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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
that a hunger to nourish the spirit indeed seems to be driving the movement to find greater meaning in work. In his book Spirited Leading and Learning, Vaill describes many of the economic and cultural stresses he believes have spurred...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
onto your team can actually minimize the pressure associated with the team's output being evaluated. I mentioned that one of the reasons performance pressure is so stressful is the team's awareness that their end product will be judged;...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
introduced SnapTax, a smartphone app that lets users file their 1040EZ form in 10 minutes. Cook also stressed the need of having a strong, overriding company vision when establishing an innovative, experimental culture. Intuit's vision:...
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- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
liberalization. "Keiretsu are bad," Hori charged. "We should kill them. All keiretsu should be dismantled, and cross-holdings cut." However, when Vogel commented on Toyota's relationship with suppliers as a valid keiretsu construct, Hori did agree....
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by Hilah Geer
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
Months of binge watching, doom scrolling, home schooling, and stress eating have left many people more determined than ever to start a new fitness regimen in January. Even a global pandemic that is closing gyms and keeping people indoors...
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by Danielle Kost
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used...
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- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
minimize risk of stress and loss of time dealing with claims and costs to their reputation and future employment. On the other side of the equation, a cap on damages through tort reform can influence whether or not a doctor is sued in the...
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- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
reminiscent of FDR's New Deal. Here, McCraw details that putting money into people's pockets and into institutions is politically easy and economically sensible. But, he stresses that if the government doesn't reinvigorate regulation as...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
stronger workplace friendships and thus were not as miserable about missing the festivals back home. Choudhury stresses that the finding is not anti-diversity but instead speaks to the importance of and factors that foster social...
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by Kristen Senz
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
large, but we have not made progress in measuring it. That is a future question for research." Despite the difficulty of assessing the effects of regulation, Srinivasan stresses the importance of continuing to look for ways to do so,...
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- 05 Sep 2008
- What Do You Think?
Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
"Cases help to develop 'pattern recognition' skills that are very important in decision-making ...." Dave Schnedler added that cases help develop "critical thinking," teach that "digging hard pays off," View Details
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
out one or more major owners. It's a good stress test for a business. "It's an emotional process." Buyouts in family companies are not just about the money. Lots of emotions can surface in a buyout, even if all parties get...
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Retail
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
climate policy. Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs and Treasury Secretary under President George H.W. Bush, recently argued in favor of a national policy that would put a price on carbon and stressed that our failure to do so...
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- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
like Mills, stressed the importance of having outside researchers analyze agency data. “You would be surprised at the limited resources we have to analyze the data, compared to the way that the academic community can analyze it for us.”...
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by Michael Blanding
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
with annual revenues of $107 million. As we watch it change its culture, practices, and organization from offline to online marketing, we have an opportunity not simply to see the metrics used in online marketing budget allocation, but also the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
economist and Harvard President Emeritus Lawrence H. Summers, University of Michigan Professor Gerald Davis, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at HBS. In her presentation, Kanter View Details
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by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
get access to sites for stress testing of prototype designs, as well as high upfront cost and uncertain timeliness of the regulatory process, that are the primary barriers to raising private capital today. The United States President's...
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- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
companies could tell managers they must hire greens before yellows, but within the greens they could hire anyone they wanted,” says Li. She also stresses these results occurred in hiring for a job position with fairly routine tasks—and...
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- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
need to be clear what the goals are we are stressing when people work in groups,” says Gino, who was happy to be proven wrong about the positive aspects of loyalty, even as the ultimate vision of loyalty emerging from these experiments...
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by Michael Blanding
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Financial Crisis: Timothy Geithner and the Stress Tests In February and March 2009, the U.S. economy was in the midst of a terrifying financial and economic crisis. Between the beginning of 2008 and early 2009, four of the 25 largest U.S....
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Dina Gerdeman