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20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

global cooperation, and promote cultural contact and awareness. We use a network approach to demonstrate that the connections between two countries through joint-membership in the same IGOs are associated with a large positive influence... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty Member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

ourselves that we don’t contribute to creating a better organization. Psychological safety can help businesses achieve goals like higher levels of innovation, higher quality execution, and greater agility. Unfortunately, psychologically safe View Details

01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

the world. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49090 Private Equity and Financial Fragility During the Crisis By: Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, and Filippo Mezzanotti Abstract—Do private equity firms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
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Action Plan: Wild at Heart

Today, the master gardener sees all those years missing out on American yard culture as an advantage: Traditional horticulture can devastate biodiversity, she’ll tell you, and contributes mightily to climate change. Her passion and... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; gardening; entrepreneurship; sustainability

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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

financial stability? Do the banking and shadow banking sectors contribute to financial instability? Do novel financial products contribute to instability? Governance, Incentives, and Culture How important are organizational incentives and... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

Summing Up Among responses to this month's column, there was little disagreement with the premise that attitude trumps skills in the selection of new employees. C. J. Cullinane commented: "Attitude is all! I have worked with a group... View Details

Keywords: by by Jim Heskett

07 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

creating a culture that actively welcomes input from all employees, not just those at the top.” [Image: iStockphoto/momnoi] Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives How to Demotivate Your Best... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

08 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

Google and Groupon, for instance, a higher percentage of employees work in sales than engineering or data mining. And at Facebook the salesforce's ability to translate 'likes' into advertisers will make or break that company's valuation... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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The Strategic Imperative of Psychological Safety and Organizational Error Management

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Paul Verdin

Despite discussion in the management literature about agile organizations or learning organizations, many large organizations are top-down, slow to change, and fraught with obstacles to learning. We describe “strategy-as-learning” to contrast with the traditional... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Learning; Safety; Organizational Culture; Performance Consistency

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When the Thought Doesn’t Count: The Dynamics of Unhelpful Help in Creative Organizations

By: Colin Fisher, Julianna Pillemer and Teresa Amabile

We’ve all been there. You ask a colleague for help with something, maybe a tricky research design or a difficult student. They agree to help, but their assistance misses its mark. You wonder what happened and, if you turn to existing research and theory, you don’t find... View Details

Keywords: Helping; Organizational Culture

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10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

Works on the subject of leadership weigh down bookstore shelves the world over. Tomes tell you how to be a 30-second manager, how to inspire your employees like Churchill, and the three keys to "strength-based leadership."... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

23 Nov 2021
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The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

United Record Pressing plant in Nashville and Erika Records in Los Angeles that might have 20 machines, which do a lot of work for the major record labels. The major labels don’t own their own means of manufacturing anymore, and they’re... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music

20 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

released On Competition, Porter collects his most influential articles from HBR, and adds new work on health care, philanthropy, social responsibility, and leadership. This excerpt, coauthored with Harvard Business School professors Jay... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

03 Jun 2013
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The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

better." Rituals Enhance Consumption Just as there are multitudes of grief rituals all over the world, so too are there innumerable rituals related to feasting, ranging from cultural (a Japanese tea ceremony) to personally quirky... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Jul 2020
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To New Beginnings: Reflecting on Transitioning Careers and Starting a Family while at HBS

culture fit me best. That firm turned out to be Boston Consulting Group. BCG recruiters went out of their way to make my interview period one that worked best for me. They asked me if I wanted to interview... View Details

01 Jan 2011
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Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

about the latter two activities to this day. After studying economics at Cornell, Klarman headed to Wall Street to join Mutual Shares Corporation, where he worked closely with Max Heine and Mike Price, two legendary figures in the area of... View Details

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Batten Hall | About

and covers a wide range of disciplines including social and cultural entrepreneurship, health and sciences, technology, and consumer fields. About the Name Frank & Jane Batten Batten Hall was named for media pioneer, entrepreneur, and... View Details

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

shareholders. Unilever's historical legacy provided organizational and cultural constraints on the options available. It entered the 1960s with an organization that was so decentralized as to be fragmented. The British and Dutch... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

01 Dec 2019
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stay-at-home mompreneurs, the work got done in whatever bits of time she could steal from the day. When her daughter, Della, enrolled in a dance class in Harlem that year, Dixon would drive her Jetta wagon with “WOKE” plates and SiriusXM... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

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