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25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

constituents, managers must choose their primary customer—and organize accordingly. A constituent is a person or group that receives utility from the value creation process of the organization and transacts routinely with the organization... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

million boxes of fresh oranges shipped out of state were colored with synthetic dyes.” By the 1930s, synthetic food dyes were used routinely in sausages, pastas, candies, ice cream, and a host of other foods. By 2016, the global food dye... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?

Source: Raw Pixel Stockbrokers are taking advantage of their privileged position to increase profits for favored investors and hedge funds, all at the expense of their other customers, new research suggests. A team of economists has found evidence that brokers View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

12 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 12

century. Henry Ford's Model T was a car for the masses. After considerable experimentation, Ford Motor perfected a mass production system that converted the vast majority of jobs in the factory into routine tasks. It pioneered the moving... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

and find a routine that works for you, so that you can get stuff done even when you have kids around and life is not normal. Do you think companies will stick with remote work post-pandemic? Choudhury: Companies might be tempted to go... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology

services. Kost: What does Airbnb need to do to stay close to its customers? Teixeira: A company like Uber is solving a pain point that we have on a routine basis—how to get from point A to point B. Airbnb is solving a potentially bigger... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Travel; Tourism

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

efficient by automating busy leaders’ routine tasks—such as the electronic communication that takes 24 percent of a CEO’s time, studies show. In theory, this would allow the executive to devote more time to strategic planning, for... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

03 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

and desires of customers, employees, and investors sets them apart from the bulk of competitors that routinely emphasize one constituency to the detriment of others. Aisner: What are some of the skills that great service leaders must... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

strain. They had a robust configuration that enabled new purposes, new software deployments, and new coordinated routines across teams. The best can use this as an opportunity to experiment and learn where technology can deliver service... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

25 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

Credit: PhonlamaiPhoto Thirty years ago, the idea of a machine learning on its own would have stoked the worst kind of sci-fi nightmares about robots taking over the planet. These days, machine learning is so commonplace, we barely notice it. Computers View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

23 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 23

work and non-work identities. Specifically, we suggest that identity compatibility is influenced by (a) the extent to which individuals can control the co-activation of identities, and (b) the routinization of identity co-activation. We... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

common goal via information-sharing, joint decision-making, and coordination of activities. In contrast to prior work, we distinguish forms of collaboration by three organizational goals—unit management, routine production, and process... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

emerging economies. However, microlevel product development processes in these economies are relatively unexplored, and the mechanisms by which the emerging economy context might affect such processes are still unclear. In this paper, we explore the testing View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

facilities, and cost base of the institution. Routine or simple services should not be offered by institutions that cannot deliver them at competitive cost. Conversely, complex or unusual services should not be offered by institutions... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

transform themselves into learning organizations, a path that requires the willingness to change routines and not bow down before conventional wisdom. In general, there are three steps needed for learning to occur, no matter what learning... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

Olson argued. "It became the dominant, unquestioned view," Trumbull says. Olson's beliefs have been popular with both liberals and conservatives, he observes. Liberals routinely believe that big banks and corporations control government... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

is arguably the strongest these days, appears not to be competitive in many global industries in which labor costs are still important. Germany, in particular, where workers and union members routinely occupy seats on boards of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

having some serious unintended consequences, one being the fiction that there is actually a real CEO labor market. Let me elaborate. It is natural to wonder why boards routinely bypass thousands of internal candidates for the ninety or so... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

Staffing, risks, benefits, and regulatory compliance are all increasingly externalized, most often to parts of the world where need routinely trumps prudence. Rather than manage their own corporate assets, CEOs and other top executives of... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

31 May 2016
First Look

May 31, 2016

June 2016 Medical Care Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds Abstract—Background: View Details