recognition - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2021
What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

success included, “organization leadership (along with frontline managers that) model the desired culture,” a reason behind the change (that) “is well articulated and understood by the stakeholders and not centered on profitability but instead on a common purpose... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

frequency of promotions, employee satisfaction surveys, and external recognition as leaders and contributors. Learn more about how internal coaching and talent and development is evolving inside organizations. Therapist What used to be... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

09 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

should move beyond salary and traditional cash rewards to place greater emphasis on non-pecuniary, tangible and intangible rewards and recognition initiatives. We further highlight the importance of aligning rewards with universal... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

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Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

continue to evolve. Performance improves and prices drop. Today, artificial intelligence is used in the selection of retail sites and to facilitate one-to-one marketing programs; voice recognition routes callers to specific store... View Details

Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

and managers are able to commit aggressively with the recognition that the disruptive business might eventually attack the core business. Unfortunately, threat-induced response also leads to very rigid behavior. We found that despite... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
Supplement

Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details

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19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

will be opposed by some business interests, but making progress on such issues will improve society, and there is a growing recognition that business is not distinct from society. Healthier, more financially secure workers are more... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

challenges I've found is that not enough attention is paid to rewarding and encouraging management. In the private sector, you're rewarded significantly for being a good executive manager. Your perks are tied to that. In the nonprofit world, you don't see that same... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

have derived one from our examinations of cross-sector collaborations in the Americas. A basic element is the recognition that there can exist a wide range of motivations across the partners and a mix of motivations for each partner. We... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

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 of innovation, learning, and recognition To... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

11 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

debt for new securities worth 35 cents on the dollar, with no recognition of all past-due interest. Many holdouts, however, remain outside the deal. Some experts believe that Argentina's stance will have negative consequences for the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

giant audacity. As one company executive explained, "Many companies pass the same way in Israel. The difference is really not personal. The difference is in the recognition that going the path that history wrote for us, we will remain a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Herzlinger hopes that the conference will springboard the recognition of teachers who create holistic curricula focused on strategy and innovation within the sector. "That would not be a minor result; it's a huge academic achievement.... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

Whiteley observes that corporations, too, are seeing things differently. "Previous activities that have been intended to create organizational vision and purpose have indeed formed the foundation for what's happening today," says Whiteley. "But now we're... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

27 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

situation, especially §230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), a 1996 law largely meant to protect online platforms from defamation lawsuits. The CDA has been stretched beyond recognition to prevent all manner of prudent regulation.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

geographies, it seems reasonable to expect the contest for recognition to intensify. Many moral gray zones provide readily available intra- and inter-occupational sorting mechanisms. In global labor markets, moral gray zones will likely... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

survey of 72 successful and unsuccessful innovative entrepreneurs and 310 executives. Drawing on network theory, we develop a theory of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition that explains why these behaviors increase the probability of... View Details