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Harvard Business ReviewBusiness The First Thing Great Decision Makers DoHarvard Business Review - Cassie KozyrkovGood decision-making starts with one simple habit: Commit to your default decision up front. You’ll choose it by making a judgment call about which action is the lesser evil under ignorance. Choosing default
Harvard Business ReviewBusiness How to Fix Your Hiring ProcessHarvard Business ReviewPeter Cappelli, professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and director of its Center for Human Resources, says managers at companies large and small are doing hiring all
Harvard Business ReviewBusiness Designing Offices Where Privacy Doesn’t Compromise SafetyHarvard Business Review - AJ Paron-Wildes and Chloe SimoneauxAs interior designers, we want to make the world a better place. Some people may think that we do that through beautification, but when it comes to office design we focus more on how to influence employee
Harvard Business ReviewBusiness Research: Women Score Higher Than Men in Most Leadership SkillsHarvard Business Review - Jack Zenger and Joseph FolkmanRecently updated research shows that women in leadership positions are perceived as being every bit as effective as men. In an analysis of thousands of 360-degree assessments, women were rated as excelling
Harvard Business ReviewStereotypes The Stereotypes in MBA Case StudiesHarvard Business Review - Sarah A. Soule and Davina Drabkin and Lori Nishiura MackenzieStereotypes are often reinforced by the words we choose to use. For example, when researchers recently analyzed massive text datasets, they found that in the 1910s, Asians in the U.S. were often characterized
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Harvard Business ReviewBusiness The Assumptions Employees Make When They Don’t Get FeedbackHarvard Business Review - Deborah Grayson RiegelFeedback is a daily staple of my work as an executive coach. I am often giving direct feedback to the leaders I work with, sharing 360-degree feedback from the leader’s colleagues, and then helping them
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Harvard Business ReviewBusiness How to Keep Employees Connected to CustomersHarvard Business Review - Alessandro Di FioreDeveloping an understanding of your customer to build a successful product or business model is not just a data crunching game. Quantitative market research and analytics are important and useful, of But
Harvard Business ReviewBusiness Is Your Company Ready for a Zero-Carbon Future?Harvard Business Review - Nigel ToppingThere is growing public demand for a rapid transition to a zero-carbon economy. But global protests and youth climate strikes are not enough to create change alone. Companies need to take action. Beyond
Harvard Business ReviewBusiness What Holds Back Corporate Social InnovatorsHarvard Business Review - Thijs Geradts and Ling Ling Phung and Maarten van HerpenMany corporations aspire to find innovative solutions to society’s problems. Motivated by a growing sense of social responsibility and profit potential, these companies view social and ecological problems
Harvard Business ReviewBusiness Your Vote Counts? How the Leadership Now Project Wants to Get Your Skin in the GameHarvard Business ReviewListen and subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Daniella Ballou-Aares and the organization she founded with Harvard Business School alums have their sights set on gerrymandering,
Harvard Business ReviewBusiness What Boards Can Do to Prepare for CrisesHarvard Business Review - Eric J. McNulty and Leonard MarcusComplex, fast-moving threats to organizations can happen at any time. Disruptions from severe weather events, to cyber-attacks, to active shooter incidents can strike from outside, and there is no shortage
Harvard Business ReviewBusiness Fostering an Ethical Culture on Your Sales TeamHarvard Business Review - Kristen Bell DeTienne and Bradley R. Agle and Carrolyn McMurdie Sands and Alice Aleo and Alberto AleoSales scandals can take a large toll. Beyond devastating consequences to the company in the form of negative publicity and penalties, workers may be held personally liable. Companies must take steps to
Harvard Business ReviewBusiness 7 Ways Sales Teams Can Set Better GoalsHarvard Business Review - Andris A. Zoltners and Prabhakant Sinha and Sally E. LorimerMost sales forces use sales goals to focus attention on what’s important and give salespeople direction about what to do. Goals energize people and encourage them to keep going. Very often, companies sales
Harvard Business ReviewKellogg School Why Authentic Workplaces Are More EthicalHarvard Business Review - Maryam KouchakiPeople want to feel authentic at work. If an employee or candidate cares about the environment or access to education or being a caring parent, for example, they don’t want their professional responsibilities
Harvard Business ReviewBusiness Surveillance CapitalismHarvard Business ReviewListen and subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Shoshana Zuboff coined the term “surveillance capitalism” to describe the new way companies claim private human experience
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Harvard Business ReviewBusinessThe Public-Private Partnership That’s Working to Make New York City a Global Hub of Cybersecurity Talent - SPONSOR CONTENTHarvard Business ReviewCyberattacks are increasing at an alarming rate, but most companies don’t have the talent they need to adequately protect their data and their customers from growing cyber risks. According to Cisco, even
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Harvard Business ReviewSelf-Management How to Move from Self-Awareness to Self-ImprovementHarvard Business Review - Jennifer PorterWe know that leaders need self-awareness to be effective. That is, an understanding of their strengths, weaknesses, feelings, thoughts, and values — as well as how they affect the people around them. that’s
Harvard Business ReviewBusiness Research: Actually, Consumers Do Buy Sustainable ProductsHarvard Business Review - Tensie Whelan and Randi Kronthal-SaccoFor years, brand managers have groused that consumers say they intend to buy sustainable products but don’t actually buy them. Companies have used this conventional wisdom as justification for not making
Harvard Business ReviewBusiness What Happens When We’re Reminded of Death at WorkHarvard Business Review - Zhenyu Yuan and Lisa E. Baranik and Robert R. SinclairHow do people react when they encounter death in the workplace, and how can managers assist employees as they process it? Many occupations involve exposure to mortality. Critical care nurses and emergency
Harvard Business ReviewBusiness Why Things Aren’t Better, YetHarvard Business ReviewListen and subscribe to our podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Since #MeToo became a household term, a lot of people have been trying to make work a safer place for everyone. But organizational
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Harvard Business ReviewBusiness 6 Traits of Strong Family BusinessesHarvard Business Review - Claudio Fernández-Aráoz and Sonny Iqbal and Jörg Ritter and René SadowskiFamily businesses are the cornerstone of most national economies, according to a recent report by Credit Suisse Research. They can create jobs, spur innovation, and drive superior returns. However, as
