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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
step-by-step, room-by-room guidance on how to create a welcoming and functioning space that expresses your unique individuality. Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top Performing Staffing Firms by Mike Cleland and Barry Asin... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Working PapersWellsprings of Creation: Perturbation and the Paradox of the Highly Disciplined Organization Authors:David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman, and David M. Upton Abstract Organizations face simultaneous... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Working PapersDishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: Self-Preservation through Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting (revised) Authors:Lisa Lixin Shu, Francesca Gino, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract People routinely engage in dishonest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are developed. This dynamic occurs because the organization's governance structures, problem solving routines, and communication patterns constrain the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
found no takers given injury concerns, their high asking price, and the supply of quality quarterbacks on the market. Given that cutting Newton would free up $19 million in space in salary cap terms and would cost the Panthers only $2... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
wanted to work with," says Wallace, who combines a winning personality with a team-spirit approach to the ACOG mission. "I try to support him in any fashion that will allow him to make the best use of his time. When I get involved with... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Capitalism: Volume 2. The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present Firms and Global Capitalism By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This chapter forms part of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism, a definitive new reference work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
adequately considered whether or when this is true. In a sense, they have a very blunt tool that they are overusing. Second, there is a constant battle for shelf space in most grocery stores. If you are Quaker Oats, you would like to have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
people often don’t have the financial wherewithal and broad general skills to leave behind a job where they are intimidated. Working in fear is a terrible way to live, and a secret ballot can ameliorate much of that fear. Michael A.... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
Kristin S. Rhyne, MBA '99, would have loved to have the problems of reconciling employee priorities and juggling financial plans. Late last May, a year after incorporating Polished, she was still struggling to open its first unit. The strain of View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 29 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
The HBS Community - Student Initiatives
intimate setting help make the conversation rich and meaningful - it gives students the space to discuss ideas and uncover the nuance behind why a peer might see the world a certain way. The hope is that students will go into the world... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
ask me? And then as I'm asking these questions internally, I realize I'm now the Bravo Company commander, because the way it works in the army is as soon as the commander is killed in action, the next officer takes immediate command on... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
depends upon the decisions of two or three people in the oil business— that's the leader of Saudi Arabia and the president of Mexico, principally," Stobaugh explains. Recent higher prices paid by consumers at the gas pumps aren't the work... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
the Box: 40 Stories of Leading CEOs by Aparna Piramal (MBA 2002) (Random Business) The author explores the connections between work spaces and work styles of 40 progressive... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
between ideas and then visualizing and building maps to explain those correlations. These cartography skills have proved vital to her career. In the late 1990s, Lo was working on innovation and ventures for a media company in London when... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
contrast to the government-funded space race of the 20th century, the extent to which the ocean has been explored has been—like so much exploration in the 19th century—driven by the scientific and historical curiosities of individuals.... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
2018 Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism American Capitalism: New Histories By: Beckert, Sven, and Christine Desan, eds. Abstract—The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
later, the program is a keeper. “To this day we’re setting ambitious goals, and everyone is working hard to achieve those goals, with tremendous focus,” Carbonell notes. “As long as we can do that, we think the four-day week gives people... View Details
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
professor Nancy Koehn, pointing out that women played key roles in the early American economy through the development of cottage industries and in the organization and work of benevolent societies. The exhibit does a wonderful job in... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 06 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Meet the Black Investment Club
aerospace industry where she led highly technical teams at The Boeing Company developing disruptive technologies to usher in the future of mobility and responsible innovation. The major focus of her work was on View Details