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- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
encouraged to maximize profits, “Then have the boldness to levy taxes on the recipients of dividends to support the stakeholders you favor ” David Weaver reminded us of Prof. Bruce Scott’s belief that “Capitalism works, and works well,...
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by James Heskett
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
blockages that currently exist in the system: Direct-to-patient The Kraft team realized an acute need to reach more patients and encourage them to share their data. “Without access to their tissue and data, you will never understand what...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
twenty years has caused a dramatic change in the way CEO pay is connected with corporate performance. "CEOs are being pushed to think and act like owners," Hall observes. And that's the whole point: to encourage top managers to...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
companies encouraging and funding ESG innovation. Dow Chemical has enormous energy consumption in their operations, but they've managed to save more than $10 billion through efficiency programs and are moving the world toward the adoption...
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- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
2000, recovery, Great Recession in 2008, recovery--that it makes trend analysis (and consistent productivity growth) impossible. A related argument is that when labor is relatively cheap, growing companies are encouraged to hire more...
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- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
accomplishments, and milestones. At the same time, we are trained to fear the stigma of failing to achieve these critical metrics. Many of us are encouraged to focus more on extrinsic motivators—those that can be manifested visibly...
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- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
describe risk, encouraging a unified organizational view. “The risk management function was getting incorporated into more and more firm-wide debates that were really important for management.” The chief risk director also implemented new...
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- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
sorts, on an epic scale. “If you have a local leader who is from your social category, you are probably more likely to approach him or her for help.” As Harvard Business School professor Lakshmi Iyer and her colleagues discovered, it's been producing View Details
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by Maggie Starvish
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
particular, we find that elite institutions in Vietnam encourage the construction of broader policy-making coalitions, have more competitive selection processes, and place more constraints on executive decision making than exists by way...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
In his book, Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work (Harvard Business School Press), HBS professor David Garvin argues that Nike left open a critical gap between encouraging innovative thinking and...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Retail Chain By: Deller, Carolyn, Susanna Gallani, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—We analyze the effects of a field experiment introducing a values-based 360-degree assessment system at an Indian retailer. The director intended to encourage...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
boards have improved in recent years, the speed at which they were improving lagged behind the speed at which solutions should have been implemented." -Rakesh Khurana That culture, critics maintain, spawned executive compensation plans with incentives that View Details
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by Roger Thompson
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
were up and earnings were beating analysts’ expectations. The #MeToo movement changes everything At the same time, the company’s new management allegedly encouraged a party culture that made some employees—especially women—uncomfortable,...
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- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
President of Sourcing Amanda Tucker and her colleagues in Nike’s Global Sourcing and Manufacturing division were focusing on three key supply chain challenges: sourcing from suppliers that meet compliance standards, challenging and View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
targeting behavior. For managers contemplating the use of performance goals or targets to encourage more volunteer effort, our results suggest careful consideration about the extent to which they may render other incentives less...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
innovation, by encouraging workers to cultivate their individual strengths and to speak up when they have ideas for improvements. And they can develop and empower their employees to solve problems instead of turning automatically to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
some coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL." As his doctoral work progressed, Light became "more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program." He found mentors in Raiffa and finance professor Eli Shapiro, who View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
welcome suggestions from readers regarding organizations that are explicitly trying to manage such value tensions, and encourage them to contact us (sandra.cha@mcgill.ca and aedmondson@hbs.edu).
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
by the threat to the core business and encouraged by the CEO's personal involvement, the management team repeatedly asked for heavy, upfront investments of resources. D'Arbeloff's response was critical. He pushed them to find new markets...
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by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
help students to conceptualize; for instance, how would they approach implementing a great idea or pursue a great opportunity? There are always enormous risks, so rather than take on the whole thing, we encourage them to approach it in...
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