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  • 14 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 14, 2016

the High Intensity Workplace: An 'Always Available' Culture Breeds a Variety of Dysfunctional Behaviors By: Reid, Erin and Lakshmi Ramarajan Abstract—People today are under intense pressure to be “ideal workers”—totally committed to their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2006
  • Case

Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair

By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Ayesha Kanji
Adrian Ivinson is the director of Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair (HCNR), a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Power and Influence; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Change Management; Alignment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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  • September 2011
  • Article

Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About It?

By: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard and Lynn S. Paine
Market capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a breakdown. That sounds dire, and it is. Increasing income inequality, migration, weaknesses in the global financial system, environmental degradation, and... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Economic Systems; Globalization; Corporate Governance; Markets; Risk and Uncertainty
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    Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About It?

    Market capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a breakdown. That sounds dire, and it is. Increasing income inequality, migration, weaknesses in the global financial system, environmental degradation, and... View Details
    • 07 Oct 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: October 7

    focus of the case is all the ways in which bad incentive design leads to dysfunctional behavior. In particular, a crucial issue is whether individual incentives are best or whether team incentives are best and why. In the (B) and (C)... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2015
    • Book

    Strong Brands, Strong Relationships

    By: Susan Fournier, Michael Breazeale and Jill Avery
    From the editorial team of the ground-breaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice comes this new volume. Strong Brands, Strong Relationships is a collection of innovative research and management insights that build upon the foundations of... View Details
    Keywords: Brand Building; Brand Management; CRM; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Advertising; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Advertising Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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    • November 2018
    • Article

    Worthy of Swift Trust? How Brief Interpersonal Contact Affects Trust Accuracy

    By: Oliver Schilke and Laura Huang
    Organizational scholars have long underscored the positive consequences of trust, yet trust can also have dysfunctional effects if it is not placed wisely. Though much research has examined conditions that increase individuals’ tendencies to trust others, we know very... View Details
    Keywords: Trust; Interpersonal Communication; Judgments; Perspective
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      Strong Brands, Strong Relationships

      From the editor team of the ground-breaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice comes this new volume. Strong Brands, Strong Relationships is a collection of innovative research and management insights that... View Details

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      Reverse the Curse of the Top-5

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      The past 40 years has seen a large increase in the number of articles submitted to journals ranked in the top-5 of their discipline. This increase is the rational response, by faculty, to the overweighting of publications in these journals by university promotions and... View Details
      Keywords: Information Publishing; Journals and Magazines; Power and Influence; Research
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      • 2018
      • Working Paper

      Reverse the Curse of the Top-5

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      The past 40 years has seen a large increase in the number of articles submitted to journals ranked in the top-5 of their discipline. This increase is the rational response, by faculty, to the overweighting of publications in these journals by university promotions and... View Details
      Keywords: Information Publishing; Journals and Magazines; Power and Influence; Research
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      • 26 Sep 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Dangerous Expectations: Breaking Rules to Resolve Cognitive Dissonance

      Keywords: by Celia Moore, S. Wiley Wakeman & Francesca Gino
      • September 2022
      • Case

      Blake Sports: Evolution of the CEO and the Executive Team

      By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
      Cameron (Cam) Barker, CEO and Founder of Blake Sports Apparel, sat in his office at his company’s headquarters in Birmingham, England, feeling stunned and disappointed. Only a few minutes prior, he had wrapped up a meeting with CFO James Ryan, a highly-respected star... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Leadership Skills; Team Dynamics; Team Effectiveness; Team Leadership; Team Management; Leadership Style; Leadership; Management; Management Skills; Management Style; Talent and Talent Management; Groups and Teams; United Kingdom
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      • 24 Jun 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Entrepreneurial Gap: How Managers Adjust Span of Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy

      Keywords: by Robert L. Simons
      • 26 Mar 2014
      • HBS Seminar

      Brian Kahin, MIT

      • 23 Nov 2021
      • Book

      What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

      turnaround of dysfunctional aspects of Microsoft’s culture. But at the same time, he was leading a major change in strategy away from the domination of Windows software, a change made more difficult by the market share and huge wealth... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman
      • Web

      Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      was co-authored by Elizabeth O. Teisberg and published in 2006 following 10 years of research into why the health care industry did not conform to the principles of competition seen in all other sectors of the economy. They described how health care had fallen into a... View Details
      • Web

      Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      clearer and clearer that dysfunction in Washington was continuing to deliver poor results for America and high dissatisfaction with the U.S. political system. Together, they applied Dr. Porter’s tools for understanding industry... View Details
      • 04 Sep 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Governing the Family-Run Business

      employ dysfunctional and short-sighted approaches to handle tensions, such as: Exclusion and secrecy—keeping some family members or shareholders out of conversations and keeping too many secrets from employees, owners or family members.... View Details
      • 02 Mar 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      When Goal Setting Goes Bad

      Maurice Schweitzer. Q: Are goals by themselves a problem, or is it the way we use them? A: When we can so easily predict the dysfunctional behavior that will ensue, I would argue that it is the goals themselves. Far too often, people want... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 12 Aug 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

      Dysfunctions of a Team can be helpful, but mastering the art of hiring takes practice. From 50 to 100 employees. This is a transition period in which you may sit in on candidate reviews for key hires, when the team is deciding whether to... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Austin