May 16 2012
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Business Insider
Michael Norton
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
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Bloomberg TV
Robert Steven Kaplan
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. Permalink
May 15 2012
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Wired
Amy Cuddy
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. Permalink
May 15 2012
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Minnesota Public Radio
William George
"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. Permalink
May 14 2012
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CBS Boston
Leslie Perlow
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. Permalink
May 14 2012
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Forbes.com
Clayton Christensen
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. Permalink
May 14 2012
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The Week
Rohit Deshpande
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. Permalink
May 14 2012
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Financial Times
Cynthia Montgomery
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. Permalink
May 10 2012
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Financial Times
Clayton Christensen
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." Permalink
May 09 2012
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Bloomberg News
Josh Lerner
"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." Permalink
May 09 2012
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WSJ Blogs
Michael Norton
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. Permalink
May 06 2012
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National Journal
Benjamin Edelman
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." Permalink
May 06 2012
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The Washington Post
Rosabeth Kanter
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. Permalink
May 04 2012
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Charlotte Talks
William George, Willy Shih
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. Permalink
May 04 2012
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New York Times
Thales Teixeira
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. Permalink
May 04 2012
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The Economic Times
Willy Shih
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. Permalink
May 03 2012
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Harvard Gazette
Leslie Perlow
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. Permalink
May 03 2012
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Bloomberg BusinessWeek.com
Clayton Christensen
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. Permalink
May 03 2012
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Bloomberg TV
Robert Steven Kaplan
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. Permalink
May 03 2012
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Charlotte Observer
Jan Rivkin, Willy Shih
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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The Globe and Mail
Karim Lakhani
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. Permalink
May 02 2012
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Forbes.com
Teresa Amabile
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... Permalink
May 02 2012
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Wall Street Journal
Tsedal Neeley
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. Permalink
May 01 2012
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The Atlantic
Gary Pisano, Willy Shih
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. Permalink
May 01 2012
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Forbes.com
Teresa Amabile
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. Permalink
May 01 2012
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Inc.
Amy Cuddy
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"... Permalink
Apr 30 2012
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Radio Boston
Jay Lorsch
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? Permalink
Apr 30 2012
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National Academy of Engineering
William George
William W. George, professor of management practice, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Mass. For applying engineering principles to manufacturing to advance health care. Permalink
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