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- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
The deadline on an important work project is looming, but you keep getting distracted by news stories and silly cat videos online. Even though installing an Internet-blocking app might help you stay focused, you resist the idea, telling... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
home you have access to even more technology than in the office. It’s important to set up your work space so that you have access to the technology you need, and not the technology that will distract you. Fong encourages her team to avoid... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
designed to immerse visitors in a contemplative experience. Ceilings and walls are deemphasized and there are no exit signs, smoke detectors, or visible security cameras. “There is nothing to distract people from looking at art and... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
temperature that could put millions at risk of drought and flooding. Therefore, an exclusive focus on voluntary operational greening including carbon neutrality distracts from the far greater need for climate regulation to achieve the... View Details
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
time. Which of his choices are key to Lincoln Center's mission and which might distract time and attention from its core programming? Grossman observes that despite the important challenges that must be addressed, Levy and the institution... View Details
- Web
Diversity Comes to Corporate Boards, but Slowly - Blog: RGE Report
distraction from boards’ responsibility to protect shareholder value. However, diversity advocates say the debate encourages companies to be more thoughtful about how they source candidates, because they know their selection process is... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
successes, the distraction of a later effort to improve gender diversity, the disproportionate number of Black employees laid off in a major downsizing, a drop in the number of Black candidates in the pipeline, and weak retention of those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
perform better at work than those who don't, and that goes for both positive and negative feedback. Temptation at work (1,072) http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-090.pdf http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6668.html Published: March 30, 2011 Paper Released: February 2011 Among... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
instead provide distraction by answering something they would rather have been asked. And what is more, oftentimes their listeners either do not notice the verbal sleight of hand or do not mind it. New research by Todd Rogers (HBS Ph.D... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
those that most closely fit their strategy and adapt or develop others. There is no rule for the right number of metrics to include in a measurement system; however, including too many tends to distract managers from pursuing a focused... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
of those aged 18 to 34, tied with basketball at 11 percent and trailing only football, and a recent Nielsen survey found that 55 percent of 16to-24-year old Americans were “interested” or “very interested” in soccer. That makes it harder to blame whatever digital View Details
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
Even in firms that have public shareholders or corporate parents, removing the firm leader can only be done effectively with the consent of the senior stars. If the stars don't like the idea, the consequences for the CEO's successor and the shareholders can be an... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
academic freedom—the opportunity to focus on big ideas without the distraction of grant writing—is also a competitive advantage in recruiting faculty. Consequently, our work is pathbreaking and has impact on both practice and management... View Details
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
only work hard to avoid distraction (by, for example, putting on big headphones) but—because you have an audience at all times—also feel pressure to look really busy. Indeed, all of the cues in open offices that we give off to get focused... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
idea. Some think it is cool but get distracted by the next cool idea that comes along. Some embrace the concept for a time but give up because implementing it is too hard. And a few fully commit to the model and get incredible results.... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
follow if the core business is losing money. The distractions of managing a failing business complicate the challenges of succeeding in a new one. Therefore, pursue the hybrid alternative before the core business deteriorates to crisis... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
Abstract—High-performing knowledge workers often question whether managers actually contribute much, especially in a technical environment. Until recently, that was the case at Google, a company filled with self-starters who viewed management as more destructive than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
to be friends and want to be open and can teach you things and can learn from you? It’s just not going to happen again. And so there’s always a million reasons to be grumpy or skeptical or distracted at every stage in your life, and I... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
award from the Association of American Publishers—that in the early '90s our publisher, John Wiley, asked us if we would develop a new, updated edition. Steve and I did some preliminary thinking about this, even prepared a possible chapter outline, but then got View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
lost all five fingers on his left hand while trying to protect his men from a defective distraction grenade that exploded prematurely. Jefferson was hospitalized for months and then well for the first time in years, he didn’t know what... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley