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- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
CEOs and boards of directors is hard but ultimately the only path to sustained commitment and performance. Human nature is such that we do not want to know the truth, and lower levels are afraid to speak truth to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
pymetrics: Early Days
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2013, CEO Frida Polli was contemplating the next steps for her start-up business, pymetrics. After receiving her PhD in neuropsychology and MBA from HBS, she was determined to put her scientific and academic knowledge to work to build a business solving real world... View Details
Keywords: BrainTech; Psychology; Hiring; Games; Entrepreneur; Start-up; Start-up Growth; Strategic Change; Strategy Formulation; Recruiting; Corporate Culture; Hiring Of Employees; Start-ups; Startup; Startups; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Business Startups; Strategy; Competition; Organizational Culture
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "pymetrics: Early Days." Harvard Business School Case 720-374, September 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
Harvard Business School. "Marla, my spouse, would see all kinds of things going on that I would simply miss. Why? Perhaps this was due to my tendency to focusing, and in my case, narrowly." In his forthcoming book The Power of... View Details
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
Spontaneous responses can often be quite telling. As a member of a panel discussion at the Women, Money, and Power conference, entrepreneur Joline Godfrey posed two simple questions to the mostly-female audience. "How many of you had... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
adversaries as well as with colleagues within your organization? In this Q&A, James Sebenius and David Lax, authors of 3-D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals, discuss the common mistakes of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
"In emerging markets, it's very hard to regulate," he says. "Big companies are large enough to lobby and capture elected and government officials." While in some minds that description might also include developed Western democracies,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2498174 Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat By: Novosad, Paul, and Eric Werker Abstract—National governments frequently pull strings to get... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
borrowers in the sector: heterogeneity—the fact that all small businesses are different, making it difficult to extrapolate from one example to the next—and information opacity, the fact that it is hard to know what is really going on... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Standard-Essential Patents
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
collapse buried 33 miners at a depth almost twice the height of the Empire State Building-over 600 meters (2,000 feet) below ground. Never had a recovery been attempted at such depths, let alone in the face of challenges like those posed by the San José mine: unstable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
- 10 Jul 2023
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
research goals. To further deepen my understanding of habit formation, I'm excited to revisit Atomic Habits by James Clear. This impactful book explores the power of small habits and their profound influence on personal and professional... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2023
- HBS Case
What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment
specific task at hand (e.g., an appreciation for broader market changes, competitor behaviors, or emergent industry trends). Relational. Relational leaders design a plan of action based on how others will perceive and be affected by the course of action (e.g., a focus... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 24 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World
industry pioneer Mary Kay Ash learned about hard work, strict priorities, and the power of positive reinforcement firsthand. When she was seven, her father contracted tuberculosis, becoming housebound and... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 06 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better
these nuggets can help you stay more attentive to the conversation, and keep your partner engaged, too.” An even more powerful way to show you’re listening may be through “long-term listening cues,” like calling back from one conversation... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Technology and Operations Management course (TOM), the case offers valuable takeaways for future managers of any complex service organization. "It's a good TOM case in that it includes hard numbers and rigorous analysis,"... View Details
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Apr 2022
- HBS Case
Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off
with less power at other publicly traded firms may not be in such an advantageous position. But the concrete steps Stack took also prevented the company from paying a higher price for following its corporate conscience—and the way it... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 09 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”
watch the DVDs that they had ordered. As long as the DVDs sat unwatched at customers' homes, Netflix did not have to pay return postage-or send out the next batch of movies that the customer had already paid the monthly fee to get. “As Blockbuster learned the View Details