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- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
hands of management (e.g Microsoft), the Boards have a major dilemma: are they supposed to protect the interests of shareholders alone or, those of all stakeholders, including...
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by James Heskett
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
allegory, he offered: "As opposed to the constraints of adult work life, the allegory celebrates a rebellious kind of manhood in which masculinity is earned by letting...
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by Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
News about the Greek economy continues on the front page of every major newspaper, as the country continues its six-year struggle to reenergize its economy. On Friday, Eurozone finance ministers will decide whether to release emergency...
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by George Serafeim
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
loopholes, deductions need to be reduced. The right policy is to lower the rate substantially and end most deductions. That's a policy economic theory supports, and almost everybody in the private sector agrees with—though some will lose...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
devoted to underlying theories or principles, since in business "practices and precedents have no weight of authority." The particulars of each business situation...
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by David A. Garvin
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
Academy of Management's Organization and Management Theory Division and Organizational Behavior Division. "First the embeds were quietly shown 'better ways' of...
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- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
presented by the rise of the man-of-action hero. Salls: What is the man-of-action hero, and why is this manhood ideal so important in American culture? You say the man-of-action hero is a synthesis of two...
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by Manda Salls
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
wrong? In their article Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs, which appeared in the September 2011 issue of the Academy of...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
Management Unit, said his research with Marc Martos-Vila (UCLA Anderson School of Management), and Jarrad Harford (University of Washington) revealed unexpected theories about...
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- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
A group of Chinese tourists visiting the promenade in front of Pudong's skyline. Source: Richmatts When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in...
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by Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
such as CT scans. In the bundled payment model, the onus is on the doctors to choose the most cost-effective care bundle. "The model lets doctors take the risk," Feeley says. "The onus of responsibility is on us to decide...
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- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a...
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by Paul Guttry
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
Much management theory stresses how firm-specific resources—especially knowledge—accumulate over time, and become embedded in distinctive routines or cultures which shape the competitive advantage of firms....
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
where a company seems weighted down by the bounds of its original start-up business model, a lack of experience by its founder(s), and an accelerating, expense-fueled burn rate through working capital and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
Brother” or punitive style—micromanagement often drives people out of their jobs. Rather, they should be part of an overall higher-touch, more open managerial style suited to the stresses and View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
that does not come as easily to public company leaders, with the exception of the higher-ambition-type leaders we studied. Public company leaders have the constraints of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
FBC project should look like. Rather, NASA forced its managers and contractors to invent new processes and procedures by imposing a set of budget, time, and weight constraints that could not be met using...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
about the deficit implications of this. Again, this is a real revenue-negative plan. We think there will be negative consequences of running much larger deficits, but exactly how we will reconcile the budget...
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by Sean Silverthorne