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    Linda A. Hill

    Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is... View Details

    • Web

    The Five Forces - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    industry profitability. If there are only one or two suppliers of an essential input product, for example, or if switching suppliers is expensive or time consuming, a supplier group wields more power. Bargaining Power of Buyers Powerful... View Details
    • 2005
    • Chapter

    Fundamentals for a World-Class Leadership Programme

    Meaningful leadership development needs to incorporate emotional and often unconscious aspects of human behavior. This chapter describes a leadership program designed to provide opportunities to learn, in-depth and through personal experience, about the exercise of... View Details
    Keywords: Learning; Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Emotions
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      Dorothy A. Leonard

      Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

      Keywords: computer; consulting; education industry; electronics; federal government; high technology; information technology industry; software; venture capital industry
      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell
      A combination of concerns about climate change and energy security has recently led to significant increases in public funding for energy R&D. Some commentators are suggesting that these increases need to be sustained, and are advocating for increases of as much as... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Research and Development; Pollutants; Climate Change; Energy Industry
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      • April 2012
      • Article

      The Changing Ecology of Teams: New Directions for Teams Research

      By: Ruth Wageman, Heidi K. Gardner and Mark Mortensen
      The nature of collaboration has been changing at an accelerating pace, particularly in the last decade. Much of the published work in teams research, however, is still focused on the archetypal team that has well-defined membership, purposes, leadership, and standards... View Details
      Keywords: Groups and Teams; Research; Change Management; Leadership; Standards; Performance Effectiveness; Theory; Civil Society or Community
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        Robert C. Merton

        Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

        Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

        Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
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        India Transformed? Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005 (with Anusha Chari)

        By: Laura Alfaro
        Using firm-level data this paper analyzes, the transformation of India’s economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly-listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details
        • Article

        Statistical Physics of Human Cooperation

        By: Matjaž Perc, Jillian J. Jordan, David G. Rand, Zhen Wang, Stefano Boccaletti and Attila Szolnoki
        Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable to execute alone. The evolutionary success of our species is indeed due, to a large... View Details
        Keywords: Human Cooperation; Evolutionary Game Theory; Public Goods; Reward; Punishment; Tolerance; Self-organization; Pattern Formation; Cooperation; Behavior; Game Theory
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        • 2009
        • Working Paper

        India Transformed: Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005

        By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
        Using firm-level data this paper analyzes, the transformation of India's economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly-listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details
        Keywords: Transformation; Economic Sectors; Economy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Growth and Development Strategy; India
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        • 09 Jul 2009
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

        Keywords: by Heidi K. Gardner

          Eliminating unintended bias in personalized policies using Bias Eliminating Adapted Trees (BEAT) - PNAS

          An inherent risk of algorithmic personalization is disproportionate targeting of individuals from certain groups (or demographic characteristics such as gender or race), even when the decision maker does not intend to discriminate based on those... View Details

          • March 2011 (Revised April 2011)
          • Exercise

          The Future of BioPasteur

          By: Giovanni Gavetti and Francesca Gino
          The purpose of this exercise is to let students experience a few biases that can be deleterious to strategic decision-making. In particular, students are induced to fall into a confirmatory trap, and to experience other biases such as anchoring and sampling bias.... View Details
          Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Outcome or Result; Groups and Teams; Prejudice and Bias; Strategy
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          • 12 Apr 2007
          • Working Paper Summaries

          From Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark

          Keywords: by Sylvain Lenfle & Carliss Y. Baldwin; Manufacturing
          • 2009
          • Article

          India Transformed: Insights from the Firm Level 1988–2007

          By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
          Using firm-level data, this paper analyzes the transformation of India's economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details
          Keywords: Financial Statements; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Transformation; Economics; Ownership; Assets; Sales; Profit; Stock Shares; Private Sector; Investment Return; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; India
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          • February 2003
          • Background Note

          Identity Issues in Teams

          By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Hillary Anger Elfenbein
          This note explains how identity dynamics underlie many of the observable interpersonal problems that team members encounter, ranging from lack of participation and low involvement to misunderstandings and dysfunctional emotional conflict. It provides a framework for... View Details
          Keywords: Framework; Managerial Roles; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Emotions; Identity
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          • Program

          Senior Executive Leadership Program—India

          of the HBS campus designed for Executive Education, with living quarters and amenities that maximize your comfort while facilitating small group discussions. Classrooms, supported by the latest technology, are designed to foster View Details
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          Senior Executive Program—Africa

          teams, and navigate rapid change, you will be ready to help your company drive growth in Africa's dynamic markets. HBS offers this program in partnership with the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) of the University of Pretoria... View Details
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          Organizational Behavior - Doctoral

          original contribution to the field of Organizational Behavior; it can take the form of an extended study of one topic or a set of three or more related research papers. Examples of Doctoral Thesis Research Cross-group relations, stress, and the subsequent effect on... View Details
          • 14 Oct 2015
          • HBS Seminar

          Scott Stern, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management