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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
puts the increasingly complex job of Chief Executive in a very real context. It serves as a practical guide by allowing you to walk alongside Jim as he takes on his new role and all its attendant challenges. Jim's story-developed in...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
into the attitudes, skills, and subject matter expertise necessary to be successful in this role. Insights into how Everson does this job are provided by both PwC and client personnel. As is often the case, Everson is responsible for a...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
and openness. Jobs that are designed to be meaningful and challenging meet the need to comprehend. Processes for performance management and resource allocation that are fair, trustworthy, and transparent address the drive to defend....
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
professor Nancy Koehn, pointing out that women played key roles in the early American economy through the development of cottage industries and in the organization and work of benevolent societies. The exhibit does a wonderful job in...
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by Laura Linard
- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
his or her job but does not help others. Or one asks for help and is sometimes even abrasive when asked to do something for the company that does not benefit him or her directly. The problem with these people is that they can poison the...
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by Mallory Stark
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
founded Netflix to provide a home movie service that would do a better job satisfying customers than the traditional retail rental model. But as it encountered challenges it underwent several major strategy shifts, ultimately developing a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
the net new jobs in our country. Yet in recent years, small businesses have been slow to recover from a recession and credit crisis that hit them especially hard. This lag has prompted the question, "Is there a credit gap in small...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
investor and managerial costs. It affects job creation and innovation throughout society. Once a venture reaches a critical size, its complexity greatly increases. The original business model must deal with new market and organizational...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
directors. In particular, how does a board really know the leadership style of its senior operating management and the culture of the company for which it has fiduciary responsibility? Most boards do a good job of evaluating their CEOs...
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- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
Prioritizing such goals would work against having taxes based on personal characteristics. Now, if the gain in terms of reduced total sacrifice were large enough from taxing height, we might do it despite the cost in terms of other goals. For instance, if we lived in...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
interconnected by different "gatekeepers," individuals who bridge one group with another. Historically, engineers and scientists tended to work within local clusters of collaboration that were isolated within a company. Recently, though, people have become...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
of the business," Phanstiel says. To keep people in the core "focused on the hard work of growing the old business, we had to make it clear that everyone's effort mattered." The message was clear: "Your job is to...
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by Paul Michelman
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
proposals. It's important to know when to declare a winner, especially when relationships are involved. New MBAs sometimes learn this lesson to their regret when recruiters rescind job offers in the face of demands for special perks. In...
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by Michael Wheeler
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
promptly weed out ideas that don't have potential and do a better job of doubling-down and improving their most promising ideas. I would imitate these startups when it comes to the holiday season: get creative, test out lots of ideas...
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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
as CEO of GE, arguably the biggest and most complex corporate leadership job in the world, and how he frames and implements his priorities for GE. Describes the processes that guided Immelt's own developments and the strategic changes...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
and, second, that simply assigning a group of people to work together makes them a team. We point out that assigning a team to carry out a job may not always be the best way. Sometimes it's more effective to let a gifted individual do it...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2021
- What Do You Think?
Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?
“Ensuring social cohesion in democracy is part of a CEO’s job of managing the strategic environment.” "When they identify with their corporations, do CEOs assume that they are representing them?" One question these events raise for us is...
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by James Heskett
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
original employment—but that doesn't mean they don't dramatically shake up thousands of lives. "The one thing that's clear is that there's a lot more churn after the private equity guys come in," Lerner said. "There are a lot more View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Job requirements at the top of corporations have changed. Companies have come to expect much more from their C-level executives, who need new and different skills to deal with today's business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
settings include job agencies (whose customers include both job seekers and listers), realtors (whose clients include home sellers and purchasers), and auction houses (whose customers include buyers and...
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Sean Silverthorne