Social Performance Measurement - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth . Both books marry a focus on performance with a look at leadership and organizational change—how to enable, support, and empower positive team and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

most importantly, a platform is something you can build on. Cummings developed the Orchestra Place project, the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and numerous other performances spaces and educational programs. It is nicknamed “The... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

to fill little gaps in the literature, and I continue to think that was excellent advice.” Just as researchers in the life sciences often target their work to tackle the most dangerous diseases, so argues Moss, social scientists can make... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

information. Social networking on Facebook would be of little value if users provided no personal information, and digital assistants such as Apple's Siri require access to consumers' location, contact lists, and calendar to be helpful. A... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

30 Mar 2017
News

Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest

would happen away from the table? Eamer: It's like romance-- 90% of the romance is before the last 10 minutes, or it better be. Morrell: Socializing seems like it was an important part of the process, right? Eamer: Well, it was. That's... View Details

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

cassettes and other forms of analog content replication were subject to quality degradation and required physical exchange, which confined sharing to relatively small social networks (family and friends). By eliminating these... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

30 Nov 2017
News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of cash registers that separates... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

25 Aug 2010
News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

were to do in the section, from smoking a cigar in Finance class to borrowing that massaging seat cover for a day. I believe that our BGIE professor, Willis Emmons, who attended the event, even offered as an auction item the performance... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

actually have a lot to learn from one another, rather than setting one country's management practices up as a standard to which others should conform—or else they do not measure up or are somehow "backward." A good deal of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
Case

Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth

By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal

Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s... View Details