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- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
deliberate on important decisions. Masking the gender of applicants for tech jobs before deciding whether they should be interviewed can remove bias from the process. And when selecting employees for a task, managers should compare two or... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- November 2007
- Article
Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders
By: Joseph L. Bower
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning
Bower, Joseph L. "Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 11 (November 2007).
- 09 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs
pre-hiring interview records, the authors found no correlation between any specific demographic or personality traits among those who opted in or out of mentoring. They did find that those who opted out of mentoring tended to have lower... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 20 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Steps to Help You Get Out of Your Own Way
That Brings Peace and ProductivityJoseph Badaracco studied classic works and interviewed 100 managers in 15 countries to learn how busy men and women find time for reflection. Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time Enjoying life requires... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
new CEOs. See a video interview with Porter.Most new chief executives are taken aback by the unexpected and unfamiliar new roles, the time and information limitations, and the altered professional relationships they run up against. Here... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
has spent a career studying power dynamics within corporations, political institutions, and other organizations. Power is intoxicating To bring social science research on power to life, Battilana and Casciaro conducted more than 100 View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
Approach to Leadership Development My 2007 book, True North, showed people how they could develop themselves as authentic leaders. Whereas Authentic Leadership was based on my personal experiences in leading, True North was built on field research drawn from in-person... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- March 2025
- Article
Novice Risk Work: How Juniors Coaching Seniors on Emerging Technologies Such as Generative AI Can Lead to Learning Failures
By: Katherine C. Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani
The literature on communities of practice demonstrates that a proven way for senior professionals to upskill
themselves in the use of new technologies that undermine existing expertise is to learn from junior
professionals. It notes that juniors may be better able... View Details
Keywords: Rank and Position; Competency and Skills; Technology Adoption; Experience and Expertise; AI and Machine Learning
Kellogg, Katherine C., Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Novice Risk Work: How Juniors Coaching Seniors on Emerging Technologies Such as Generative AI Can Lead to Learning Failures." Art. 100559. Information and Organization 35, no. 1 (March 2025).
- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
Austin, Texas, in 2017, and Ryan Raffaelli, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor at HBS, to learn more about the vinyl renaissance. The interview has been edited for clarity and length. Gazette: Why have vinyl records come back into favor... View Details
- 2015
- Working Paper
Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Partnership in Relationship Building and Collaborative Marketing by a Global Financial Institution and a Major Art Museum
By: Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser
Purpose: This paper examines cultural sponsorship from a partnership and relationship marketing perspective. It studies a case of how a partnership between two international institutions, a bank and a museum, adds value to both in terms of interaction with... View Details
Lund, Ragnar, and Stephen A. Greyser. "Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Partnership in Relationship Building and Collaborative Marketing by a Global Financial Institution and a Major Art Museum." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-041, October 2015.
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Conversational Leadership
going in three years. But your frontline customer-facing people might. Having communication that goes bottom-up is just as important as having communication that goes top-down." To try to suss out best practices for communication, the authors View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
last twenty years my colleagues at TruePoint and I have asked leadership teams to define a strategic direction (business strategy and values) and then commission a task force of their best performers one to two levels below them to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
illegal substances.) In his interview with Winfrey, Armstrong's main defense was a variation of "everyone else is doing it." “How do you start to go down that slippery slope?” Because doping was so widespread in the sport, he... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
of the company from Harvard Business School professors Marco Iansiti and Alan MacCormack. Their take: Microsoft wins through effective management of its intellectual property and an ability to spot and react to important trends before they take hold. In this e-mail... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
each individual. It is uneven and unstable; it's never frozen at a moment in time. It is both rational and emotional. In the interviews they have conducted so far with successful people—those deemed by their peers to be in the top of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
starting with recruiting. “We’re very clear that in an interview, and just in general, one of our core beliefs is be yourself,” Wallace says. Relatedly, the company places a strong emphasis on inclusivity. As COO Molly Howard notes, View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 10 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself
themselves. This article originally appeared in the Harvard Gazette. Interview has been edited for clarity and length. About the Author Christina Pazzanese is a staff writer at the Harvard Gazette. [Image: iStockphoto/Julia Garan] What... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 17 Jan 2023
- Book
Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them
good companies commit criminal violations. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. “Executives at large companies often have limited knowledge of the risk that their companies can face for potential wrongdoing. ” Lane... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
division between the 'real world' and university research that you often encounter in the United States." Staats and Upton traveled to Wipro's offices in Bangalore on multiple occasions, interviewing employees at all levels to... View Details
- Winter 2021
- Editorial
Introduction
This issue of Negotiation Journal is dedicated to the theme of artificial intelligence, technology, and negotiation. It arose from a Program on Negotiation (PON) working conference on that important topic held virtually on May 17–18. The conference was not the... View Details
Wheeler, Michael A. "Introduction." Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Negotiation. Negotiation Journal 37, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 5–12.