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  • 02 Feb 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

here, how strong is purpose in your organization? Is there too little "know why" in business? If so, why? What do you think? To read more: Ram Charan, Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Profile

Margo Cramer

athletic/outdoor apparel and remaining connected to another area of interest: track and cross-country competition. Then she pivoted again to her passion for social justice, particularly on the issue of gender violence, by becoming a... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education; Retail/Hospitality
  • 03 Apr 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

in the work place is that generally we have more patience and a 'nicer' way of putting things-good or bad!" Kapil Sopory added that "women display better problem solving skill and organizational loyalty than men. They are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 22 Sep 2015
  • News

Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda

and grew up in South Africa during the Apartheid (an Afrikaans word meaning ‘the state of being apart,’ literally ‘apart-hood’) years, so issues of human rights and social justice have always been important to me. Through my business... View Details
  • Web

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Questions for Hiring Organizations - Alumni

the organizational culture promotes or inhibits its employees in making their strongest contributions facilitated by a day-to-day working environment that empowers them to do so. Does your organization facilitate dialogue around race, whether by internal or external... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2016
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)

the uncomfortable moments. The ability to have a difficult conversation is a necessary social skill that mature leaders have to develop. Knowing someone is deceptive is quite different from knowing the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Expertise Dissensus: A Multi-level Model of Teams' Differing Perceptions about Member Expertise

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Lisa Kwan
Why are some teams more effective than others at using their members' expertise to achieve short-term performance and longer term developmental benefits? We propose that a critical factor is expertise dissensus-members' differing perceptions of each other's level of... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Failure; Experience and Expertise; Research; Performance Effectiveness; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Perception; Personal Development and Career
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  • Article

Lone Inventors as Sources of Technological Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?

Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative outcome distributions. It has implicitly assumed a symmetric thickening or thinning of both tails, i.e., that... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Patents; Groups and Teams; Creativity
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  • 09 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

seeking to make their business socially acceptable and a range of non-governmental groups working to promote public welfare, labor, and minority rights. In France, where a similar coalition did not emerge, consumer credit continued to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World

One afternoon in 1997, while World Bank senior financial analyst Margaret Hanson Costan was in Paris discussing donations to the Bank, her husband, Jay, got a phone call. The social worker with whom they had been working to adopt a baby... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
  • 25 May 2011
  • News

Race to the Finish?

economies getting behind the wheel in the coming years, automakers have an added responsibility: For the industry to maintain its social license to operate, it must ensure its growth does not come at the expense of the world’s climate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 11 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

that these are the most difficult times in memory for many, if not most people. Parents struggle to balance the demands of remote work and homeschooling. Employees who live alone strain to stay focused while isolated from loved ones and traditional View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 13 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course

learn in a proximate way - I could not recommend highly enough. More broadly, HBS is an opportunity to reflect deeply on how you can use this privilege and your skills towards addressing racial and social... View Details
  • 05 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 5, 2016

skills to work, fashion a company environment that meets your own needs, and profit directly from your success. But finding the right business to buy and closing the deal isn't always easy. In the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 2010
  • Chapter

Utilizing Team Member Expertise Under Pressure

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Erin McFee
Pressure intensifies on a strategy consulting team as they deliver a critical project, and the team manager faces a dilemma about her changing role on the team. Although she had been the key decision-maker in the early weeks of the project, Julia Narino now finds that... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Projects; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Customization and Personalization; Consulting Industry
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Virtual Team Learning: Reflecting and Acting, Alone or With Others

By: Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate
This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and complexity, presenting an extreme need for learning in the course of the work. We present data from an exploratory... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Learning; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Behavior
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  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

decided that she didn’t have the right technology skills to make it viable. It was in her second year that she discovered how her finance background could help her show others how to align portfolios with principles. Building on the... View Details
  • Profile

John Smith-Ricco

offered him an unusual amount of responsibility for profit and loss. Over his four-year tenure there, John helped manage familiar brands such as PopSecret popcorn, Fruit by the Foot, Fruit Roll-Ups, and Progresso Soup. Skills for greater... View Details
  • Profile

Alex Furleigh

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I was ready for a change. Having spent my entire career before business school in operations—helping organizations do better with the resources that they have—I realized that I was lacking View Details
  • 11 Apr 2018
  • News

The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)

appreciated as well!” Do you use what you learned at HBS in your current work? “Every day. There are tangible ways that I use skills from HBS, when I reflect on lessons from marketing to try to figure out how to acquire more ‘customers’... View Details