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17 Jan 2023
Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

controlled. You Might Also Like: The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both? Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work Corruption: New Insights for Fighting an Age-Old Business Problem Feedback or ideas... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

14 Jun 2021
Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

Author Francesca Gino is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She's the author of Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules in Work and Life. [Image: iStockphoto/IPGGutenbergUKLtd] How do you manage anxiety in stressful... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

tipped not only toward opposing a proposal, but also toward using attack tactics that tip still more people. Anxiety then builds like an infection. People use fear-mongering strategies with voices that are... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

11 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

ordered, and offers maintenance tips you won’t find in the owner’s manual—all to increase your appreciation of your $40,000 investment and create a bond. Is there anything car buyers can do in the current landscape? Avery, Schlesinger,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

business wedded to it, and in some situations there are measurable benefits that tip the scale in favor of unitary leadership. So let's take a closer look at this model. Unitary Leadership The person chosen for this role is generally the... View Details

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

adapt to "WFH" and now prepare for some sort of return-to-the-office strategy. I am looking forward to getting Tsedal's perspective on this topic! Finally, two books I completed earlier this spring and highly recommend because both are jam-packed with useful View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

2008
Working Paper

The Ontological Foundations of Leadership and Performance: Being a Leader, and the Effective Exercise of Leadership, A New Model

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger

This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business. The intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Business Education; Knowledge; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Performance Effectiveness; Attitudes; Behavior; Perspective

Citation

24 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

Credit: Martin Barraud Here’s a tip for persuading people to finish more tasks, buy more products, or donate more money: Simply present assignments, requests, or items as arbitrary sets, rather than as individual units. New research... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

strategic marketing for Memphis-based FedEx, attributes these failures not to the technology per se, but to a "lack of recognition of the degree to which [IT implementation] requires process change, cultural change, and brute-force effort." Supply Chain View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

Preserving times in the work schedule for virtual lunches, coffee breaks, or happy hours with team members are crucial to establish during the relaunch. Other relaunch tips and techniques Schedule regular relaunches as things change.The... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

the current circumstances and shift projects around as needed, Austin says. More tips for remote workers Unsure of your footing when it comes to working at home? Remote work expert Prithwiraj Choudhury answers all your questions. Readers... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

whether common sense based on accumulated experience can be of any help to decision-makers forced to predict the future in complex situations. Watts questions much of the recent work that purports to identify causes and effects in complex, unique situations involving... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

of dollars into these projects, and the recent (though qualified) embrace of Linux by Microsoft, formerly a bitter opponent: all these events have been extensively documented. What is much less well appreciated, however, is that open source is only the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

06 Jun 2005
What Do You Think?

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

world, thereby tipping the field in their favor, without incurring the wrath of their competitors and customers? What do you think? Original Article There is a lot of talk these days about "a level playing field." There is a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

hiring process is what could be the difference between a great product in the market versus something basic that is slow to ship. Below are some tips on how to be more strategic about hiring: 1. Product prioritization leads to hiring... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

are very successful in the early stages of a platform they often think the market has tipped and they don't need to worry about competition and new technology. They lose their paranoia. The reality is, even in markets with strong network... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Aug 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance

MarsYu Who says finance is boring? These stories, written about HBS faculty research and case studies, cover such diverse topics as financial adviser robots, the rise of impact investing, and the tell-tale signs that brokers are giving illegal investment View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

27 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right

recall will be determined by the percentage of affected products that are returned. Anything less than 90 percent within 3 months for a child safety hazard will represent failure. As long as the 2 recalls to date are the whole of the problem and not the View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products

02 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

Credit: iStockPhoto No surprise: Race and gender were prime topics of interest for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge readers in 2017. Also popular were articles about research that gave us greater understanding about how leaders succeed, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Web Services

Movie buffs may recall that "plastics" was the whispered tip to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate; if the movie were remade today, "Web services" might replace that advice. An overflow audience already seemed to know... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service

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