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- 07 Sep 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios
Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Luis M. Viceira
- November 2022
- Teaching Note
Proximie: Using XR Technology to Create Borderless Operating Rooms
By: Ariel D. Stern, Alpana Thapar and Menna Hassan
Founded by Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016, Proximie was a digital medicine platform that used mixed reality and a host of digital audio and visual tools to enable clinicians, proctors, and medical device company personnel to be virtually present in operating rooms (ORs),... View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
benefit society: asset stripping, short-term profit at the expense of workers, and long-term stability. “There are certainly a lot of concerns around whether these kind of transactions are indeed fomenting inequality by getting rid of... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
that’s going to be impossible.” E Pluribus Unum As a result of their shared challenges, restaurateurs are banding together to educate officials about the unique aspects of their industry that make it difficult to survive a global pandemic and to uncover solutions to... View Details
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
drip, drip of steady investment that pays off in gargantuan terms down the road.” The leader needs to develop the right mindset, the willingness to forego short-term profit to build a long-term business that pays back to society. “I’d be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2022
- Article
Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO
By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with
leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a
knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details
Kristensen, Thomas Borup, Henrik Saabye, and Amy Edmondson. "Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 42, no. 13 (2022): 438–481.
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
reputational capital often entails sacrificing short-term gains in return for long-term profit. For example, some negotiators are habitually straightforward, guarding their integrity with great care despite the potential for View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
strategy and operations (or tactics) are both important but they are different. The normal course of events is for companies to focus on day-to-day operations and short-term problem solving. Management meetings focus on fighting fires and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
kinds of changes he studies have taken place over long periods of time. And they run much deeper than such things as short-term educational reform or job retraining. Why is it, then, that there is so much fear of outsourcing and... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
performance." Generally speaking, respondents favored schemes designed to reward long-term as well as short-term performance, encourage retention, recognize special needs of an organization, be based on the achievement of both... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
compensation programs so that managers no longer have an incentive to favor short-term goals over the longer-term health of the company. By getting rid of the inflexible approach to short-term targets, you... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 2008
- Chapter
Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model
By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis
Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, and Herbert Gintis. "Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model." In Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy, edited by Paul J. Zak. Princeton University Press, 2008.
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
strategy will provide focus to information-gathering and a roadmap for decision-making. Even then, many decisions will have to be made with imperfect data. Flexibility is important. Revisit your conclusions and pivot as needed. Utilizing View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
Assessing an organization's impact on a large-scale societal issue such as poverty is a complex and costly effort. In the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, for example, an organization like Oxfam America could be expected to provide data on View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
twin mirages of short-term profit or stock market valuations. They have a grand vision for the future of their organizations, and they infect others with their energy, enthusiasm, and integrity. These are the leaders we write books about,... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
- 01 Feb 2023
- What Do You Think?
Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?
work strategies appear to be useful short-term solutions to both a massive global pandemic and, at least in the US, a talent shortage. Even so, how do you explain the contrast in attitude toward them among at least some practitioners and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
unlocking the power of thousands of software engineers."—Bradley Staats Staats suggests that the use of lean principles at Wipro could have qualities of a "Trojan Horse initiative." From the outside, lean accomplishes the View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
management tackle big opportunities. The accelerators are: Create a sense of urgency. Build guiding coalition. Form strategic vision and initiatives. Enlist volunteer army. Enable action by removing barriers. Generate short-term wins.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
investments might take years to bear fruit—though patience has paid off in the past. "This is not an organization that focuses on short-term maximization of profits," says Ton. "By putting customers and employees before... View Details
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
investors may want to see higher growth, it may be better to sacrifice some short-term growth to gain persistence.” “The semiconductor industry isn’t a fast-growing industry,” Pisano says. “It’s an industry with some fast-growing firms.”... View Details