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- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
models cannot predict. COVID-19 events deliver surprises daily to many organizations, so the decision-making process that responds to rapid change is as important as the decision itself. Agile leaders promote a move in mindsets that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Renovating Democratic Capitalism
This in-process work focuses on how best to address the declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider to be a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer to this question is not entirely clear, I... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
lesson executives considering a brand acquisition might want to keep in mind. There are factors beyond economic analysis to take into account if the process of brand management is to cohere. What we call a... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
engaged in "status rationalization," emphasizing the benefits Japanese employees might obtain by learning English, and prevaricated on whether the change was temporary or durable, a process we call "status stability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation
invention and creativity within the culture of a small, science-based research and manufacturing company. He argued that the industrial process should be "dedicated to the discernment of deep human needs." 2 His philosophical insights... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
figure out how to respond in various scenarios to maximize one's own value. Research beginning in the '90s, however, found that negotiators rarely acted rationally, instead taking into account what they felt they deserved from the other... View Details
- 19 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
way information is presented or the process by which you select from the available options in such a way that it tends to lead people toward a certain path,” Beshears says. “But it doesn’t coerce them in any way or remove any options from... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
anti-trust immunity. Capitalism is not a natural system and it did not emerge or spread by an unguided process like biological evolution; it has only existed since the liberation of the markets for land, labor, and capital, i.e., the end... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't improve. To fix these problems, senior executives and their HR departments should change the way they think about learning and development, and because context is crucial, needed fixes in organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Abraham Neyman Abstract—Building on the work of Nash, Harsanyi, and Shapley, we define a cooperative solution for strategic games that takes account of both the competitive and the cooperative aspects of such games. We prove existence in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
soon the storm of allegations would draw undeniably close. In November, the award-winning screenwriter Jenny Lumet published a first-person account in the Hollywood Reporter of being violated in 1991 by Russell Simmons, the king of... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game
By: Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen
Putting an end to the "earnings game" requires that CEOs reclaim the initiative by avoiding earnings guidance and managing expectations in such a way that their stocks trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should... View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Performance Expectations; Goals and Objectives; Risk and Uncertainty; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Risk Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Value; Projects
Fuller, Joseph, and Michael C. Jensen. "Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-090, April 2010.
- September 2019 (Revised February 2022)
- Supplement
Glenn Defense Marine Asia (B)
By: Susanna Gallani, Anja Anliker, Luke Hodges and Amram Migdal
This case describes the growth of Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA) under the leadership of Leonard Glenn Francis. GDMA provided ship husbanding and logistical support services to the United States Navy when Navy ships visited various ports in Southeast Asia. The case... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Governance Controls; Government and Politics; Law; Contracts; Lawfulness; Operations; Shipping Industry; Service Industry; Asia; Southeast Asia; Malaysia; Singapore
Gallani, Susanna, Anja Anliker, Luke Hodges, and Amram Migdal. "Glenn Defense Marine Asia (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 120-037, September 2019. (Revised February 2022.)
- September 2019 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
Glenn Defense Marine Asia (A)
By: Susanna Gallani, Anja Anliker, Luke Hodges and Amram Migdal
This case describes the growth of Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA) under the leadership of Leonard Glenn Francis. GDMA provided ship husbanding and logistical support services to the United States Navy when Navy ships visited various ports in Southeast Asia. The case... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Governance Controls; Government and Politics; Law; Contracts; Lawfulness; Operations; Shipping Industry; Service Industry; Asia; Southeast Asia; Malaysia; Singapore
Gallani, Susanna, Anja Anliker, Luke Hodges, and Amram Migdal. "Glenn Defense Marine Asia (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-036, September 2019. (Revised February 2022.)
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
in Austria, China, and India. Students can explore strategy transformation, geographic expansion, the process of introducing new measurement approaches, alignment of activities with strategic goals, and issues in leading change both... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging - Recruiting
what are you willing to commit to and hold all members of your community accountable for? Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are important because they bring individuals together in the workplace based on shared characteristics or life... View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
been the right choice for people with chronic and painful arthritis who could not tolerate other painkillers, but not for someone with a less compelling need for pain relief. Legally astute managers are better equipped to take those considerations into View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
Growth itself also posed challenges. Babcock relied heavily on informal processes to extract synergies across its portfolio. Would this continue to be effective as the scope of operations continued to expand? Meanwhile, analysts were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne