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Why Sleepy Leaders Are Bad Leaders

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For those in senior leadership, it can be irresistible. Inside the laboratory, the results were replicated with an intriguing twist: the researchers provided students with an incentive to steal answers to a test they took. This relationship is found across all levels, from employees to those in senior leadership.

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Fixing the Gender Imbalance in Health Care Leadership

Harvard Business Review

These numbers point to a clear need for better representation of female physicians in leadership. Before they can make progress, healthcare organizations need to see how well (or poorly) women are represented among their leadership. Men and women alike should work to enhance gender diversity in leadership. Quantification.

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How Microsoft and Netflix Lost their Way

Harvard Business Review

Organizational leadership, we tend to assume, is akin to spatial navigation: Either leaders know where to take their company, and how to take it there — or they don't. As a result, engineers and developers had a greater incentive to compete with each other than they did to collaborate with each other.

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Getting Collaboration Right

Harvard Business Review

Daimler's engineers in Germany could not work with their Chrysler counterparts in Detroit , leading to the sale of the latter at a loss of some $35 billion. As we discuss in our next HBR article (coming in July 2011), collaborative leadership is a poorly understood yet crucial new leadership skill.

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Why Not Take a Year Off to Work in Government?

Harvard Business Review

Rahul and Noelle both made the transition into public service through Fuse Corps—a social sector start-up launched in 2011 with the support of companies like McKinsey, GE, and Starbucks to provide a pathway for talented professionals who wish to contribute to the public sector but don’t know where to begin. At over $140 billion, the U.S.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. The key to making these organizations work is integrating the work of discovery-driven researchers, applied scientists, and engineers in the private sector. The Era of Big Science. Innovating the Innovation Process.

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The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery

Harvard Business Review

Is the innovation supported by leadership, management, incentives, and communication?). In 2011, Medicare spent 28%, or about $170 billion, on patients’ last six months of life — and much of the spend not only did not extend patients’ lives, in many cases, it shortened them.