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- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
"I've heard many war stories," says Harvard Business School associate professor Connie Bagley, reflecting on conversations with former students who have started business ventures. To prepare current students for the HBS Business Plan Contest, Bagley View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
for granted, ever. Today, social media can quickly amplify the views of even a few vocal opponents, giving voice to latent negative concerns of many otherwise passive groups. As Amazon learned, an apparent “movement” can seemingly spring... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
successes” because they deliver a venture to a well-resourced owner while mostly recouping backers’ investments. However, they’re not without complication: A startup’s founders might feel pressure to yield to the plans of an aligned investor group. Founders will also... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
on an unsurprising outcome. In this case, a deal at 2.5 percent, the midpoint of the two parties' opening positions, seemed likely to be agreeable to both sides. This time things would be different, he resolved. He would save everyone hassle and delay by making... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
likely to be able to tell the difference between good and bad advice. In another experiment, in which she asked participants to estimate the amount of money in a jar of coins, she found that anxious participants were apt to give equal... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
collective wisdom for accounting Ph.D. students who will be entering the academic job market. It is divided into two sections. The first offers subjective advice on the dissertation process—from choosing a topic to surviving the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
human decision making, motivation, and interaction, which of course have strong implications for what drives consumption and savings decisions, worker productivity and effort, and market exchange. Only rarely did he make deep links to this work in WN. Smith's View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
is far more valuable in decisions regarding people " However, intuition lags reality. "Use it to consider if the new idea makes sense, but don't give it more weight than it deserves." B. Graham equated judgment with a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
We have to recalibrate our minds in terms of why we’re doing remote work now. In this moment of panic, when companies and workers are trying to figure out how to be productive and how to be happy working from home, the most practical View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
Use this period as an opportunity to take stock of your own life. Does your work reflect your values? Have you let some important relationships languish? Did you give up on a dream too soon? You're not going to be a good business leader... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
You take it and you persuade people and you build the case and you build the social movement around it to get it done. Lambert: What is the first piece of advice you would give a potential corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
all of us. DeLollis: When it comes to race, technology, and tomorrow’s business outcomes, what advice would you give to CEOs, CMOs, and other top decision makers? Turner: I advise them that if marginalized... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
by the end of the year." Andrus's experiences and the strategy she employed dovetail nicely with the best advice we heard from a number of self-management experts. Here are their suggestions for overburdened managers. Get Out In... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
Many employees fall into a rut. They do their jobs and respond to challenges in a set way to deliver stable results. But consistency can give way to performance gaps between a company’s high achievers and its weakest links. Fortunately,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
ever seen before that challenges conventional wisdom and poses new approaches to big social or environmental issues. Leaders must continuously make adjustments, review premises, bring the flexibility to pivot if necessary, and find the strength to persist if the story... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
Pacelli’s research shows how disclosing genuine progress in inclusion can give companies a competitive edge in attracting talent and, ultimately, fostering innovation. Pacelli coauthored the August working paper with Jung Ho Choi of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
People don’t like to take advice from machines. “There’s a mistrust in algorithms. People seem to view them as a cheap substitute for human judgment,” Yeomans says. His team probed this skepticism in a second study, where again algorithms... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
programs has gone far beyond the marketing department to infuse everything the museum does, making it unique among its peers, says Jill Avery, senior lecturer in the General Management unit at Harvard Business School. The Magic Tate Ball app is one effort by the museum... View Details
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
straightforward, but if you have been as successful as he has, I can imagine it is very easy to get stuck in your ways. Q: Like many managers, Ferguson must manage for the short term (in-game and game to game), intermediate term (for a season), and long term. What... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
understanding of why Davies failed. Q: The crisis section we are excerpting at the end of this interview is about coping with a sudden denial of service attack. It's also about Barton navigating around conflicting advice while preparing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace