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- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
Steven Kramer) and I were doing an exploratory study of daily diaries we had collected from 238 people in twenty-six teams working on creative projects in seven different companies. The diaries were in the form of answers to a brief daily... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
articles. Much of Porter's thinking originally appeared in the pages of the Harvard Business Review. Eleven of those seminal articles are collected in On Competition, a book published by the Harvard Business School Press. In addition,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
concluded that Toyota has come up with a powerful, broadly applicable answer to a fundamental managerial problem. The products we consume and the services we use are typically not the result of a single person's effort. Rather, they come to us through the View Details
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
to visit him in Manchester twice: in March, to see him in action during the season, and in July during the summer break to allow ourselves more time to speak with him and learn about his approach to managing the club. The access we were... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
definitions of what constitutes a "team." For this paper we collected a unique dataset from the men's major soccer league in Italy. For each match we computed the exact pay dispersion of each work team and estimated its effect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
each individual performance might be more perfect on a second take, but the enhanced individual perfection comes at a collective price often resulting in a decrease in the interaction quality. The end result is music less spontaneous,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
modern-day sales management. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity: Kristen Senz: What shifts in sales should managers and executives be aware of right now? Frank Cespedes: Prospects are now online and offline throughout the buying journey, View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
you're trying to achieve," he states. "That's affected by two things: your theory of change and your operational strategy." A theory of change is an organization's rationale for how its actions will ultimately lead to the achievement of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
environmentally beneficial functions: it diverts waste from landfill and it produces renewable energy. At the same time, the waste-to-energy firm serves and collects revenue from two types of customers: waste generators who pay for waste... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
considered essential? How could employees’ safety be guaranteed? And, most recently, how can businesses preserve financial viability in the face of rapidly declining demand for products and services? The experiences we collected show... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
product, or service against the best-known similar activity, so that challenging but attainable goals can be set and a realistic course of action implemented to efficiently become and remain best of the best. In one dramatic benchmarking... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
Dave Cote and his team brought to managing their company during the Great Recession. The shift to managing companies for short-term financial interests has been an increasing trend among US businesses, leading to a focus on actions that... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
On a larger scale, the U.S. Army is known for conducting After Action Reviews that enable participants to analyze, discuss, and learn from both the successes and failures of a variety of military initiatives. Similarly, hospitals use... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
Corporations, Wells collects case studies from companies that have learned this lesson—some of them the hard way—and explains how all companies can strategize more intelligently. Michael Blanding: Why did you decide to write a book about... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
use. Census II identifies the most commonly used FOSS components in production applications and begins to examine them for potential vulnerabilities, which can inform actions to sustain the long-term security and health of open source.... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
enjoying my colleague Tom Eisenmann's latest book, Why Startups Fail. This book is a well-crafted collection of case examples of how startups fail. Eisenmann offers a means for both entrepreneurs and their investors to see around corners... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
party applications/advertisers and users” assigned the task of making sure third party companies are following company guidelines on privacy. Jim suggested, “Total transparency, including what was collected and what was sold FOR EACH... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
one way or another, grieving. According to David Kessler, an author and grief expert quoted in a recent HBR article, “The loss of normalcy; the fear of economic toll; the loss of connection. This is hitting us and we’re grieving. Collectively. We are not used to this... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
of practical relevance of much of our research might suggest that few of us also have the ambition to improve the decisions of the managers and policymakers whose actions we study” Toffel’s paper serves as a call to arms for scholars to... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
These structures determine a firm's motivation to seek protection, as well as its capacity to overcome collective action problems within its industry. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne