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2002
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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected... View Details

Keywords: Managerial Roles; Selection and Staffing; Personal Characteristics; Experience and Expertise; Investment Activism; Corporate Strategy

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09 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

technology, management processes that they already have, and probably the culture.” Who’s in your talent pool? So what’s a remote job-seeker to do? Finding the right job depends on profession and, perhaps more crucially, what individual... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

11 Jul 2016
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Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

orientation. “Innovation is about finding ideas that are outside the normal parameters, and you don’t do that by slicing away everything that’s outside the normal parameters. Maybe it’s the parts of people we ask them to leave at home that are the most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

graphics, to target the right audience, and to measure responses instantly. But many experts contend that Internet advertising is still in its infancy. There is a widely held belief that in the future we will compare today's Web ads with... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

barriers tend to get in the way: lower-performing employees are too reticent to ask for help, or higher-performing employees are reluctant to give it. “This suggests that performance is more malleable and can be changed if you give people the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Sep 2018
Blog Post

10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

support, and ultimately, a new family. Before coming to Boston, I struggled to decide if the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program was right for me. I wondered if it’d be too much work or if it would affect my regular MBA experience. With... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

the Year Award for Right Kind of Wrong (Atria Books, 2023). Amy C. Edmondson : Ranked #1 in the 2021 and 2023 Thinkers50 list—a list of the world's most influential management thinkers. Kris Johnson Ferreira : Inducted into the 2023... View Details

20 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

which sounds like such a great thing. People get to keep their jobs, the creditors get paid equity, and the customers don't lose this business that they loved,” says Antill, whose article Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy? will appear... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

financial reporting quality has fallen in places where it has become harder to sue. The rulings of Tellabs and Janus have made it easier for auditors to argue, “We didn’t know the company lied to us.” How do investors prove that auditors didn’t ask the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

Careers Balancing Work & Life Careers Balancing Work & Life Achieving the right work-life balance is important, and sometimes it takes practice to achieve what works best for you. Striking the balance between work and life can be a... View Details

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

take advantage of the accelerating commission schedule. However, making the sale right away, before the end of the year, could help the salesperson achieve special recognition as a member of the club. Thus, the salesperson faces a choice:... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 May 2017
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David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

of the owner as setting general guidelines and hiring the right people to carry out the mission.” “My one talent is an ability to spot talent,” Bradley claims. While he certainly has deep reserves of other talents— creativity,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

10 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Combining an Interest in Music and Business

discovery and I think I am in the right track to soon figure it out (or at least temporarily feel like I have). What this whole thing has made me reflect on is that when it comes to recruiting, you are most likely going to find a good... View Details

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

Might Also Like: Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

has been a failure of leadership as astounding and momentous (and ironic) as the company's early achievement. Robert D. Austin, Associate Professor: When I worked in a U.S. auto company in the mid 1990s, we were doing many of the right... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

Mistake Number 3: Passively sitting and waiting for a crisis (which many never come). A major problem with passive strategies is that nature may not cooperate by providing the right amount of lightning in the View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

20 Apr 2021
Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

book that for most companies, the best opportunities sit right in their industry, close to home. Second, conventional strategic thinking teaches that companies can easily get “stuck in the middle,” with no discernible competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

essential to the launch and development of our labs. Many of the donors have been great entrepreneurs in their own right who want to meaningfully contribute to the next generation’s ability to be even more entrepreneurial. Their... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

imply a belief that we may not get the right solution (to work system design) on the first try, but that if we design everything we do as a bona fide experiment, we can more rapidly converge, iteratively, and at lower cost, on the View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

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Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Michael E. Porter May 2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery: The Agenda for Head & Neck Surgery by Michael E. Porter April 2019 Redesigning Care to Provide Value at End of Life by Dr. Thomas Feeley March 2019 Gaining Knowledge by Asking the View Details

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