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- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements
learning to occur and plans to be revised. But this learning only occurs if the mechanisms are in place to make it happen. A post-crisis review should be conducted by the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 02 Apr 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics
- 10 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men
the partners worried the high turnover was damaging the firm’s competitive edge, according to research by Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who studies race and gender... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
public was further damaged recently by revelations in the Panama Papers about his stockbroker father’s offshore activities, has presided over two of them. The Scottish independence referendum in 2014 nearly resulted in Scotland’s leaving... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 27 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)
workforce is, says a recent paper by Harvard Business School researchers. Even when a company’s numbers aren’t ideal, their transparency sends the message that they’re trying to change, the HBS authors write. “There’s definitely a... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 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
- 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
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
want these things as well. And by explaining it and sharing it is how we actually get it done. One of the concepts of emotional self-management is the word that we just used, which is metacognition. That's understanding your own thinking.... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 28 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)
study was written by HBS professors Dennis Campbell and Srikant Datar, with Tatiana Sandino (HBS DBA '04) of USC's Marshall School of Business. "Franchising is a very observable, real choice that organizations make." -Dennis Campbell "The... View Details
- 28 Nov 2023
- Book
Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?
world and what they think is fair and unfair. This requires more than reading a couple of books or knowing a few people. It requires deep, curious learning about who people View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
service, it is helping the person send money home. He will stay with Safaricom. Plus, as soon as his wife gets the money, what do you think she's going to do? She's going to call him on the phone, and that will increase mobile... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
industries like biotech, you can test things along the way to see if they are feasible, but for creative ideas like a film, you can’t experiment. You have huge uncertainty and you have to think about how to manage that risk.” One way that... View Details
- 11 Jun 2024
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 21 Jul 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Collaborating Across Cultures: Cultural Metacognition and Affect-Based Trust in Creative Collaboration
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
The problem with using crises to reduce complacency and create urgency is that the tactic is a potential diamond sitting on a rock surrounded by quicksand and very nasty beasts. Any naiveté about the downside risks can cause disaster. Big... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 01 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes
the Digital, Data, and Design Institute. Chiara Farronato: Dig into data to find regional and product differences When I think of prices, I think of data, lots of data. We often look at aggregate price data,... View Details
- 20 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It
time, cause impaired immune functioning, hypertension, and memory loss). The result? In addition to causing the desired hormonal shift, the power poses led to increased feelings of power and a greater tolerance for risk. "We used to View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing
products—as less credible and less trustworthy, according to research by recent Harvard Business School MBA graduate Alessia Vettese. “People used to watch celebrities on the red carpet talking about what they were wearing, or they would... View Details
- 01 Aug 2023
- What Do You Think?
As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?
footing the bills for the educational system. At other times, we are mindful of how incentives can go wrong, but we are unwilling to do anything about it. For example, we speak of the desirability of good long-term business performance, but almost all... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
learn by doing. These tests lean toward solution building, but the idea is that you’re doing tests without building anything, or building very little, to get clarity on the problem and the customer. Common... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin