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- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
passed since risky mortgage lending, excessive borrowing, and soaring housing prices collided in 2008 to trigger one of the more severe financial crises in American history. Since then, economists have been studying View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
dean for religious life at Stanford University and a former senior lecturer at HBS, describe the hurdles as well as a practical framework to overcome them in their new book, Church on Sunday, Work on Monday: View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
trying to avoid. It’s alleged that pressure was increasingly being applied by top management to meet cost and delivery targets. Sales had done a great job selling planes several years out at prices based on costs that it was thought would... View Details
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
Summing Up Is There Really a Formula for Great Leadership? The overall sense of responses to our question for the month is that the leadership... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
who are only involved with the organization to complete one or more transactions. Owners are like found gold; great organizations seek, develop, and encourage them even though they may sometimes seem... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
born that are still household names," including Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Mercedes, Sears, Nestlé, Marks & Spencer, and Bayer. To reach that level of success, she asserted, is extraordinarily difficult, demanding great diligence,... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
the proxy statements of 478 large U.S. companies, analyzing executive compensation between 1980 and 1994. "We built a database that enabled us to measure with great precision, using View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
is even harder to measure than price. But there’s a great amount of price variation that doesn’t seem to be correlated to quality (at least to quality that we can measure). Which brings us to the question of... View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
just two suppliers, while Great Britain has five suppliers to reduce the risk of supply disruptions. While fear of lawsuits has played a role, the fundamental problem is that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
achieve that. Then I think the impact of what she is doing for girls, for homeless women, through an NGO (Mijwan Welfare Society) she started. She is having great impact there. Homelessness is a huge, huge... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
as they embrace the vital experiences that shape them, and are comfortable in their skin. That’s why Sheryl Sandberg has been so successful, a great partner for Mark Zuckerberg, and wise adviser to millions... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
leaders of our largest financial institutions worldwide struggling to justify decisions that have placed their organizations in jeopardy. I was reminded, too, of the CEO of a well-known retail organization who, I believe, would be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
MBA education that has socialization as a pedagogical function." His view is seconded by a respondent who currently is in the last semester of an online graduate program and says that "virtual education is one more way to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
Capitalizing on the growth of suburban malls, SMI soon had more than one hundred retail stores, mostly in the Northeast. During the 1980s, it took View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
to succeed, he said: fragmented buyers and sellers ("If people have other ways to meet, it won't work."); an inefficient existing supply chain; and, most important, knowledge of the industry domain. Functional hubs, on View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
Open the Wall Street Journal on any given day, and you are likely to find at least one story about how technology is disrupting yet another industry, and the pressures companies face to innovate. And yet,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
hard selling—and a great way to do that is to spend a little brand equity on playfulness to spark conversations. The Rules Of Play Marketing—in the form of View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
dynamics, but you state that "few organizations aim to produce a shared perspective or set of morals as deliberately and consistently as the one presented here. And few have been doing so for as long, close to a century." So why... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
polesnoy As technology commoditization begins speeding up again, it’s a great time to be a consumer in search of a state-of-the-art flat panel TVs, but less comfortable for manufacturers hoping to make a profit. That’s according to recent... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
ad auctions as a dynamic game of incomplete information, so we can study the convergence and robustness properties of various strategies. In particular, we consider best-response bidding strategies for a repeated auction on a single... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace