23 Posts found for Author: Martha Lagace

The most valuable companies in the world have one thing in common: all are leaders in the platform economy. In a new book, David Yoffie and colleagues identify key strategies and tactics for success on digital platforms.

Content: Article | Authors: David Yoffie, Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

Maarten Bos investigates how unconscious processes improve decision-making. Conscious deliberation, it turns out, does not always lead to the best outcomes.

Content: Article | Authors: Maarten Bos, Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Organizational Behavior

As a subject of scholarly inquiry, leadership—and who leaders are, what makes them tick, how they affect others—has been neglected for decades. The Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Harvard Business School’s Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana, brings together some of the best minds on this important subject. Q&A with Khurana, plus book excerpt.

Content: Article | Authors: Martha Lagace, Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Leadership

If your company quietly allows employees to break some rules with the tacit approval of management, that’s a moral gray zone. And your company is not alone. When rules are broken but privileges are not abused, such unspoken pacts between workers and management can allow both to achieve their respective goals of expressing professional identity and sustaining efforts in positive ways, says HBS professor Michel … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Martha Lagace, Michel J. Anteby | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Ethics, Organizational Behavior

Global markets are changing the relationship between firms and nation-states in important ways, says HBS professor Mihir A. Desai. His new working paper, “The Decentering of the Global Firm,” offers a practical framework for business leaders to think strategically about where to locate their company’s financial and legal homes, and managerial talent. Q&A with Desai.

Content: Article | Authors: Martha Lagace, Mihir A. Desai | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: International

Consumer needs and desires are not entirely mysterious. In fact, marketers of successful brands regularly draw on a rich assortment of insights excavated from research into basic frames or orientations we have toward the world around us, according to HBS professor emeritus Gerald Zaltman and Lindsay Zaltman, authors of Marketing Metaphoria. Here’s a Q&A and book excerpt.

Content: Article | Authors: Gerald Zaltman, Lindsay Zaltman, Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Customer Related, Marketing / Sales

With apologies to Thomas Friedman, managers who believe the hype of a flat world do so at their own risk, says HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat. National borders still matter a lot for business strategists. While identifying similarities from one place to the next is essential, effective cross-border strategies will take careful stock of differences as well.

Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: International

Managers want the status of professionals, but not all managers want the constraints that go along with professions. Why? For more than 100 years, business education at the top universities has been searching for its soul. HBS professor Rakesh Khurana, author of a new book, says business school education is at a turning point.

Content: Article | Authors: Martha Lagace, Rakesh Khurana | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Education, MBA Related | Industry: Education / Training

Repugnance is different in different places and at different times, says Harvard economist Alvin E. Roth in this Q&A. As someone who designs and builds new markets, he marvels at how society decides whether a transaction is “good” or “bad”-even when such transactions are very much alike.

Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Economics

Stars don’t shine alone. As Harvard Business School’s Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee reveal in new research, it is imperative that top performers as well as their managers take into account the quality of colleagues. Groysberg and Lee explain the implications for star mobility and retention in this Q&A.

Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

“Negotiation is increasingly a way of life for effective managers,” say HBS professor James Sebenius and colleague David Lax. Their new book, 3-D Negotiation, describes how you can shape important deals through tactics, deal design, and set-up, and why three dimensions are more powerful than one. Here’s a Q&A and book excerpt.

Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Negotiation

Many organizations suffer a disconnect between strategy formulation and its execution. The answer? HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan and colleague Andrew Pateman argue for the creation of a new corporate office.

Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Strategy

When research on leadership pays more attention to financial results than a person’s ability to give the company a sense of purpose, something crucial is lost. Three Harvard Business School scholars are working to change the debate. A Q&A with Joel M. Podolny, Rakesh Khurana, and Marya Hill-Popper.

Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Which jobs have a future, which will evaporate under the onrush of technology? Will you have a career path next year? A Q&A with the authors of The New Division of Labor.

Editor’s Note: much more interesting than I would have guessed…

Content: Article | Authors: Frank Levy, Martha Lagace, Richard J. Murnane | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Economics

What does a team leader do so that employees know they are being supported? A Q&A with HBS professor and creativity expert Teresa Amabile about new research.

Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Your first ninety days in a new position are fraught with peril-and loaded with opportunity. HBS professor Michael Watkins explains how to get a running start. A Q&A and book excerpt.

Editor’s Note: I found the STARS framework (for startup, turnaround, realignment, and sustaining success) to be simple but useful…

Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Leadership

When negotiating compensation, women often sell themselves short. Some practical advice on claiming the power to lead in this interview with HBS professor Kathleen L. McGinn and Harvard’s Hannah Riley Bowles.

Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Negotiation, Women in Business

B players are the heart and soul of top organizations, says HBS professor Thomas J. DeLong. Here’s why-and what you can do to manage B players better.

Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Paying your employees more for hitting specific targets may backfire, according to HBS professor Michael Beer. As he learned in his study of thirteen pay-for-performance plans at Hewlett-Packard, the unspoken contract may make or break these programs.

Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

How should smart companies position themselves in the global economy? By training a historical lens on the process of globalization and thinking about strategies that can take advantage of its current, intermediate state-what HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat calls “quasiglobalization.”

Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: International, People