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- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
challenges as he tries to maintain EMC's culture of customer centricity. These include 1) translating EMC's platinum service levels, designed to appeal to the world's largest companies, to small businesses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
leaders—there are plenty of fine people who can lead an organization. What these two did, as you point out, was create a culture around the mission of their organizations. Their employees live the mission in... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
about the outcome of wrongdoing influence both ethical judgments and decisions to punish wrongdoers. Our studies show that people judge behavior as more unethical when (1) identifiable versus statistical victims are involved and (2) the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
four leading global food safety firms gives their testing a certain level of external validity that they may not enjoy by doing their own testing, although big companies such as Nestle remain strongly View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
institution is living up to its commitments in each area. Still in its infancy, integrated reporting has been adopted by a few dozen companies including AEP, BASF, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Philips, Southwest Airlines, and United... View Details
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
Royal Dutch Shell's CEO and his management team to maintain their commitment to diversity and inclusion (D&I), as introduced in the (A) case, during a major restructuring of the whole organization.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
effect on productivity and innovation. As I showed in my book Confidence, organizations on “winning streaks” thrive on a culture of respect, which underlies speed and innovation, while “losing streaks” are... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
What happens to a country's economy when its government is politically unstable, such as has been the case historically in Mexico? Can business get done under a strong-arm dictatorship, or when a government is too weak to protect the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
overview of business history research worldwide aimed at both researchers and practitioners, addressing challenging issues such as globalization, entrepreneurship, corporate governance, technology and innovation, and economic theory and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
performer is spinning one plate, some of the others get wobbly, so the juggler has to run over and spin them again—but then other plates start wobbling. The juggler has no time to reflect on what he is doing, and neither does Tony, as he... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
help the organization," he writes in his new book, Revival of the Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them. These actions or commitments behave as double-edged swords, Sull... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
would ask, "What do the students need to know?" The second challenge is about faculty. How do schools ensure that faculty continue to exert cultural authority in the classroom and are seen by their students View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device Authors:Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz Abstract We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
Publications August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The Art of Strategic Renewal By: Binns, Andy, J. Bruce Harreld, Charles A. O'Reilly, and Michael L. Tushman Abstract—In recent years, we have seen well-established companies such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
warrant that Linux ends up forcing Windows out. We do this by modifying the model in two ways. First of all, we look at the effect of having buyers such as governments and some large corporations committed... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
and training, as well as organ transplantation, is limited. Researchers disagree about how to increase the number of whole-body bequeathals, citing a shortage of donations from the one group perceived View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
For the last quarter century, many fought hard to overcome gender discrimination in the workplace by raising awareness, strengthening antidiscrimination policies, and encouraging more women to enter the corporate world. At first blush, that work appeared to pay off.... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
work seriously. Still, we need more researchers, more doctoral students, doing case and survey research on many topics. In particular, not enough has been done to compare the issues and performance of family versus non-family companies. Q: Does View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
In this uncertain economic climate, downsizing and layoffs are a sadly frequent occurrence. Although bad news is always painful to deliver and to hear, the process of conducting "necessary evils"—such as layoffs or firings—can... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
have been due in large part to the culture of the previous organization; hence, the type of person who thrived at Goldman Sachs might flounder at Credit Suisse. But there's a broader reason for performance declines: banks often don't... View Details