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  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

to listen to the life of an organization like an anthropologist or OB theorist today. We have to piece together disparate records. They are necessarily incomplete. But we should and can do more. The focus on the great entrepreneur effaces... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

with which they can be used. Cheap labor is not really cheap if workers are unproductive. Input costs can be overshadowed by logistical costs, delays, and inefficiencies. There are hidden costs of outsourcing. The most obvious is the cost of management and coordination... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

they realize the disparity between the CEO’s chosen direction and their expectations, which can lead to a permanent breach. When Omar Ishrak became the first outsider CEO of Medtronic in 2011, the board gave him a clear mandate: to revive... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 06 May 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

combination, and analysis of data about each of us from a number of disparate sources. Pretty exciting, no? Some years ago, we heard the story about the GE maintenance engineer who, based on information from the firm's advanced monitoring... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

planning, channel allocation, and the cost of returns. —Distributors, who provide pre- and post-sale technical support to their resellers on tens of thousands of SKUs, must grapple with disparate forms of product information collected... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
  • 01 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

hierarchy are associated with a decentralization of the decision-making process," Sadun says. "On the other hand, we have the communication technologies, which actually do exactly the opposite." It's Different Roles Companies, however, often fail to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

system. In France and Germany, the university systems create a lot of inventions but not necessarily innovations. The third difference is the varying tolerance for income disparity across cultures. While that tolerance is very high in the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 29 Apr 2020
  • Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

part of your goal was to be able to mix and match some of the databases of items for sale, which you could do on a hosted version but couldn't do if they were off in disparate places. Randall: Right. For instance, right now we run... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology
  • 19 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

measures of environmentalism. The team homed in on California primarily because it was (and is) the state with the largest number of municipal green-building policies. But the state also sports a wide range of environmental diversity among its private citizens. The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 29 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

“COVID-19 is especially deadly for people with underlying conditions, including those related to poor diet, like obesity and diabetes. That is exacerbating existing health disparities with deep roots in food apartheid.” Gardeneers had to... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 18 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 18

Second, pay disparity between managers located in different states decreases relative to that of co-located managers. Third, division productivity falls in dispersed firms, with the effect driven by managers at the low end of the wage... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 13 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

were the basis of a second proxy. When corporate income taxes decline, investment opportunities of the firms improve—fewer taxes means companies can keep a larger fraction of the profits they generate with their investments. A Surprising View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

between book and tax income, and yet this disparity has been growing. Other factors such as the peculiar accounting treatment of stock option compensation and differential treatment of overseas income, subsidiary income, and pension... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

basically the same things, which forced the two firms to compete for suppliers. 87 Ford and GM also had disparate styles and software, which made it very difficult for suppliers to streamline their systems. To solve these problems, Ford,... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

by the state, it tends to go to state-owned enterprises. That is a big problem for a lot of privately owned businesses and has created the shadow banking sector. Q: What is your view of the wide income disparity in China today? A: Even... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 23 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

system, and, second, an understanding of the industry architecture in which the technical system is embedded. Although these tools involve disparate bodies of knowledge, they must be used in tandem to achieve maximum effect. Dynamic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

knits together the modules is disparity in outcomes between students of different races, ethnicities, and family incomes. The organizations we study in class are working on some aspect of this performance problem. We explore well-known... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

contexts navigated without great foresight. Instead, entrepreneurs can arrive at innovative ideas through the collaborative integration of a disparate set of local problems and solutions. By illuminating the goal formation process in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

Bonitas to innovate, grow, and compete with market leader Discovery as well as providers of alternative insurance products. Bonitas must also plan ahead for the rollout of national health insurance—a deeply politicized issue in a country with great View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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