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- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
was U.S.-owned, it had a history of stable lifetime employment and a union that enjoyed close relations with management. However, when the plant's first U.S. manager instigated downsizing to enhance returns—even though the plant was... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
biggest money center banks, had zero risk of loss. They did not fully disclose what was happening, and they did not put up enough capital to cover potential risks. Now, the FASB [Financial Accounting Standards Board] has overacted by adopting rules that effectively... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
have written this book when you were writing Market-Driven Health Care (1996) or Consumer-Driven Health Care (2004)? A: I think at the time of Market-Driven Health Care, people were still delirious about the prospects of managed care.... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
The company's new head of product management has designed a system to address a point of constant tension: whether to build custom features in response to new customers' request, even if these custom features entail expensive departures... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
managers at the expense of investors and tax authorities.” My comments below provide an overview of the financial and tax accounting systems and their treatment of incentive compensation. Independently, the topics of financial accounting,... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
Publications Forthcoming Management Science How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—Intercollegiate athletics in the United States have become a multibillion-dollar industry over... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
potential: (1) project complexity, (2) cross-functionality, (3) temporary membership, (4) fluid team boundaries and (5) embeddedness in organizational structures. We argue that effective management of these five attributes allows not only... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
What does cyberspace mean for physical retail space? Has online shopping changed the fundamentals of retailing? How should managers evaluate new in-store technologies? Harvard Business Review posed these questions to three retail... View Details
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
have owned started out as a disruptive company.— Clayton M. Christensen Copying the management best practices of leading firms isn't necessarily the answer, Christensen said. When inventors in the Middle Ages tried to invent a contraption... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
pricing and the merits of billing over time. Also, see an excerpt from a recent Harvard Business Review article by Gourville and collaborator Dilip Soman. Mahoney: What are some first steps managers can take once they have decided to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
tolerated with others. The sales manager who brings in big bucks but acts in a hostile, domineering way with his team may be seen as the definition of success, yet letting “a brilliant jerk be a jerk” could... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Jorge Redmond, CEO of Chocolates El Rey, called a meeting with senior management to discuss the company's growth strategy. A relatively small firm with sales of around $14 million, El Rey produced top... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
design with features that many people may not consider to be good value for the money. To return to the car analogy, it might demand a heated seat in every vehicle. As for public insurance, it ignores real costs in its pricing and may well View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
Abstract—This article presents a clinical study, based on a decade of ongoing research at Samsung Group, which describes how the Samsung Group and its mobile phone division competed successfully in smartphones. The ability to manage... View Details
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
be seen from two angles—those supplying information and those demanding it. Who exactly are the players on the demand versus the supply side? A: The supply side includes management and those associated with reviewing and attesting to... View Details
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
forces with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Boston Consulting Group to determine how business leaders can partner more effectively with educators to support America's students and schools. "Study after study has shown... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
turnover is largely determined by two factors: whether the turnover is forced or natural, and whether an internal or external candidate is selected as the successor. CEO searches, as currently practiced, are likely to exclude many... View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
provides, it forces senior executives to become more familiar with how younger, even entry-level, people think, how they work, and how and what they are consuming. To make it work, senior executives have to make themselves vulnerable to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World, and his views on subjects ranging from whether globalism has been a force for good to what Nazi Germany tells us about the difficulty in planning for... View Details