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  • 27 Apr 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Is Overconfidence a Motivated Bias? Experimental Evidence

Keywords: by Jennifer M. Logg, Uriel Haran, and Don A. Moore
  • 05 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)

the right people are confident, suggests recent research by Thomas Graeber, assistant professor at Harvard Business School. His work tested the effects of meta-cognition—essentially, whether more skilled people are also more confident... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • December 2010
  • Article

The Hidden Advantages of Quiet Bosses

By: A. M. Grant, F. Gino and D. A. Hoffman
The article discusses research that identified situations where introverts are more apt to be effective leaders than extroverts. Although it is generally accepted that extroverts make the best leaders, the authors found that introverts can be better in unpredictable,... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Management Style; Groups and Teams; Personal Characteristics
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  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

  Working PapersTesting Limits to Policy Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatizations Authors:Siddhartha G. Dastidar, Raymond Fisman, and Tarun Khanna Abstract We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

Political connections and family control are more common in Asian businesses than in the United States. In addition, says HBS professor D. Quinn Mills, American CEOs tend to use one of five leadership styles: directive, participative, empowering, charismatic, or... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

mechanics that add very little to the competitive position or underlying value of the enterprise." But while board members are now taking their jobs more seriously, their input is not necessarily as helpful or effective as it could... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

herd immunity. But to review the brutal facts, none of these developments are likely in the foreseeable short term. The possibility remains that there may never be a fully effective vaccine or cure; this virus may be something that we... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 07 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 7

their effects and achieve better outcomes in competitive contexts.   Working Papers"DEFENSE ACQUISITION REFORM: An Elusive Goal-1960 to 2010 Authors:J. Ronald Fox, David Allen, Thomas Lassman, Walton Moody, and Philip Shiman An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

Software Innovation Authors:Ned Gulley and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract We investigate if the actions by individuals in creating effective new innovations are aligned with the reuse of those innovations by others in a private-collective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

  • September 2010 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

Recruiting Andrew Yard (A)

By: Brian J. Hall, Nicole S. Bennett and Sara del Nido
This case describes a compensation negotiation between a global HR director and a candidate for a high-level executive position. The situation becomes awkward when the candidate feels insulted because he is given a monetary incentive to join the company more quickly... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Interpersonal Communication; Executive Compensation; Negotiation; Negotiation Style; Emotions
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  • April 2023 (Revised September 2023)
  • Case

Levels: The Remote, Asynchronous, Deep Work Management System

By: Joseph B. Fuller and George Gonzalez
Levels is a highly innovative startup in the health care space. They intend to revolutionize health by linking behavior—eating, exercise, sleeping, etc.—to changes in metabolism. They believe metabolic health can be managed through careful monitoring of changes in... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Business Startups; Organizational Culture; Management Style; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 29 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

Github, among others, were 4.4 percent more productive than those following a more traditional “work-from-home” policy that gives schedule flexibility but requires workers to live near the office. “While prior academic research has studied productivity View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 25 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams

is, men are worse at managing women, whereas women are adept at managing both women and men, research shows. That’s because ultimately, women are more effective at building rapport among mixed-gender teams than men, and doing so often... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Food & Beverage
  • 24 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

Luce's magazines often resonated with readers, allowing him to quickly trump competitors such as Newsweek, Forbes, The New Yorker, Esquire, and National Geographic. Yet Luce was also criticized for occasionally using his imaginative style... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

failures, nor does it affect their perception of the person’s status. “Even after revealing their struggles or failures, high achievers still look good,” Brooks says. She cautioned that this effect works only for people who have reached... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

Passion: When and How Expressing Passion Elicits Status Conferral and Support from Others, was published in July 2019 in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. “Passion, like a smile, is contagious.” In the first study, which tested the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

research associate at HBS. The article appears in the new issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review. “If you look at the history of any successful social change movement, you’ll see there were moments of really effective agitation,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Succeed With Your New Boss

relationship with your new boss, they need to work effectively with you. In the past, have you done a good job of helping subordinates make their own transitions? What might you do differently this time? Planning For Five Conversations... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
  • 08 Aug 2022
  • HBS Case

Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS

fan base. The effective use of social media was how they created an ecosystem." In a recent case study, “BTS and ARMY,” Harvard Business School associate professor Doug Chung and research associate Kay Koo show how BTS marshalled its... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta; Media & Broadcasting; Music

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