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- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
How will my children learn via Zoom? We interviewed 10 CEOs in July about how they are managing the unprecedented stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then checked in with them again at the end of 2020. The interviewees hail from... View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
than forty high-profile moves and interviewed team leaders in multiple industries and countries to examine the risks and opportunities that lift outs present. They concluded that, regardless of industry, nationality, or size of the team,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
of the three—Deborah Kolb—added perspective as an "insider" at BigAC. Although not a BigAC employee, Kolb had collaborated closely with the firm's leadership between 1998 and 2010 by conducting interviews and surveys, as well as... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
he calls a brand genealogy. He overlays the trajectory of the brand's allegories over history—through analysis of ads supported by archival documents and interviews with managers—with American cultural history, focusing particularly on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
how individuals think about speaking up at work, we first undertook in-depth exploratory research in a knowledge-intensive multinational corporation in which employee input was considered crucial. Qualitative data collected in 190 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
informal “water cooler” conversations could go a long way in promoting belonging. Concrete tips I have heard from interviews include scheduling five to 10 minutes before a formal meeting for casual conversation, asking each other silly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
boards themselves, agreed to interview five directors each. We decided to focus on two broad questions: How well did these boards function before the recession? And, what aspects of the board's way of functioning troubled members as they... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
Founded in 2004 in California, oDesk operates an online marketplace that matches Employers with Contractors. oDesk provides fact-based information on Contractors, including experience, skills, and certifications, to Employers who use this information as a basis for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
greatest asset—themselves. Also, broadens their understanding of how salespeople sell products and services. Before class, students are asked to interview a potential employer and to develop a preliminary sales pitch. Once in class,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
reader interest in an interview with Merck CEO Ken Frazier, who talked candidly about prospects for COVID-19 vaccines and racism in the workplace. Here are our most popular articles, research papers, and social media posts of 2020. In the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
either fail to reach their full potential or cross the line into destructive or even unethical actions?" Design/methodology/approach—To find out, they interviewed many successful leaders of major organizations and studied the case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
disruptive attack. The next place to look for overserved customers is in adjacent markets where competitors might be creating an opening for a disruptive assault by overserving their customers. How should companies determine whether customers are indeed overserved?... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
first day talking to the global partner and reviewing objectives. The next day, they take cars and translators to interview potential customers. If all goes well, they'll generate insights like those students had about laptops in China.... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
"intrapreneurs." In this excerpt, Lerner discusses the pluses and minuses of compensation schemes. Read an interview with the author R&D, Meet VC From The Architecture of Innovation By Josh Lerner The failure to offer... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
to an even higher expectation on the part of those obsessed with "scorekeeping," regardless of their performance. In their new book, Just Enough, Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson of Harvard Business School suggest a definition of success gleaned from View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
value-based employee development." Khadija Khan, while agreeing that "...it is hard to identify attitude problems in a short interview process," proposed a response: "One innovative approach that we use is to organize... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
potential influences. Instead, Stone's lack of foresight caused it to become enmeshed in an adversarial, multiparty process that ultimately failed. When interviewed for a Harvard Business School case, Stone executive Jerry Freeman likened... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
patterns before and after team scaffolds were implemented. Our results show that the team scaffolds improved performance, in part by reducing the number of partners with whom each role occupant coordinated. We then analyze qualitative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
interview him, and he graciously agreed, spending 90 minutes talking with me about the deal and about dealmaking more generally. I learned a tremendous amount from that conversation, and it certainly fueled my interest in understanding... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna