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- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
are not necessarily a bad thing—as long as the Administration lives up to its pledge to keep partisan politics out of inter-firm competition by refraining to exercise the legitimate decision rights of equity holders. Ditto for the UAW.... View Details
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
the importance of profits to long term success. HCHP leaders embrace the paradox inherent in tough business- and profit-oriented decisions on the one hand and developing an institution that cares about people and allows them to develop and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
contradicts what we "know" to be true; and to maintain clarity about our priorities and goals, so that we can be constantly vigilant in assessing the connection between what we value and what we say and do. One need not have formal authority in an... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
negative moments in the day as another key to happiness.” As incomes have risen in many countries over recent decades, more people have reported greater “time scarcity.” Those who feel time stress show signs of lower life satisfaction, including more anxiety, poorer... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
that one gets from all of this work, it is that we are our own worst enemies when it comes to making and implementing good decisions. We need tools to correct the errors and biases of our own judgment. This is puzzling, because we are frequently reminded that the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
explores choices we make as consumers of products and services, many of which she has observed in her numerous experiments. Her definition of choice is "the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Research Summary
Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies
By: Tatiana Sandino
Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
it’s a forward-looking, subjective, creative exercise that requires a lot of imagination. Think about valuing Facebook today. It requires predicting the future of privacy policies around the world, the actions of Google and Amazon in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
worked on by encouraging employees to develop a personal regime: Exercise at home, meditate, and make sure you reach out and talk to people, even if that socialization takes place virtually, just to make sure employees are happy, mentally... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
navigating the corporate ladder remains a strategic exercise for underrepresented groups. “There's a lot of pressure for many organizations to have certain amounts of diversity,” Chang says. “If you’re part of an underrepresented... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
assuming responsibility, adhering to ethical standards, or exercising moral judgment. But abundant evidence shows that companies today are expected to do all these things. In every region I've studied, I've found business leaders who are... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
and the tasks so interwoven. "Measuring one organization's contribution to earthquake relief may be possible, but it is less important than collective results," Ebrahim says. On the other hand, nonprofits that are the only actors working in a region View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
emphasis on personalized learning through a series of exercises like this one and other diagnostic exercises. By this point in the program, students also concentrate on leadership and driving change. Leadership is about getting things... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
points, not to supplant the ethical considerations, but to provide a more complete picture.” For those ready to deal with the problem, says Goh, a range of interventions have been shown to be successful, including mindfulness exercises... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
held control over others; in other cases, they didn't. The results were striking. The "high-power" leaders who had done the writing exercise dominated the discussion, talking for 33 percent of the time, while the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
like today’s purpose-driven stakeholder capitalism 100 years before its time, but it proved hard to sustain. Shibusawa exercised his influence over his many companies personally or through intermediaries. He rarely held majority equity... View Details
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
typically unstructured time and allows people to feel prepared for the day ahead. (It’s effective in the same way other rituals, like exercising before work, can help people transition between their home and job roles, the researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 2011
- Working Paper
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details
Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, Kenneth Kimura, and Marion Fourcade. "How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-070, January 2011.
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
take three months just to find the right person. (This delay should also be considered in the budget exercise for these roles. Don’t front-load salary expenses for open jobs that may take weeks or months to fill.) And be thoughtful about... View Details
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
two breathing exercises in a room heated to 105°F. Hundreds of cease-and-desist letters were slapped on competing studio owners. The Indian government, meanwhile, took umbrage with Bikram's legal claims, arguing that yoga was part of the... View Details