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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
this book undertook major restructurings without being in a financial crisis. Compared to the rest of the U.S. airline industry, United Air Lines was in relatively strong financial condition when its View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 08 Sep 2022
- Book
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?
Engage with your frontline teams. Never waste a good crisis. Get ready for the long haul. Go on the offense to win now. Always follow your True North. Go to the front lines In surveying the shifting terrain... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 03 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers
in front of direct reports to demonstrate competence and combat negative stereotypes about their abilities. But, these displays came at the expense of less visible office work that is critical to their businesses’ performance. Her... View Details
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
opportunity, motivation, and rationalization, and typically can be seen through measures of at least five types of misconduct: abuse, lying to employees, discrimination, health and safety violations, and stealing. Worldwide, 20 percent of View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
decrease them during the downturn. Both results are in line with the behavior of inexperienced investors in experimental asset markets. The economic significance of young managers' actions is amplified by large inflows into their funds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 17 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men
authorized by the United States government to monitor financial firms. The data included all employment information for financial advisors from 2005 to 2015, including when employees were hired, when they left each firm, and whether they... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
terms of the proposed JV, Merck would pay Bayer $1 billion upfront for access to their pipeline of drugs and could pay up to another $1.2 billion in contingent payments based on actual sales. Alternatively, the Bayer team could hold fast on both View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
and the rate of innovation. This assumption has been relaxed in a line of work on sequential innovation, beginning with Suzanne Scotchmer and Jerry Green (1990). This research addresses this question by examining the impact of major... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?
structure is a bit out of hand and, by any metric, above comparable social media companies. And so, there is definitely an incentive here for them to try to get that in line sooner rather than later. If you compare Meta/Facebook to... View Details
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a global hydrogen supply chain. The initiative was in line with Japan's energy strategy, as the country seeks to transition to clean energy. The company faced challenges such as the high cost of hydrogen production, uncertainty of... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side
Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile is in the midst of a ten-year study looking at, among other things, how time pressure in a corporate setting affects employee creativity. She recently presented early findings and an... View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works
says. In the future, Neeley plans to expand this line of research, perhaps analyzing how managers collaborate with employees globally using technology. "This is what people use every day to relate, to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
employers. Some couldn’t do what they’re doing without the opportunity. Employers appear to be less enthusiastic about remote work. Many feel that they have to offer it in order to access talent that would not otherwise be approachable. Although View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
to do what must be done for the common good, including those on the front lines.” Yamato donates to rebuilding devastated areas Makoto Kigawa, CEO of Yamato—a home delivery service of everything from fresh food to skis and golf clubs—sent... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted
to replace the free human labor behind open source platforms, the researchers calculated the estimated cost for an individual to recreate the software packages by measuring the number of lines of code. The team calculated how many hours... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
treating their employees well is the best way for them to ensure that customers’ concerns about safety are front of mind in every aspect of service while maintaining high standards for hospitality.... View Details
- Web
Leadership - Faculty & Research
a volatile environment, Masuda and Daini's hundreds of employees responded to each unexpected event in turn. Luck played a part, but so did smart leadership and sensemaking. Until the last reactor went into cold shutdown, Masuda's team... View Details
- 29 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Do Outlet Stores Exist?
usually located in rural areas near the factory and selling damaged or irregular clothing, often to employees themselves. Even though most apparel manufacturing has long ago moved overseas, outlet stores have continued to exist—despite... View Details
- 10 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?
they loved dining out and eating in restaurants and how much pleasure it brought them,” she says. Thus, an era of “over-tipping” or tipping in more atypical settings like takeout, began to emerge. “That was seen as a gesture to thank waitstaff for risking their health... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette