Isle of Man - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

CEO Succession: The Case at Ford

Podcast with: Joseph Bower Interviewer: James Aisner Running Time: 8 min., 23 sec. In early September, Ford Motor Company announced that Bill Ford would be replaced as CEO by Boeing's Alan Mulally, credited with the turnaround of the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Auto; Employment

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

marveled at humankind's resourcefulness and success: The chorus notes that without gills, man has devised ways to travel on the sea. He has invented speech, and plows for the earth. With these accomplishments he secures good things such... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

Four Key Trends Kuemmerle began his talk with a contrast: "In 1995," he quipped, "an entrepreneur was defined as someone who did everything he could to keep from getting a real job. "This year, the Time Man View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

03 Nov 2011
What Do You Think?

The Ultimate Question in Management

this type was proposed by Pete DeLisi: "Do you make your people feel like they want to be a better man or woman?" Favorite "ultimate" questions that managers could ask of their reports... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

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

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

greatest crisis since the Revolutionary War. The Democratic Party was so bitterly divided that it had been unable to even choose a candidate at its own convention, so the man the Republicans selected would almost certainly become... View Details

14 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

groups and asked to assess a series of hypothetical workplace conflicts between two managers. Each group reviewed identical situations—except for the names of the arguing characters: Adam and Steven (two... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

one of them has final authority in law. The more leaders reproduce themselves, the more likely it is that they do emerge, paradoxically, with heroic accomplishments. Mandela claimed he was just an ordinary View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

of stopping immigration seemed to be leading inexorably into a Leave vote before the murder last week of the young Member of Parliament Jo Cox by a View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

"Where is the historiography of business? Why have businessmen, and now women, had to fight their way into history?" Yeager is conducting research on Miriam Beard and Henrietta Larson, who were deeply engaged in writing about... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

PublicationsHow Much Is Sweat Equity Worth? Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012) Abstract The article presents a case study of a business decision related to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

Business School Case 207-092 How should creditors pursue their claims in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy? David Butters, Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, negotiates a restructuring of Navigator Gas Transport, a shipping company that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

energy or saving the planet. If the federal government had said this will be our equivalent of putting a man on the moon, which energized the economy and the country under John F. Kennedy, we could be the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

better results. To advance the full set of their interests, they understand and shape the other side's choice—deal versus no deal—such that the other chooses what they want. As Francois de Callieres, an eighteenth-century commentator,... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

26 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

strategies aimed at improving working conditions in global supply chains. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51347 Harvard Business School Case 919-411 AIME High: A Social Entrepreneur's Moon Shot Describes the entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

sense a man makes of himself as a man, which develops in the course of his interactions with others. A man encounters—and learns to... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

other groups have proven to be despots, tyrants, and men who destroy the values and institutions that lie at the heart of democracies. Homing in on Trump’s reputation as a hard-charging man View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

11 Oct 2016
First Look

October 11, 2016

self-employment is positive at the median. The option to return to paid work is large enough to reverse the result from cross-sectional studies that the median man expects to earn significantly less from self-employment. However, after... View Details