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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
really give to someone like Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson or to Wilbur Ross, the Commerce Department nominee, or to Vice President Mike Pence? It looks like he’s a person who hasn’t delegated a lot in the past. So those would... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
"I believe 120 percent in what I'm doing," she said, well before the Boston site took shape. "If you didn't have that, you wouldn't have the energy to get up in the morning. You really enjoy the good days, because there are a lot of bad days right now.... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53689 forthcoming Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature By: Kerr, Sari... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
essentially enumerating the qualities that we should look for in a leader without suggesting how we identify and select for them. Some of the more interesting ones included Kapil Kumar Sopory's suggestion that we look for "... the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
purposeful vulnerability produced deeper, more intimate coworker relationships in which they could express a broader repertoire of personal qualities—qualities that were responsive to the dictates of their work rather than to the dictates... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
neutral, or even harmful to minting winning ideas. Testing for personality Koning and Hasan detail their findings in the paper Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment, to be published in Research Policy this... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
employees. And several identified personally with the phenomenon. Desirable qualities of imposters were described in different ways. Julie Cohen said, “The balance of competency and occasional self-doubt keep them constantly striving to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
researchers factored for personal traits, including imputed height, body mass, and cognitive ability. Because military service was mandatory for men but not for women, they had very little data on the physical View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
useful change effort? What are the risks for the subordinate in dealing with a leader not always able to separate judgements regarding the quality of contrary ideas from those concerning personality traits... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
the Market's advisory council, for example, looks into the aforementioned concept of loyalty. Implications for marketing, according to the results, include the following: "Embody in brand communications the personality View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
groups of people lead to individuals being judged by external characteristics such as gender, race, and national origin rather than the authentic person within. As with many complex issues, business leaders must explore these foundational... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
personal life with us. I was also impressed by his effort to listen and engage faculty and alumni in creating a vision for the School. Sharing and listening and engaging are key traits of leadership. It... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
and competitive, managers cannot do everything by themselves. In other words, staying relevant is a team sport, and managers can only be as relevant as the people around them help them to be. Staying curious and continuous learning. Another View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
possibly was another example unfolded. As reader Anna Johnson put it, “When the pressure to meet quarterly performance expectations against best-guess sales targets and a flesh pounding schedule take precedence, it’s not surprising that psychological safety and View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Beyond Beta-Delta: The Emerging Economics of Personal Plans By: Beshears, John, Katherine L. Milkman, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—People make personal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
platform. Advertisers used that data to create psychographic profiles of potential customers that went beyond mere demographics to give insights into what they like and value. Studies have found that with just 10 “likes” an algorithm can predict a person’s View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
measures have strong out-of-sample predictive performance and are stable over time. Our measures of the Big Five personality traits are associated with financing choices, investment choices, and firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
unmarketable yet invaluable intangibles such as social tolerance, personal responsibility, and respect for the rule of law. Each is a unique community of scholars in which lives as well as minds are molded. Pure profit-based competition... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
in research in entrepreneurship and innovation. Together, they were able to investigate how many people born outside the United States were responsible for firm creation and the traits of those firms. First, the researchers needed to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Social Behavior By: Crockett, Molly J., and Amy Cuddy Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49863 October 2015 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Men as Cultural Ideals:... View Details