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  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

project." Giving enough time—but not too much—to complete a project. Amabile explains that deadlines are important, but only if employees understand how the deadline benefits the mission. An occasional weekend of cramming View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

History Matters

The stunning collapse of three high-profile banks in recent months—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank—churned up a host of headlines and fears: Are these signs of major instability? The first dominos to fall? In the second edition of their... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 08 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Leading Amidst Competing Technical and Institutional Demands: Revisiting Selznick’s Conception of Leadership

Keywords: by Marya L. Besharov & Rakesh Khurana
  • September 2017
  • Case

Christine Lagarde

By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
The case covers the youth and career trajectory of Christine Lagarde across her time at Baker & McKenzie, as a minister in the government of France and as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced... View Details
Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
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  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

acquisition (CPA). However, these standard online advertising metrics are plagued with attribution problems and do not account for dynamics. These issues can easily lead firms to overspend on some actions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

blurring is a “thorny issue” for employees, forcing people to master an important new “digital social skill”: carefully choosing to share online space with some colleagues and not others, and considering... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
  • Portrait Project

Sylvester Wee

travelled – entrepreneurship. For the first time in my career, I face maximum uncertainty with no fall back option. “90% of startups fail.” I seem to have heard a variation of that before. I am scared, but that’s View Details
  • February 2019 (Revised August 2019)
  • Case

KangaTech

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo
On a warm January afternoon in 2019, Steve Saunders, Dave Scerri, Carl Dilena, and Nick Haslam (see Exhibit 1 for biographies), co-founders of KangaTech, wrapped up the latest round of discussions about the future direction of their sports-technology start-up. Focused... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Technology Commercialization; Prototype; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Sports; Health; Commercialization; Research and Development; Decision Making; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Sports Industry; Health Industry; Australia
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  • 01 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

aptitude for following standard procedures during customer calls. Individuality was not just discounted; in some ways it was expressly discouraged. "As a service role, the job can be stressful, View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications
  • 09 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

personal and professional changes to foster more positive connections among racial groups—interactions that studies have shown have the potential to reduce biased behaviors. "Awareness alone is not going to change the world. It's about... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 07 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

top down." But really, marketing is the wrong word for this. We're not marketing anything to the poor. We're not convincing them that they should move away from this place... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2015
  • Chapter

"Level II" Negotiation Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their Internal Problems

By: James K. Sebenius
Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and constituencies on his or her own side. Far less familiar are the many valuable... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Deal
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  • Web

Use of Harvard Name & Logo | About

be found in the Executive Education section of the Identity Guidelines. Executive Education alumni may not use the Harvard Business School logos. MBA Student Clubs Guidelines for shield usage and... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Jeff Barkas

good days were spent signing legal and financial documents. Their passing has given me a new sense of purpose — to ensure that other families avoid a similar experience. I’m starting a company that helps families prepare for aging so that... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

corruption geographic segments, but not in low corruption segments. The net effect on valuation from sales growth and changes in profitability is close to zero. The findings are robust to a number of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

"reinvent the phone." Yet both the device and the mobile service provided by AT&T involved limitations that could hinder the long-term prospects for the iPhone. At the same time, handset makers and other mobile carriers had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

key role "in conceptualizing and drafting" significant parts of the final product. Not everyone on the politically divided panel bought into Moss's analysis and recommendations. Warren and two Democrats embraced Moss's views on the need... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 03 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

settle in a desired geographic location while retaining a job elsewhere—the best of both worlds for many people. “I see work-from-anywhere as a policy that allows the individual to control her personal geography. And I think that’s why... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • Article

Mission-Driven Governance

By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation
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  • 10 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

word that is thrown out there a lot. I think the confusing part for a lot of people is that it’s often assumed that if you’re authentic, it means that you’re not filtering. And that is View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette