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- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
20th centuries, it is clear that scholars studied leadership closely. One example is sociologist Max Weber and his concern about the nature of authority: the foundation of authority that was located in traditional authority, charismatic... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
of casual hallway and cafeteria conversations where the genesis of a lot of great ideas take place.” Managers don’t have to redesign a building to engineer these encounters. Just by observing where employees View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
Publications 2006 Harvard Business Review Press Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics By: Davenport, Thomas H., and Jinho Kim Abstract—Managers today need to be able to analyze and make sense of data. They need to be View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
into play, and people are unable to see the ethical implications of their actions because their desire to win gets in the way. The end result is deception. In business, with dollars at stake, many people will interpret situations in ways that View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
opportunity.” [Ongoing sequel: after the pullout and conversations with Bezos, New York Governor Cuomo sought to coax Amazon back—in line with this section’s advice to build a supportive coalition and deal with opponents. Cuomo refused to... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
submitted by drug developers, doctors, lawyers, and consumers. The analysis revealed no difference in the frequency of adverse events reported for BTD drugs versus similar drugs that lacked BTD status and took longer to gain approval. The research team concluded that... View Details
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
poorly, either by taking the conversation to unrelated tangents or by omitting key information that might cast the advice-seeker in a poor light Misjudging the quality of the advice they are given Once advice-seekers have received... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
which means that you try to start a dialogue with the person to understand them instead of trying to guess their feelings. Frei: Or, in our language, “center” on them. Bulletin: Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes might be a natural... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
Giroux, 1968) for the reference to Ken Kesey. Your feedback to last month’s column Can We Train for Trust? The sense of the discussion of this issue was that, while trust may be a combination of nature and nurture, to some degree it is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
experience, autonomy. These are naturally definers of where an individual should be placed within a salary range. Those differences should be easily explained and verifiable upon request." Dan S. pointed out that disclosing pay... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
displaces human activity, it will also push people out of jobs. To what degree will this happen? Iansiti: There’s a pretty good consensus that there’s going to be a massive transformation in the nature of work. Every job can be done... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
without considering whether it is the best platform for their product and/or whether they’ll be able to hire engineers who are skilled in .NET (or want to learn it) to build it at scale. I’ve also seen many startups default to the View Details
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
if pursuing a less hectic pace may mean sacrificing career advancement. Also, default to saying “no” for most unplanned, last-minute impositions on your time, especially requests that benefit someone else, like a side work project. While you may say “yes” to a quick... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
negotiation?). In vaguely defined situations, there is increased opportunity for misunderstanding and conflict. But given the distinctive nature of negotiations for families in business, 5 basic principles of negotiation that have proven... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
from Ripe for Revolution, Friedman discusses how conventional thinking about socialism has evolved since the Cold War. Book Excerpt Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World Jeremy Friedman Socialist Revolution as a Global Process During the Cold War,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
team at Harvard Business Press, led by the talented Kathleen Carr, had been generating a host of innovative ideas that naturally aligned with this book's innovative format—the use of artistic illustrations was their suggestion, and we... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
different in some regards, both have been shown to be stronger when the work is visible to people the programmer wants to impress (colleagues, venture capitalists, the overall job market). With immediate rewards, commercial projects have an edge as far as money... View Details
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
country involves zero risk. There is, however, a growing list of events that are overlooked by risk managers, ranging from natural disasters, to geopolitical, technological, contractual, or demand factors. A first warning emerging from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
Economics Paul Novosad. “Just the conversations that are happening in the UN are important in determining international priorities” Among their findings: Powerful countries including the United States, China, and India have less... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
understood by the theory of rational addiction—“a theory that fails to explain why addicts often regret their behavior or regard it as a mistake,” she says. But she found the framework, which has historically been applied only to harmful behaviors, was useful to shift... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel