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20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

authority over the entire canal project, including the right to fire commission members. Secretary of War William Howard Taft had doubts about the legality of granting the chief engineer control over the commission, which was technically... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

25 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector

products. But, in general, I would have to say the more partners, the better.” You Might Also Like: Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

research shows that supervisors are actually more willing to grant extensions than employees realize; in fact, they tend to view those who request extra breathing room as highly motivated employees who are intent on producing better... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

good old days really existed and they voted to bring them back. Pursue forgotten consumers. Most financial firms chase the same high net worth prospects, ignoring or at best taking for granted millions of modestly prosperous people. Trump... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

Patents are granted on a country-by-country basis (with a single application available for the European Union). In the United States, if an invention is sold or made public, there's a year's grace period to file a patent application.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

grants workers the flexibility to choose where to work and live, could be a win-win for companies and employees. The pre-pandemic study that we conducted at the United States Patent Office documents 4.4 percent productivity gains in 2012... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Research Summary

Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana

I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details

31 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

and large retailers including Walmart and Target. Osher had taken for granted from the start that SpinBrush would be copied quickly by other companies. As a result of that planning he had designed Dr. John's to work on a short product... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products

20 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

reorganization, managers can steer firms into liquidations that harm junior creditors, employees, and customers. Under Section 363 of the US Bankruptcy Code, judges may grant that request without creditor consent if managers present a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

today. Meanwhile, from society's point of view, meanwhile, professional closure offers distinct benefits when the privilege of closure is granted in return for the commitments that true professionals make to serve the public good and to... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

04 Jun 2001
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?

customers. Any company pursuing the subscription model by taking its customers for granted should be pursuing another model." Another view is that Internet companies will return to the subscription model given their signal lack of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

support as well.” That includes patents that were supported by federal grants and patents that relied on previous patents or publications that the government funded, directly or indirectly. (Yao and his colleagues’ research was itself... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

January 15, 2019
Article

Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?

By: Josh Baron

The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index... View Details

Keywords: Ownership Type; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strength and Weakness; Competitive Advantage

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Capitalism as a System of Governance

My research interest is in further exploration of the analytic utility of an original conception of capitalism as an indirect, three level system of governance for the economic relationships within political entities, and mostly within nation states. This three level... View Details

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

interpersonal skills often." Grant Stanley said "rather than dismiss them I have been able to use their skills and abilities to create training materials to share their best practices." Todd Stark mused about how much we... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2011
Working Paper

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade

The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details

Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior

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09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

remembers. "Eventually, the IRS found a way to grant the status." Innovation Laboratories In the past five years, cities around the world have increasingly become laboratories in innovation, producing idea labs that partner with... View Details