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08 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

Championship, Branch scored the first and last touchdowns, the final one a 23-yard run on a reverse, which clinched the game after the Pittsburgh Steelers had clawed their way back to be down by just a... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

12 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 12

by systematically increasing the rigor in the procurement process. Still skeptical, Sophia runs the process of systematically analyzing and comparing the competing firms' bids. This case also describes the process by which these tools... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

Jack." German entrepreneurs were autocratic and paternalist, but it is by no means clear that they had a particular lock on this sort of behavior. How many American CEOs would like to have labor representatives on their boards? We also tend to forget that many... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

Spearheads of Democracy (inspired by his Labor Department duties, which had taken him to Latin America, Africa, and Asia), he decided to leave the School to run for the U.S. Senate as the Republican candidate against Edward M. Kennedy.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge funds they View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

06 Feb 2006
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

stock does not go up as quickly. . . . But it doesn't go back down as quickly later, either." Damon Leavell takes a different tack, recommending that, "Rather than speculate on earnings, . . . create unique indices based on... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

experience in the for-profit sector? Mario Morino: My background was in the IT industry, working in systems management, which is fundamentally about tracking the performance and integrity of large computing platforms. What I experienced View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

status quo—but his cure is a government-run system, I gather from hearsay. I agree with the diagnosis, but my cure is, yes, everybody should have health insurance, but they should control it for themselves. It should be run by the people,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

26 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

has its own logistical limitations. Running an fMRI scanner costs researchers up to $1,000 per hour, and studies often use 20-30 subjects, Karmarkar says. And while EEG lets subjects move around during testing, fMRI requires them to lie... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

same method in your personal life Fortunately, the costs can be amortized by developing such habits in one’s personal life. The same bedrock postulates apply: pay “deep attention” to friends and family. And be judicious in allocating time while performing all the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

them. Our approach can also help retailers design discounts that better serve their objectives. Q: You recommend that retailers disallow the purchase of multiple discount vouchers from a single customer, or else run the risk that the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology

26 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

the first two quarters of 2012, is a follow-up to an IAB study based on 2007 data, back when, as is sometimes forgotten, MySpace was bigger than Facebook. The most recent study provides a detailed look at the growth of the Internet over... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing

09 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 9

agreement to give ownership of the Canal back to Panama in the 1970s was not a gesture of magnanimity, but because the strategic and economic value of ownership had since disappeared. In a surprise to those who argued that it was... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

region are starting to pull back from their welfare state philosophies and encourage the privatization of the economies. These are gradual changes. The governments are trying to minimize social disruptions. But the broad implication is... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

foolish if they're not participating in these perceived changes. Getting Down To Business Palepu: How can we begin to fix some of these problems? Hall: On the issue of executive compensation, "clawback"—forcing executives to pay View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

28 Nov 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

individualized) levels." Peter Lee added "The real issue is what you consider to be performance Performance is all about quality-quality of effort as well as results." Gerald Nanninga suggested that "let's solve the problem by using non-financial... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jan 2011
What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

possible. Next time the target may not be Iran.) Getting back to my misstated question, none of you aimed your criticism at the technology, even lauding it, as Mark O'Connor did, as the "great equalizer." In Bev Stehn's words,... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

outspokenness of business leaders, marks a sharp break with the past 15 years when CEOs kept their heads down to concentrate on running their own businesses. In part, they were reacting to the challenges of the Great Recession as well as... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

28 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

it was protected from liability, Walmart failed to act on Elmburg's proposal. The explosions continued. The basic problem with the Blitz gas cans is that when gas is poured from them, there is a risk that gasoline vapors will connect with an ember or other fire source,... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

new plant, because one encounters very different problems in starting up a new plant than in running a well-tuned one. When a slowly growing firm's leaders decide they need to launch a new-growth business to restore their company's... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

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