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- 17 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?
Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
Keywords: by Tim Gray
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
filing of the 13D. Informed traders find it profitable to concentrate their trades with a leaking broker because the loss due to the information leakage is more than compensated by the gains derived from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?
backfire. Sales last year fell 25 percent, resulting in a net loss of $985 million, and the blood-letting continued in quarterly results released this week. In a recent interview, Harvard Business School... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Healthcare Partners Inc. (DaVita), in August 2013. The two would discuss whether Golomb should lead a new DaVita venture, Paladina Health (Paladina), which operated a network of primary care clinics. DaVita had launched Paladina in early... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
pursuit of financial gain and pay closer attention to their impact on employees, customers, communities, and the environment. But changing an organization’s DNA may require upending the existing business... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
sophisticated programs for developing executives within the firm, and ordinarily choose a next chief executive officer from among them. American CEOs average about thirty years with their firms and own less than 4 percent View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
the water privatization were almost 30% more negative (relative to other privatizations) if his/her household did not gain access to water after the privatization. Similarly, a person's view of the water... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
late 2009, Marisa worked in acquisitions at Douglas Private Equity Advisors. During the first year Marisa spent a lot of her time reviewing documents, making site visits, and running numbers, using a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
failure and success and from the experiences of others. For our empirical analyses, we use ten years of data from 71 cardiothoracic surgeons who completed over 6,500 procedures... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
longer-term interests sufficiently well.” Not everyone spoke as one on the issue. Rob Jones, for example, commented that, “Theories abound, but owner still means owner Social and moral obligations make for fascinating discussion, but taking short-term View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?
where you don’t know your neighbors,” he says. “In India, you grew up knowing abject poverty and that has stayed with me throughout my adult life and influenced my research.” He came to the United States about 40 View Details
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
leaders gain a heightened sense of the impact of decisions on the operations and people. How are your employees feeling? After leaders look inward, it’s time to start looking... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
the face of a crippled economy. “Many Japanese companies are not that popular with Wall Street types because they are not as focused on gaining superior profitability and maximizing shareholder value,” he... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
Lauder Companies with global packaging as a key responsibility, Caracappa had to assess a recent proposal he had received from a small French company that had patented a packaging innovation. The innovation could save the Estée Lauder Companies some $4 to $5 million... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
restructuring their lives and letting go of a big part of their identity as employed people. Although most welcomed the freedom and flexibility, many retirees described unexpected feelings View Details
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
Embodiments Of Ethnography Another way designers can gain fresh insights into their products is by observing consumers whose physical impediments make using them difficult. Engineers with Ford wore bodysuits... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
send a signal that, not only do you care about the time workers spend on productive tasks,” Whillans says, “but also that you care about the quality of their life outside View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
gives away a drug called Mectizan for river blindness. That's one pill per person per year. And we found it's really hard to get that the last mile to the people who really need it. Okay? So I would say... View Details
- 26 Sep 2023
- Book
Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
few of the recent emerging trends that digital has brought along, have entered the business vocabulary, captivated the attention of scholars and practitioners alike, and are now at the center View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
forthcoming Research in Organizational Behavior The Dynamic Componential Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations: Making Progress, Making Meaning By: Amabile, Teresa M., and Michael G. Pratt Abstract—Leveraging insights View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel