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- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
arbitration, backed by bilateral investment treaties and regional trade agreements, promised further protection. The new protections, however, had emerged without a real consensus on the part of investors' home countries and their hosts. There had been attempts to... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
involved in the production of clean energy. One of the key bottlenecks threatening innovation in energy production is the inability of VCs to exit their investments at the appropriate time. This hurdle did exist in industries such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
This scenario, inspired by a Harvard Business School case, may ring familiar. It raises an increasingly prevalent, and difficult, management issue: how much information to share and when to share it. You look up to find the concerned face of a View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 06 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan
ventures being started in every corner of the globe. These ventures can raise money locally or globally. They can disperse talent in many countries. Take a company like Skype. When I visited Skype several years ago, it had 125 employees... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Wellsprings of Creation: Perturbation and the Paradox of the Highly Disciplined Organization
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
so." Carl Meyer added, "Clearly the board! The danger of favoritism among employees would be far too dangerous." Others figuratively said "not so fast." As Joel Koblentz put it, "The bottom line is that The... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
operations of any company that wishes to flourish in the new age. And yet, a decade of organizational delayering, destaffing, restructuring, and reengineering has produced employees who are more exhausted than empowered, more cynical than... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Strategies Authors:Pol Antràs and C. Fritz Foley Publication:In Costs and Benefits of Regional Economic Integration, edited by Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee. Oxford University Press, forthcoming Abstract This paper analyzes the effects of the formation of a regional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
At the gambling meccas that employ them, they are called "casino hosts"—essentially front-line employees with nevertheless big responsibilities. These staffers work to develop one-on-one relationships with high-rollers to make sure they... View Details
- March 2013 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Cummins, Inc.: Building a Home Community for a Global Company
By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris
In 2010, Tom Linebarger, president and COO of Cummins, Inc., the Columbus, Indiana-based manufacturer of diesel engines, has to decide where to locate the company's new manufacturing line for high horsepower engines. He has three choices to decide from: Seymour,... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Competitiveness; Competition; Education; Business and Community Relations; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Bower, Joseph L., and Michael Norris. "Cummins, Inc.: Building a Home Community for a Global Company." Harvard Business School Case 313-024, March 2013. (Revised March 2014.)
- September 2007
- Article
Investigative Negotiation
By: Deepak Malhotra and Max H. Bazerman
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Negotiators often fail to achieve results because they channel too much effort into... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Pharmaceutical Industry
Malhotra, Deepak, and Max H. Bazerman. "Investigative Negotiation." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 9 (September 2007).
- September 2013
- Article
Great Leaders Who Make the Mix Work
By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly
Business leaders send a powerful message when they make a commitment to diversity that goes beyond rhetoric. But what motivates them to do so, and how do they actually create inclusive cultures? To find out, the authors interviewed 24 CEOs whose firms were known for... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Working Conditions; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Diversity; Gender
Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine Connolly. "Great Leaders Who Make the Mix Work." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 9 (September 2013): 68–76.
- January 2012 (Revised September 2015)
- Case
Tough Decisions at Marks and Spencer
By: George Serafeim
In 2007, under the leadership of CEO Stuart Rose, the iconic British retailer Marks and Spencer, with great fanfare, announced its "Plan A" initiative. Based on the five essential pillars of climate change, waste, sustainable materials, fair partnership, and health,... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry
Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and Kyle Armbrester. "Tough Decisions at Marks and Spencer." Harvard Business School Case 112-062, January 2012. (Revised September 2015.)
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
employees to activities. We also wrote several cases where other companies, independently, relied on this interviewing approach. These time surveys turned out to be the Achilles heel of ABC. They were time-consuming and expensive to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
future, we had to agree on very challenging goals and hold people to their commitments, making schedules, managing within budgets, and achieving sales and profit goals. Surprising as it may seem, this had not been done before. This meant changing attitudes of View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 24 Nov 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
From Strategy to Business Models and to Tactics
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
Many managers know that even when their firm launches a change initiative with great fanfare, it is tough to make the changes last. More often than not, employees wearily dismiss the initiative as another management fad. Soon enough,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
It's the most wonderful time of the year—or that's how the song goes. But this year's decline in retail sales has resulted in definitely uncheery employee layoffs and payroll cuts, a trend that is likely to continue. While the vicious... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
interest in enforcing consistency in order to build their brands. On the other, their business models are predicated on the ability to empower professionals to deliver services independently. The key word to understanding this brave new... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
rules, and agreements to the governance process. Discusses the roles of three structures in family business governance: the top management team, the family employee council, and the board of directors.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne