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- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
technologies, industries, and organizations. He has also conducted extensive research on the watch industry. Raffaelli weighs in below on everything from battery life to the Apple Watch's implications for the health care industry. Read an View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
coupled with regular meetings of the independent directors is critical to the independent directors' ability to function effectively as a counterweight to management. When interviewing candidates for CEO, the board needs to ask probing... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
mature industries, such as Swiss watchmakers and pencil makers, that have been able to reinvent themselves in the wake of radical technological change. He calls this phenomenon “technology reemergence.” Over the past eight years, he has visited bookstores in 26 states,... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
The Kraft team is conducting interviews to evaluate models at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (philanthropy); at Stanford’s StartX and MIT’s Sandbox (incubator); and at Breakout Labs and Root Capital (venture philanthropy). “We’re... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
communal, but rather personal and private. “One woman wrote about gathering all the pictures of her and her ex-boyfriend, taking them to the park were they met, and tearing them up,” Norton recalled in an interview with Working Knowledge.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
top management level." Mikes began her research in 2005 in England, where she earned her PhD from the London School of Economics. (Hall and Millo are both employed there.) Within five years, she had interviewed 60 risk management... View Details
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
accepting full responsibility for outcomes and holding others accountable for their performance." Having established a framework for authentic leadership, George and his coauthor then personally interviewed 125 leaders they identify... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
experience—time spent onsite observing the people, places, and norms of a distant locale—is crucial in globally distributed collaboration, how such experience actually affects interpersonal dynamics is poorly understood. Based on 47 semi-structured View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
since the early part of the twentieth century, he believes the time may be right for significant change. He's not alone. Theodore Zeldin, a British historian who has spent a great deal of time studying the world of work, stated recently in an View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
hospital recruits an outside star to lead a clinical program, academic department, or division. Within months it is clear to almost everyone that the marriage is a failure. To better understand the question of why newly recruited leaders fail, I View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
consist of action research and interviews with managers and artists involved in innovation and processes of creation, and our intention is to explore the following questions: How do business innovators know when to keep things open and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608038 Excerpts from Interview with Jim Triandiflou, Founder of Ockham Technologies Harvard Business School Case 808-088 Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
are increasingly examining the adoption and impact of ERM, but the studies are inconsistent and inconclusive, due, we believe, to an inadequate specification of how ERM is used in practice. Based on a ten-year field project, over 250 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
target of success in their new book Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life (Wiley, 2004). After conducting hundreds of interviews with high achievers, they developed a framework for thinking about integrating four... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
explores how language shapes the ways in which employees who work in global organizations communicate and negotiate linguistic and cultural differences. Bringing together 650 interviews conducted across Rakuten’s locations in Brazil,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
interviews of over 80 individuals from 6 service delivery units and 8 support departments that provide them with equipment and supplies, we find that a lack of interconnectedness among interdependent departments-rather than errors or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
of lower-level employees of a multiple identity organization. Using interview data, archival data, and longitudinal survey data, we detail the interplay between identities and identification in a non-profit organization, showing that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
salary. Had I tried to fake my leadership and knowledge of the appliance industry, I surely would have failed. In the research for Discover Your True North, we interviewed 170 leaders from 23 to 93 years old. Not one of them talked about... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
what still remained to be done. The case examines the evolving experiences of male and female MBAs over the decades through interviews with dozens of HBS alumni, as well as the experiences of female faculty at the School. The case... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
advertisers ways to spend ad dollars more shrewdly. "They need to use entertainment judiciously," he says. "It's very expensive. They have to ask: Why do we need to entertain so much?" During an interview in his office, Teixeira, who has... View Details