Filter Results:
(991)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (1,182)
- Faculty Publications (344)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (1,182)
- Faculty Publications (344)
Sort by
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
other groups to win at all costs—suddenly those traits don’t matter anymore. Loyalty forces you to focus in on your goal.” That Achilles’ heel of loyalty is one that managers need to be conscious of in creating the values within an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
venture funds with an external focus. These did not prove particularly successful, largely owing to disputes within the firm about appropriate investments. The task force, in member (and future XTV president) Robert Adams's words, rapidly "concluded that we View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
that their exclusive purpose is to produce ever-higher shareholder returns. So it is the extraordinary leader who has the courage to break out of that frame and define a higher ambition. The public company leader simply has more headwind and therefore View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
companies batten down the hatches, we need leaders who don't compromise on standards and values that are essential in flush times. Fortunately, such leaders do exist. Their insights can help other organizations weather the current crisis,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
that stretch, by itself, is not a useful management concept. Nishant Miglani pointed out that "as a complement to stretch, GE also had this notion of the 'boundaryless organization' ..." Matthew Tuttle suggested that "Stretch goals have their place, but... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
Working PapersFeeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior Authors:Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, and Elizabeth W. Dunn Abstract While lay intuitions and pop psychology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308002 North Goes East Harvard Business School Case 208-136 In August 2006, Magnus Lofgren and Robert Provine, managing directors and co-founders of the "North Real Estate Opportunities Fund," View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
survival) to "flee" too often from threats that weren't really there than to not flee the one time there was a significant risk. So, we've inherited emotional and cognitive mechanisms that motivate us to avoid perceived risks to our View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
large, traditional form of organization and workplace? Will both have to be adapted to a need that some talented people may feel for safer, more comfortable "cocoons" in which to work? Will the daily reminders of the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
the food and apparel industries and the need to "secure" all elements of their production chain, most other industries have yet to recognize such a hazard. In the media business, news items require fair and secure sourcing,... View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Researchers compared the pass/fail records of similar vehicles in both densely populated areas and sparsely populated areas, paying close attention to older vehicles with high mileage—that is, those more likely to need repairs in order to... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation
R&D systems for performing experiments that will generate the information needed to develop and refine products quickly. The challenges are managerial as well as technical: Organize For Rapid Experimentation Examine and, if necessary,... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
decision-making behaviors than men. They are, for example, said to be more willing to examine several sides of an issue before acting, more sensitive to the needs of others, and more inclusive and transparent in their communication of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community. Divided into 13 areas of focus, the book's contributors explore the metrics you need to run your startup, discuss lean prototyping techniques for hardware, identify... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
we all experience some degree of this pressure in our own daily work lives, in this series of studies I examined what happens to team dynamics and performance when the pressure is significantly intensified. Ironically, Gardner found that just when teams View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the marketplace is needed to help... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
organizations. Publisher's link: http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.5465/amj.2013.0903 December 2014 Journal of Applied Psychology Preparatory Power Posing Affects Nonverbal Presence and Job Interview Outcomes By: Cuddy, Amy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
wrote in the forthcoming book, Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment during the Reform Era, to be published in October 2002 by Cambridge University Press, a complete picture of FDI in China needs to acknowledge how China's financial... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
as their mental well-being—a forthcoming article in American Psychologist examines current organizational psychology research to help business leaders manage COVID-related fallout in the workplace and develop solutions to ease the stress... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
ceremony in which a Scandinavian monarch presents the medal; and the traditional flowers flown in from San Remo, Italy, where Alfred Nobel spent the last years of his life. But, well before all that there's the traditional early morning phone call alerting each winner... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel