by Paul Guttry - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

that we have invested in significantly to understand deeply I'll trust our predictions. And I'll trust the prediction more if it's (from) someone who has an unbiased 3rd party interest in the outcome." Paul Lepley added that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 May 2009
What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

energy to priority areas for innovation." Amy Sauers added findings that suggest that large firms succeed that "attempted to 'get small' (through the vehicle of) 'lean, mean, heavyweight teams.'" Another ingredient suggested View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

buyout raiders of the 1980s eventually morphed into the legitimate private equity business, greenmailers of a generation ago are now taken seriously as hard-nosed change agents who may be doing the right thing when they take on management View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

to the reality that race issues in major metropolitan cities had to be addressed. The third instance came in the 1990s when global opportunities arose for US-based companies to lead their respective industries through a sustained period of growth. This latest... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

from the case is that a really ugly process can produce great results sometimes. My coauthor in a lot of my work is Lee Devin, a theater professor and theater professional. Of course, theater people have their own ensemble processes. Lee is a little put off View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

Rospil.info, coauthored with HBS professor Paul M. Healy and research associate Matthew Shaffer, focuses on the Russian anticorruption blogger Alexey Navalny, who advocates tech-savvy ways to expose and encourage prosecution of unethical... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

Today's most successful leaders are focusing on sustaining superior performance by aligning people around mission and values and empowering leaders at all levels, while serving customers and collaborating throughout the organization. Over... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

02 Apr 2014
What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

'leadership'." Today's leadership heroes, however, stimulated debate about just what constitutes leadership. It is an important discussion, as several pointed out. Paul Stavrand put it this way: " we need to be concerned about... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

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

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

02 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

Battilana. Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores In an age of time scarcity, buying our way out of the negative moments in the day is an important key to happiness, according to research by Ashley V. Whillans,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

backlash from other organizational members. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/mcqxpioCi4O4ZaScUhLN][/div] In response to the broader perspective offered by his team’s devil’s advocate, one CEO shared that he took proposed... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

05 Jul 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?

Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

on specific proposals begin the week of June 22.] Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's proposals for fixing the broken financial system closely resemble those found in Moss's own playbook. In this instance, the book is a Special Report on Regulatory Reform,... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

members had not remained true to themselves and this larger purpose. For example, at various moments, Bono's commitment to the band was questioned by his colleagues because of all of the time he devoted to political causes. In Koehn's... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

03 Apr 2017
What Do You Think?

How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

could play a key role in the effort. With cooperation and some oversight by private industry, it might have a decent chance of success. So how about investing in human infrastructure? What do you think? References Brad Reed, A giant... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction

12 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?

its culture as an amalgam of “freedom and responsibility.” By freedom, the company doesn’t mean a free-for-all. Yes, workers have the freedom to express opposing viewpoints, and they also have wide leeway with their vacation and travel... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Air Transportation

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

Summing Up The clear consensus of those responding to this month's column is that managerial capitalism, as John Bogle terms it, has peaked. But what will follow it is less clear. Many doubt that the form of owners' capitalism represented View Details