Span Of Attention - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Oct 2001
What Do You Think?

What Can We Expect in the Other War?

dealing with the personal concerns of employees? Will more attention have to be given to "community building?" Will, in fact, the war on terrorism prompt managers to engage in behaviors necessary... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 26

business group affiliates and when local institutions develop. Therefore, we shed light on the firm-level implications of minority state ownership, a topic that has received scant attention in the strategy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Mar 2001
What Do You Think?

Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?

hard to believe how little of this was possible just ten years ago. At the same time that we devote massive attention to the reduction of waste in materials, one organization... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

Lessons from the Management of Clinical Trials Authors:Robert S.Huckman and Darren E. Zinner Periodical:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract For over three decades, the benefits of focus have... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?

Today, Amazon participates in so many industries that it takes a small army of researchers at HBS to track them all: retailing, cloud computing, book stores, grocery stores, digital consumer products, commercial real estate,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

13 May 2019
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud

opportunity to work to overcome the whistleblower’s allegations. Government agencies only reduce total contract dollar volume if the allegations are ultimately deemed to have merit. “I think it’s a surprisingly sophisticated interplay between the people who bring the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Service; Construction

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

that sales representatives, who were responsible for a large portfolio of imaging products, were not giving enough attention to Ultrasound. He was wondering if change in the size and compensation structure... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

Thyssen himself paid an immense amount of attention to issues of organization, accounting, and control, so in many ways the book reflects those interests. It became clear that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

National Academy of Sciences, there had been little popular attention to this issue. (The only trade books on the topic seemed to either be "war stories" about memorable patent disputes or... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

and Kagan Tumer Periodical:Applied Economics Research Bulletin (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as Harvard Business School Working Paper 08-064.) Abstract We describe an auction mechanism in the class of Groves mechanisms that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

change are: compensation systems for senior management, which tend to alienate the rest of the organization, and the current obsession with programs, a panacea that glosses the surface of problems but often... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

likely to hold back ideas, concerns, and questions to maintain a positive image, the team says. Once psychological safety is lost, it’s hard to get back. Newcomers’ loss of psychological safety was followed by a long period View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

what’s a manager to do given the uncertainty of both predictions and prophets? Here’s some advice to CEOs, CFOs, sales managers, and others who allocate the major resources in most firms. Whatever else you do in thinking about the future... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

21 Mar 2016
HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

Brian Kenny: What motivated you to write the case? Why were you interested in it? Thales Teixeira: Some of my research is on the economics of attention and online reviews have... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel

05 Jul 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?

Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

30 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Professional Networks in China and America

Most managers understand at some level the wisdom of the adage, "It's not what you know; it's who you know." Indeed, building the right professional relationships is critical for business success. In China, relationships are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?

tell anyone not to interact with those devices just before doing something that requires any kind of assertiveness," Bos says. "Mostly because people won't listen: They will do it anyway. But if you realize that, 'hmm, I'm pretty quiet... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Consumer Products

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

then at least in the fog” "We negotiate, if not in the dark, then at least in the fog," says Michael Wheeler, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and retired MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

Noam Wasserman is an assistant professor and MBA Class of 1961 Fellow in the entrepreneurial management unit at Harvard Business School. His paper "Founder-CEO Succession and the Paradox of... View Details

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

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