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- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
these businesses are resisting the changing labor/wage environment. Why would that be, and do you foresee that becoming a problem? "Their business model requires a low-cost operation, so they’re going to feel that inflationary pressure."... View Details
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
participants face in their new jobs." Like executives, faculty eventually need to resist career pressures that compel them to become too narrow because many, if not most, business problems are multi-dimensional. "When you come... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
managers and executives who purposefully address the behavioral issues in demand planning. They see the problem in demand planning in terms of the behavioral dynamics involved rather than, say, as an optimization problem with objective to minimize forecasting accuracy.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
lining is that many business leaders who have long been resistant to the idea of remote work may open their eyes for the first time to its benefits, including happier workers, less need for office space, and, for some, a possible bump in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
scenarios, so too should any financing from friends and family, or else founders should resist the temptation to take such money. "burning The Boats": Productive Motivation Or "entrepreneurial Suicide"? Taking money... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
“Crises offer rare opportunities to make major changes in an organization because they lessen the resistance that exists in good times.” "Leaders must be willing to ask for help," he continues. "They should rely on a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
would advocate a discontinuation of operations after attempting unsuccessfully to resist meeting government demands for private information. Some suggested more complex strategies. Among those in favor of staying and trying to reach some... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
process has a number of built-in, even cultural, aspects that resist change," Fox writes. "These include an irregular and erratic flow of weapons systems appropriations; the very nature of cutting-edge, highly risky research and... View Details
- 15 Jan 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How do I get past a feeling of being stuck in life or work? Can I resist the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
The authoritative style is both demanding and responsive. It encourages in equal measure entrepreneurial action and healthy self-regulating behavior. Like authoritative parents, authoritative virtual corporations resist the temptation to... View Details
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
the Starbucks experience? Is Apple's biggest challenge that of replacing Steve Jobs or is it that of resisting the inevitable pressures from competition and Wall Street? Just how are those pressures resisted? And at what risk? What do you... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
be predictable, and entrepreneurs run their businesses with so much ingenuity and peculiarity that their insights cannot be replaced or augmented by artificial intelligence. It could be that small business owners are too set in their ways and will View Details
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
acquire a larger stake in the venture when one of the partners wants to sell his shares. However, Quadir faces stiff resistance from the other two partners, who also want to acquire the shares. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
level. Yet the corporation's senior management and human resource professionals resisted changing the scheme, pointing out the high quality of junior hires that the firm was making. It was not until 2009 that the firm's management agreed... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
entrenched interests are going to resist and regulators are too slow to catch up,” she says. But Kanter calls financial results a “lagging indicator” of a company’s health. “They tell you what you’ve just done. They don’t predict the... View Details
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
them to resist the urge to follow suit. Competitive pressure, I argue, breeds conformity. Q: You discuss consumer devotion to a product or service in your chapter on "category blur." What do you see happening to brand loyalty?... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
service. What kinds of resistance have these companies experienced? Has the resistance surprised you? A: Like many recent newborn companies, the ones we have studied have made bold claims such as:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
purchase low-priced PCs from Acer to resell under the IBM brand. In many cases, alliances are easier to bring about than acquisitions because they encounter less resistance within companies, from the government, and from other interested... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
science." What they often mean, alas, is that they don't understand those parts. "Art" used in a business context usually refers to something done by "talented" or "creative" people who are not quite trustworthy, who do work that... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin