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- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
PublicationsHow Leaders Kill Meaning at Work Authors:Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer Publication:The McKinsey Quarterly, no. 1 (January 2012) Abstract Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
cross-sectional and pooled data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau for quinquenial censuses conducted between 1982 and 2002 support the key predictions of the model. We find that advertising agency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
Publications August 2013 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law Delaware's Choice By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led executives at Store24 to identify problems with, and eventually abandon, this strategy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
tell." Next Steps In a related line of work, the researchers are studying whether our behavior is affected by how we sleep - curled up in the fetal position, for example, versus limbs sprawled across the bed. Bos and Cuddy also are... View Details
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
The story behind Dean Kamen's Segway scooter, and his combustive meeting with the kingpins of Apple and Amazon. Excerpt from Code Name Ginger. 5. Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
When Apple introduced the iPod, it had a simple but compelling tag line for music fans: "1,000 thousand songs in your pocket." The company sold 300 million of them. On the eve of debuting its... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
and required careful management of capital. GE Capital, Plastics, Medical Systems, and NBC were areas of growth, whether organic or through globalization or acquisitions. By View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
relationships to others within and outside the profession. Over a period of ten years, we conducted a study of officer identity development using Kegan's framework by View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
those who care about the renewed, continued competitiveness of the United States," he told attendees who gathered recently at the national summit held at HBS, America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st... View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
these facilities on a single block." The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation provided the research team with the records of all 28 million OBD-II inspections View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
When Serena Williams took Centre Court at Wimbledon on July 3, 2004, few gave her opponent, 17-year-old Russian star Maria Sharapova, much of a chance. But Sharapova took the Ladies' Singles championship in straight sets, catapulting her... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
When Stephen Kaufman took the helm at Arrow Electronics in 1982, it was de rigueur for CEOs to sit on the boards of several other companies in addition to running their own. Back then, serving as a board member didn't require much View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
triggered by federal engagement in very productive ways. The chemicals industry is really the outlier in the set because much of the innovation there was conducted in the private sector. Like energy,... View Details
- 10 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice
some become more successful—but led others down the wrong path, says Rembrand Koning, the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. How much strategic insight and profit boost... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
to have any further potential. Once the project was sidelined, IBM decided to publish it on its AlphaWorks Web site, where outsiders could examine and download various IBM software. Soon thereafter, IBM managers noticed that this particular piece View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
policies that a great majority of those in the private sector agree are necessary. They defy labels—they're not Republican or Democratic, not liberal or conservative policies. Almost everybody agrees we've got to simplify the corporate... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
these systems, you have to be really persistent in asking questions,” Badaracco says. “They may be dumb questions from the viewpoint of whoever is doing the coding or the design, but you’ve got to get... View Details
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
the (C) case details the results of an employee survey that was conducted on two manufacturing lines. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609080 Kmart and ESL... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
enough good information to continue? HS: The running of the experiments is actually part of the resource acquisition strategy. Starting with a belief and an idea, how does the entrepreneur prove a project's... View Details
Keywords: by Staff