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  • April 2012
  • Article

Coming Through When It Matters Most

By: Heidi K. Gardner
All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest-when the company's future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional service firms, I have... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Projects; Performance Expectations; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Sharing
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    Coming Through When It Matters Most

    All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest—when the company’s future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional service firms,... View Details

    • Article

    Gross National Happiness As an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
    The Easterlin Paradox refers to the fact that happiness data are typically stationary in spite of considerable increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility function. We find that the... View Details
    Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Happiness; Employment; Income; Mathematical Methods; Welfare
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    Consumer's Relationships with Technologies

     

    Susan M. Fournier is involved with two lines of research investigating consumers' relationships with technological products. The first project (with Professor David Mick of the University of Wisconsin) concerns 'everyday technologies' such as... View Details

    • 2018
    • Book

    The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy

    By: Sophus A. Reinert
    The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the 18th century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the 19th, they paradoxically sought to make the... View Details
    Keywords: Enlightenment; Political Economy; Italy; Commercial Society; Economic Systems; Trade; History; Markets; Society; Italy
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    • 10 Dec 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Julianna Pillemer, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

      The Academy of Fisticuffs

      The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the eighteenth century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the nineteenth, they paradoxically... View Details

      • 22 Jan 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Competing Ad Auctions

      Keywords: by Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin G. Edelman & Hoan Soo Lee; Advertising
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Iterative Coordination and Innovation

      By: Sourobh Ghosh and Andy Wu
      Agile management practices from the software industry continue to transform the way organizations innovate across industries, yet they remain understudied in the organizations literature. We investigate the widespread Agile practice of iterative coordination: frequent... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation; Goals; Specialization; Coordination; Field Experiment; Software Development; Organizations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Goals and Objectives; Integration; Software
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      • 2003
      • Book

      The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World

      By: Bhaskar Chakravorti

      Innovation's encounter with the market results in a game of both high risk and high stakes. Often its outcome defies common sense: Superior new products flop, unlikely ideas become runaway hits, and—despite rapid technological advances and intense... View Details

      Keywords: Game Theory; Network Effects; Innovation and Invention; Product Marketing; Economics
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      • January 23, 2020
      • Article

      Sanctions and the End of Trans-Atlanticism: Iran, Russia, and the Unintended Division of the West

      By: Rawi Abdelal and Aurélie Bros
      Sanctions have become the dominant tool of statecraft in the United States and other Western states, especially the European Union, since the end of the Cold War. But the systematic use of this instrument may produce unintended and somewhat paradoxical geopolitical... View Details
      Keywords: Geopolitics; Economic Sanctions; International Relations; United States; Russia; Iran; Europe
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      • 09 May 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

      You End Up Paying The Full Price Anyway Case studies such as this one helped me resolve a paradox that has appeared repeatedly in my attempts to help established companies that are confronted by disruptive entrants—as was the case with... View Details
      • 21 May 2014
      • HBS Seminar

      Robert Kraut, Carnegie Mellon

      • 26 Mar 2014
      • HBS Seminar

      Brian Kahin, MIT

      • 06 Jul 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      The Truth About Authentic Leaders

      become authentic, as they navigate the practical dilemmas and paradoxes they face. For example, Karissa Thacker’s recent book The Art of Authenticity takes authenticity to a deeper level by exploring topics like relational transparency... View Details
      Keywords: by Bill George
      • 06 Oct 2016
      • HBS Seminar

      Edward Fertik, Yale University

      • 18 Jul 2023
      • News

      The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

      which I have a grabbing logline. I’m constantly writing down little pieces of ideas and great dialogue, things inspired by what I overhear on the street an amusing phrase, a twist on a play on words. I’ll jot down interesting paradoxes or... View Details
      Keywords: Robert Bochnak
      • Web

      Leadership Initiative - Leadership

      Review Press 2014), co-founder of Paradox Strategies, and co-creator of the Innovation Quotient, re:Route, and re:Mind. Hill co-founded InnovationForce, a SaaS company using AI and machine learning to accelerate the process of innovation.... View Details
      • 18 Mar 2013
      • HBS Case

      HBS Cases: LEGO

      so new product design began to be informed by market research, user feedback, and how well the toys matched the vision of quality creative play laid out by its founding fathers. Putting parameters on how people innovate had the View Details
      Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation
      • 01 Nov 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

      Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated According to a recent Gallup survey, less... View Details
      Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson