Infrastructure As A Service - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

factors like chauvinism. They mostly failed. But in failing to find a quantifiable explanation, they succeeded to challenge a commonly held notion that the corporate gender gap can be attributed to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

with first-line employees every day will have a much better sense of how their businesses are running, and their presence will be highly motivating and even inspiring. As a... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

central board of directors. In contrast, affiliates are independent, 501(c)(3) organizations that have an agreement with a coordinating, central organization to be part of an identifiable network. Each affiliate has its own governing... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

his earlier ventures, he had de facto operated as a solo entrepreneur, so any kind of collaborative decision making was not even an option. In the early days of Tweezerman, things started out the same. But... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

16 Nov 2020
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Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

people with different backgrounds for a portion of their work. Giving people a common task, especially a meaningful one, so that they depend on one another to accomplish it, is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

organization strategy to enable the different functions to work together to bring products to market more quickly. As Ludwig grappled with a way to jumpstart change at DIS, he began to suspect that people... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

video case studies of laid-off workers, as well as a couple of technical notes for students—one focusing on best practices for managers as they... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

24 Sep 2001
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Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

As the technology wave breaks over us, some think the Internet looks to many about to wash out the established order of everything from vacation booking to the nation-state itself. But hold on a minute,... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

Networks Published: September 14, 2009 Many business leaders are mystified about how to reach potential customers on social networks such as Facebook. Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski provides a fresh look... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

The News Corporation/News of the World scandal has been described as a case study in bad management. What was there about the company's organizational culture that led to "Murdoch's Mess"?... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), allowing businesses to cite religious freedom as a defensible reason to deny service to a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

22 Dec 2003
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Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

created by the parties' relational, substantive, and procedural acts, we call these six forms improvisations. Just as each musical improvisation plays on an established melody or a set chord progression, the... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

As every company knows, employees are its greatest resource. It's more than a shame, then, that many workers are either not encouraged or afraid to speak up and communicate ideas at work. Employers are... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

This confirmed the rationale back in 1970 for PARC's charter as a separate research center. As Robert Adams, then a Xerox senior vice president,... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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