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- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
Business School and author of nine books, including Learning in Action. The details vary, but in the main, all organizational change involves three phases: an initial stage of recognition and preparation, followed by the implementation of... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
the social sensitivity factor within the team” (Julia); and “Emotional intelligence could be a factor... Women tend to have more of it than men, through nurturing, but it seems that men can learn it.” (Paul B). Lest we became too involved... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
cause different individuals to pay different prices. Real estate is the most imperfect of all asset classes. A simple example that illustrates imperfections in the real estate market is the high level of transaction costs involved with... View Details
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
getting bigger or richer; “growth involves changes to the internal ‘machinery’ of the firm itself,” according to the paper. The researchers used Compustat, a dataset of all United States companies listed on the stock exchange from 1959 to... View Details
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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products
printing plate. Based on the principle of the repellent qualities of grease and water, lithography involves dampening the stone before applying oil-based ink that bonds with the greasy drawing on the stone, but does not stick to the wet,... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements
Keywords: by William Schmidt & Ryan W. Buell
- 19 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 2020
- Chapter
Ethical Business, Corruption and Economic Development in Comparative Perspective
By: Janet Hunter and G. Jones
This chapter contextualises the drivers of corruption in Turkish business through comparisons with Japan and India in the late 19th century. It identifies the developmental state as a common driver of corruption. Catching up by using extensive state intervention had... View Details
Keywords: Corruption; Crime and Corruption; Economic Growth; Turkey; Middle East; Central Asia; Japan; India
Hunter, Janet, and G. Jones. "Ethical Business, Corruption and Economic Development in Comparative Perspective." Chap. 10 in Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives, edited by Asli M. Colpan and G. Jones, 224–245. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- January 2014
- Supplement
The PGA Tour (F)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Cole Magrath
In 1994, the PGA Tour (the "Tour"), the dominant incumbent professional golf circuit, had created tremendous value for its players. In the 1974 season, players competed for $8 million in prize money; by the 1994 season, the total prize purse had increased to $56... View Details
- January 2014
- Supplement
The PGA Tour (E)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Cole Magrath
In 1994, the PGA Tour (the "Tour"), the dominant incumbent professional golf circuit, had created tremendous value for its players. In the 1974 season, players competed for $8 million in prize money; by the 1994 season, the total prize purse had increased to $56... View Details
- Profile
Sebastian Velasco
involved college. "I told my middle-school principal my dream was to go to Harvard. He laughed," Sebastian says. "He said that coming from such a small city in Mexico, it would be impossible. While I was disappointed, it... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
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Providers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
reliable. Physician referrals should be based on excellent patient results, together with the ability of referred providers to share information and integrate care across the entities involved in the care cycle. Improve the process of... View Details
- 11 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Perfecting the Project Pitch
second-year students, and I think that by the time they get to the spring of their second year, they understand that just about every job involves some kind of selling," he says. View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher
- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
Krieger says. The study’s findings suggest that a doubling in a company’s product exposure to the benefits of Medicare Part D led to a 15 percent increase in the development of new drugs. And almost all of that additional development View Details
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
the players he developed—Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes—became true standouts in their generation, providing the club with a strong base on which to build. Managing this process well over a long period unavoidably View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?
experiencing untimely increases in productivity now? These thoughts were triggered by several disparate and clearly unscientific "data" points. First, the buzz at a seminar of professional service managers in which I was View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
to Make Careful Decisions? Summing up reader responses, Professor Jim Heskett finds compelling arguments for a process involving intuition based on analysis and experience. Should people also make their own decision-making process more... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
sets out to follow. An emergent strategy involves the decision to follow a new path when opportunity knocks unexpectedly, or when an unexpected roadblock arises. In work and in life, the question is always which path to take. To help... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
at an urban charter school, where over 95 percent of the 500 students were minorities and more than 75 percent were low-income. They focused their attention on tutors—the employees with the closest and most extended contact with students. (Tutors serve a one-year,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
played a central role: many firms proactively shared new safety protocols, gave feedback to each other, and worked hard to make their industry safer. These interactions involved not only suppliers and clients, but sometimes even... View Details