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11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

role is appropriate for the board? And how can the directors understand enough about the company to meet their responsibilities effectively? In this excerpt Lorsch looks at how directors are rethinking their roles. (For more about the book, see our View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

11 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

DNA." Roberto and Levesque joined forces for the following e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: As you write in your working paper, conventional management wisdom says the first step in a change initiative is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Leadership Lessons From Outer Space

'advice from space' from Professor Linda Hill. "If you're a Marine lieutenant in command of a bunch of 18-year-olds just out of high school, it's a different approach," he added. Professor Sunil Gupta interviews International... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Aerospace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

Monday morning. Eight managers, handpicked by their superiors, face one another in the middle of a room. Seated in a semicircle behind them is the company's top management team. As the members of the inner circle report what they have learned about their organization... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

coupled with regular meetings of the independent directors is critical to the independent directors' ability to function effectively as a counterweight to management. When interviewing candidates for CEO, the board needs to ask probing... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

strengthened their ability to accumulate influence over the traditional stewards of Turkey’s economy, the secular business groups such as Koç and Sabanci. Silverthorne: Harvard Business School’s Creating Emerging Markets project contains eight View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 May 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.

Get More Interviews African American and Asian job applicants who mask their race on resumes seem to have better success getting job interviews. The Case Against Racial Colorblindness Attempting to overcome prejudice by ignoring race may... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

and provided feedback to frontline workers on 24.5 percent. The researchers reviewed surveys taken before and after process improvement activities, supplementing them with in-person interviews with frontline staff, department managers,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

interviews of over 80 individuals from 6 service delivery units and 8 support departments that provide them with equipment and supplies, we find that a lack of interconnectedness among interdependent departments-rather than errors or... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

of lower-level employees of a multiple identity organization. Using interview data, archival data, and longitudinal survey data, we detail the interplay between identities and identification in a non-profit organization, showing that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

fascinated by the old British style of operation. And advertising was seen as a glamorous thing” Kapur discusses his years as a developing ad man and eventual executive chairman of O&M India in a new interview with Sunil Gupta, the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

27 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

short interview with each CEO to ensure that the daily reports matched with the executive's recollection and were representative of his usual work routine. Analyzing the data, the researchers looked separately at founder-CEOs (those who... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

she says. "The backstory of organizations is now part of the value proposition for consumers. The lads from Dublin understood that early on and they still understand it." Koehn says the U2 case remains a work in progress and she believes she will someday View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

20 Aug 2024
Book

Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

reviews are actually the single most important input to our new product development process. We make sure that our new products start from the needs that customers express,” Yang said in an interview in 2016. “Traditional businesses... View Details

Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology

16 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 16

paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-043.pdf Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work Authors:Tsedal Beyene, Pamela J. Hinds, and Catherine Durnell Cramton Abstract In an ethnographic study comprised of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

David Townsend analyze the results of comprehensive interviews they performed with senior risk officers. Prudence in Bargaining: The Effect of Uncertainty on Bargaining Outcomes Author:Lucy White Periodical:Games and Economic Behavior... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

research had not, it's not our idea, it is Emerson's original idea. Q: I thought that the methodology that you used was interesting. We wondered why you chose a job interview negotiation to test the hypotheses. A: We have found in lots of... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

http://www.people.hbs.edu/jsiegel/SiegelLichtSchwartz_EFDI_20120310.pdf Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews Authors:U. Simonsohn and F. Gino Publication:Psychological Science... View Details