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  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

look large and compelling. But it can have significant downsides. Leaders who prefer to zoom in tend to create policies and systems that depend too much on politics and favors. They can focus too closely on personal status and on turf protection. And they often View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Nov 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

When your boss asks you to meet with clients for last-minute drinks, are you tempted to clear your calendar, even if it means missing your child’s piano recital? If so, you’re among the many professionals who tend to prioritize... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
  • Web

Online Management Course | HBS Online

practitioners. I thought I knew the subject relatively well and it would be a refresher. I was in for a surprise. After the first module, I realized that I did many things wrong. The most chilling thought was about missed opportunities.... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

helps scholars and firms capture and analyze conversation data online. We sat down with Professor Brooks to discuss the "How to Talk Gooder" course and to get some advice on that very topic. What is the class “How to Talk... View Details
  • 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 by... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

scientist.” Missed innovation opportunities Koning, an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit at HBS, teamed up with John-Paul Ferguson of McGill University and Sampsa Samila of IESE Business School on... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 14 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

generalize," Avery says. But that misses the point. Rather than helping researchers estimate the habits of ordinary consumers, the data from extreme customers can uncover new consumer motivations, promoting... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

transaction data from a Japanese bank's home loan application processing line. We find that over the course of a single day, specialization, as compared to variety, is related to improved worker productivity. However, when we examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

budget be driven from the revenue targets in the strategic plan. In The Execution Premium, we describe how a time-driven activity-based cost model provides the previously missing link between the revenue growth targets in a strategic plan... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

faced challenges such as data redundancy, missing data, and the presence of irrelevant information. We then apply the model to data from a retail context and illustrate how the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

entrepreneurs face when launching new products. Understanding what went wrong Wu and Peterson studied timelines from 314 entrepreneurs across 722 technology hardware projects from September 2010 through June 2019, all crowdfunded through Kickstarter. For each project,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

aspect you have missed or overlooked or misjudged. The best way around that is to have a roomful of colleagues smarter than you, to help figure out the best solution. —Lawrence Honig (MBA 1975) Back to top “Hambrecht & Quist” The San... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 17 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

preliminary results of the Retirement Transitions Study in August at the Academy of Management Conference in Chicago. She is still analyzing the data for a working paper with co-authors Lotte Bailyn of the Sloan School at the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 07 Aug 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

of intuition. Organizations that preclude intuition from their decision-making will never be, or cease to be, transformative." Others had a more expansive view of the role of judgment. As Donald Shaw put it, "Just because we have the technology to record... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

melting ice cube and assets in bankruptcy that are losing value really quickly." Because the data includes judges’ names on individual filings, Antill was able to determine how specific jurists ruled. He focused on companies that sought... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

their careers. Even though the majority of employers and employees said they considered their organizations inclusive and fair, employees said that employers penalized caregivers, especially when their duties caused them to miss work,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 04 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Real Cost of Bribery

that launch anticorruption efforts grow their businesses more slowly than firms that don't, especially in regions where bribery is the expected norm. “If you think of the cost [of bribery] as just fines and regulatory actions, you're View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

technology so it could be useful to Western Union's most profitable real-time long-distance data customers. When an existing firm tries to insert a product or service with disruptive potential into its processes, what comes out the other... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth
  • 30 Mar 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

many users like Judy who, having archived her data and deleted her account, found that, “The interesting thing is that I only missed the site for one or two days.” Dyl suggested that the company should move... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology
  • 17 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

points, assists, fouls, and minutes played. And because players frequently change teams, it’s easy to compare how a player fares when playing for different coaches. For a paper Zhang published on the topic last year in Administrative Science Quarterly, Zhang downloaded... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports
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