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  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

which of those get funded, the consequences of that activity is what adds up to the strategy of the company, not words on paper. And once you see that, you begin to ask questions such as: What determines which ideas get sponsored and funded? If I'm the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2020
  • Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

which the top five candidates qualify for the general election. Part two is ranked-choice voting (RCV) in the general election, where voters rank the candidates in order of preference. If no candidate wins a majority of first-place votes,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain

executives to provide on-the-scene examples of how the organization's values are lived on the job is important. This invariably requires a larger-than-normal travel and communication budget, incentives for top management executives to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
  • 01 Aug 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

schedules slip and targets are missed...." Above all, leadership is generally thought to be critical to the successful application of stretch. Edward Hare reminded us that "the essence of great management, leadership even, is applying the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

Persuasion Author: Eric J. Van den Steen Abstract This paper studies a principal's trade-off between using persuasion versus using interpersonal authority to get the agent to "do the right thing" from the principal's perspective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

Christensen and Walter Kiechel, editorial director of Harvard Business School Publishing, to discuss these and other questions confronting business leaders today. Kiechel: You've spoken of high-tech companies, Intel included, moving through a "valley of... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 09 Feb 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads

experts to weigh in on 2018’s top spots.   Jill Avery Senior Lecturer of Business Administration 2017 was a somber and contentious year for the United States. So it came as no surprise on Super Bowl Sunday to see marketers compile a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Telecommunications
  • 05 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

merchandise sales, with sales so far topping only $30 million, compared to Vancouver's $51 million. Such lackluster performance spells trouble not only for the Games themselves, but also for all of the brands that hope to ride its bobsled... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

There is some evidence to suggest that markets evolve toward this solution of their own accord, but regulation can accelerate the evolution. Q: Why is the distinction between privacy as a right and identity as an asset an important one to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

right questions—and work through the answers in ways that are right for you. By asking these questions, you can craft new strategies for staying on top of your game. Read the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

one-standard-deviation increase in store labor brought about a 10 percent increase in profit margin. These findings ran contrary to the thinking of store managers that Ton interviewed. They consistently identified service quality as a top... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 04 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

They focused on utility patents, or new or improved useful products that grant the inventor exclusive commercial rights for up to 20 years. To qualify, patents needed to list at least one US inventor. What they found was a huge spike in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 07 Oct 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers

JetBlue today is considered one of the top airlines in the world, and its customer ratings are as high as its airplanes. But not that long ago JetBlue was a prime business school example of a nightmare scenario displacing 130,000... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Air Transportation
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

provide a track for professionally trained VCs; the Kauffman Fellows program brought top flight MBAs, both men and women, together with sponsoring VC firms. Its primary goal was to provide a new avenue for recruiting and training young... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2007
  • HBS Case

The Challenge of Managing National Security

attacks. Garry Emmons: The focus of your work is on how to manage integration within a highly differentiated organization. Post-9/11, how's the intelligence community doing on that score? Jan Rivkin: Intelligence issues are enormously complex, and I should say View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service
  • 06 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

technology or software people are trained in. People won't flinch to make sure that their employees have the right tools and technology. Language is no different. Q: How are talent evaluation methods driven by a language strategy? Or how... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
  • 03 Feb 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?

answer was “it depends.” Arie Goldshlager, for example, commented: “If the organization is on the right track, it certainly can have too much rebel talent. In this situation, the rebel talent could prove largely disruptive and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

Innovation initiatives tend to fall apart right from the start when top management advocates for a specific project and then begins to implement it without discussing it with key team members and partners in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

appointments go wrong Let’s begin by taking a look at three examples of poor leadership at public companies and addressing what went wrong. Then, I will recommend five ways boards can ensure they appoint the right leader as CEO: General... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 20 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

leadership roles. The top executives agreed that it was important to put the right people in leadership positions, particularly those who support the mission and spread the word. Performance evaluations can... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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