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- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
firms are able to avoid defensiveness and resulting blindness. HCHP firms institutionalize what I call Learning and Governance Systems, a means for having honest, collective, and public conversations with key people at lower levels about... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
major advances in energy technology it is unlikely that the world will be able to reduce green-house gas emissions rapidly enough to avoid a substantial increase in the risk of significant climate change. This book hopes to contribute to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
you’re not accustomed to reflection, it might feel weird, like you’re wasting time. But you would be wrong. In fact, reflection helps leaders make better decisions faster. Leaders must constantly assess a dynamic environment to gain... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
We can be forgiven, especially this time of year, for questioning a decision our predecessors made just over a century ago. In the 1910s, Americans decided to make personal and corporate income taxes a permanent feature of the United... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 22 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance
if restricting background checks might backfire, especially if employers resort to racial stereotypes to guess who might have a criminal record—and avoid hiring those people. So the researchers conducted field experiments involving the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
Alejandro Ruzzier Abstract It is often argued that competition forces managers to make better choices, thus favoring managerial autonomy in decision making. I formalize and challenge this idea. Suppose that managers care about keeping... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
elaborated on this idea: "All you can do is be clear about your long-term direction, make decisions with that direction in mind, monitor results, and make changes or adjustments when you’re not getting the results you expect.”... View Details
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
entrepreneur and Stanford/UC Berkeley lecturer Steve Blank. The "lean" in lean startup has its roots in the Toyota Production System; hence, the lean startup methodology is all about avoiding waste, in terms of both time and... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
over a specified time period. The bundled payment should be contingent on achieving good outcomes for the patient, with the provider bearing financial responsibility for poor outcomes, such as avoidable complications. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Finding it difficult to avoid the second debate, the paper examines the extent to which prevailing accounts of corporate purpose (e.g., shareholder primacy, stakeholder theory, corporate citizenship) support attributing responsibilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
and he's up front about that in How Will You Measure Your Life? But in explaining the value of applying academic theories, the book avoids a religious bent, thanks in part to coauthor Allworth's avowed atheism. "That was tough,"... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
ways in which organizations met the challenges of 2020. What strategies and actions worked better than others? What can we learn from these? While many companies reduced payor headcount, some pledged at the outset of the crisis to do whatever they could to View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
listening carefully for the answers. Is this an argument for leaders to disrupt focus from time to time? If so, how? Are individual and organizational focusing and noticing antithetical to one another, or can they be achieved concurrently? How do we View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
another environment?" Anyone who has studied business cultures in various parts of the world probably would respond affirmatively. Gerald Nanninga observed that "unethical decisions can often appear to be the 'best' View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
ratings that guide investors to select "socially responsible," and avoid "socially irresponsible," companies. We examine how several hundred firms respond to corporate environmental ratings issued by a prominent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
faced with a situation in which a decision to move jobs overseas to reduce costs and preserve profit performance appeared to be alienating workers, customers, and even the president of the United States. Harley-Davidson had long been held... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
course, is only one of many factors that determine a film's market performance. Film characteristics such as story line, genre, and the use of special effects also affect demand. The role of directors and other creative talent could play a role. In addition, View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
doesn’t have to happen, according to several respondents with suggestions for avoiding the crossover from organizational pride to arrogance. Heinrich Anker, implying that leaders need truth tellers, reminds us that “In their triumphs... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
negativity into an already tense conversation. Try to avoid explanatory words like “because” and “therefore.” These phrases, common in debate, sound argumentative and condescending. In addition to these strategies, the researchers found... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
importance of organizational governance, and the role of governing boards in particular, in prioritizing and aligning potentially conflicting objectives and interests in order to avoid mission drift and to maintain organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne