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- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
an absolute believer as well as an amateur practitioner of Conscious Capitalism and its sister concept of Servant Leadership, I do not think that either concept solves the problem by itself. What they can do is create the opportunity and...
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by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
conflicts of interest most effectively), these organizations have taken different paths to build competitive positions that are hard for others to attack. They can force suppliers, consumers, competitors, and complementors to bend to their will in the hope of obtaining...
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by James Heskett
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
listened to.” He’s suggesting that the issue of recruitment may be overshadowed by those of inclusion and “voice.” Comments by others from the business world lead one to believe that minority talent...
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- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
of the OR” vs. the “genius of the AND” Only four of the 18 companies in their sample were based on the West Coast. But their point of view would be adopted by many startups in Silicon Valley and the venture capitalists funding them. The...
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- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
age and with it comes a price: privacy. If monitoring is a good way to provide security, so be it." Have we become so accustomed, however gradually, to the idea of oversight that surveillance in the name of transparency is a mere increment in a long-established...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
the greater the likelihood that it will not be a major player in future competitions in rapidly changing environments. —Professor James Heskett Both Dennis Crane and Richard Eckel suggested that a broader...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
New York Times, October 2, 2011, p. BU6 James L. Heskett, Is Profit as a "Direct Goal" Overrated? Working Knowledge, July 2, 2010 James View Details
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by James Heskett
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
Summing Up The first impression I get from respondents to this month's column is that Steve Jobs can't be replaced as CEO of Apple by just one person. Rather the succession must include at least a head of design (according to Yadeed Lobo)...
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- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
this impact: the broad, shallow, positive impact on product prices versus the narrow, deep, negative impact on individuals." These quotes help sum up the nature of the thought-provoking debate stirred by this month's column. On the...
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by James Heskett
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
Original Article The new book Geeks and Geezers by Warren Bennis and Robert Thomas, argues that all the leaders they studied, whether "geeks" (under thirty) or "geezers" (over seventy), have the ability to engage...
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by James Heskett
- 07 Mar 2005
- What Do You Think?
Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?
this way: "It is hard for me to imagine that certification by itself would have a significant impact on a CEO's ethics...The real problem is the ability of CEOs to be CEOs." John Anderson commented that "Let's not assume...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
product-market view of the world; it was all about the automobile. The Google approach, by contrast, "is more an organization building. The premise is if you build an investment business and bring in enough great talent, they will...
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- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
individualized) levels." Peter Lee added "The real issue is what you consider to be performance Performance is all about quality-quality of effort as well as results." Gerald Nanninga suggested that "let's solve the problem View Details
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by James Heskett
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
orderly introduction of new talent into an organization, perhaps by periodically identifying and letting the lowest performers go, was applauded. One of the comments reflects this view: "What is really important is that companies...
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by James Heskett
- 30 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?
One reason is that the better-backed ventures had twelve to eighteen months of financing when the market for Internet-based start-ups tanked a year ago. Another is that, through relatively astute management, less well-financed organizations managed to survive View Details
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by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
cause the lack of sufficient organic growth as opposed to the growth by mergers and acquisitions. As he put it, "Toobigs are enormously complex, with massive, self defeating strategies at war within, producing a lower return."...
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- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
compensation committee of a major corporation knows that the coming "proposals" for the preservation of option grants at the top (supported by compensation consultant recommendations) will be based on such things as reward for...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
a vile 'market timer' is a sad commentary on how inflexibly the mutual fund industry is viewed by academics, regulators and distributors." Richard Eckel suggests that both perceptions and real problems will be addressed when, among...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
global basis . . . nothing short of dismantling the global economy could reverse the trend." Nari Kannan commented, "Clamping down on globalization by any country or company will ensure its own demise that much quicker."...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
be on jawboning corporations to keep their manufacturing jobs inside the country or penalizing those that “export jobs” by taxing their imports. This is part of a program to create 25 million US jobs in the next 10 years. Whether or not...
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