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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
restructuring as the process through which a company radically changes the contractual relationships that exist among its creditors, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders. The goal of restructuring... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
increased use of more narrowly focused professional accounting "boutiques," suggests that "what the industry really needs is more objectivity and innovation—not a larger tribe of 800-pound... View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
long-term goals Agile programs usually include a session on the approach of Miyamoto Musashi, known as one of the greatest of all samurai. As a strategist, Musashi's insight was to create a style using two swords simultaneously: a long... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
conflict. But they will occur in a context of underlying trust, understanding, and partnership that has already been established. Effective managers use their networks to pursue plans and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
Would-be innovators know that one of their biggest challenges is systematically identifying the innovations with the greatest likelihood of creating disruptive growth. Pick the wrong one, and squander a year or more of focus View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
Here's a cautionary tale of innovation woe: Nokia has consistently outspent Apple on phone-related research and development over the past decade, especially in the years leading up to the launch of Apple's iPhone. Between 2004 View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
information between inside and outside, they are seldom mere passive messengers carrying out the instructions of their principals. According to this negotiator: The traditional model [of the process] is that the leadership sets the goals,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
pursuing your goals accordingly. In this excerpt, he discusses the unfortunate and all-too-common tendency to focus on extrinsic rather than intrinsic motivators. Who Sets Your Benchmarks? From, What You're... View Details
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
We have created a housing hybrid in America, refashioning the single-family home into a mini debtors' prison. Almost 11 million dot the landscape. In Las Vegas and Phoenix, over 50 percent of homeowners live in one. “Understandably, most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
Summing Up This month's column presented two views of the importance of customer loyalty management, one challenging its feasibility and long-term impact (Michael Treacy, Double Digit Growth) and one... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
computer consulting firm specializing in e-commerce; Akal Security Company; and natural food enterprises such as the Yogi Tea Company), for which he serves as executive vice president. "Our goal is to... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
merchandise and had trouble fulfilling many orders. Gupta said the main goal for Amazon in hosting Prime Day will clearly be customer acquisition, whether by attracting brand new customers through the sale's... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
(iStock) iStock SUMMING UP Who Will Call the Shots in Stakeholder Capitalism? At one time in my checkered academic career I studied, researched, and published papers about interorganizational management. Specifically, I was interested in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Schulman of Duke University hosting the next event. "We also need to take it abroad to a not-very-big European country, China, South America, Africa; to make sure that this conference, in how it is held and managed, embodies the View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
To answer one of the oldest business quandaries—is it better to partner or go solo on a project—John Beshears looked for answers in an unusual place: the oil and gas drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico. But instead of mining for... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
A: Again, this is a question about the multifaceted nature of price. I think that price-optimization software is very good at the objective part of pricing—the questions of "What price should I charge?" View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
organizations like Factual (founded by a former Google employee) have set as their goal that of providing access to all of the world's facts. Presumably this means data such as the location of every factory in the world, data that has not... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
joined forces with colleagues David Young and Michael Goold on a wide-reaching project. With five goals in mind, which Collis explains below in an e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge, they surveyed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details