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- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Bussgang, Jeffrey Abstract—Relative to established organizations, start-ups can be hard to figure out. What are the jobs to be done? The best entry points? How can you tell whether a company has potential for success and is the right fit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
resolved it. Since past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior, the board should ask candidates what concrete steps they took in their prior job to ensure that senior and lower-level managers were conducting the business with... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
fulfillment drive work engagement. Employees have needs (e.g., a desire to be authentic) and they also have expectations for how their job or their organization will fulfill them. We argue that experiences at work that confirm employees’... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
summary of Satyam’s activities. Then, in 1991, Raju suggested to an Illinois client that Satyam move its twenty associates back to India, where they would perform the same work but be paid in rupees, at a savings to both parties. The client requested that Satyam View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
here, it could be made to happen most anywhere. Imagine my delight then, when four years after we conducted our first experiment at BCG's Boston office, 86 percent of the consulting staff in the firm's Northeast offices—including Boston,... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
don't hire armed guards to prevent the occasional nonbusiness use of copy machines, nor do you keep your company's cash in a filing cabinet. You protect each corporate resource in proportion to its value. The same principle applies to digital security. To begin, you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
believe most patients are more knowledgeable about their own health care than they are given credit for. The popular press has done a good job of covering advances in genetic research, and consumers are trying to integrate that... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
force behind the company. The other founder kept her other job and contributed far less to the company, but still owned the same amount of equity in the company. The founder-CEO now says, "That was a really stupid handshake because... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
worked after serving as a Navy lieutenant in Hawaii from 1969 to 1971. There were early signs of his interest in the Thoroughbred industry, however — a thesis on the economics of the business written as an undergraduate at The College of William & Mary, then a View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
but we're kind of the canaries in the coal mine—in that our business is risk. Our job is to price risk and thus predict risk.” Up until 2012, Liberty could just trend past weather data into the future and get reasonably close predictions.... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
electronics company Philips; the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk; the Brazilian cosmetics company Natura; and the U.S.-based technology and aerospace company United Technologies all come to mind. All have done a very good job... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (in this study, by the store managers), leads to lower employee turnover. On one hand, a centralized model of hiring can allow a company to ensure enough resources and efforts are invested into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
boards, saying boards aren't doing enough. But the reality is that in general boards have gotten a better handle on their companies now than they did when I first started looking at them twenty years ago. If you look at the typical board... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
day, Lhota thought, as beautiful as any the city ever sees. After seven years in the Giuliani administration, including service as the city's budget director, Lhota, the deputy mayor for operations, was becoming more conscious of each passing day. His View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
professor Sumner Slichter (the School’s first University Professor) wrote in 1945, “Something should happen to men who come to the Business School which could not happen to them anywhere else in the world, and which will leave its mark on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
he disappears for five days. Well, first of all, I've taught a lot. I wrote a book called Seven Lessons for Leading a Crisis. If you're a leader and you're in crisis, you go out right away. Instantly. Howard Schultz did this along with... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
$16 billion, and nearly 20,000 jobs could be attributed to campaign staffing, consulting, and lobbying. The political media also benefitted, with most major news outlets posting record advertising revenues last year as a result of... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
competitor Motorola. At the age of forty-three, Andy Grove was running one of the most important companies in the world. His first year as COO was a resounding success. He was pictured in the Annual Report, full-bearded, next to the... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
producers and customers in an efficient manner. Q: How can intermediaries grow as businesses in their own right? Khanna: Emerging markets can't mandate intermediaries into existence. Entrepreneurs must first recognize an institutional... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
going into the job, a huge handicap that leads to poor foreign policy. Our leaders assume that the U.S. model of business and governance is ideal, with some small adjustments, for all countries and that our job is to go forth and remake... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace