Attention - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

the next budget cycle. With a delay strategy, attention can be diverted to some legitimate, pressing issue, the sort of which always exists. There is the sudden budget shortfall, the unexpected competitor announcement, the dangerous new... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

"jerk" be tapped with some degree of consistency? Is it worth it? What do you think? Original Article The annoying employee who makes his numbers while alienating those around him will gain needed attention in the coming months... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

result or, at best, a multiplier of their impact. Another concern is that the policy focus on exports very easily leads to insufficient attention to domestically-oriented or more traditional sectors (services, agriculture). This creates... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

Web

Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

selected to join the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Rare as One network, which has been instrumental in accelerating a focus on research and clinical trials. While these are examples of great strides, the biggest challenges for rare diseases are receiving funding and View Details

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

strongest—on his relationship to the IT department—and tended to retreat into the IT "basement" in times of conflict with business units and senior management. Barton paid attention to his staff, while at the same time more... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

publishes various "top 10" lists in numerous fields, ranked according to how many times the paper has been viewed, downloaded, or cited elsewhere on SSRN. Some scholars paid a lot of attention to the reported download counts of their... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

performance demands were exhausting. But she wanted to show the assets that Miami had. Hatcher also wanted to change the narrative, not just for Miami but for the inner city. For too long, Kanter observes, attention to left-behind groups... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

attention and especially energy around speculation and trading—this gives an entrepreneur more time to focus and actually develop their product carefully without constantly having to face the market. Gazette: In November, the global... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

refers to the amount of time and attention a person in a particular job must devote to interacting with others and nudging people where they should go, including collecting data, probing for new information, or attempting to influence the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Behavioral Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Francesca Gino

30 Nov 2015
HBS Seminar

Soroush Saghafian, Assistant Professor of Public Policy - Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

be pulled in all directions," he says. "They cannot be accountable to everyone for everything. Rather than aiming simply to comply with the demands of the most powerful actors, nonprofit leaders need to focus their attention on... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

work to transition from our home role to our work role is not always intuitive. One would think that switching roles is as easy as putting on a different hat. It turns out that transitioning between roles takes time and effort, and it’s a part of the day we need to pay... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 May 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

environmental concerns (for example, water treatment and usage) that a company needed to pay more attention to. The goal was to work with portfolio companies to improve their ESG ratings. By doing so we believe they could potentially... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

flexible production over time and broadly based across the system. It was from observations such as these that Kent and I started to form the impression that despite all the attention that had already been paid to Toyota, something... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

with managers is valuable—and it’s especially important for newly hired workers. In fact, Bojinov recommends: “Go to your remote workers first.” “Managers have to be careful of ensuring that their remote employees get as much attention... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Oct 1997
News

Brice Cutrer Jones

is no simple matter. Those who raise a glass of Jones's Sonoma-Cutrer Chardonnay are enjoying the delicate outcome of painstaking scientific research, months of careful growing, exceptional attention to detail, and - last but not least -... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

06 Feb 2019
Blog Post

7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion

a microphone to listen for sounds in the shower running. However, after several hours of gain adjustments and Fourier transforms, we decided to pivot and use an infrared sensor instead. 3. You only have a short amount of time to capture the View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

developmental ambitions that lay at the heart of his domestic and regional Cold Wars. Paying close attention to the interrelationship between the domestic and the international, the political and the economic, Suharto’s Cold War makes a... View Details

Research Summary

The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement

Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details

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