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- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
on-the-job misdeeds served the purpose nicely. Those supporting the idea of a corporate board's creating an independent officer of compliance, reporting directly to the board, cited the need for visible action in the face of growing challenges posed View Details
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by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
replacement of most faculty and administrative desktop machines, the introduction of a single electronic-mail system, and the construction of a 100-machine personal computer lab in previously unfinished space in the basement of Shad Hall. "If we had a minute to View Details
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
reluctance to open up the banking system and promote the yuan as a global reserve currency. These were the conclusions of nearly all respondents to this month’s column. Nevertheless, there was an undertone to the comments suggesting that a more productive way of View Details
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by James Heskett
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
out, "There is already available in proxy statements what the compensation is. It's supposed to be public knowledge, except few of the public learn of it, and few investors, apparently, get upset." Ravindra Edirisoorlya said...
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by Jim Heskett
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
something about the creative process that triggers dishonest behavior. Specifically, we decided to explore the idea that enhancing the motivation to think outside the box can drive individuals toward more dishonest decisions when facing...
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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
inflexible, organizational structure to successfully execute a strategy. As companies think through the risks and opportunities of various regional strategies, they also need to clarify what they mean by the...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
possibility that hiring managers would be swayed by their own backgrounds, meaning that sporting either a finance degree or a social work degree didn't result in preferential treatment for a potential candidate. But Battilana's research...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
smarter trades, according to the findings of a study by Soltes, an assistant professor at HBS, and David Solomon, a professor at the USC Marshall School of Business. To conduct the research, the duo obtained investor meeting records from...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets
behave more like U.S. companies. Q: In regards to transparency, what questions do you think managers should ask themselves when deciding what global opportunities to explore? A: The role of good information availability in accessing...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- 28 Aug 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
How Can Decision Making Be Improved?
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
a Highly Elusive, Marginal, and Illegal Practice" will be published in a forthcoming issue of Sociologie du Travail. Sean Silverthorne: What are homers and how prevalent is the practice? Can you give some examples? Michel Anteby: Homers are artifacts produced for...
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- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
like to think of themselves as truly indispensable—impact makers, history movers, culture changers—few reach the bar set by Steve Jobs, Napoleon, or Martin Luther King Jr., Mukunda says. (Even some people...
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by Kim Girard
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman
see in the mirror; people will trust you; they will think you have integrity and that's because you do have integrity. You'll also make decisions faster because you're not thinking about what everybody else...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
A New Ecosystem for Business and Society
Rudenstine "As we think about the last century in relation to our own," he added, "we can be certain that there will be some adverse changes. But we can at least take some heart from the fact that other eras have confronted...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
cause the lack of sufficient organic growth as opposed to the growth by mergers and acquisitions. As he put it, "Toobigs are enormously complex, with massive, self defeating strategies at war within, producing a lower return."...
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- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
Vietnamese manicurists, Korean dry cleaners, Haitian cab drivers, Gujarati motel owners. Anyone who lives in an American city can see how immigrants tend to cluster in industries along ethnic lines. Is this because they are forced to by...
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- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
working across group lines and group differences. And I think that makes a lot of people wary." “A lot of policies in the workplace about diversity are based on research that's focused on the negative.” The wariness is due in part to...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
consider other options in China. "I have no regrets," he adds, "because I learned so much from that experience." Now working in strategic planning for Philip Morris International's China operations, Klump is part of a...
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by Garry Emmons