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When Consensus Hurts the Company
Author Alfredo Enrione , Felipe Csaszar
Boards and top management teams often try to gain consensus about important decisions. New research offers insights into when that's the right course, when it isn't - and how leaders can determine the best form of decision making for a given situation. Sho....
Release Date 2015/04 -
The Art of Managing Complex Collaborations
Author Barbara Mittleman , Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld , Eric Knight
The only way to move forward on society's biggest challenges may be through consortiums. But it's not easy to assemble such groups or to keep them together. The experiences of The Biomarkers Consortium, a nine-year-old public-private partnership in the health ind....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Keep Calm and Manage Disruption
Author Joshua S. Gans
Many business leaders are terrified by the word “disruption.” Over the past 20 years, Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation has led to widespread fear and paranoia among executives. For many, di....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Managing Tensions Between New and Existing Business Models
Author Nicolai J. Foss , J. Andrei Villarroel , Marcel Bogers , Kristian J. Sund
Exploring new business models may be a good way to stay competitive, but doing so can create tensions internally, in areas such as organizational structure and competition for resources. Companies exploring business model innovation may not recognize the inevitabil....
Release Date 2016/07 -
Managing the Bots That Are Managing the Business
Author Thomas H. Davenport , Tim O'Reilly
We are just at the beginning of the transformation from an economy dominated by human workers to one dominated by electronic workers. The great management challenge of the next few decades will be understanding how to get the best out of both humans and machines, a....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Executive Assistants for Everyone
Author Monideepa Tarafdar , Hal R. Varian
Currently, only top managers have human executive assistants, but in the near future, everyone who has a smartphone can have a digital executive assistant. This will be made possible by the “mobile cloud” -- technology that integrates the convenience of....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Mastering the Market Intelligence Challenge
Author Teppo Felin , Stephan Kudyba , Thomas H. Davenport , Edward E. Lawler III , Thomas W
Multinational companies have invested heavily in emerging economies — over $3 trillion since 1998, by one estimate. Many of these companies, however, have not adapted their products and operations sufficiently to succeed in these markets, and returns have oft....
Release Date 2016/01 -
Engaging With Startups in Emerging Markets
Author George S. Yip , Shameen Prashantham
For large global companies, forging effective partnerships with high-potential startups is easier said than done. The very traits that make such startups potentially complementary as partners also make it difficult for large companies to engage with them in the fir....
Release Date 2016/01 -
Building a Winning Business Model Portfolio
Author Danielle G. Reza , Stefan Haefliger , Paolo Aversa
Across many industries, companies are using innovative business models as a basis for competitive advantage. In recent years, for example, upstarts such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Airbnb Inc. have used multisided business models to leverage ordinary resources ag....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Five Rules for Managing Large, Complex Projects
Author Sam MacAulay , David Gann , Mark Dodgson , Andrew Davies
“Megaprojects” — defined as projects with budgets exceeding $1 billion — are important contributors to numerous sectors, including health care, defense, mining, telecommunications, transport, energy and water infrastructure, sporting events,....
Release Date 2017/10 -
How to Become a Game-Changing Leader
Author Alan Mulally , Douglas A. Ready
The authors argue that it is increasingly important for business leaders to learn how to build companies that are simultaneously purpose-driven, performance-focused, and principles-led. At a time when the pace of change in business is faster than ever, they believe....
Release Date 2017/10 -
The Trouble with Homogeneous Teams
Author Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Many companies are paying increased attention to workplace diversity — issues such as how to increase diversity, how to foster sensitivity to it, and how to manage a diverse workforce. But, according to MIT Sloan School of Management professor Evan Apfelbaum,....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Why the Influence of Women on Boards Still Lags
Author Robert G. Eccles , Erwinn Danneels , George F. Colony , Jill J. Avery , Susan Fourni
Research indicates that the reason women aren't making more rapid inroads on corporate boards is that few have reached the most influential board leadership positions. Although more women are on boards now than 10 years ago, very few have been promoted to a post t....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Finding Applications for Technologies Beyond the Core Business
Author Federico Frattini , Erwinn Danneels
The technologies underlying a company's core businesses can have lucrative applications beyond the ones they provide to current customers. However, many companies don't pursue these opportunities, or do it half-heartedly. Typically, authors Erwin Danneels and Fed....
Release Date 2018/04 -
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Conflict at Work
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
Conflict can be a source of creativity and new ideas, or a weight that drags down people’s emotions and productivity. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review looks at how to deal with strong emotions in the workplace, how to manage diverg....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Executing Successful Change Management
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
Changing the direction of a company or a project can be a harrowing process, because it often means changing management practices and methods. Many people resist change, particularly if it challenges their day-to-day work life. This collection of articles from MIT ....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
What are the best ways for companies to manage and take advantage of virtual teams? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the unique challenges of managing dispersed workers and the tactics managers can take to help them and the comp....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
How can managers establish a framework for productive teamwork — one in which team members can work together with enthusiasm? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines how to build teams that utilize each member’s talents, pl....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Why People Believe in Their Leaders — Or Not
Author Lynne M. Andersson , Brad Gilbreath , Tae-Yeol Kim , Daniel Han Min Chng
Organizations need to focus on how blockchain can be used to support their unique strategies. Without this focus, they risk investing in initiatives that don’t provide meaningful value. Show and hide more
Release Date 2018/10 -
Five Ways to Improve Communication in Virtual Teams
Author Kathryn M Bartol , N. Sharon Hill
If you think sophisticated communication technologies are the ticket to your virtual team’s success, think again. It’s not the tech that matters — it’s how people use it. New research reveals five strategies for conquering distance and impro....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Four Ways Jobs Will Respond to Automation
Author Beth Humberd , Scott Latham
The robots are coming! But counter to popular belief, it’s not just low-paying jobs that are at risk of automation. According to research by Scott Latham and Beth Humberd, predicting which jobs are vulnerable requires analyzing the type of value job holders d....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Think Critically About the Wisdom of Experts
Author Andrew A. King
Leaders and managers must inevitably consult the analysis, advice, and research of people whose expertise exceeds their own in a variety of domains. Getting the most from that perspective means understanding precisely how to question the experts’ wisdom, no m....
Release Date 2018/12 -
What Managers Can Gain From Anonymous Chats
Author Ryan Bonnici
While anonymous feedback in teams can sometimes be less than constructive, when used the right way, digital chat tools that provide anonymity can help managers gauge employee morale and drive change. Show and hide more
Release Date 2019/01 -
The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights
Author Adam M. Grant
Findings don’t have to be earth-shattering to be useful. In fact, obvious insights can help you overcome three barriers to change in your organization: resistance to new data (“But that’s not what my experience has shown”), resistance to cha....
Release Date 2019/04 -
How You Can Have More Impact as a People Analyst
Author Cade Massey
In the messy real world of ambiguous evidence and contentious objectives, organizational decisions — especially those about the people you’re hiring, developing, managing, and trying to retain — usually hinge on relationships and trust. So, if you....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration
Author David Lazer , Jesse Shore , Ethan Bernstein
With so many digital tools in the workplace, collaboration has gone omnichannel. Given how hyperconnected people are, the authors set out to explore the implications for organizations and teams. In their research, they discovered that always-on connectivity was goo....
Release Date 2019/09