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12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

simulation program that enables a classroom full of students to participate in situations that demand the sort of real-time decisions made in real-world markets. Simulations mirror historical (but disguised) examples, such as Apple... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

companies typically respond by putting in all sorts of controls. But if they go overboard in that direction, their businesses can become too internally focused and lose the growth engine. The ultimate challenge for managers is to maintain... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

12 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

deployment. People in other countries definitely get more bandwidth for less money. Some countries, such as South Korea, appear to be far ahead. Whether or not this will have major business consequences remains to be seen. Q: What sort of... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

little experience competing for resources and bucking inappropriate processes within a stable, efficiency-oriented operating culture. In order to be confident that managers have developed the skills required to succeed at a new assignment, one should examine the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

01 Jan 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?

system (largely intended to identify the attractiveness or special needs of a potential immigrant) used in Canada and some other countries.” Do you agree with David Wittenberg regarding the adoption of a Canadian-style system for sorting... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

16 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

Harvard Business School and coauthor (with Jean Tirole of the Toulouse School of Economics) of the paper Standard Essential Patents. "In the free market, where there's a lot of entry of new firms and new players, having the ability to View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services

07 Feb 2005
What Do You Think?

If You Blink, Will You Miss?

question of whether we spend enough time in formal programs, such as the MBA, training prospective managers to sort out those decisions requiring blink from those requiring more formal analysis. As Michael Bernstein said, "The case... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

hire or a firing situation. Issues may also be more personal, such as how to bridge the enormous gap between the leadership of a company and retirement. EE: What sort of feedback have you received from past participants? Hart: They say... View Details

Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery

08 Mar 2016
First Look

March 8, 2016

competition only when the incumbent offers high (low) quality service relative to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

kind of moral bankruptcy, it isn't going to last. There are so many questions around the world as to whether we are taking on the responsibilities of economic leadership in a proper way. It takes great strength to sort that world out, and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

characterize what we found this year sort of as follows. I think, number one, what we found is that there's a very important moment here in the world economy and it's extremely important that policy makers and corporate leaders don't over... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

Unfortunately, skilled, business-oriented technology strategists are in short supply. In the absence of such a person within a company, an IT consultant who can help sort out technology issues can fit the bill, as might a divisional CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

other ten or fifteen percent have to pay anywhere from $25,000 to $60,000 and up. You don't see that kind of inequity often." Inconsistent standards of payment. Only ten U.S. states have some sort of mandate regarding insurance... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

line. Not surprisingly, therefore, the class has no shortage of members involved in the sort of entrepreneurial ventures that demand innovative thinking. While many classmates started out in more traditional settings, within a decade of... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee

Silverthorne: Talk a little bit about the origins of the series. Youngme Moon: First of all, I'm a listener of podcasts, and when I started listening to them, I was delighted by how they sort of seamlessly fit into these little nooks and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Entertainment & Recreation

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

confident about and what you need to work on." According to how the points are allocated, the app sorts the user into one of five basic negotiating styles, derived from Wheeler's past research (see chart) each with its own strengths and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

activity was cyclical in the way that the weather was cyclical with changing seasons. Even the vocabulary of "barometers" and "cycles" was carried over from meteorology to economic prediction. Forecasting, through the use of statistics and economic charts, provided a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

constrained by its prior thinking about the industry and what its strengths were. It sort of said, "We have a razor/razorblade business model, and the way that we make money is through selling film, so we need to find a way to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

International, was a pioneer in the evolution of microfinance. It began in 1961 as a sort of pre-Peace Corps program working on community development with the poor in Latin America. In the 1970s it experimented with and developed a... View Details