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- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
evaluate them and take proper action if they are not performing.” Under these pressures from capital markets, most executives would begin restructuring and cutting costs immediately. Dryer's senior management began with honest and open... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
and marketing. Retailers, for instance, will be inclined to give bigger bets more shelf space, and we know that in itself is a key driver of sales. Q: If you were to pick a manager to execute a blockbuster strategy, what attributes would... View Details
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
that focuses on selling lower-priced models through large sporting-goods retailers. The manager's strategy has yielded disappointing financial results so far, and he and company executives disagree on the cause and next steps. The Yushan... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2010
- Op-Ed
Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis
In a crisis, people insist on hearing from the leader. Akio Toyoda can't send out public relations specialists or his American executives to explain what happened. Having lost sight of his company's True North—its values and... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
Last year I completed a case series on GE, titled "GE ... We Bring Good Things to Life," in which the issue of CEO succession was raised in the last of the two cases. In classes in which I've used the materials for discussion, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
top biotech managers, companies leave an imprint of their worldview on young executives through such things as the firm's structure, strategy, and culture. There is a GE imprint, an IBM imprint, a Bain imprint—all of which influence... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
with ideas, solutions, information, and energy that feed into their decision-making processes. Over the years, I’ve witnessed my own students convince senior executives to improve labor practices in the supply chain and workplace that end... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
economic data that it collected and published. He made it a priority of government to study the nature of business cycles and to bring business executives to Washington, D.C., to improve their ability to spot upcoming trends. Together,... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
executives at dozens of organizations—Google and Yahoo!, health care organizations, even a knitting business in a fishing village. They've talked with public officials in Japan and the staff of the US Embassy, and undertaken service... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
strong positions and the most productive cost structures in their industries, can expect to gain market share. Other companies with healthy balance sheets can do so by acquiring weak competitors. 8. Emphasize core values. Although most companies are making employees... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
Iansiti says. "Traditional alliances are formed between a business development executive and an individual company like IBM or Cisco. In the open source scenario, you could say that there's an alliance between IBM or HP and every... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
"disruptive growth engine." They include: (1) "start before you need to," (2) "appoint a senior executive to shepherd ideas into the appropriate shaping and resource allocation processes," (3) "create a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Lagace: As you teach MBA students and Executive Education participants, are they describing new pressures that weren’t there before? Hill: Leadership is truly getting more demanding. I don’t think anyone ever succeeded by him- or herself... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
The Roman god Janus had two sets of eyes—one pair focusing on what lay behind, the other on what lay ahead. General managers and corporate executives should be able to relate. They, too, must constantly look backward, attending to the... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
higher utility (or satisfaction), higher execution effort (or motivation), faster coordination, less influence activities, and more communication, but also to less experimentation and less information collection. When two firms that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
executive branch a credible political excuse not to act. Maurer cautions that these institutions are now under strain and that a collapse might open the empire trap once more. With shrewd and timely analysis, this book considers American... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
leader? Bill George, the creator of the "authentic leadership" approach to management, answers critics and outlines the path for executives to be more effective. Plus: The year’s most downloaded working papers In addition to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
increments. The hospital would not bend the rules, in spite of the patient's repeated plea: "She's not a visitor, she's my wife." The patient spent 8 of his last 16 days alive in the ICU, denied important time with his wife because of systematic rules. Raman asked the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
LaMure (HBS MBA '02), is that targeted corporate executives who decide to ignore NGO protests do so at their own peril. Spar and LaMure recently detailed the rising power of NGOs and corporate responses in "The Power of Activism:... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
candidates looking for executive positions to join in before finally short-listing them for the interview." Surprisingly, relatively few suggested that the shortage of attitude might be addressed through formal education. Stever... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett