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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
time leads to Problematic Interactive Media Use (PIMU), affecting mental and physical health. Boston Children’s Hospital addresses these issues through CIMAID and the Digital Wellness Lab. Dr. Michael Rich provides strategies for View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
votes receive relatively little media attention yet may foster investor risk perceptions. This research presents a multifaceted view of activists and their tactics and suggests that this approach in examining activists and their tactics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
expenses and health checks. To make sure to reach everyone in the firm, including production workers who lacked company email addresses, WhatsApp groups were created. After a few weeks, PrecisionCo completed their human resources View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Racial Diversity Pays Off
rather than ignore or suppress them. Comparing 450 bank branches of a single organization, a large commercial bank in the northeast U.S., Ely and Thomas discovered that when work groups actively acknowledge and engage with their different members in a way that View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
We have written about how top NFL coaches try to stay relevant over time. Our empirical evidence supports the idea that most organizational leaders see a decline in performance as they get more tenured, but some are immune to this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A United Front
Sustaining peak performance over not just years but decades may be the single most difficult challenge for executives, which makes Sir Alex Ferguson's 26-year run as manager of England's legendary Manchester United soccer club so... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Just Extraordinary
Life (XOL), plan to join the fun in a special way: Fifteen girls from Washington, D.C., all living in foster care, will travel to South Africa for what XOL hopes will be a life-altering experience. As guests of South Africa’s First... View Details
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
Watkins The best negotiators also work to foster organizational learning, both during and after a negotiation. They pay careful attention to managing the team learning process, establishing clear roles and responsibilities for observation... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
have little confidence in long-range planning, predictions of others, or their own biases. They will spend less time planning and more time fostering the organizational ability to develop and test new ideas. In a recent e-mail, Scott... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
investors the only measure of performance for an organization, or is it one of many ways of measuring value creation? (3) Assuming Foster and Kaplan are right, how do we prepare and motivate people to lead... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
potential of your company Developing a road map to get to that potential Accelerating current organizational performance Harnessing and rewarding top talent Leveraging cash as productively as possible View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
and brands. "It gave me an unbelievable platform to reach people," said Fitzgerald, whose Twitter feed has some 1.75 million followers. Foster agreed, noting that Twitter gives him a chance to talk publicly about issues outside... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
the patient, not the practitioner, comes first. In these organizations, management is not a dirty word. In fact, managers and doctors are recognized for exhibiting mutual respect and aiding the transfer and adoption of good ideas across a network. They may View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
Spear focused on the company's approach to solving problems and noticed the conscious way Toyota's managers involve employees in this process, even to the point of leaving a production line at suboptimal performance so that workers could... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
to recent research, the single most important factor is simply a sense of making progress on meaningful work. But creating an environment that fosters progress takes some careful effort. In their new book, The Progress Principle: Using... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Hidden Workers: Caregivers - Managing the Future of Work
Research Research Hidden Workers: The Case for Caregivers Read the Report Read the Report By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, & Francis Hintermann Companies have long ignored the caregiving responsibilities of employees, compromising both View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Leonard Greenhalgh and James H. Lowry (PMD 25, 1973) (Stanford University Press) After summarizing demographic changes in America and showing why it’s in the national interest to foster the survi-val, prosperity, and growth of... View Details
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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
with vulnerable children. Recently, Brochu assumed a new position as the head of human trafficking programs for Geneva Global, a leading social enterprise that implements philanthropists' humanitarian goals at the grassroots level around the world. In this role, she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Talent: The Best Employee Perk?
“[Just] as organizations that invested financial capital more wisely than their rivals performed better in the past, the companies that do the best job of managing time, talent, and energy are the ones that win today’s competitive races.... View Details
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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog
units in a way that delivers maximum value to those customers. Prioritizing core values: You will learn how and when to create core values and beliefs systems to prioritize the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders. Tracking View Details