Personal Development and Career - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

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

London’s School of Management, and Amirhossein Zohrehvand, assistant professor at Leiden University. Turing, meet Wade The Turing Test is an imitation game in which a person must guess whether they’re... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

08 Sep 2011
What Do You Think?

What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

pursue opportunity and successful new product development in spite of investor impatience. The real challenges may lie elsewhere, for example "the market place," as Jasper Ojongtambia suggests, or... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

partners in accomplishing go-to-market goals, two important aspects of channel management—assessing performance and setting goals—are only weakly developed and enforced.... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

Kevin McCall (HBS MBA '81), president and CEO of Paradigm Holdings, LLC, a Massachusetts-based owner and operator of multi-tenanted office buildings. McCall described the process of locating View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

issues. In short, it posits that when hired managers, or "agents," are faced with a conflict between their organization's best interests and their personal best interests, the agents will choose... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

Summing Up The exportation of jobs "will create bigger markets and opportunities to sell goods and services from the developed economies," says reader Suman Das.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

wings battle over who gets the biggest piece of the pie, while paying little attention to expanding the pie of social resources for all. Q: If I recall my political science studies, lawyers and career... View Details

Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

incentivize and motivate internal people, because they have access to a talent pool that doesn't always exist outside." At the same time, developing new businesses can provide large companies with a... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

could have on families who didn't have a lot of resources at their disposal," says Elana Silver, now a talent development consultant at State Street, a Boston-based financial services company. "For most of my classmates, View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

leaders were trained, sophisticated strategic-planning systems were supposed to help senior managers decide which businesses to grow and which to harvest. 1 Unfortunately, all the planning and investment... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

the job, having access to independent, high-quality research from outside sources can make a real difference both in developing good policies and in getting broad-based support for their implementation.”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

are “fanatically customer and employee-centric transforming leaders” and who will create organizations in which “employees live the mission in their work”? To what extent does formal business education even... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

Leadership Initiative was organized to be a catalyst for research on leaders and leadership, and to design effective leadership development programs that are relevant for the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

can be low growth and declining margins. The key challenge in aligning marketing activities with corporate strategy is to develop a set of metrics to be used by top executives View Details

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

American voters want their government to reign in rising drug spending, according to recent polls. They spend twice as much a year per person on medications than the average Organisation for Economic Co-operation View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

develop emotional trust in a remote environment? Neeley: Trust is the glue that binds a team together. It drives performance, enables collaboration, and coordinates all the things you need to do. But people... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Feb 2017
What Do You Think?

Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

won’t be lost such as highly personalized services such as child care until I considered that my 2 year-old grandson can operate iPhones, computers, and other electronic devices which means he’ll soon have... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

07 Jun 2004
What Do You Think?

How Important are Big Ideas?

open-minded CEOs, and the concepts they develop and implement. This raises a number of questions. Do the development View Details