consensus - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

sure to involve all the key stakeholders. To address these concerns, GM's Pudar employs an innovative approach to consensus building. Prior to making major decisions about a new initiative, he says, "I meet individually with each... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

trap. She was taken by surprise by all the ways that her idea did not speak for itself. It was hard to fathom. Her dream was big, her motivation was pure, and her credibility was high. Her reading of the community mood said that there was View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2023
News

Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. And while most pharmaceutical companies would... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

09 Jan 2020
Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

displaces human activity, it will also push people out of jobs. To what degree will this happen? Iansiti: There’s a pretty good consensus that there’s going to be a massive transformation in the nature of work. Every job can be done... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Macroeconomic Expectations By: Pedro Bordalo , Nicola Gennaioli , Yueran Ma & Andrei Shleifer SEP 2020 What does predictability of forecast errors teach us about how market participants form expectations? The authors study the rationality of individual and View Details

04 Jan 2022
What Do You Think?

Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

a board member, I’ve unfortunately had to confront these issues. The McDonald’s board faced these issues in October 2019. The company’s CEO at the time, Steve Easterbrook, was found to have “engaged in a consensual relationship with an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Sep 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch, Joseph L. Bower, Clayton S. Rose & Suraj Srinivasan

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

needed for major programs or decisions to be approved. There were continuous conversations among the owners and family about important issues and these drove out consensus. Consensus never required unanimity but rather the feeling that... View Details

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Connell House | About

its shipyard and manufacturing companies in 1985, Connell became the new entity’s CEO, betting against the emerging consensus that US manufacturing was dead. Over the next 14 years, Connell, the son of Irish immigrants, grew his metal... View Details

10 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

Summing Up Summing up the unusually large number of responses to the piece on street smarts, the consensus is that they represent skills taught by experience, role models, and experiential learning techniques such as case analysis and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

irreparably torn, unable to build consensus to solve the country’s most pressing social and economic problems? That is a danger, Kempf warns, especially since research shows people are most likely to encounter others with different... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

dangerous if they become an addiction. The competitiveness framework can help to better distinguish export-oriented policies that make a contribution to long-term sustainable growth from those that do not. 4. Moving on from here There is actually quite a lot of... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

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John H. McArthur | About

launching his remarkable career as a scholar, teacher, and administrator and culminating with his appointment as the School’s seventh dean. McArthur’s vision, passion, and unparalleled gift for building consensus transformed the School.... View Details

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

that will help the team advance its goals. Generating a detailed list of every single item is not necessary, but the relaunch session helps team members reach a general consensus about what the team needs, its current resources, and how... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

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

concepts To conclude the notion of one ‘wheel’ could be a thing of the past, because there are many wheels turning at the same time.” The general consensus among those commenting on the question was that Amazon, even with its... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

available. For example, retail chains and commercial airlines, which lease a lot of their assets such as stores and airplanes, might rationally prefer Chapter 11 to restructuring out of court. The second impediment to reaching a View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

01 Mar 2006
News

Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders

decision-making. “If you are able to achieve it, consensus works best because there are no losers, and people don’t feel alienated from the organization,” Whitehead explained. But he acknowledged that View Details

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

types of organizations. Highly entrepreneurial organizations are rabbits, emphasizing innovation and risk-taking. And tigers are built around competitive advantage and market superiority. Elephants are, as you would expect, full of regulation and bureaucracy. View Details