consensus - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Nov 2014
Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

from the left and the right, set out to do just that. For the last two and a half years, we co-chaired the Commission's Mortgage Finance Reform Working Group. Remarkably, we saw consensus emerge from both parties on the goals of the new... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

health-care service and medical technology providers can play in consumer-driven health-care reform. Wrapping up the conference, representatives from each of several breakout meetings summarized their take on the implementation of a consumer-driven health-care system.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

01 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

maximize the purchasing power of consumers or if it is to reinforce certain government favoured industries and, indirectly, the people who work and invest in those industries. After more than thirty years when broad international View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

duties, it is wise, as part of its selection process, to seek inputs from those who will 'live' daily with the next leader." Mike Flanagan commented: "The more buy-in from a broader range of people the better (the) choice and the easier for the chosen one to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

02 Jan 2013
What Do You Think?

Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?

Summing Up Under what conditions do teams, introverts, and innovation go together? Properly structured and led, teams can support innovative thinking that depends on contributions from both extroverts and introverts. That's the consensus... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

gross margin for retailers using historical data. We show that sales forecasts from this model are more accurate than consensus forecasts from equity analysts. Further, the residuals from this model for one fiscal year are used to predict... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

political system, our review of the literature finds no academic consensus on the consequences of inequality for the health of the economy or the democracy, or for nearly any other macro-level outcome. With the academic community reaching... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

19 Jan 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis

why. Key concepts include: Regulations and laws offer little guidance about what specifically boards should do, and, given this lack of specificity, most boards have gradually developed an implicit understanding of what their job should be. Directors expressed strong... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

27 May 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global

landscape. Key concepts include: Although property rights protections for investors in developing nations have improved since 1980, the new instruments are failing to satisfy the interests of either host countries or their business partners. Protections can be improved... View Details

20 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

implementing value-based reimbursement models. Infrastructure requirements, including information technology (indicated by 42% of respondents), and changing regulation/policy (34%) are the top two. There is strong consensus on the broad... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Dec 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

Given the nature of some unusually thoughtful responses, there was no consensus on the question of whether Walmart has reached its full potential. Comments raised even more interesting questions surrounding the dynamic of relationships... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

27 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

company or team goals from the get-go. "Empowerment can happen only when there's a consensus on goals and an agreement that certain standards have to be met," Kanter says. "If there isn't agreement in the beginning, that's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

how individuals with limited power and resources negotiate and collaborate with the largest of corporations. Community may not be exactly the right word to describe these forms, as the term denotes more consensus than reality might... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

10 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

importance of an emotional connection. He has found that, beyond traditional measures of effective leadership such as involvement, consensus building, and strategic implementation, these innovative partnerships are fueled by the emotional... View Details

Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy

26 Oct 2017
Research Event

In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

new institutions supporting fact-based reportage and publication would spring up organically, or whether it was time to start looking to government to sponsor such activities. He explained that as a society, being able to form a consensus... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Journalism & News

13 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

the debate over a government-run plan into perspective. It is an issue related to health care reform, but it is not the only—or even most important—issue. Even if we reach consensus on this question, achieving meaningful reform will... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

obligation to consider the effect of each action not just on shareholders but also on others. is not enough to exhort managers and directors to be ethical. First, a consensus needs to be reached concerning what it means to be ethical in... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

this fact. "Where the consensus today is that eighteenth-century economists believed that free trade would bring peace and prosperity to all, the mainstream of political economy at the time was actually preoccupied with how trade... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

Moss Kanter: Transitions are smooth and peaceful when there is wide consensus that the team or company or country is on a successful trajectory—what I call a winning streak. Then it is also likely that the successors have been endorsed by... View Details