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2011
Book

Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success

Confronted by omnipresent threats of job loss and change, even the brightest among us are anxious. In response, we're hunkering down, blocking ourselves from new challenges. This response hurts us and our organizations, but we fear making ourselves even more vulnerable... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Personal Development and Career; Problems and Challenges; Attitudes; Behavior

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Confronted by omnipresent threats of job loss and change, even the brightest among us are anxious. In response, we're hunkering down, blocking ourselves from new challenges. This response hurts us and our organizations, but we fear making ourselves even more vulnerable... View Details

14 Mar 2019
Cold Call Podcast

How Helena Rubinstein Used Tall Tales to Turn Cosmetics into a Luxury Brand

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics

06 Oct 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Using What We Know: Turning Organizational Knowledge into Team Performance

Keywords: by Bradley R. Staats, Melissa A. Valentine & Amy C. Edmondson; Video Game; Web Services

January 2019 (Revised December 2019)
Case

Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises (A): Turning Over a New Leaf?

By: Lena G. Goldberg, Michael S. Kaufman, Zach Addy, Michelle Lee, Cordelia Shackleton and Tara Tomimoto

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21 Dec 2015
News

Turns out hiring talented jerks isn't good business after all

How to Turn a Group of Strangers into a Team

10 Jul 2014
News

Harpoon Brewery CEO Steps Aside, Turns Stake over to Employees

Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

24 Mar 2015
News

How Chiara Ferragni Turned Her Fashion Blog Into Big Business

07 Nov 2015
News

This Ivy League School is Turning Out Fashion's Hottest Startups

Keywords: Birchbox; Rent the Runway; Gilt Groupe; Stitch Fix; Shoptiques; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

21 Apr 2023
News

The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?

30 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

showed that participants were turned off by overhead. The higher the level of overhead associated with a donation to charity: water, the lower the percentage of participants who chose to donate to it. When they learned that donations to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Sep 2024
News

What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice

1 Oct 2019
Interview

Can Gimlet Turn a Podcast Network Into a Disruptive Platform?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

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02 Jan 2013
News

Willy Loman Turns to Windows as Web Spurs Sales Changes

Donors are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here's What Charities Can Do

Elizabeth A. Keenan and colleagues find that charitable donors are willing to stomach the idea of overhead costs—as long as they know someone else’s donation is covering them. A field study helped one organization nearly triple its solicited donations. View Details

01 Oct 2001
What Do You Think?

Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?

First, as Greg Waldrip points out, let's get things in perspective. These are only means to carry out a strategy after goals are determined, all in a supportive management environment. Dennis Crane concurs, adding that "Information technology should only View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

January 1984 (Revised April 1987)
Case

Turning Around Alcan Europe (A): Patrick Rich's First Four Months as CEO-Europe

Faced with large losses in Alcan Aluminum (Europe), Patrick Rich takes the position of area general manager and slashes capital budgets, introduces new financial controls, and sets up mechanisms for increasing cooperation among the national subsidiaries. The focus is... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Manufacturing Industry; Europe

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