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  • 2011
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Embracing Paradox

By: Michael Tushman, Wendy K. Smith and Andy Binns
Trying to resolve the paradox between innovation and the core business only weakens the CEO and dooms the company. Exceptional leaders embrace tensions associated with exploiting prior strategies even as they explore into the future. View Details
Keywords: Cash Flow; Innovation Strategy; Leadership; Management Teams; Resource Allocation; Conflict of Interests; Business Strategy
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Tushman, Michael, Wendy K. Smith, and Andy Binns. "Embracing Paradox." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-110, April 2011.
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Senior Teams and Paradox

By: Michael L. Tushman

This research area explores processes senior teams employ in order to attend to and deal with... View Details

  • 18 May 2011
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Embracing Paradox

Keywords: Re: Michael L. Tushman
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An Uncomfortable Predictability Paradox

In predictive regressions, we test the null hypothesis that a predictor has no information about expected returns, i.e. beta equals zero.  However, the literature neglects to recognize that we are testing a joint hypothesis.  The maintained... View Details
  • October 2022
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How Leaders with Divergent Visions Generate Novel Strategy: Navigating the Paradox of Preservation and Modernization in Swiss Watchmaking

By: Ryan Raffaelli, Rich DeJordy and Rory M. McDonald
How do leaders with divergent visions for their organization come together to create a novel strategy? This paper employs paradox as a lens to investigate how leader-dyads can integrate opposing strategies to produce a new, generative approach. Drawing on a qualitative... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Paradoxes; Senior Leaders; Organizational Reinvention; Leadership; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Change; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Switzerland
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Raffaelli, Ryan, Rich DeJordy, and Rory M. McDonald. "How Leaders with Divergent Visions Generate Novel Strategy: Navigating the Paradox of Preservation and Modernization in Swiss Watchmaking." Academy of Management Journal 65, no. 5 (October 2022): 1593–1622.
  • 2019
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Creativity from Paradoxical Experience: A Theory of How Individuals Achieve Creativity while Adopting Paradoxical Frames

By: Goran Calic, Sébastien Hélie, Nick Bontis and Elaine Mosakowski
Purpose: Extant paradox theory suggests that adopting paradoxical frames, which are mental templates adopted by individuals in order to embrace contradictions, will result in superior firm performance. Superior performance is achieved through learning and creativity,... View Details
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Creativity; Learning
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Calic, Goran, Sébastien Hélie, Nick Bontis, and Elaine Mosakowski. "Creativity from Paradoxical Experience: A Theory of How Individuals Achieve Creativity while Adopting Paradoxical Frames." Journal of Knowledge Management 23, no. 3 (2019): 397–418.
  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

neighborhood. Research by Leach and others indicates that people who survive disasters are able to regain cognitive function quickly after the event, assess their new environment accurately, and take goal-directed action to survive within it. This is the balance that... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • April 2010
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Complex Business Models: Managing Strategic Paradoxes Simultaneously

By: Wendy K. Smith, Andrew Binns and Michael Tushman
As our world becomes more global, fast paced and hypercompetitive, competitive advantage may increasingly depend on success in managing paradoxical strategies - strategies associated with contradictory, yet integrated tensions. We identify several types of complex... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Management; Strategy
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Smith, Wendy K., Andrew Binns, and Michael Tushman. "Complex Business Models: Managing Strategic Paradoxes Simultaneously." Special Issue on Business Models. Long Range Planning 43, no. 2 (April 2010): 448–461.
  • July – August 2011
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The Paradox of Samsung's Rise

By: Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song and Kyungmook Lee
Twenty years ago, few people would have predicted that Samsung could transform itself from a low-cost original equipment manufacturer to a world leader in R&D, marketing, and design, with a brand more valuable than Pepsi, Nike, or American Express. Fewer still would... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Research and Development; Marketing; Business Processes; Brands and Branding; System; Globalized Markets and Industries; Transformation; Cost; Forecasting and Prediction; Production; Quality; China; India; Turkey
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Khanna, Tarun, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee. "The Paradox of Samsung's Rise." Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2011): 142–147.
  • June 2011
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The Paradox of Excellence

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Sara DeLong
Why is it that so many smart, ambitious professionals are less productive and satisfied than they could be? We argue that it's often because they're afraid to demonstrate any sign of weakness. They're reluctant to ask important questions or try new... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Innovation and Invention; Strength and Weakness; Performance Productivity; Risk and Uncertainty; Motivation and Incentives; Satisfaction
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DeLong, Thomas J., and Sara DeLong. "The Paradox of Excellence." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 6 (June 2011).
  • 2015
  • Report

The Global STEM Paradox

By: Mark R. Kramer, Kate Tallant, Amanda Oudin Goldberger and Flynn Lebus
Despite increasing numbers of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) graduates worldwide, STEM jobs remain unfilled in developed and developing countries. Through an exploration of the root causes of this global STEM paradox, FSG offers an answer to this... View Details
Keywords: STEM Labor; Science; Information Technology; Engineering; Jobs and Positions; Global Range
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Kramer, Mark R., Kate Tallant, Amanda Oudin Goldberger, and Flynn Lebus. "The Global STEM Paradox." Report, FSG, 2015.
  • December 2021
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Three Paradoxes of Climate Truth for the Anthropocene Social Scientist

By: P. Devereaux Jennings and Andrew J. Hoffman
Climate change has been one of the most contested truths for the past two decades. Many social scientists within the academy and this volume have spent years discerning the nature of this truth and articulating its importance for business, organizations, and society.... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Knowledge Sharing
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Jennings, P. Devereaux, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "Three Paradoxes of Climate Truth for the Anthropocene Social Scientist." Special Issue on Regenerative Organizations edited by Pablo Muñoz and Oana Branzei. Organization & Environment 34, no. 4 (December 2021): 517–529.
  • 06 Aug 2019
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Field-Level Paradox and the Co-Evolution of an Entrepreneurial Vision

Keywords: by Ryan Raffaelli and Richard DeJordy; Manufacturing
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Global Perspectives and British Paradoxes

By: G. Jones
Keywords: Global Range; Perspective; United Kingdom
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Jones, G. "Global Perspectives and British Paradoxes." Business History Review 71, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 291–298.
  • 2009
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Institutional Work and the Paradox of Embedded Agency

By: Julie Battilana and Thomas D'Aunno
Keywords: Working Conditions; Agency Theory; Organizations
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Battilana, Julie, and Thomas D'Aunno. "Institutional Work and the Paradox of Embedded Agency." In Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations, edited by T. Lawrence, R. Suddaby, and B. Leca, 31–58. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  • March – April 2003
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Founder-CEO Succession and the Paradox of Entrepreneurial Success

By: Noam Wasserman
Keywords: Management; Entrepreneurship; Management Succession; Success
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Wasserman, Noam. "Founder-CEO Succession and the Paradox of Entrepreneurial Success." Organization Science 14, no. 2 (March–April 2003): 149–172. (

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  • December 2011 (Revised February 2012)
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Doug Rauch: Solving the American Food Paradox

By: Jose B. Alvarez and Ryan Johnson
Keywords: Food; Policy; Social Issues; Business Model; Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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Alvarez, Jose B., and Ryan Johnson. "Doug Rauch: Solving the American Food Paradox." Harvard Business School Case 512-022, December 2011. (Revised February 2012.)
  • August 2021
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Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News

By: Kate Barasz and Serena Hagerty
Nine studies investigate when and why people may paradoxically prefer bad news—e.g., hoping for an objectively worse injury or a higher-risk diagnosis over explicitly better alternatives. Using a combination of field surveys and randomized experiments, the research... View Details
Keywords: Decision Avoidance; Difficult Decisions; Judgment And Decision Making; Medical Decision-making; Decision Making; Behavior
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Barasz, Kate, and Serena Hagerty. "Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News." Journal of Consumer Research 48, no. 2 (August 2021): 270–288.
  • August 17, 2020
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What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
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Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (August 17, 2020).
  • spring 2001
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Scalability: The Paradox of Human Resources in e-Commerce

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Hallowell, Roger. "Scalability: The Paradox of Human Resources in e-Commerce." International Journal of Service Industry Management 12, no. 1 (spring 2001).
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