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- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
experiences as managers when a stern approach helped set an employee on a more productive course. Soon, many students are rethinking their position. "The ones that say they couldn't imagine learning from someone like a Coach Knight,... View Details
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
The result is a look into the minds of three tech pioneers who, to outside appearances, don't share much in common. "When I mention I wrote the book, the first response I get is, 'I can't imagine three more different people,'"... View Details
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
adopt differently-structured communication networks for each category," the authors write. "In other words, rather than allow the march of technology to dictate organizational performance, it is possible to imagine technology... 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... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
question. What follows are six ways to make your threats more credible in negotiation. 1. Increase your costs of not following through on your threat Imagine that you're thinking about bidding to acquire another company that would be of... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 23 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Brand a Next-Generation Product
participants, who each were told to imagine that a close friend was getting married soon, and that the friend had asked them to photograph the ceremony as a favor. However, because their Ricoh camera had been stolen, they would have to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
first time. Get help—don’t try to figure it out yourself. You will spend more working hours than you ever imagined learning how to navigate people things while running your business, fundraising, etc. Hire a coach or find friends with... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
were stranded on Elephant Island. He was stymied several times. The Endurance trapped in the ice, winter 1915, photographed by Frank Hurley, the voyage photographer. Copyright Royal Geographical Society, London. Imagine what Shackleton... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
Over the past few decades, information technology jobs worked their way into the popular imagination as among the most stable, fast-rising, and lucrative ways to make a living, bolstered in the 1990s by the dot-com boom. What astronauts... View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
my body. I realized I had been preparing every real and imagined path for my boys. I was, like, weed whacking so that they would not learn or experience anything. And then I realized, I'm not supposed to weed whack the path. I'm supposed... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
soon as the checkbook comes out a flood of emotions comes out with it—fear, anxiety, competiveness, anger, annoyance—all of which can influence what either side is willing to accept. “I can't imagine a good negotiator who doesn't have... View Details
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
powerful to see someone who’s very sophisticated still be taken advantage of,” he says. “If you think about how many people in the US lack financial knowledge, you can only imagine what could potentially be happening to them.” About the... View Details
- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
to change. It's so hard to monitor or fix compared to the machine. Layne: In layman's terms, how does your solution, BEAT, work? You mentioned surge pricing for car services as an example. Israeli: So, imagine we have three different... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Sep 2021
- Op-Ed
How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback
that the feedback giver has positive intent." To see what I mean, imagine being told, “You need to be more assertive” or “You need to show your potential more fully.” These types of statements, which women often receive, are so ambiguous... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 11 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
likely to trust coworkers who had acknowledged their emotions, particularly when the emotions were negative, the findings showed. Ignoring emotions lessens trust: In five subsequent studies, the researchers asked participants to either View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
businesses to contemplate having a purpose the way individuals might do so. Aiming for a higher ideal elevates our thinking and expands our ambition that in turn allows us to imagine the possibility of doing things that might otherwise... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
which I can imagine having gone to school on the other side of the river, can be its own challenge. Neeley: I thank you so much for those kind words. I feel the exact same way about you and the fact that we need to be out there for that... View Details
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
Imagine a future in which a smart marketing machine can predict the needs and habits of individual consumers and the dynamics of competitors across industries and markets. This device would collect data to answer strategic questions,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual
suppressed the ad hominem insults, and peaked at the right time, confounding the pollsters and media pundits. In every recent speech, he repeated the same messages, inviting voters to imagine the future if they bought into the promises of... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
“perspective taking,” or the practice of trying to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. He shows across 25 studies with more than 2,800 people that imagining the world through someone else’s eyes leads us to inaccurate judgments. What... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint