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- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
successful technological innovation—but whose mindsets often clash. The authors dub these two types stewards and creators. An organization's stewards are usually managers; their goal is the careful allocation of the organization's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
distribution centers with the goal of improving operational performance and ultimately increasing profits and wages and offering a better work environment. The answer from my heart is that I would like to... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises Authors:Rebecca Henderson and Robert Gibbons Publication:In The Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by Robert Gibbons and John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints for would-be entrepreneurs is also an important goal for policymakers worldwide. We review two major streams of research... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
public. Boaty blowback highlights the potential danger of giving consumers the power to vote, even though customer engagement is a primary goal of almost every social media strategy. The problem: Even though NERC never explicitly promised... View Details
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
existing franchises to build those required for tomorrow's success. The goal for managers, then, is to sustain current success while simultaneously building new products, services, or processes for the future. To do this, organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- June 2008
- Teaching Note
Amanco: Developing the Sustainability Scorecard (TN)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for [inse107038]. View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
George Serafeim, and David Wood Abstract—A new generation of corporate reporting-integrated reporting-is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and more comprehensive appreciation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
him and one of its board members? Understanding the dynamics of the CEO search process, as well as the ways in which chief executive turnover influences corporate performance, has been the goal of recent research by HBS assistant... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
mountain in the world or how many zeros you tally up in your portfolio. New levels of human performance take us closer to the gods and set the stage for what we hope is excellence in our own DNA. These moments also make good copy.... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Department, must decide if this approach is still the best way to fulfill his organization's goal of protecting and increasing the pension assets of 17 million Canadians. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
October, startup Fantex Brokerage Services announced plans to sell stocks related to the star power of an individual athlete's brand. Its first trading stock, which will mark the company's initial public offering, "will be linked to the value and View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
Compensation and Firm Performance Authors:Joanne Horton, Yuval Millo, and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (forthcoming) Abstract Using a sample of 4,278 listed U.K. firms, we construct a social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
principles help them create continuity through time, from past successes and traditions to present goals to future visions and changes. They become institutions that have meaning beyond the current bundle of assets or lines of business.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
Kensington Palmer, LLP, is made lead over a fellow group of attorneys. Put in charge of guiding her colleagues in their annual goal-setting initiative, she notices four that need special attention. Cornwall must address their poor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
Meaningful Relationships Between Brain and Consumer Behavior By: Plassmann, Hilke, and Uma R. Karmarkar Abstract—The goal of this chapter is to give an overview of the nascent field of consumer neuroscience and discuss when and how it is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
reports of their peers." Recruit’s performance appraisal system, Will-Can-Must, is designed to help employees build their future. Will asks employees what they want to do now and over the next three years; Can assesses employees’ current... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
attests to the idea that ritual behavior stimulates goal-directed action (to consume). Experiment 3 found that performing rituals oneself enhanced consumption more than merely watching someone else perform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
ability to create value. Creating superior performance with strategies optimized for adaptation (adjusting to differences), aggregation (overcoming differences), and arbitrage (exploiting differences), and for compound objectives.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
performance to improve, only to be bitterly disappointed. For some reason, the right things still don't happen. Why is change so hard? First of all, most people are reluctant to alter their habits. What worked in the past is good enough;... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto