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- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
Nigerians. It could lay out its management plan as part of its election campaign, and voters would take that into account in making their decision. Why would locals vote for a foreigner? If they felt it was their only option to get out of... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
ensuring a movie's success overseas is to ensure its success in the U.S. Even though foreign box office revenues are now often higher than domestic revenues, a movie's performance in the U.S. remains a key driver of what happens overseas.... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological testing results of over 4,000 successful entrepreneurs and of approximately 1,800 business leaders who described themselves as general View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 511-036 AMD management needs to make a critical decision on the launch sequence of its next-generation technology called Fusion. The Fusion processor concept merges the central and graphics processing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
exposure to a well-diversified portfolio of hedge fund strategies. Second, it terms of its fees, the new DELTA strategy would charge investors relatively lower fees: 1% management fees plus 10% of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
Management Practice and leadership expert Robert Steven Kaplan comments on these issues. Michel Anteby Many companies today operate like Russian nesting dolls, where one large figure is actually made up of many smaller ones. These... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
tended to have narrower provider networks and broader care management strategies. Many more, however, still need to hone unique strategies for the public exchanges that can both improve short-term financial View Details
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
liberal. To double check, the researchers ran the numbers excluding Scandinavia and found they still held up. “The idea that language affects a business strategy is pretty fundamental to our results” Furthermore, they performed a unique... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
work seriously. Still, we need more researchers, more doctoral students, doing case and survey research on many topics. In particular, not enough has been done to compare the issues and performance of family versus non-family companies.... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
Academy of Management Journal Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-clearing Across Difficult Terrain By: Fisher, Colin M., Julianna Pillemer, and Teresa M. Amabile Abstract—How do teams working on complex projects get the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
chick” and said she performed surgery “like a girl.” Jurors ultimately awarded her $168 million, the largest judgment for a single victim of workplace harassment in United States history. Years later, sexual harassment remains a problem... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
some promising young managers to lead them; locate them safely away from the established businesses-is a recipe for failure, according to the authors. Meanwhile, CEOs spend too much time on managing today's... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
enterprise in management and organization research, the lack of a cohesive knowledge base in this area is concerning. In this chapter, we propose that the underdevelopment of the attendant research infrastructure is an important, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
regulator to seek out and manage systemic risks regardless of the kind of financial institution posing it. Paulson affirmed his support for the idea in a March 18, 2009, op-ed article in the Financial Times. In January, an international... View Details
- 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
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
two-week online contest broadcast to participants outside academia and biomedical disciplines. Participants in our contest produced over 600 submissions containing 89 novel computational approaches to the problem. Thirty submissions exceeded the benchmark View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
face in labor markets, they would want managers to use it more,” Koning says. When they examined product performance over time, they found that on a platform where nine-in-10 users are men, typical... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
The success of American Home Products reflects a unique path of learning. The company originated with the merger of several companies in related businesses. During the seventy years following its formation in 1926, the company's senior View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
performance levels. Tough is OK. Fear is not a great way to build confidence, but being tough, setting high standards, and not accepting excuses is effective at driving people and organizations to higher performance. Biographies Rosabeth... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
elective course, Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact, which she teaches to second-year MBA students at HBS and select students from Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government. The User's... View Details