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- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
on board. Close alignment between strategy and mission. How can organizations get the right people with the right skills to develop social value? The recruiting processes should be centered on personal values. Then, hold on to the good... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
interconnections across the organization. The second is transitioning from the role of a doer to the role of managing through other people—and that's a big change. "As a new GM, you will be one step away from the customers or one... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
has,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Zoe B. Cullen, who coauthored the paper with Ricardo Perez-Truglia of the University of California, Anderson. Some companies have taken steps to break down barriers for women in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
rate as must-do's entirely on your own, Andrus says. "After I go through this process myself, I go see my boss to make sure I'm aligned with him and with his stakeholders. You have to learn to be open and to listen to how your boss... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
practice. “We propose to step back and ask how we can best integrate machine learning to solve previously untenable marketing problems facing real companies?” Combining man and machine A product of the 11th Triennial Invitational Choice... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
Almost fifty years ago, nineteen-year-old Andy Grove stepped off a boat in New York City, a poor immigrant from Hungary who barely escaped Nazi occupation. A decade later he co-founded Intel, the chipmaker that would help invent the PC... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
model the technology of step processes with bottlenecks and show how this technology rewards vertical integration, a hierarchical organization, and the use of direct authority. These properties in turn... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
likely to under-achieve your potential." Do You Have A Succession-planning Process In Place? Kaplan stresses the importance of developing potential successors for key positions in your company-including your own-and creating a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
the players he developed—Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes—became true standouts in their generation, providing the club with a strong base on which to build. Managing this process well over a long period unavoidably... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
clusters are most prevalent in advanced economies, you say that they're one of the essential steps for countries moving in that direction. How are clusters nurtured in emerging nations? A: Many developing countries have free-trade zones... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
with the Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII). The Census II analysis and report represent important steps toward understanding and addressing structural and security complexities in the modern day supply chain where... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
convince more people to get vaccinated. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/4llCHjEqY1XunMkYbjrB][/div] Three steps to speed vaccine adoption Governments are prioritizing certain groups to receive the vaccine, with medical professionals... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
by those three views at the table, and create the process for its debate and resolution. The role of top management is to create channels of engagement and the forums for interaction to facilitate that process, and to put a thumb on the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
best groups were those who had formal leaders not influenced ahead of time to feel powerful—they solved the mystery nearly 80 percent of the time. “Oftentimes we behave the way we do because we are not aware of the effects of our actions.” "My sense is that the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
capital to the best ideas, weeding out the bad ones. Investors have the challenge of sorting through the overwhelming number of ideas to discern the good ones, a process compared to finding a needle in a haystack. They often lack the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
supply chain problem space to include, among other things, the assignment of roles and decision rights among the coordinating partners, the selection of partners, the design of incentives, and the design of processes to monitor... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 21 Nov 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values
were multiple dimensions as I read the case. You mentioned it’s part of a new course. Explain a little bit your thought process about how this would help you achieve what you were trying to in the course. A: Sustainability is a very... View Details
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
the United States, identifies the final strategic imperatives it is trying to achieve and then translates them into action plans. At the end of each month the management team steps back and says, "Do our strategic imperatives make... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
1984 book by Edward Freeman. Roland Marchand may or may not have helped the notion along when he wrote about it as an element of the “corporate soul.” Wikipedia provides one notion of how the concept works in practice: “Stakeholder management is a four-step View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
pervasive uncertainty created by COVID-19 in other ways, for example nurturing the relationship with other firms in their networks or establishing new connections that could lead to new learnings. Other firms, and especially businesses located in weak institutional... View Details