Deep Learning - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

inequities, Opie says companies need to dig deep, build bridges, and take collective action. Step 1: Digging deep Opie says leaders need to confront the entrenched beliefs that reinforce the pay and promotion gaps playing out around them.... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

14 Aug 2006
HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

Angeles Lakers basketball team. Supporting material shows film clips of some of the more notorious Knight moments as well as Coach K's press conference after turning down the Lakers job. Students come away with a deep sense of each... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

authentic. Authentic Leadership was intended as a clarion call to the new generation to learn from negative examples like Enron, WorldCom and Tyco. In it, I defined authentic leaders as genuine, moral and character-based leaders:... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Feb 2022
Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

to the revolution in life sciences that had been triggered by the decoding of the genome in the 1990s. That involved doing business with many hundreds of startups with deep science backgrounds, an anathema to IBM’s traditional focus on... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

are much, much greater than they expected them to be. Crew of the Endurance, when spirits were still high. Photo by Frank Hurley, voyage photographer. Copyright Royal Geographical Society, London. The third reason is that the Shackleton story is compelling. Case method... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

spiritual guidance in crucial decisions, especially those that affect other people such as employees, he said. Levy's guidelines are: Quiet the mind. Reach deep inside. Go beyond the ego to hear the inner voice. Don't fear ambiguity; rest... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

20th centuries, it is clear that scholars studied leadership closely. One example is sociologist Max Weber and his concern about the nature of authority: the foundation of authority that was located in traditional authority, charismatic authority, rational authority;... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

lifetimes, this book looks at the past of green business to identify lessons for the future. It provides rich new evidence and insights on green business as it examines its variation between industries and nations over time. It shows the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

(Editor’s note: Fix This! is a series of occasional stories about industries that provide bad consumer experiences and how they can be fixed.) Consumers routinely list buying a car as the worst shopping experience imaginable. So it may be comforting to View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto

09 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

Using information collected during a customer’s first purchase, a new marketing tool that leverages machine learning technology can provide firms with valuable predictions about the customer’s future behavior, says Eva Ascarza, a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

Working PapersTo Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts Authors:Benjamin Edelman, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract We examine the profitability and implications of online discount vouchers, a new... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

that finance is not rocket science. It’s really pretty intuitive and extremely accessible. It’s critical and fun for people who understand and appreciate business. They can enjoy learning about companies in View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

the ad and be taken to a Web site where she can learn more about the product and purchase it. The entire process—from ad to purchase—might take less than five minutes. In addition to streamlining the flow of information and transactions,... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

they will also bring valuable experimentation and learning opportunities for policymakers. Amidst these massive disruptions, a combination of short- and long-term innovation responses can provide a ray of hope for businesses. While the... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

What do you do when the people with whom you are negotiating act in ways that can best be called counterproductive? Before throwing up your hands, take a deep breath and ask yourself 3 questions. Do these people lack good information? Are... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

language and cultural barriers. One senior R&D manager in the United States notes, "We wanted to learn firsthand what was going on in centers of scientific excellence in Europe. Being present at a center of scientific excellence... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

conducive work environment, is external. The internal components are: Expertise. People need expertise to be creative. So, to the extent that you can continue to learn not only in your primary domain, but in other, related domains, you'll... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

10 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points

to for her. For the first time in her career, she didn't know what to do. As I shared the story with Howard, a bewildered look crept over his face. Michelle's plan, I explained to him, was to keep her head down and wait to see how the department might be reshaped.... View Details

Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

and ultimately an excellent journey to learning effective leadership skills in The Adventures of an IT Leader (Harvard Business Press). According to the novel's creators, a fictional approach allowed them to blend real-life incidents they... View Details