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  • 10 Nov 2010
  • News

Choose tomorrow's leader today

  • 20 Sep 2013
  • News

Is this the era of the 'quiet leader?'

  • 17 Oct 2022
  • News

Old-school employers like AT&T, Cisco, and Microsoft may offer the best career advancement

  • 08 Jul 2020
  • News

We Have an Unemployment Crisis. Now What?

  • 06 May 2019
  • News

Forget Socialism. The U.S. Needs Responsible Capitalism

  • 26 Oct 2020
  • News

Great promise but potential for peril

  • Article

The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership

By: Joseph L. Bower and Lynn S. Paine
Agency theory, a new model of governance promulgated by academic economists in the 1970s, is behind the idea that corporate managers should make shareholder value their primary concern and that boards should ensure they do. The theory regards shareholders as owners of... View Details
Keywords: Agency Theory; Business and Shareholder Relations; Leadership; Corporate Governance
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Bower, Joseph L., and Lynn S. Paine. "The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 3 (May–June 2017): 50–60. (Reprinted in HBR’s 10 Must Reads: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review 2019, Boston, Mass: Harvard Business Review Press, 2019, pp. 165-192.)
  • 07 Feb 2019
  • Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

us the background and how you think about innovation? Gary Pisano: Probably the greatest economist of the 20th century was Joseph Schumpeter. He was really the godfather of the economics of innovation. He described a process he termed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2021
  • News

Rewriting the Social Contract

  • 03 Aug 2022
  • News

The Confusing Job Market: Tech and Finance Brace for the Worst, Retail Is Mixed, Travel Can’t Hire Fast Enough

  • 09 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

backlash from other organizational members. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/mcqxpioCi4O4ZaScUhLN][/div] In response to the broader perspective offered by his team’s devil’s advocate, one CEO shared that he took proposed... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 23 May 2018
  • News

The Bad First Job's Lingering Impact

  • 19 Jan 2018
  • News

Jana’s Jab at Apple May Be a Route to Reverse Its Shrinking Assets

  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Strategy + Business Magazine's Best Management Book

  • 11 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

a vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemic is Moderna, a Cambridge company with an immigrant co-founder and an immigrant CEO. Another firm already conducting vaccine trials is Inovio Pharmaceuticals of Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, led by... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
  • 15 Feb 2012
  • News

Social Innovation Challenge

  • 07 Jul 2022
  • News

Even Bosses Are Joining the Great Resignation

  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

Estée Lauder in 1930. Photograph courtesy of Estée Lauder Companies. The daughter of immigrant merchants in Queens, New York, Estée Lauder, born Josephine Esther Mentzer, began selling skin cream to women in New York City beauty parlors in the late 1920s. In 1946, she... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

investors provide a little funding and limited governance to an increased number of startups that they are more likely to abandon, but where initial experiments significantly inform beliefs about the future potential of the venture. This adaptation and related entry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

forthcoming Journal of International Business Studies Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History By: da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Mark Casson, and G. Jones Abstract—This article engages in a methodological... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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