Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Matthew Rabin and Joshua Schwartzstein
    We develop a framework for assessing when somebody will eventually notice that she has a misspecified model of the world, premised on the idea that she neglects information that she deems—through the lens of her misconceptions—to be irrelevant. In doing so, we... View Details
    Keywords: Attentional Stability; Cognition and Thinking; Attitudes; Information; Theory
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    • Web

    Strategy Explained - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    UnIQUENESS Strategy is the creation of a unique and valuable position, involving a different set of activities. making TRADE-OFFS Strategy requires you to make trade-offs in competing – choosing what not to do. FIT across the value chain... View Details
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology on Employee Corruption and Performance

    By: Lamar Pierce, Daniel Snow and Andrew McAfee
    This paper examines how firm investments in technology-based employee monitoring impact both misconduct and productivity. We use unique and detailed theft and sales data from 392 restaurant locations from five firms that adopt a theft monitoring information technology... View Details
    Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Information Technology; Ethics; Performance Productivity; Employees
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    • 08 Nov 2021
    • Blog Post

    4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

    health care value chain in Israel and Western Europe, an experience that culminated in supporting the COVID-19 vaccine response as part of the McKinsey Social Sector Hub in Geneva. Why the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences degree?... View Details
    • 29 Aug 2017
    • News

    How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

    • Web

    CSV Explained - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    minimizes employee absences and lost productivity. The graphic depicts some areas where connections are strongest. Social Needs & Economic Value Creation How can companies create shared value opportunities? Companies need to View Details
    • March–April 2023
    • Article

    You Need Two Leadership Gears: Know When to Take Charge and When to Get Out of the Way

    By: Lindy Greer, Francesca Gino and Robert Sutton
    The debate about the best way to lead has been raging for years: Should you empower your people and get out of their way, or take charge and push them to do great work? The answer, say the authors, is to do both. Their research shows that effective leaders routinely... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Style; Groups and Teams; Organizational Structure
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    • 22 Feb 2022
    • News

    Savings and Loam

    have facilitated nearly $4 trillion in financing for fossil fuels and from it generated more than $17 billion in fees, according to Bloomberg. But many consumers, even of the environmentally conscious variety, are not in the habit of... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
    • 09 May 2008
    • News

    New Book Looks at Deep Metaphors and the Minds of Consumers

    • 05 Dec 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing

    Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
    • 22 Sep 2016
    • News

    Words and Pictures

    lives and encourages project participants to think of their reflections as a guidepost, not a prescription. “To put it in HBS terms, it is a balance sheet—i.e., a specific view of a snapshot in time; not an... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young