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Research - Managing the Future of Work

Research Research Featured Reports The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America’s Chronic Skills Gap By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman Healthy Outcomes: How employers' support for employees with caregiving... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

direction of CEO Michael Jeffries, the company held onto a hint of its hallmark safari style while putting a greater emphasis on casual clothes and ballooned to more than 1,000 stores worldwide, with revenues exceeding $3.5 billion by 2008. Central to marketing the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories
  • 21 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life

though one is leading a meaningful life is a bellwether for broader emotional wellbeing, with those who feel they are leading meaningful lives displaying superior mental and physical health. Making work meaningful can also be key for companies looking to retain View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
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Podcast - Business & Environment

both engaging their employees in the effort and meeting customer demands for increased climate action. For transcripts and other resources, visit climaterising.org Making Infrastructure Climate Ready: Alice Hill, Council on Foreign View Details
  • Research Summary

The New Social Contract: Contractors, Firms, and Agencies

The emergence of a 'new social contract' linking employees and organizations - perhaps most notable for the absence of a promise of lifelong job security - has been widely remarked. A related trend, less noted but potentially important, has been the emergence of a... View Details
  • January 2004 (Revised February 2005)
  • Case

Timberland and Community Involvement (Abridged Version)

By: James E. Austin and James Quinn
When Jeffrey Swartz became the third generation in his family to lead the Timberland Co., he made community involvement an integral part of the company's strategy. Under Swartz's leadership, Timberland formed a close partnership with City Year, the national corps of... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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General Management - Faculty & Research

and management of the enterprise as a whole. This concern encompasses: the personal values and qualities of effective general managers and enterprise leaders; the philosophies, values, and strategies that inform successful enterprises; and the View Details
  • 18 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

employees to the fullest extent permitted by law. In other words, as time passes, leading companies can worry less and less about trade secret theft in the traditional sense, and they have a path forward regardless of the future of... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

for broader emotional contagion theory. Keywords: Passion ; Emotional Contagion ; Emotions ; Groups and Teams ; Employees ; Power and Influence ; Performance Improvement Citation Read Now Purchase Related... View Details
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

technologies in the U.S. While there are several startups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional venture capital investment model, our analysis highlights a number of structural challenges related to venture capital (VC)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

about Whole Foods customers, really angry customers, regularly encountering empty shelves at their favorite retailer. Then stories surfaced about Whole Foods employees crying over their new performance-driven working conditions imposed by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
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Leadership - Faculty & Research

learning these new skills and end up quitting, causing the company to lose hundreds of years of cumulative experience. The CEO is now unsure of how to proceed. Keywords: Training ; Competency and Skills ; Employees ; Change Management ;... View Details
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Putting Skin in the Game: Managerial Ownership and Bank Risk-Taking

By: Jan Bouwens and Arnt Verriest
This paper examines the relation between managerial ownership and bank risk exposure for a large sample of international financial institutions. We seek empirical evidence suggested by theories concerning conflicts between managers and owners over risk-taking. We argue... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Equity Ownership; Financial Risk; Banks; Motivation and Incentives; Risk Management; Employee Ownership; Corporate Governance; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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  • December 2019
  • Supplement

The Business of Pain: Johnson & Johnson and the Promise of Opioids (B)

By: Erik Snowberg, Trevor Fetter and Amy W. Schulman
This case is designed to provide an engrossing overview of stakeholder capitalism through a vigorous discussion of the conflicts that can arise when trying to serve multiple stakeholders. In 2007, Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) subsidiary Janssen has to decide whether or... View Details
Keywords: Opioids; Addiction; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Product Launch; Ethics; Society; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • September–October 2020
  • Article

When It's Time to Pivot, What's Your Story?: How to Sell Stakeholders on a New Strategy

By: Rory McDonald and Robert Bremner
To succeed, a new company must rally investors, staff, customers, and the media around a good story. But often that narrative turns out to be wrong, and entrepreneurs realize they need to change direction. How that shift is communicated can have a huge impact on a... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Strategy; Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Communication Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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  • November 2009
  • Article

What Would Peter Say?

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Heeding the wisdom of Peter Drucker might have helped us avoid - and will help us solve - numerous challenges, from restoring trust in business to tackling climate change. He issued early warnings about excessive executive pay, the auto industry's failure to adapt and... View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations
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Finance - Faculty & Research

the limited impact. Keywords: Revenue ; Small Business ; Health Pandemics ; Spending ; Consumer Behavior Citation Read Now Related Kim, Olivia S., Jonathan A. Parker, and Antoinette Schoar. "Revenue Collapses and the Consumption of Small... View Details
  • 18 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

Minor’s definition of a toxic worker isn’t the employee who is gratingly loud or who leaves her lunch in the office refrigerator until fossilized. He is focusing on employees who damage the company itself or... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

employees to activities. We also wrote several cases where other companies, independently, relied on this interviewing approach. These time surveys turned out to be the Achilles heel of ABC. They were time-consuming and expensive to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those... View Details