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  • 01 Aug 2007
  • Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

job? An individual, a group of people, or some sort of board? Where would those people come from? New York? Nigeria? London? To my mind, it should be left up to the elected entity. If KPMG wanted to fly in a vice president from the... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
  • 30 Jan 2006
  • HBS Case

The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand

tastes. People don't want to be fed a menu of books based on their past selections.—John Deighton One question the case poses is whether Patterson could use the sort of individualized information gathered by book clubs about readers'... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

marketed its products as family food, targeting its messages to children as well as adults. Expanding slowly also gave Pujals the chance to work out and test his business model. He was able to determine exactly what sort of investments he... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 07 Nov 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is Less Becoming More?

investment hurdle rate on new products to stem the flow. But should all new ideas have the same hurdle rate? How can this help a producer sort the better from worse ideas in advance of bringing them to market? Will we as consumers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Consumer Products
  • 16 Nov 1999
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

creating the sort of ambidextrous organizations we described earlier. How is the program structured to facilitate learning and the acquisition of new skills? Tushman: We employ a combination of approaches throughout the program to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

say, can be helpful — an approach that did wonders for a group at Nissan Design International when it was in the final throes of plans for the automaker's Pathfinder sport utility vehicle. No matter what form the incubation period takes, the group eventually has to... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
  • 01 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

entrepreneur, he had overseen employees in a few of his earlier jobs and ventures, and had developed some appreciation of the difference that good people—or bad people—could make to a company. As he recalls, looking back, "I sort of... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction

Long-term investors? Short-term investors? Transient investors? In addition, how are dispersed shareholders to sort out which nominees deserve their "for" votes? In the case of re-nominations, how is an incumbent's past... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey
  • 14 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

all sorts of models and approaches to understanding the answer to that problem,” Iansiti says. “In this day and age, as an organization, you have to possess the capabilities to build those systems. There’s no excuse for not doing it.”... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports
  • 02 Oct 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

of authenticity in leadership is what is needed to manage the tension. Michael Leahy commented that " we are challenged to sort out short term position and personal self serving ambition versus more genuine leadership When we are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 05 Dec 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

if predictions have to be made, he wants them made by people with "skin in the game." In the future, will predictions improve as we develop new methods to sort out the noise from the signal? Or will the growth of Big Data... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

congressional votes are a matter of public record, careful observers can create a virtual crystal ball of sorts by taking note of where politicians went to college, along with their respective voting records. "You can use that information... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 24 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?

all, if the government charges the right price for bearing the credit risk of its guarantee, the effect on mortgage rates is likely to be small. Second, the government guarantee proposals that involve private financial firms are likely to suffer from the same View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 05 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing

commission on every sale. (E-book editions of most new fiction and nonfiction releases will cost between $12.99 and $14.99.) "Publishers are worried that more and more customers are going to get used to the sort of cheap prices that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 24 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

principles of this sort not only speak to high standards of conduct but also stretch the enterprise beyond its own formal boundaries to include the extended family of customers, suppliers, distributors, business partners, financial... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 17 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

analyze the complexities of disease management and check all avenues for potential business opportunities. The participants, almost all of them health professionals, sorted through the risks and benefits of disease management for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 09 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

the GE Foundation sponsors Developing Futures, a program that partners with seven school districts where GE has major operations to upgrade management talent and processes at the district level. Obstacles To Overcome So what's the likelihood that these View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 11 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey

It's easy to run a company in an up market. OK, sort of easy. But a down market is something else again, and what a roller-coaster year the past year was, said six entrepreneurs in a panel discussion at the 2002 Dynamic Women in Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

companies and entrepreneurs. Q: What sorts of hurdles remain? A: One challenge is general distrust in the approach. PRT is complicated—numerous small vehicles rather than a few large vehicles, computer control in place of drivers.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation
  • 30 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

Adds Paine: "Of course we recognize that there are serious obstacles to the view we recommend," including a lack of structure, tools, and incentives within businesses to do the sort of work that's needed, and a lack of skills and... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
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