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- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
where cultural norms or labor laws limit the work day. While countries without legal limits spent an average share of 32 percent of their time working after hours, for those... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
its "Zestimates," a proprietary algorithm that generates estimates of home values. But, like Expedia, Zillow's entire culture is based on data and analysis—not surprisingly, since the company was... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
least in the short run. But with that increase of fossil fuel burning comes an ever-escalating cloud of CO2 emissions destined to linger in our atmosphere and oceans for hundreds, even thousands View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
In the aftermath of such highly public and grossly damaging business debacles as Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom, much attention and plenty of criticism have been directed at those companies' corporate boards.... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 12 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
Motivation Misperceptions How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky) How a New Leader Broke Through a Culture of Accuse, Blame, and Criticize What do you think... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
distributed capitalism, can grow out of the social conditions that exist today. Who are today's people? What are their dreams? What do they yearn for? The answers to these questions do not exist inside business but everywhere else. They... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
preliminary stages of expanding the study to take a look at managers'/executives' communication style in different parts of the world to determine if there are cultural... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
image of a cowboy, the Lone Ranger, or Prince Valiant coming in to clean up the town or rescue the distressed. So, in many ways they are just as much embedded in this larger kind of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
direct reports, as well as the direct reports of their peers. This pushes managers to work together to determine which employees to recommend for new opportunities across teams. Build a culture View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
a peer at the senior management and board level. The expert's job is to challenge entrenched in-house thinking. He or she should not think ill of technology-averse cultures and must be a skilled communicator... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
let's-try-some-things-and-see-what-sticks culture of a start-up. Product teams may be disheartened when their preconceived notions turn from promising hypotheses into failed experiments. Cook stressed,... View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
employees who are experts in their various areas of work. They say they feel "childlike" when they have to switch to the working language. It affects how they contribute. Managers primarily tend to worry about things like View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
learned is the nature of the problem. We, perhaps like many others, had the misconception that cultural factors were the primary inhibitor to literacy development in India. However, it turns out that 85... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
leaders were all able to create and sustain a corporate culture that allowed their employees opportunities to express and fulfill all four drives. They were hard drivers of performance-constantly pushing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
keep rewarding and promoting them. Managers may feel that they need them, of course, as they do perform well. So it is pretty gutsy to fire them in today's rather poor economic environment. But if you're really serious about building a... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 23 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Global Environment-Transformed Organization
opportunities—though the process of globalizing is often more driven by need, circumstance, and opportunity than by carefully made strategic plans. The panelists view globalization as an unending path. However, they see bumps along the... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
ahead for Japan's business leaders and for global companies operating in Japan. Rohit Deshpande, Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing The culture of Japan tends to be... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
Photo by Mary Ellen Mark At first glance, perhaps, the writer John Irving might not seem to have a lot to teach the corporate world. As the author of such celebrated bestsellers as The Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
change, it could build a stronger and better culture for the future within its own organization. "Young people are increasingly worried about these problems" of the environment, concluded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
years from now? What is Apple's post-Jobs future? What do you think? Jim Heskett's latest book,The Culture Cycle, was published in September. Original Article Discussions of management succession have been... View Details