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  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

survive to this day—in schools of law, medicine, and divinity, respectively—in the modem American university. The study of law in America today remains rooted in the centuries-old traditions of Roman and Anglo-American law, as systematized and interpreted by the View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 04 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

My point here is not to disparage discipline or, indeed, the marketing professionals of Quaker Oats. Their failure with Snapple wasn't a matter of ineptitude or a bureaucratic tin ear. Nor do I think it was a case of a nimble upstart... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage
  • 02 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

simply you and the person on the other side of the table, but it is often much more complex, requiring an act of disciplined imagination rather than a mechanical list. In our new book, we systematically work through ways to get the right... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

management to what you originally wanted." At the same time, the fixed-performance contract fosters the fear in managers that if they don't spend what's left over in their budgets at the end of the year, their funding for the next year will be reduced. Cost View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

creating value. Danielle Kost: What is different about the companies that put value at the center of their strategy? Felix Oberholzer-Gee: I admire how disciplined they are. Every company that I studied for the book has many talented... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

but unique specialty component from an Asian company with a plant in China that has shut down. Supply chain managers who previously focused their attention one or two levels down into their supply chains will have to go back to work and develop the systems and View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

interference from the community because of their favorable reputation, while layoffs by other firms elsewhere were met with unrest and angst. The approach of the study is important, too. The discipline of strategy is not rich in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail
  • 21 Aug 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

customers? 2) Can I leverage data to serve those customers who are currently not served by me or my competitors?” In class after class during the program, across the range of disciplines that make up a business school, instructors... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

those communities can offer frank feedback on the organization's work. Ebrahim's research suggests that measuring results is valuable as a discipline for nonprofit managers, even if they don't find universal metrics for social impact. "It... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • Research Summary

Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management

The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details

  • 11 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

promote a more open and experimental culture. Just the beginning Artificial intelligence continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, creating plenty of ground-floor opportunities for entrepreneurs who are disciplined in their approach,... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
  • 25 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

or leave their jobs due to burnout. They then correlated those numbers with the percentage of burnout experienced by doctors in different age groups and medical disciplines in order to estimate the overall effects of burnout on staffing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, helped create the discipline of economics with its conjuring of the invisible hand, self-interest, and other explanations of market forces that have influenced academics,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 06 Jun 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

behaviors. As a result, for example, four in five product introductions perform below expectations. The Zaltmans expand on ideas they have been studying for some years, namely that strategies of all kinds can be based on insights gained from listening in a View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

brought greater transparency and more discipline and efficiency to an undisciplined, inefficient market. Unfortunately, there's no doubt that more and better information means it will be harder to be the alpha, as Professor Andre Perold... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate
  • 04 Feb 2010
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

making makes many people highly uncomfortable which is why intuition gets a bad rap. (It implies) emotion a lack of discipline and robustness in analysis the lack of control (replicability)." Pallavi Marathe put it this way:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

that had left the company in a compromised state. Over the next six years, Cote worked to turn Honeywell around through implementing a series of improvements in the company’s operating systems, forming a single culture from all the merged organizations, and instituting... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics
  • 06 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die

some structures work more or less efficiently, so I said let's look at other disciplines to see what light they cast on what's going on with the way people's brains evolved and how they operate. Q: Throughout the book, you highlight... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 31 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

AtomicAdMan observed--the search for margins that can turn their retail operation profitable. Glenn Younger put it this way: “Using unique products or services to chase market share, as Amazon has done till now, will keep the retail wheel turning,” adding that “it will... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
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