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- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
humans. It is undermined by any company that tries to justify decisions based on market norms . Academics and training alone will not create leaders. Life creates leaders.” Bill C., in pointing to corporate governance as an issue, said... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
to reductions in dividends relative to the reference point set by prior dividends. Managers with strong but unobservable cash earnings separate themselves by paying high dividends but retain enough earnings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
expected to.” Other models that might be followed were suggested. ReshoreNow pointed out that, “The Germans and Swiss have excellent apprenticeship training models.” Several respondents alluded to institutional shortcomings in delivering... View Details
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
to capital, which was a primary focus of hers at the SBA. Spreading The Wealth Having spent over 25 years in private equity and venture capital firms before becoming SBA Administrator, Mills has perspective on challenges and opportunities in access to capital for what... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
increasing savings, reduce gas consumption) but does not want to make them. This intrasubjective tension between "multiple selves" has been referred to as a "want/should" conflict. In four experiments we show that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
the privilege of collecting loyalty card customer data. As former Tesco CEO Sir Terry Leahy put it in his recent book referring to the 1 percent loyalty discount: "It was a thank you, pure and simple." Can such small rewards... View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
information and assumptions went into the process, and to know how susceptible the conclusion is to small changes." Referring to an example of Royal Dutch Shell's early scenario planning efforts, Hugh Quick volunteered that "I... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
references to vomit. Luca and his fellow researchers were curious whether the article would impact the number of applications the school received after the news spread. After all, the same phenomenon is well documented in the business... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
financial reports have strong implications for firms' future returns: a portfolio that shorts "changers" and buys "non-changers" earns up to 188 basis points per month (over 22% per year) in abnormal returns in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
become something new, something they would not become without the intervention of a maker. This definition usually points to work that changes physical materials, iron ore and charcoal into steel, for instance. But the work and management... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
the tension between learning and performance, was an attempt to pull together a subset of insights from this longer journey about the challenges for managers who wish to promote learning without sacrificing performance in the short term. The longer journey that I View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
inflection point in history, leaving one age and entering another. Many of our philosophical assumptions about what constituted leadership and competitive success grew out of a different world. The challenge now is to help managers... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
more tentative for small firms than for large firms. Regarding points of access to capital, community banks have long been crucial to small business lending. But community bank failures have been high and few new ones have started up.... View Details
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
imperiled the achievement of the other. Q: What impact do the tradeoffs between these two core motivators have on resources? A: As I delved into the tradeoff, I realized that the conflict usually emerges at the point where entrepreneurs... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Harvard Business Review Planned Opportunism: Using Weak Signals to Spur Innovations By: Govindarajan, Vijay Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51052 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal The View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
employees on company time, with company material and/or tools. The origin of the term is unclear but probably refers to the fact that these artifacts are brought home. In the French aeronautics plant I studied, cutlery, toys, and... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
correlations between their risk-based return premia, and periodic flights to quality. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/Comovement_RAPS.pdf The Effect of Reference Point Prices on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
relationship can range from loose to tight with respect to the financial and operational interactions between affiliates and the central organization. A loose affiliation generally refers to a network of organizations committed to... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
who eventually became executives—a group I'll henceforth refer to simply as "white executives"—usually entered a fast track in Stage 1, whereas both white and minority professionals who later plateaued in middle management and... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
framework. The unified funnel communicates the idea that not only should the marketing funnel and the sales funnel be linked "vertically"—in the sense that Marketing's leads should flow seamlessly into Sales' funnel—but they should also be integrated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace