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- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
action for executives and boards in America than in Asia. But more common in America are firms that are run by professional managers who are replaced by other professional... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
American corporations have never been more partisan—starting at the top with executives who often bring on like-minded managers belonging to the same political party. Now, new research shows that when boardrooms are dominated View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 08 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder
were recently published in How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons, co-written by Zoë B. Cullen, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia, an... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
to bend your ear, be stricter about saying “no” to taking action when you are feeling overwhelmed by your jam-packed schedule. 2. Request deadline extensions when needed. People often assume managers will... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change
Julian De Freitas, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, in the article “Self-Orienting in Human and Machine Learning,” recently published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. “Our research shows that a key ingredient that... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
is ready for audiences, making them risky and expensive propositions. “Each one is a huge project, and the success rate is quite low,” says Hong Luo, the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 19 Sep 2023
- HBS Case
How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?
whether we should adopt AI—but rather, when and how to do so,” says Andy Wu, the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Wu’s recent case study and background note, AI Wars... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
Thus, in many ways, the whole teaching model condemns managers to act after the game is over. Maybe you can't teach intuition, but maybe you can. AG: You can promote intuition. You can recognize the innate aptitude of people to grasp what... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
notoriously slow technology adoption and rigid regulations. These were among the issues addressed in "Beyond Chicken and Egg–Strategic Challenges for Digital Marketplaces," one of eight panel discussions at the Digital Transformation Summit, which took place April 12... View Details
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
interacting with racial minorities motivates White people to self-segregate, says Harvard Business School professor Jon M. Jachimowicz. And White people often attempt to erect barriers—even seemingly innocuous ones like stricter dress... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
business encyclopedias, and other sources. In many cases, these individuals were cited for the advances that they made in American business—opening new markets, creating new industries, instituting modern management practices, or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
by facilitating direct connections between multiple types of affiliated customers, which most often leads to network effects. Think of what a shopping mall accomplishes in bringing together a multitude of sellers and buyers who interact... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Blog
How We Are Keeping HBS—and Our Program Participants—Healthy
safety precautions. At the heart of these efforts is a policy requiring masks indoors. We also have provided guidelines for social distancing, created procedures for holding on-campus meetings or events, and implemented regulations for work-related travel. But our work... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
If they didn't understand it already, executives and corporate managers have learned one huge lesson over the past couple of years: macroeconomics matters. Interest rates. Exchange rates. Trade deficits. The Gross Domestic Product.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2023
- HBS Case
What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment
Because change is the only constant, leadership is never one-size-fits-all. Different challenges require different leadership styles. A recent note from Harvard Business School suggests that an organization’s success rides on the ability... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
Long Run Survival, the authors find that an organization’s reputation is a crucial factor for long-term success. Less well understood is the key role played by resilience—an organization’s ability to overcome unexpected shocks. The... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2023
- Book
Yes, You Can Radically Change Your Organization in One Week
solve difficult problems. Denouncing Mark Zuckerberg’s informal Facebook motto, “move fast and break things,” partners Frei and Morriss combine their decades of consulting experience—Frei as the UPS Foundation Professor of Service View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
Click HereHarvard Business School Professor Stefan Thomke describes how his Executive Education students use LEGO blocks to design customer experiences. (Video by Executive Education) Why do some product or service experiences have enough... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
managers The study’s findings can be applied to customer-supplier contractual relationships in general, says Perez Cavazos, providing a lesson for managers about ways to repair the reputational damage caused... View Details