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- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
was a way of injecting a certain amount of objectivity and analysis into the decision to be made. In recent years, we have been advised to make certain decisions in a "blink" by Malcolm Gladwell, to "think twice" View Details
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by James Heskett
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
indexes by 30 percent. The market swings likely prompted many brokerage customer to scrutinize their advisers’ investments, and some might not have liked what they saw. “There's a Warren Buffett quote: ‘Only when the tide goes out do you...
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- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
Think of Harvard Business School's recently launched the Digital Initiative (D/I) as a giant laboratory, where leading scholars and practitioners convene to research, teach, and put into practice new understandings about the relentless...
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- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
Research released recently by iseecars.com seems to indicate a fleeting happiness with luxury cars. New buyers of BMW, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche sell them more frequently in the first year than owners of other models....
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- 07 Feb 2013
- HBS Seminar
Scott Cook, Intuit
- 31 Oct 2006
- HBS Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
these questions: Just how well is it working? What additional changes are needed, if any? "This case challenges students to think about different systems of corporate governance and whether they are converging toward just a few basic...
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- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
with their smartphones before a meeting begins, thinking of it as an efficient way to manage their time," says Maarten Bos, a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard Business School, who co-wrote the study with HBS Associate Professor...
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- 29 Sep 2022
- Op-Ed
Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable
When others think like us or look like us, we are likely able to predict their moves and perspectives. But when they don’t, we need to be open to learning about them. 2. Reserving judgment opens us up to...
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by Francesca Gino
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
listen to podcasts like Reboot or Masters of Scale. Put your ego aside! Managing is hard, let alone learning how to do it when you’re also trying to launch a company. From 20-30 employees. The best practice for team size is eight...
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by Julia Austin
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
When Facebook failed to protect the privacy of 87 million people whose data was harvested without their consent in 2015, the company not only circumvented data privacy regulations, it breached the public’s trust. And by failing to...
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by Lane Lambert
- 25 May 2016
- Blog Post
Favorite Memories from HBS
It’s my final Monday on campus, and one thought keeps looping in my mind: “Wow, the last two years went by so fast. Where did the time go?” Commencement is three days away; my first day of work is eight (it was my choice to jump right...
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- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
actions that are aligned with producing them. Fundamentally, that is the focus of our work in the Social Enterprise Initiative. Board and executive leaders today are confronted by a confusing landscape of conflicting demands, rapidly...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
A Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
School of Management at Northwestern University.) "From an academic perspective, we thought we could advance the theory of networks by looking at the psychological consequences of networking." Previous psychology research has shown that...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
and lateral, internal and external to the organization). From these developmental relationships (e.g., mentors or sponsors), potential managers can better learn from their own experiences by receiving...
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by Linda Hill
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
example, we learn how challenges have been turned into opportunities, and how you can grow successful businesses in turbulent conditions by paying close attention to execution and recruitment of strong...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2021
- Op-Ed
Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge
can do and build additional capacity, the organization must create the space for the leader to gain clarity about conscious and unconscious beliefs they hold. An understanding of those beliefs and how they inform actions is critical to understanding different...
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by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle
- 23 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting
- 21 Sep 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?
posed by Instagram users and Battilana’s answers: What’s the biggest myth people tend to believe about power dynamics? In my research, I have found strikingly common misconceptions in how people think about...
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by Kristen Senz
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
statement, in which case shareholders can vote on whether the company should adopt the change; negotiate with the shareholder to come up with a mutually acceptable solution to the beef; or formally contest the shareholder’s proposal by...
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by Carmen Nobel