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- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
Summing Up Management is a complex process. Good plans executed poorly may be worse than poor plans executed well. This is never truer than at times of disaster, in which plans made from afar have to be implemented by those on the scene... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
in his recent book, some are less fungible than others. Germany was cited by Peter Sebregondi as a country that has pursued an enlightened strategy toward manufacturing, through its continued support of an apprentice system that provides... View Details
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James Sharpe | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
James Sharpe Extrusion Technology Carl Sloane Temple, Barker & Sloane C.D. Spangler C.D. Spangler Construction Co. Thomas Stemberg Staples Thomas Weisel Thomas Weisel Partners LLC John Whitehead Goldman Sachs Profiles... View Details
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
process, they provoked a new round of questions. David Physick teed up the discussion nicely by commenting, "The wonderful American motor racing driver, Mario Andretti, who was as focused an individual as any racer, remarked he'd... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
an absolute believer as well as an amateur practitioner of Conscious Capitalism and its sister concept of Servant Leadership, I do not think that either concept solves the problem by itself. What they can do is create the opportunity and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
Original Article A recent article in Harvard Business Review, “Culture Is Not the Culprit,” by Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague noted that “When organizations get into big trouble, fixing the culture is usually the prescription.” The article... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
age and with it comes a price: privacy. If monitoring is a good way to provide security, so be it." Have we become so accustomed, however gradually, to the idea of oversight that surveillance in the name of transparency is a mere increment in a long-established... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
the greater the likelihood that it will not be a major player in future competitions in rapidly changing environments. —Professor James Heskett Both Dennis Crane and Richard Eckel suggested that a broader view of the competitive spectrum... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?
be subtle, but real. —Professor James Hesket Changes in organizations, according to respondents, will be subtle, but real. Perhaps the most interesting opinions on this topic were set forth by Niklas... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
characterized those urging patience. As he put it, “The computer was created by Babbage in the 18th century We only started seeing the pervasive benefits from computing in the last 10-15 years. Today’s innovations will bring real... View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan
View Video Peter James Kiernan (MBA 2022) has been selected as the student speaker for Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Class Day celebration, held this year on Wednesday, May 25. Class Day honors graduating students, and typically takes... View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
finalize a deal, but that's often not enough. Many countries have webs of influence that are more powerful than the actual parties making the deal, even though those webs don't have the formal standing of, say, government agencies. In Japan, it may be the keiretsu—... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
viable alternative. Original Article Several months ago, the General Electric Company announced that it had closed a deal with Boeing that specified that only GE aircraft engines would be installed on the newest version of 777 aircraft built and sold View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
SUMMING UP Are Computers and Tech-Driven Networks In Their Twilight Years? Issues raised by the ascendancy of network technology are many and varied, judging from responses to this month’s column based on Joshua Cooper Ramo’s book, The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
Summing Up This month's column appears to have struck a chord with those who lament the continuing loss of implicit knowledge buried inside the heads of experienced leaders (termed "deep smarts" by Dorothy Leonard and Walter... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
Summing Up: Where Do We Draw the Line on the Use of Technology in Hiring Practices? The idea of using brain scans in hiring, while it generated limited enthusiasm among respondents to this month's column, nevertheless was rejected by only... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
federal and state governments, and negative publicity driven by special interest groups." Shadreck Saili added, "Is a company this large manageable? 'Yes' for as long as its policies align with policies of the environments it... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
demand which is deemed as justified by a panel ." What isn't off limits when it comes to transparency? What do you think? Original Article When Sony was hacked recently, most observers concentrated on issues of criminality as well as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
Summing Up by Jim Heskett A small but thoughtful set of responses to the question "Is Growth Good?" posed this month conveys the sense that the wrong questions were asked. According to the responses, growth is not only good—it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
temporary." Dr. B. V. Krishnamurthy picks up this theme by commenting "to argue that Europe might be snatching the lead in management is a little far-fetched. When one looks at the very successful organizations anywhere in the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett