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- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
Bean, the U.S. Army's Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL), AT&T's Bell Laboratories, the Timken Companies and General Electric's Change Acceleration Process (CAP). L.L. Bean has long relied on inquiry as a source of learning to... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
business opportunity is that martial arts is the only sport in Asia with broad appeal and local relevance,” says Cui, noting that the Asian world as a whole (with the possible exceptions of Japan and South Korea) generally lacks the 24/7... View Details
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
the dollar losses were related to physician turnover and reduced clinical hours. The research adds to previous work showing how physician stress generates negative clinical and organizational outcomes. No... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
the general manager—the division head, or the CEO. We used to always talk about the CEO as being the grand strategic architect, sitting on top of the company and defining the priorities and making the strategic investments. Historically,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a wide assortment of consumer durables. Two years later, Barford took Beatty into the big time, buying up a larger competitor, General Steel Wares, Inc. (GSW). As head of the new concern, Barford reorganized GSW and developed it into the... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
Companies spend many hundreds of billions of dollars on R&D each year, but the microwave oven was conceived from a melted candy bar, saccharin from an accidental chemical spill, and the Daguerre photo process via a shattered... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
HBCUs [historically Black colleges and universities] borrow more than students from non-HBCUs because African American families generally have lower assets and incomes that limit their ability to contribute toward college expenses.” Most... View Details
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
When start-up thredUP launched its peer-to-peer online exchange for used children's clothes two and a half years ago, its creators were the latest generation of entrepreneurs competing online as multi-sided platforms (MSPs), alongside... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive, paints a more optimistic picture, provided business leaders embrace our generational diversity findings. Our study confirms others that quantify the economic benefits of diverse... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
Success at the movie box office can be difficult to predict. For every surprise hit film like Crazy Rich Asians, there’s a massive flame-out like Justice League. Unlike television, where a station can test a pilot before committing to a series, studios must spend... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
changing accruals, for example—the adverse impact on company value is probably small. But rarely is the activity so benign. Usually, the shuffling of dollars results from decisions that change the operating characteristics of a company,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
as Miller Lite’s virtual tip jar for bartenders or Yum Brands $1,000 bonuses to its Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC general managers during mandated restaurant closures and emergency medical relief fund for employees diagnosed with... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- Web
Harvard Business School
and implemented programs to improve the company's factory sourcing. Prior to joining Walmart, Jackson was president and COO at Dollar General Stores, where he led significant new store openings and improved... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
information technology and management, or organizational behavior. That broad range of choices, coupled with the satisfaction of conducting research in the field, generates an extraordinary demand for the handful of available places each... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
with beating Microsoft. His battle was futile. He left the company as Novell began a long downward slide. The fighter pilot mentality of several U.S. airlines led to a price war in which billions of dollars were lost. Even in small... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
pursue. In the book, we discuss General Electric’s efforts to build their Predix platform. Predix was clearly going to be a multiyear, maybe multibillion dollar investment and one that was increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
a microentrepreneur borrows from a microfinance institution, such as ACCION International or Grameen Bank, to pay for a testing kit and eyeglass supplies. The entrepreneur, who also undergoes a one-week training session, will then be able to sell eyeglasses for less... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
five-year stint managing the multibillion dollar United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, Cohen was tapped by National Trust for Historic Preservation head Michael Ainslie (MBA ’68) to be the nonprofit’s senior... View Details
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
116-007 Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar In spring 2015, Dollar General's CEO Rick Dreiling was looking ahead to retiring at year's end but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
deploying assets is superior to Walmart's. At the same time, the traffic that was being generated by lower food prices is being threatened by much leaner and more competitive grocery stores. The icing on the cake is that the lower-income... View Details