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  • 06 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Truth About Authentic Leaders

others. This distinction creates a false dichotomy because low self-monitoring is the opposite of being authentic, and is a sign of immaturity and insensitivity to the feelings of others. Leaders who do this, such as telling a colleague, “I’d like to go to bed with... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • October 2015
  • Article

The Relational Nature of Leadership Identity Construction: How and When It Influences Perceived Leadership and Decision-Making

By: Lisa Marchiondo, Christopher G. Myers and Shirli Kopelman
This paper empirically tests leadership identity construction theory (DeRue & Ashford, 2010), conceptually framing claiming and granting leadership as a negotiated process that influences leadership perceptions and decision-making in interdependent contexts. In Study... View Details
Keywords: Identity Construction; Leadership Development; Identity
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  • 06 May 2021
  • HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
  • 24 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

was co-authored by Dr. Mahek A. Shah, a senior researcher and senior project leader at Harvard Business School, and Robert S. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at HBS. Kaplan helped create the cost... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • May 2022 (Revised October 2022)
  • Supplement

The Freedom Fund (B)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han
The Freedom Fund (B) case describes the management’s plan of how to use the windfall of $35 million granted by philanthropist Mackenzie Scott. The case also describes the process by which the decisions were arrived at. View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Spending; Decision Making
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  • 23 Jan 2024
  • Book

More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World

the deed is just the document granting that ownership/title. We’ll often use the term “deed” slightly casually to cover both meanings in this text, because NFTs correspond more closely to deeds, but often meld both concepts. And just like... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology; Financial Services
  • 31 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

look for the line, you never want to be in the ZIP Code of the line.” Here’s a look at three sticky situations, along with Fubini’s advice about how to handle them. The case of the freeloading associate: A client grants a per-diem stipend... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting
  • October 1997 (Revised January 1998)
  • Case

Oxfam America

By: James E. Austin and James Kondo
Oxfam America, a nongovernmental organization providing grant assistance to organizations fighting hunger, poverty, and their causes, was engaged in a new strategy formulation process, led by its new president. View Details
Keywords: Change; Situation or Environment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Strategy
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  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

on top of data security? Eva Ascarza: First and foremost, compliance isn't just important; it's mandatory. Companies need to keep up with all the necessary regulations, especially as they can change. Take GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation], for instance. It now... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • January 1993 (Revised August 2003)
  • Case

Sally Jameson: Valuing Stock Options in a Compensation Package

By: Peter Tufano
Details a thinly disguised situation faced by a recent Harvard MBA graduate who was forced by a prospective employer to place a dollar value on a grant of stock options. There are two objectives: 1) Serves as an introduction to option valuation, in which students have... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Stock Options; Compensation and Benefits
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A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations

By: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, Anthony Hollenberg and Karim R. Lakhani
We present the results of a field experiment conducted at Harvard Medical School to understand the extent to which search costs affect matching among scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by... View Details
Keywords: Search Costs; Cost; Marketplace Matching; Groups and Teams; Science; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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  • 02 May 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

humanity. Clearly, AI is a big deal with large potential benefits and, at the moment, largely unknown risks for society. It will get more important fast. Why? Two tech giants, Microsoft and Google, are competing for first-mover advantage along with a third competitor,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology
  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

Four steps to failing successfully As an antidote to the harmful negative emotions failure elicits, Edmondson suggests reframing failure by following a four-step approach: persistence, reflection, accountability, and apologizing.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 10 Jul 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

course and priorities. As Brady Finney put it, " companies growing value the most are the ones with leaders that have a clear vision, continually communicate that vision, and then get out of the way ." On the other hand, theater plays a role. View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 12 Sep 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

statement? Nike’s decision to feature in its ads Colin Kaepernick, an American footballer whose patriotism has been questioned, ultimately resulted in what was described by one observer as a “bold success.” On the other hand, brands like... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 23 Nov 2010
  • News

Start your Thanksgiving in the office

  • Article

Big Names or Big Ideas: Do Peer-Review Panels Select the Best Science Proposals?

By: Danielle Li and Leila Agha
This paper examines the success of peer-review panels in predicting the future quality of proposed research. We construct new data to track publication, citation, and patenting outcomes associated with more than 130,000 research project (R01) grants funded by the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Research; Entrepreneurship; Forecasting and Prediction; Innovation and Invention; Business and Government Relations; United States
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  • 01 May 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?

Do those served grow as persons (and become) more likely themselves to become servants?" Now it appears that a group of organizational psychologists, led by Adam Grant, are attempting to measure the impact of servant leadership on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 21 Feb 2022
  • News

Good Immigration

  • 01 Sep 2003
  • What Do You Think?

To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?

fill."—Allan Page "There is no definitive answer to the question of how any given board balances the needs of various classes of shareholders, employees, vendors, etc."—Amy Savin "The board should be guided by the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett