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- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
Nobody understands the power of Twitter better than Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman. In a now-infamous television interview in January after a National Football League playoff game, Sherman briefly ranted against rival Michael Crabtree, referring to the San... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
iPhoto This weekend the NFL is concluding its annual draft. Up to 255 college football players will be distributed over three days across the 32 NFL teams. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made the decision to View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Belarus, on the other hand, has tried to draw itself closer than any other former Soviet republic to Russia. Belarus is, as HBS Professor Rawi Abdelal writes in a new working paper, "the quintessential status quo state in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
a neighbor, Goldberg's father insisted that his only son go east to Harvard, where he majored in government and minored in economics. Elected first marshal of the Class of 1948 (an honor he reprised as chief... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
serve as powerful motivators. But an enduring habit ultimately transcends any potential reward. “You do the habit because it’s a habit, not because you get something from performing that action,” Beshears... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
surprises as you did your research for the book? A: The biggest one was how large a role private firms played in dragging the government back towards regulation. In most of the cases I studied, it was firms,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
in a marketplace that you have a good chance to dominate. Bottom line: higher margins and more revenues for you. These sorts of assumptions may still prevail in, say, pharmaceuticals, but all bets are off as... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
Valentine's Day. For the first time, FedEx closed due to the storm and would not be able to deliver our flowers. In the flower business, you are given credit for making a marriage work, and you're also blamed for destroying a... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
agreement is reached. That is, what is your Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement, or BATNA (Fisher and Ury 1981)? By thinking about this alternative, you can better assess your reservation price, or the point above or below which... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
challenges, because most projects involve binary "go/no-go" decisions. Esty uses the Euro Tunnel as an example: "You can't build the first 100 yards and learn anything about underlying demand for the tunnel. Instead, View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
even a potential mate. “When you’re observing another person’s choice, the choice itself becomes very diagnostic,” says Barasz, who graduated in May and will soon join the faculty of the IESE Business School in Barcelona. “It becomes the only piece of information that... View Details
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
prominent high-tech firms that say every immigrant creates jobs, claiming figures as high as six new American jobs for every immigrant hired," Kerr says. "On the opposite side View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
adaptation of the strategy map—perhaps done annually—and provides a central resource for implementing all five management processes to become a strategy-focused organization (the subject of our previous book): mobilize, translate, align, motivate, and sustain. Q: View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
As a polarizing US presidential election nears, moderating controversial content on social media poses a pressing problem for tech giants. But no matter how many employees they hire, lines of code they write, or new content policies they... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
In the opening minutes of the only classroom video ever made of the man widely recognized as the world's leading authority on case-method teaching, Professor C. Roland ("Chris") Christensen carefully arranges desks in an empty... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
objective. Gary Mueller, the founder of ISI Emerging Markets, which provides hard-to-get information on companies in emerging markets, said, "You have to make decisions because indecision is a decision. So you say this is the direction... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
hiring executives classify candidates by right-stuff attributes. They assume that successful managers can be identified using phrases such as "good communicator," "results oriented," "decisive," and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
hypothesized. The takeaway: Humblebragging is annoying. "It's as if you're trying to say something good about yourself, but then you cover it up with something else," Gino says. "And people don't like that."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
surprise you as you researched the book? A: Two things stand out. First is the candor and ingenuity of the executives I interviewed. Some of the approaches that they came up... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?
With China hosting the Summer Olympic Games starting this week, some reformers see an opportunity to use the world stage as a platform to pressure the country's leadership into expanding social freedoms. Judging by recent news, they don't... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne