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- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
refusing to deal with this horrific disease as it spread through Africa. Multinational companies have to be more like Genzyme and find ways to balance their huge global power with their assumption of global responsibility. I think that...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
particular job.10 Those early in their careers can glean important self-insight through careful and systematic introspection. People should seek out diverse experiences to facilitate and balance their development in multiple areas. This...
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by Linda Hill
- Research Summary
Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies
By: Tatiana Sandino
Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
friend, more workers are scaling back, stepping away, or choosing alternative professional opportunities that help them balance these demands. Companies that ignore this emerging crisis risk losing their hardest-to-find and highest-paid...
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- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
now have to survive on ten percent less for a while. That’s a hardship. I think it’s more manageable than being suddenly out of a job, but it’s all in the eye of the beholder.” FINDING THE RIGHT BALANCE For Honeywell, furloughs were the...
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- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
balancing the need to achieve platform stability with the need to maintain platform competition and interoperability. Editor’s note: Kominers is a research partner at a16z crypto, and advises a number of marketplace businesses and crypto...
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- November – December 2008
- Article
Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners?
By: Anette Mikes
Risk management departments in financial institutions have been undergoing major transformations. New regulatory requirements have raised the bar on compliance, and expanded the remit of risk management significantly. The compliance imperative requires banks to... View Details
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Banks and Banking;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Compliance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Managerial Roles;
Risk Management;
Partners and Partnerships
Mikes, Anette. "Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners?" Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions 2, no. 1 (November–December 2008).
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
enterprise means striking a balance between standardizing operations and pursuing innovations. Bain & Company’s Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk and Steve Berez elaborate on the role of the agile leadership team: ”To find the optimal balance,...
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- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
magical process. It is knowing that we do not know everything that might be important. It is that insight that leads to the wisdom to look away from the subject of focus and see what there is to be seen. Marvelous discoveries are made in that way." Is this what it...
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by James Heskett
- Research Summary
Informing Brand Marketing Practice
Susan M. Fournier is involved with several projects relating more generally to brand managment issues. These include boardroom-level projects (with Professors Thomas Madden and Franke Fehle of the University of South Carolina, and sponsored by Interbrand) on the...
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- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
managing the execution of existing policies and practices to pursue goals often set by others. Middle managers lead smaller numbers of associates but with more intense interaction, requiring them to balance organization behavior and...
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by James Heskett
- 19 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Company Loyalty
both employers and employees to strike a brand-new balance when it comes to loyalty—one that gives organizations the focus and expertise they need to compete and employees the career development opportunities they demand? According to the...
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by Lauren Keller Johnson
- 19 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control
point for organizations figuring out their “new normal” in the two-sided market of employee and employer relations. It’s no secret that pandemic stress has inspired many people to prioritize work-life flexibility and wellness. Employees searching for View Details
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by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- February 1994
- Case
Kathryn McNeil (A)
Charles Foley, vice president of the computer retailing firm Sayer MicroWorld, must decide whether or not to fire his employee, Kathryn McNeil, a 37-year-old product manager who has been unable to work as many hours as her colleagues due to her status as a single...
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Ethics;
Values and Beliefs;
Employees;
Work-Life Balance;
Resignation and Termination;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Retail Industry
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Kathryn McNeil (A)." Harvard Business School Case 394-111, February 1994.
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
says, "which we view as a triangle" representing cutting working capital, reducing transaction costs, and providing world-class customer service. Balancing these competing priorities means that it's impossible to eliminate risk...
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by David Stauffer
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
kind—of someone who could achieve so much in his career and yet have the strength and wisdom to keep balance in his life, and pursue agendas far beyond explaining "Big Business." Al was a fine human being as well as a superb...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Publications 2013 pub The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents By: Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Yet some leaders succeed-often spectacularly-at transforming their workplaces. What makes them...
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Anna Secino
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
of female managers, and much else. The B Corp movement of the United States—whose businesses set out to balance profits and social purpose—gained little traction in Japan. By September 2021, there were 4,026 certified B Corps in 77...
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- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Amazon.com, 2016
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-402.
On January 28, 2016, Amazon announced record 2015 operating profits of $2.2 billion on $107 billion of sales, and the markets responded with cautious optimism. For years, founder and CEO Jeffrey Bezos had prioritized growth and...
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Retail;
E-commerce;
Amazon;
Amazon.com;
AmazonFresh;
Jeff Bezos;
Cloud Computing;
Marketplaces;
Streaming;
E-reader Market;
Digital Media;
Mobile App;
Online Retail;
Shipping;
Database;
Tablet;
Kindle;
Kindle Fire;
Smartphone;
Delivery;
Market Platforms;
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Competition;
Internet;
Corporate Strategy;
Online Advertising;
Business Growth and Maturation;
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For-Profit Firms;
Film Entertainment;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Music Entertainment;
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Global Strategy;
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Business History;
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Resignation and Termination;
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Product Development;
Supply Chain;
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Organizational Culture;
Public Ownership;
Work-Life Balance;
Problems and Challenges;
Labor and Management Relations;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
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Diversification;
Expansion;
Integration;
Horizontal Integration;
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Hardware;
Information Technology;
Mobile Technology;
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Technology Networks;
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Web;
Web Sites;
Price;
Software;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
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Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Retail Industry;
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- 2019
- Working Paper
Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose
In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach...
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Capitalism;
Justice;
Corporate Purpose;
Shareholder Value Maximization;
Ethical Reciprocity;
Economic Systems;
Business Ventures;
Mission and Purpose;
Ethics;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Salter, Malcolm S. "Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-104, April 2019.