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- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
got 3000 entries. The winning entry used computer vision from the cameras to identify the shape of gill plates and fins to identify endangered species versus species that it was okay to capture. And that’s now been put into effect in the... View Details
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
the field of vision necessary to help.'" But if that's the case, perhaps the adviser can recommend speaking with someone else more qualified. Other advice-giving mistakes include: Communicating the advice poorly Misdiagnosing a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet
unmet need and grow it into a purposeful entity. The i-lab, the original component of the now three-lab ecosystem, opened in 2011 in Batten Hall with the vision of offering a “One Harvard” learning and convening space where venture teams... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Action Plan: Wild at Heart
in her first-ever backyard, that she was struck by a desire to create an all-white, French-style garden, inspired by the English estate of Sissinghurst. Only, Evans wanted to do it using all native plants. “I can’t even remember now why I had that idea,” she says.... View Details
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
the bottom. What were they doing differently? A: The Vision and Fusion teams presented a fascinating contrast, partly because they were in the same industry (chemicals) and were working on similar projects. The leader of the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
management tackle big opportunities. The accelerators are: Create a sense of urgency. Build guiding coalition. Form strategic vision and initiatives. Enlist volunteer army. Enable action by removing barriers. Generate short-term wins.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
Embodiments Of Ethnography Another way designers can gain fresh insights into their products is by observing consumers whose physical impediments make using them difficult. Engineers with Ford wore bodysuits that mimicked the vision and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
business leaders to step forward and lead in ways that business schools don’t teach. Let’s examine these different ways of leading comprising VUCA 2.0: Vision – Today’s business leaders need the ability to see through the chaos to have a... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
behave. Second, he must recognize that his position does not confer the right to lead, nor does it guarantee the organization's loyalty. He must perpetually earn and maintain the moral mandate to lead. CEOs can easily lose their legitimacy if their View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
startup’s vision or step back altogether after a larger company takes possession. In 144 of these transactions, the deal effectively closed a failing business. Another 2.9 percent of the companies examined, or 317 ventures, went public... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
genuinely good plan, pursuing a great idea, or making a needed vision a reality might be filled with frightening risks—even though that is not really the case. There are all sorts of ways to create fear. You have seen a half dozen in the... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
vision. By all accounts, she and the others at Theranos, all of them wanted Theranos to succeed. Their vision was incredible; it would have been transformative. The question is, at what point does that wishfulness and enthusiasm go from... View Details
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
the short term will attract short-term investors, further reinforcing a short-term managerial attitude. Communicating a long-term vision for the business and providing both narrative and quantitative information is an integral part of... View Details
- 30 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?
managers have the courage, but does the CEO have the vision and fortitude to stand before the board and defend the opportunity to explore and fail?" Joe Violette, who reminded us that innovation (as opposed to invention) is most... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
explore the state of education in the mid-19th century and the vision of public education proposed by educational reformer Horace Mann, the first secretary of Massachusetts’s state board of education. Today, she guides the class through... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
pitched her group on tackling a visioning process to define Chattanooga’s priorities for the next two decades. With “inclusive” and “diverse” as the group’s watchwords, the YALP cohort returned to Chattanooga and launched the next stage... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
rural regions, and regulatory uncertainties. “One of the exciting things about Alibaba and Ant Financial is Jack Ma’s vision of financial inclusion across China. So you have rural potato farmers who have really no bank accounts and no... View Details
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
overprotective of people also causes us to avoid giving feedback to top management. Q: What kind of leadership is necessary for a HCHP firm? A: Leaders must have HCHP vision and values (empowerment, collaboration, maintaining firm... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2023
- Book
Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them
culture, and they often describe it as this one, homogeneous culture. But, really, any company of any reasonable size is an amalgamation of hundreds of subcultures, and some of these subcultures are very much aligned with the vision and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and... View Details