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- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
understanding of the entrepreneurial leader. The program combines self-assessments of their skills and behaviors by entrepreneurs themselves with evaluations of them by peers, friends, and employees. Along... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
- 19 Sep 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems
iStock Much has been accomplished by business leaders who turned left when told to turn right, who reached for the door instead of for the stars, who hired A when the search committee unanimously recommended B. The following research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works
industries (computing, telecommunications, and health care) by shadowing them at their jobs. The team recorded every activity in the managers' workday, collecting a total of 256 hours' worth of observations. "As we analyzed data we... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 10 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle
strangers,” he says, “but you could reallocate an hour here and there from one person to another person and see how that goes.” He advises people to take stock of their own portfolio of social interactions, and, if it seems out of balance, take the extra time to reach... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?
jumped after the first two stimulus payments hit in April 2020 and January 2021, driven by retail investor buying, says research by Harvard Business School Professor Robin Greenwood. "We've been through this... View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- Book
What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
purpose” as a way to build trust and in so doing achieve both impressive economic results and positive social impact. The book demonstrates how purpose-driven business leaders find success by clearly articulating a purpose for the... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
Sake Of Science To find out whether it was possible to assuage grief by performing seemingly meaningless rituals designed by someone else, Norton and Gino conducted a laboratory study in which they induced... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
Business Cycles was Joseph Schumpeter's least successful book when measured by its professed aims and several other yardsticks. Yet the book contains two vital aspects that have largely been overlooked. First, the prodigious research that... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 18 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Leaning In
Last summer, Christine Exley polled 200 American adults with a simple yes/no question: Do you think women should negotiate their salaries more often? Seventy percent of respondents answered in the affirmative. She wasn’t surprised View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
go into work, will I somehow miss a promotion or really important information at work.’ I think leaders would really benefit from acknowledging those emotions directly.” Zlatev suggests that managers encourage a sense of openness View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
Sloan, who not only were interested in leadership by virtue of having practiced it, but also had the ability to step back from everyday responsibilities of the firm and to think about leadership conceptually... View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
In his book, Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work (Harvard Business School Press), HBS professor David Garvin argues that Nike left open a critical gap between encouraging... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 28 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
What's a Boss Worth?
they are hired, Stanton recommends companies think carefully about the screening procedures they put in place, including longer trial periods to measure performance before officially hiring a new manager. “You need to have provisional... View Details
- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
management may have won the CEO his job, these tools alone will not keep him there. Finally, the CEO must not get totally absorbed in the role. Even if others think he is omnipotent, he is still only human. Failing to recognize this will... View Details
- 12 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted
believed. While the share of US imports from China fell, they were replaced by imports from other locations. For instance, the share of imports from Vietnam and Mexico, the paper notes, increased 2 percentage points and close to .7... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
involved in spurring that change. "You’d think male producers ... would be the ones with the greatest incentive to work more with female talent." “You’d think male producers, especially those who had ties... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’
jobs that require a college degree pay roughly two-thirds more than jobs that don’t, a number that has doubled over the past 40 years, according to recent research coauthored by Letian (LT) Zhang, an assistant professor at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
pinpoint exactly when a voter decided on a candidate—before or after a debate—without having to rely on voters’ memories. They found: A large fraction of voters change their minds during the campaign. The percentage of voters who had settled on a candidate rose View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
students. So we thought, why not?” “This is orders of magnitude more complex,” says Casadesus-Masanell, the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration at HBS. “I don’t think the School has ever done anything quite like this.... View Details