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January 2023
Article

Psychological Safety Comes of Age: Observed Themes in an Established Literature

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Derrick P. Bransby

Since its renaissance in the 1990s, psychological safety research has flourished—a boom motivated by recognition of the challenge of navigating uncertainty and change. Today, its theoretical and practical significance is amplified by the increasingly complex and... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Risk and Uncertainty; Leadership; Working Conditions; Research; Performance; Learning; Organizational Culture

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20 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

executives who helped compensate for their own weaknesses. Gates, for example, knew his strength was not in operations, so he brought in an outside COO to run the day-to-day operations. In the same vein, Jobs nearly destroyed Apple in the early 1980s View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

17 Apr 2022
Book

How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

tempting to shoplift a small item, the opportunity to make millions of dollars by insider trading or cheating on a large contract is far more enticing.) As a result, businesspeople must always remain aware of and sensitive to their... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

04 Apr 2023
What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

productivity, mainly by eliminating commute time, the evidence thus far suggests two things: We don’t yet know how to measure productivity changes from remote work and that, even when we learn, the impact may not be very significant. Many... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

country’s nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. The researchers studied employee emails and attachments before and during a nine-week period using machine learning and textual analysis. They supplemented their email analysis with qualitative... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

02 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News

executives a question. That's the procedure that HBS Associate Professor Lauren H. Cohen followed to find out more about the odd dealings he'd observed at a company that was the subject of one of his case studies. But he wasn't given the opportunity to ask a question,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

25 Jul 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can Private Forecasts Help?

Keywords: by Jeffrey A. Frankel and Jesse Schreger

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

customer needs both today and tomorrow, and the other that is focused on crazy innovation." Leaders who strike the balance well, note O'Reilly and Tushman, do so by mitigating the effects of separation... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

03 Dec 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Creating Leaders: An Ontological Model

Keywords: by Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen & Kari L. Granger

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

if we want to have an equitable, fair, inclusive, connected world, the way that we can do that is by linking arms with each other and having transparent, honest communication and connections that are based... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

not only changed how Yoffie designed the course, called Strategy and Technology, but it's also changing how managers in tech-intensive companies are dealing with this issue on the front lines. Yoffie begins the course by exploring the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

16 May 2023
In Practice

After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?

crisis. In addition to the operational learnings around banking and ensuring not all of their cash is in one vulnerable place, it was a big wake-up call for many founders in terms of how they do everything... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Technology; Financial Services

21 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

After successful stints at Target (vice president of merchandising) and Apple (senior vice president of retail operations), it seemed Ron Johnson could do no wrong. But the winning streak came to a well-publicized end during his two-year... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

04 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

represented by debates over machines versus humans, analytics versus intuition, economic versus societal value, exploration versus exploitation, egoism versus altruism, etc.” "What we need to do is think of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

16 Aug 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization

Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna; Accounting

29 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

their job duties by doing favors that benefit the executives personally. "Executives can become quite skilled at managing things through informal exchanges and favors. But that means there is just a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

stresses: “There is always something you and others can do to make changes. Effecting change alone can be hard, especially in the face of big challenges that affect an entire social or political system, but View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

02 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women

The higher a woman rises through a company’s ranks, the more backlash she faces if she negotiates her salary assertively—a phenomenon that contributes to the wide gender gap in the C-suite, new research suggests. By analyzing data from... View Details