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- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
Gourville discusses the cause of "variety backfire" and gives practical advice to avoid it. Poping Lin: Traditionally, companies have followed the "more is better" route when offering customers choices. Your research...
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- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
makeup. Ten Proven Ways To Avoid Deep Change Sprinkle Internet responsibilities throughout the company—a little Web site here, a little brochure-ware there. Let them all go forward, as long as they stay small and innocuous. If any look...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
She hired some local help to cultivate the land when she first moved in, but soon decided that she needed to do the job herself. The decision to be an organic farm — one that avoided herbicides, pesticides,...
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- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
Capitalism's capacity to evolve and its incredible versatility have proven to be the single most important source of its robustness and success. In fact, capitalism has avoided devastating crises not because it is fixed, but because it...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
massacre. Between December 14 and December 19, 1970, soldiers quelling protests in northern Poland had killed 42 people who had been demonstrating against the government’s decision to increase food prices. Maj, long-haired and lanky at...
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- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
The most noteworthy message of the Enron trial is that corporate executives can be convicted in a court of law for a pattern of deception that may or may not be illegal. Left unaddressed in the trial were many financial transactions and accounting View Details
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by Malcolm S. Salter
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
forthcoming Management Science Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions By: Adner, Ron, Jianqing Chen, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We study compatibility View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
threats that Brazil faces?" Nonprofit/for-profit Collaboration Professor Diana Barrett teaches Entrepreneurial Management and the course on Leadership, Values and Decision Making. She conducts research on the relationship between...
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by Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
on the circumstances and prospects of a company. In fact, companies often turn to outsiders because they have failed to recruit, train, and develop the sort of talent that might take over leadership of the organization. To avoid this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
then develop the case for pursuing this opportunity. Be pragmatic, not just idealistic. Transformational solutions are appealing, but they can leave people overwhelmed by the size of the problem. Incremental work, on the other hand, allows you to gather collaborators...
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by George Serafeim
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
affect the decision to go public. As the authors shed light on the structure and operations of venture capital firms, three major themes emerge. First, all venture capitalists confront tremendous incentive and information problems, in...
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Amy E. Dean
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial in View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
finally, affiliation—any action that serves to develop mutual trust, appreciation, and even affection among coworkers. Amabile acknowledges that financial constraints can impede some of the catalysts, especially when it comes to sufficient material resources. But...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
factor of six—from $764 million to $4.7 billion. “Leaders must avoid the urge to answer every question or provide a solution to every problem,” Nayar explained to Hill. “Instead, you must start asking questions, seeing others as the...
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- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
of the pack. For empire-builders like Rupert Murdoch, defenders appear to be non-existent, but gorilla-hunters are everywhere. The lesson for the rest of us is to make a few more friends, avoid injuring others, and remain on an honorable...
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- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
organizations were able to: CollaborateEngage in discovery-driven learning Make integrative decisions Our leaders' uniform emphasis on fostering these three capabilities will not surprise anyone familiar with existing research on...
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- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Business School Exercise 408-076 Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) brought together decision makers in search of hard-to-find answers with specialized experts in nearly every imaginable field. Over time, GLG developed software to help minimize...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
clear, immediate, and direct, 3) the tendency to ignore unethical behavior when ethicality erodes slowly over time, and 4) the tendency to assess unethical behaviors only after the unethical behavior has resulted in a bad outcome, but not during the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact
and dispose of them. The circular economy uses what is already there, which saves on the extraction and processing piece, then keeps those materials in the system. If you can avoid both extraction and waste disposal costs, it can create...
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- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
Regulation? By: Drake, David F., and Robin L. Just Abstract—A regulator's ability to incentivize environmental improvement among firms is vital in achieving long-term sustainability. However, firms can and do respond to environmental regulation in a variety of ways:...
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Carmen Nobel