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- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
individual is an increasingly common issue. Industrial Revolution thinking tries to get around it by trying to extract expertise from individuals and systematize it; the golden goose doesn't exist because...
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- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
Changing that to a completely new business model would be more than difficult because individual users seem well served, advertisers like the reach and targeting ability on the platform, and shareholders can’t complain either. It is...
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by George Riedel
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
the structure of the industries in which their firms competed. Bogle and Kelleher died earlier this month, more than 40 years after each made their mark on the competitive landscape by leading organizations that provided both low cost and differentiated service. They...
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- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
strategic objectives,” he says. “Selling divorced from the firm’s goals may be good for individual salespeople and their compensation, but it’s not good for the enterprise and its investors.” The value of selling MBA finance courses often...
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by Michael Blanding
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
handle on food safety there may be challenging because China has a highly fragmented agriculture system, Quelch says. For instance, one Chinese milk brand may be taking its supply from hundreds of individual farmers—a potentially risky...
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- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
at the expense of others. You have the license to be a bank because you're supposed to make the world a better place. Instead, when a group of banks makes very poor decisions, all because individuals were doing something that was better...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
likely to divulge intimate facts and when we're apt to keep our lives to ourselves. In short, the initial findings indicate that individuals are both illogical and careless with their privacy on the web. "We show that people are prone to...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
religion—an increasing number of people are abandoning their faith. As commitment wanes, religious involvement may become detrimental to well-being, and individuals may be better off seeking new affiliations. Read the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
towards enhancing its cluster, both individually and collectively through trade organizations. The Cluster Mapping Project reveals the detailed patterns of cluster location across the United States. It allows an evaluation of whether a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
imperative to a matter of value. “Climate is extremely important to understanding the long-term value prospects of individual companies,” said guest speaker Ronald P. O’Hanley (MBA 1986), CEO of State Street, which oversees nearly $32...
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- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
Beyond what we can do as individuals to reduce our risks of exposure, are there objective measures employers can use to validate what is effective? The answer, fortunately, is yes. Many claims will be made over the next few weeks and...
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- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
committed now to emerge more strongly out of this crisis? What can we afford? What are the implications for our staffing model? Individual-level observations On an individual basis there also are things we should not do and those that we...
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- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
Marketing Solutions, faces the difficult challenge of letting seven professionals go within a short span of time. In doing so she faces two greater challenges: figuring out which individuals to let go and getting her leadership team on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
and companies were." Book Excerpt The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World Joseph Badaracco Read An Excerpt Markets today not only control the buying and selling of goods and services, they shape nearly every aspect of our lives. Employees see...
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by Michael Blanding
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
to customer demand for inaccurate predictions. Taleb himself, in a new book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, argues that organizations and individuals should build antifragile mechanisms, "anything that has more upside...
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by James Heskett
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
and with the firm's future performance. The results do not support the view that executive and outside directors use their connections to extract rents. Rather the company compensates these individuals for the resources these better...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of individual banks by managers, investors, and regulators. The basic analytical tool is the risk-adjusted balance sheet,...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
whether it would be better economically to treat such a chronic disease on "one system" or just focus on the individual elements of diabetes. Some participants suggested that Medicare and society might have more of a stake in...
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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
what exactly is a developmental relationship? It pivots on the experience that an individual has when they're engaged in their work, he said. That experience can be heavily slanted along racial or gender lines, he added, offering an...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
better supply chain management.For many of the retailers in our study, forecasting product demand is a right-brain function that relies on the gut feel of a few individuals and not on the systematic use of sales data. But it's a big...
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