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  • 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
  • 09 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Bless this Stress

without it. When our earliest ancestors were chased by a hungry cave bear, it was the body’s adaptive response that powered the quick burst of energy that allowed for survival. Illustration by Johanna Goodman Illustration by Johanna... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 16 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Is MySpace.com Your Space?

MySpace puts the power of individual identity in play. You're not anonymous on a social networking site—you're exactly the opposite. You're presenting a managed self to the world. Q: These sites often have wonderful demographics from an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Information; Publishing
  • Web

Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have limited business growth for hundreds of years. From Airbnb to Ant Financial, research shows how AI-driven processes are vastly more scalable than traditional ones, enable companies to straddle industry boundaries, and... View Details
  • Program

Managing Health Care Delivery

reform, and payers are demanding cost control. These factors have placed great strain on health care delivery, and pose significant challenges for vulnerable populations. These issues are not unique; they are systemic factors that... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care
  • Article

Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective

By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely
This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. organizations and to inform an approach for disrupting it. We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Organizational Culture; Gender; Power and Influence; Employees; Attitudes
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  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

management, innovation loses out. At best, leaders of core business units dismiss innovation initiatives as irrelevancies. At worst, they see the new businesses as threats to the firm's core identity and values. Many CEOs take a backseat in debates over resources,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

to test critical assumptions vigorously to root out overly optimistic projections. Fostering constructive dissent poses another challenge for managers. As we see in the Everest case, insufficient debate among team members can diminish the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
  • 23 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

Is it possible to truly empower employees to make their own decisions—even when those decisions could mean life or death? That is the question posed by Dutch home healthcare organization Buurtzorg, which has radically avoided almost all... View Details
Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

shaping climate actions. Today we have Bill Weir, Chief Climate Correspondent at CNN who shares his expertise on how CNN integrates climate narratives into their news coverage, the power of storytelling, and the strategies they employ to... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

wondered, “If it feels depressing for me, how on earth did he survive when he was actually there and did not know the end of the story?” (Emphasis in the original.) When he posed that question to the admiral, Stockdale answered: “I never... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

to decide how to best market their innovation. The iconic status of existing electric guitars, and the lack of any recent radical innovations in the category, pose challenges in securing consumer adoption. If the company goes it alone, it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309034 Enel: Power, Russia, and Global Markets Harvard Business School Case 709-046 Although the global trend toward liberalization of electric utilities forced Enel, the largest View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?

respondents, (2) it works, and (3) there are a number of reasons why others don't or can't practice it. Timothy Lynn Burchfield provided an eloquent endorsement of the concept this way: "Those who serve (vs. power or buy) their way... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

economic decentralization and broke what remained of the bank into small pieces. By 1950, facing a proposal from leading German bankers to allow the big banks to begin reconstituting themselves, the Allied powers and the new German... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

challenges they pose to business and personal life. Positive action requires leaders to “think outside the building” to open new pathways, forge new coalitions, and find sources of personal nurturance. Professor Kanter outlines 5 tactics... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

Business School faculty led in developing the method. A particular challenge in the writing of cases is finding the balance between enough complexity, so that the problem posed reflects reality and supports alternative approaches to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne