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May 16 2012

Harvard Professor Discovers A Cool Secret To Making Employees Feel Like They've Got More Time offsite

Since nobody can put more physical hours into a day, managers who want to give their employees a sense that they have free time need to address "psychological time," says Michael Norton associate professor of business administration for Harvard Business School.

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May 16 2012

VideoRobert Kaplan on JPMorgan Trading Loss offsite

Robert Kaplan, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and a former vice chairman at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., talks about JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s $2 billion trading loss and the ability of Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon to manage the firm.

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May 15 2012

Power Postures Can Make You Feel More Powerful offsite

Sit up straight and listen: Amy Cuddy has a plan to help you change your life. And it's easy. The Harvard psychologist recently completed a study demonstrating that positioning our bodies a certain way doesn't just tell people we're powerful, it actually makes us more powerful.

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May 15 2012

Best Buy scandal brings lessons about corporate governance offsite

"You know, its sad. I wish, personally for his sake, he'd left a decade ago. Because now, it's like a Shakespearian tragedy. He's had an amazing career. Been entrepreneur of the year, and company of the year in 2004, and you know, he's done everything right until this point," George said.

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May 14 2012

VideoUnplugging At Night May Be A Smarter Way To Work offsite

The idea is the brainchild of Harvard Professor Leslie Perlow, author of the book "Sleeping with your Smartphone." So what's wrong with constantly having our smartphones within arm's reach? "The downfall is that it's unnecessary and we convince ourselves that it's a requirement of the job," says Perlow.

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May 14 2012

VideoClayton Christensen offsite

Clayton Christensen on his book "How Will You Measure Your Life?"

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May 14 2012

Book Review: How Will You Measure Your Life? offsite

Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School, rose to fame with The Innovator's Dilemma, a book that looks at how companies stay cutting-edge and relevant through disruption. It caught the attention of many Silicon Valley stars, most prominently former Intel chief Andy Grove, who famously asked Christensen to talk about what disruptive innovation meant for Intel.

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May 14 2012

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Learning curve offsite

The terrorist attack on the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel in Mumbai in November 2008 has had an impact on Harvard. Impressed by the courage the hotel employees showed during the attack, Harvard Business School (HBS) professor Rohit Deshpande decided to take a deeper look at the valiant act. The result was a full-fledged case study in the form of a documentary.

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May 14 2012

VideoClayton Christensen On Truth, God and Personal Courage offsite

Clayton Christensen discusses his new book How Will You Measure Your Life?.

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May 14 2012

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Style and substance offsite

It takes a bold, or perhaps shameless, writer to venture once more into this particular breach, but Cynthia Montgomery, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, does just this. But we should thank her, because in a brisk 158 pages, she offers a clear summary of how to think about the overlap between strategy and execution. In terms of basic usefulness, The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs outshines books several times its length.

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May 10 2012

Life lessons for the office offsite

How Will You Measure Your Life? is a big departure compared with, say, his breakthrough book The Innovator's Dilemma. Karen Dillon, one of his co-authors, says: "In the Venn diagram of Clay Christensen's core stuff, this is on the fringes. But I think he did it in the end because he was genuinely persuaded by his students."

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May 09 2012

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Blackstone Counters Fee Pressure Via Custom Pension Deals offsite

"There has been a noticeable change over the past 18 months with a lot going on below the surface, with side letters being written by investors cutting special deals," Josh Lerner, a professor at Harvard Business School in Boston, said in an interview. "The bulk of the discounts are going to the large investors."

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May 09 2012

Erasing the Regifting Taboo offsite

The taboo against regifting was considerably weakened when researchers—Gabrielle S. Adams, of London Business School, Francis J. Flynn, of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Michael I. Norton, of Harvard Business School — introducing the idea of National Regifting Day (which really exists but has little traction). Hypothetical gift recipients who were informed about that holiday altered their judgment of regifting to the point where it matched that of givers.

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May 06 2012

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FTC Wants in on Google Antitrust Action offsite

Another prominent critic of Google, Ben Edelman, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, said that it's Google's practice to "enter a new sector, create an information aggregation platform and use their power over algorithmic search to direct users to their platform, even though Google is typically late to these new sectors."

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May 06 2012

RLJ's newest executives are young and taking charge offsite

That can be especially true in industries such as financial services, where a proven ability to make money has long been a key to advancement, said Rosabeth Moss Kanter, director of Harvard University's Advanced Leadership Initiative.

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May 04 2012

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Energy Clusters offsite

In the wake of deep recession, cities all over America are finding ways to re-establish their identities or to create new ones. Charlotte is on its way to becoming an energy hub but how close are we to getting there and what do we have to do to compete as an ‘energy cluster’ in the global marketplace? The term ‘energy cluster’ is one used by two Harvard Professors as part of a study of U.S. competitiveness. They are in Charlotte this week to release a report on Charlotte as an energy cluster and they'll explain what that means.

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May 04 2012

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How McDonald's Came Back Bigger Than Ever offsite

In exchange for perks like free trips, access to important people and sometimes financial compensation, bloggers are encouraged or even contractually bound to write about a company, says Thales Teixeira, an assistant professor of marketing at Harvard Business School who has studied the trend. Some bloggers, he notes, get paid as much as $20,000 for the work, which by McDonald's ad-campaign standards isn't much money.

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May 04 2012

Manufacturing very important to India offsite

The world of manufacturing is changing. Globalisation and technological shifts is changing the order in the manufacturing world. Few understand it better than Willy C Shih, the professor of management at Harvard Business School.

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May 03 2012

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When the smartphone's turned off offsite

In her new book, "Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work," Perlow details the experiments she conducted at BCG and how they turned out to improve not just employees' work lives, but the effectiveness and efficiency of the work process itself. In fact, the experiments were so successful that they have now been replicated in more than 1,000 BCG teams globally.

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May 03 2012

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Clay Christensen's Life Lessons offsite

At the turn of the century, The Innovator's Dilemma became a surprise best-seller and a holy book for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, where Christensen's theory arrived ready-made to explain what Internet companies were going to do to established businesses.

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May 03 2012

VideoChesapeake Board Had `Blind Spots,' Kaplan Says offsite

Robert Kaplan, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School discusses Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s decision to name an independent chairman to replace Aubrey McClendon and halt an incentive program that allowed the chief executive officer to amass personal stakes in thousands of company-operated wells.

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May 03 2012

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Panel: U.S. must find way to get ’mojo‘ rising again offsite

Rivkin cited sobering statistics. Firms are three times more likely to ship jobs offshore than bring them back to the U.S., he said. The U.S. also loses the majority of decisions on where to locate new facilities. "The high-end work is moving out just as fast as everything else," he said of high-tech manufacturing jobs and complex work such as research and development.

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May 02 2012

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How outsiders solve problems that stump experts offsite

This is the power of a fresh set of eyes in problem solving. "Radical innovations often happen at the intersections of disciplines," write Dr. Karim Lakhani and Dr. Lars Bo Jeppesen, of Harvard Business School and Copenhagen Business School respectively, in the Harvard Business Review.

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May 02 2012

How to Make Your Team More Creative offsite

How would you like to make your team more creative, productive, committed, and collegial? It's completely possible, says Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile – and it doesn't require handing out huge bonuses. Instead, as she argues in her book The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work...

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May 02 2012

Language Barriers Blamed for Miscues offsite

To improve communications, many global companies are trying to adopt English as an official language. A multilingual approach "is inefficient and can prevent important interactions from taking place and get in the way of achieving key goals," Harvard Business School professor Tsedal Neeley wrote in this month's Harvard Business Review.

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May 01 2012

Can Advanced Manufacturing Help Spark an American Industrial Renaissance? offsite

The professors urged government leaders to ramp up spending on basic and applied research, focus on "grand challenges,"and let ailing giants falter. They suggested that companies should rebuild foundational R&D capabilities, embrace new financial tools such as real options to ensure that they appropriately prioritize risky projects, and increase the technological competency of their Boards of Directors.

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May 01 2012

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The #1 Productivity Tool You Aren't Using offsite

Think again. Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile says it's journaling. In her new book The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work (co-authored with Steven Kramer), Amabile argues that keeping a journal is one of the best strategies for learning about yourself and improving your professional performance over time.

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May 01 2012

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Leadership Advice: Strike a Pose offsite

We know how leaders are supposed to look. They stand straight and tall. They are physically expansive, radiating confidence and power. In fact, taking on such physical attributes can actually make people feel more leader-ish, says Amy Cuddy, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. Cuddy and two co-researchers are studying "power posing"...

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Apr 30 2012

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Executive Salaries: How Much Is Too Much? offsite

Its owned by its policyholders, not shareholders. So, for a company owned by those whom it serves, how right is it for the top level executives to be paid salaries with that many zeros in them? And who oversees this compensation plan?

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Apr 30 2012

National Academy of Engineering Elects 66 Members and 10 Foreign Associates offsite

William W. George, professor of management practice, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Mass. For applying engineering principles to manufacturing to advance health care.

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