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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
1956) Constraining Carbon Re: Walt Minnick (MBA 1966), and Bill Eacho (MBA 1979) Great article! With the future of our kids and grandkids at stake, as Walt Minnick says (and I agree), it’s quite surprising that this issue isn’t getting...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
“we-dentity” and the power of community in the face of an inefficient, sometimes corrupt, local government. Santa Ana del Valle, for example, provides many of its services (such as policing or maintenance of the church and museum) through a View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
that can give you different answers. So I’m not into that kind of speculation. Bigger isn’t necessarily better? No. The issue is, where can you make excellent returns with minimum risk? And sometimes that occurs on a very large deal....
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
question for Bulletin readers in 2016 went to the issue of pricing: Eldercare and EAP benefit offerings tend to charge according to a per-employee, per-month (PEPM) pricing, often $0.30 or less. Should Wellthy adopt this standard...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
Donald Trump has not issued an official platform on student debt, although he has referenced reducing college costs and lowering interest rates on student loans. Hillary Clinton has offered a variety of proposals. Echoing Bernie Sanders,...
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- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
"With the virtual mobility of global labor insured, only those companies and nations will grow ... that make the best use of entrepreneurial qualities...." How governments should spend money in support of innovation clearly...
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by Jim Heskett
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
issues that contribute to turnover. The company has also recently started applying relationship management to former applicants and current employees. Morris has long understood the ways shift changes, small, incremental wage increases,...
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- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
are experts at diagnosing and solving a variety of issues for their clients, are struggling to apply their own management principles internally.” To regain equilibrium, over the past two years, some major consulting firms have...
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- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
trading." Fighting is another (perhaps too) familiar negotiation improvisation. In these negotiations, the goal is to beat up on the other party, even if it means that you get hurt, too. Parties in labor contract negotiations...
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by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 22 Mar 2021
- News
Searching for Purpose
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
very little. The 'IKEA Effect': When Labor Leads to Love (1,591) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6671.html http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-091.pdf Published: April 13, 2011 Paper Released: March 2011 Companies increasingly involve customers...
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by Staff
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
that, "It's very hard to change one's habit and society's perception. You may be the only executive strolling in the park with young mothers and playing kids. You feel completely out of place, and feel like 'getting back to work'." Most of the proposed...
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- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
and to Tactics Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan Enric Ricart Publication:Special Issue on Business Models. Long Range Planning (forthcoming) Abstract The notion of business model has been used by strategy scholars to refer to...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
May 11, 2017 New England Journal of Medicine Good Riddance to Big Insurance Mergers By: Dafny, Leemore S. Abstract—Federal judges issued preliminary injunctions halting mergers of four of the five largest U.S. health insurers. These...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Watford City, and Belfield had completely overbuilt—dug basins for homes that were never occupied, added on to schools with bond issues that were painful. So part of the rub today is that a lot of the locals—presidents of the banks, the...
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- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
future research. Specifically, I call for research on the materiality of environmental and social issues for the future financial performance of corporations, the design of incentive and control systems to guide strategy execution,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
enormous impact on the very big problems we're facing in the world today: natural resource scarcity, social inequality, and poverty, as well as on governance issues like product safety and corruption. More and more CEOs are leading their...
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Re: George Serafeim
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
underutilize these functions," Gulati says. "For years there have been arguments regarding whether they should be centralized or decentralized, but the larger issue is, how do you leverage these people to maximize their...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
remarks, Professor David Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership at KSG, lamented the performance of Washington pols. “As a group, the people running Washington over the last twenty years have failed,” creating a backlog of major View Details
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Government
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
literature on the notion of institutional entrepreneurship introduced by Paul DiMaggio in 1988, we propose a model of the process of institutional entrepreneurship. We first present theoretical and definitional issues associated with the...
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Martha Lagace