Personal Development and Career - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

willingness to invest, commit, work hard, persist and persevere, making confidence a highly desirable trait. There are four levels of confidence, with each level building on the prior one: Self-confidence: This is what most people... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

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

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

Tobin Project brought together a dream team of researchers, from various fields and universities, to develop a novel set of experiments on inequality and decision-making.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

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

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 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

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