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- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
up on current and past podcast episodes of The Disruptive Voice. I have been a regular listener of the series ever since meeting and working with this talented team. Hearing the voice of the late great Clay Christensen at the start of... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
whether a common system allowed IDFC to recognize and retain talent across its diverse businesses. This case examines whether a uniform performance management system provided the autonomy and flexibility needed to build a culture of high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
Talent Partners (B) Robert G. Eccles and Penelope RossanoHarvard Business School Supplement 411-085 B) case updates company changes since the (A) case. Key updates include leadership and management appointments and organizational changes.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
into the workplace means creating a place where it's all right for people to bring their whole selves, with all their talents and complex emotions; where there's enough safety so that people can speak the truth openly at meetings, rather... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
certain businesses—those led by executives with a talent for sensing what their customers want—can forgo deep research into customers' feelings, at least in the short-term. But over the long-term, firms need to have an organizational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5
nation has contributed importantly to the success. His challenge is to allocate resources among new areas to explore for petroleum and new sources of energy and to develop managers with the capability of leading those businesses in the face of world-class competitors.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007
inside-outsiders needs to be in place. Ideally, by the time they are 30, a talented manager can be given the opportunity to manage a whole business, so that they become good insiders. But they also need to be mentored with an eye toward... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
for Walmart or migrates to higher-end retailers like Whole Foods. Supermarkets have already reduced costs dramatically in order to compete with much more efficient competitors, and they can no longer generate price savings by cutting heads. Now too they lack the... View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
as well. What the company collectively denied was that it is not okay merely to grow. If you grow in absolute terms but decline relative to other firms in your industry, you are going to sacrifice the sharpest, most ambitious executives you have. The less View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21
talented members from the so-called excluded group in a society. Related questions include which initiatives are most effective at implementing change in the organization. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
keep Tony in his world of busy, helpful, but emotionally empty achievement. Tony has become a virtuoso performer in a role created by the people and society around him. In this respect, he resembles an increasing number of talented people... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
"single school system to a system of schools." Entrepreneurs from the region and around the country had flocked to New Orleans to run schools and provide the talent those schools needed to help their students succeed. State... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
tolerated with others. The sales manager who brings in big bucks but acts in a hostile, domineering way with his team may be seen as the definition of success, yet letting “a brilliant jerk be a jerk” could cost a company many other View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
measures' informativeness about managerial effort and talent depends critically on the judicious selection of peer firms as performance benchmarks. By evaluating the efficacy of firms' chosen relative TSR benchmarks in performance-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3
Rosabeth Moss KanterHarvard Business School Case 308-107 IBM already competed for talent by being a best workplace. It was one of the first companies to provide paid vacations, health insurance, sick leave, job sharing, and domestic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
decline. Infighting throughout the 1990s led to a defection of talent that left many wondering if Lazard could compete with the diversified financial behemoths of the 21st Century. It also left Chairman Michel David-Weill looking for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2
change. Encouraging self-organizing networks to let them investigate whatever they want to through company channels can produce new business ideas, as IBM found in the early days of virtualization. When talented employees leave to start... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
to take the lead in globalisation, developing its higher education and research systems at speed and actively seeking to cooperate with academic partners along the New Silk Roads in order to attract talent (back). But under which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman