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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, the authors combine the latest thinking from the biological and social sciences to lay out a new theory on human nature. The idea: We are all influenced and guided View Details
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
work? Iansiti: Netflix has been using AI for many years in a lot of different ways, for example, by learning how people choose movies according to the thumbprint picture that appears on the Netflix service....
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
self-sufficient while not being self-sufficient ourselves?— Alfred Wise,Share Our Strength The session, led by HBS professor James E. Austin, featured three managers whose experiences highlight the challenges and benefits of View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
it) creates undue risk of moral hazard, simply because boards and senior management are often significant shareholders. If it is true that the average tenure of a CEO today is 3 years, how could any sane CEO not seek to maximize share value View Details
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by James Heskett
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
proposition included Fernando De LaTorre, who commented, “I found (it) hard to work for trust as a goal. I think you work and live your values, and trust will stay in the culture.” Alan Arnett said that “trust comes when you View Details
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by James Heskett
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
has it, so why is it interesting?" she says. "I think it's pretty sexy plumbing." “There's a tremendous gap between the most IT-savvy firms and the IT laggards” McElheran believes IT has the potential to completely transform the supply...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
work-related perceptions, too, the researchers say. For instance, a candidate who applies for two jobs might privately wish to get rejected by one rather than have to choose between two options, notes Barasz, a former assistant professor...
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by Michael Blanding
- 05 Dec 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing
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by Matthew Weinzierl
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
What’s a company’s purpose? Too often it has been hijacked by one extreme or the other claiming it’s either the unbridled pursuit of profit on behalf of shareholders or it’s anything but profit. I also take issue with the idea that...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
SoftBank will be treated in the IPO and whether they will support WeWork by committing even more money. What’s to be learned? In sum, what can we learn from possibly the worst pre-IPO marketing example ever?...
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- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
do you control an epidemic that is sexually transmitted?" he asked the group. "People have suggested all sorts of things," some fairly outlandish. One suggestion he recalled was simply encouraging people to have sex less often. "I View Details
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by Julie Jette
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
by Alex Haley and Malcom X, but can’t seem to find my copy as I think I lent it to my son just before he left for his gap year. Laura Huang I like to switch up what I’m reading—so I often alternate between...
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by Staff
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
starting companies. Maybe I should try to forget that I have an investment in several decades of a business career, and see if I can learn fresh, new things." I asked young people who were starting companies to tell me what they were...
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by Staff
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest...
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- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
all business units to explore the budget implications of several strategic alternatives. The following discussion will help stimulate your thinking about how your own company's budgeting process can be transformed from an exasperating...
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by Loren Gary
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
latter derives solely from the voluntary efforts of vendors' employees. Not surprisingly, they find that the money-driven cluster consists mostly of high impact OSS projects that draw customers to a vendor's mainly proprietary, core businesses. "OSS is a business...
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- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
opportunities that particular protagonist has. The underlying premise is that after thinking and trying to feel like a decision maker, there’s a higher probability of our students being able to think about...
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- 24 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
“I read Playboy for the articles”: Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences
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by Zoë Chance & Michael I. Norton
- 06 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?
With China hosting the Summer Olympic Games starting this week, some reformers see an opportunity to use the world stage as a platform to pressure the country's leadership into expanding social freedoms. Judging by recent news, they don't...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
executives to think of a great customer experience they’ve had, as well as a terrible one. What’s particularly novel about Thomke’s approach is that students learn through a methodology called LEGO Serious...
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