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26 Jun 2012
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PublicationsBanks as Multinationals Author:Geoffrey Jones Publication:New York: Routledge, 2012 Abstract This is a revised edition of a comparative, international study which looks at the history of multinational banks. Researchers from the United States, Japan,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September–October 1988
Article

Measure Costs Right: Make the Right Decisions

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Cost; Decision Making

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31 Oct 2018
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What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

demonstrating full understanding and competent threat management.” Several respondents saw the relationship between fear and leadership as ever more complex. David Wittenberg associated fear with management but not leadership. In his words: “While both leadership and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Mar 2012
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Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

which the directors toured a newly-created "beauty park" in the US, where companies cooperating to create and manufacture new fashion beauty products are located together in one light industrial park. It is a reflection of colleagues Gary... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

02 Apr 2020
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What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

increasingly predictable characteristic: they have multinational if not global impact. Does that mean they require global responses? For instance, in the current pandemic, could more international cooperation have helped moderate the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

tenure of Dunlap's predecessor, Phillip Lippincott, Scott had struggled to improve its operational effectiveness at the plant level by working on process improvement and launching an effort to work cooperatively with its union. In the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

Working on a $30 million historical epic about the Tang Dynasty to be set in China, Hollywood screenwriter David Franzoni struggled to make the story appeal to Western audiences. Then Franzoni hit upon an idea: tell the tale through the eyes of a foreign-born general... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Apr 2022
Book

What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

autonomy. Purpose transforms the entire basis for cooperation inside the workplace, turning the enterprise from a nexus of contracts between self-interested individuals into a nexus of commitments. As my research confirmed, the trust that... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

June 2015 (Revised July 2016)
Case

Gilbert Lumber Company

By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth Cooper

The Gilbert Lumber Co. is faced with a need for increased bank financing due to its rapid sales growth and low profitability. Students must determine the reasons for the rising bank borrowing, estimate the amount of borrowing needed, and assess the attractiveness of... View Details

Keywords: Commercial Banking; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Capital Structure; Forecasting and Prediction

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09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

In today's global work environment, it's a given that companies need culturally diverse teams to succeed. Both scientific studies and common sense tell us that having people with different viewpoints onboard increases the creativity that teams will employ in solving... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

September 2006 (Revised November 2013)
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Airbus vs. Boeing (A)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Erich Alexander Voigt and Jordan Mitchell

Looks at the development of the competitive actions between Airbus and Boeing from 1992 to 2006. Begins with the question of whether Airbus and Boeing should collaborate on the development of a VLCT (Very Large Commercial Transport) or whether Airbus should develop... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competition; Cooperation; Air Transportation Industry

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18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

mock-ups of each piece of equipment placed on casters so that they could be moved easily. The learning process included elements of both competition and cooperation to ensure that Cardboard City produced a wide range of possible layouts... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

June 2012
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Leadership Is a Conversation

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind

Globalization and new technologies have sharply reduced the efficacy of command-and-control management and its accompanying forms of corporate communication. In the course of a recent research project, the authors concluded that by talking with employees, rather than... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Management Style; Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Cooperation; Partners and Partnerships

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Design of Cost Management Systems

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Management Systems; Cost Management

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May–June 1991
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Profit Priorities from Activity-Based Costing

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Profit

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16 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

necessarily lead to a collaborative environment, a hallmark of systemic integration. That requires the lever of cooperation—the alignment of goals. When members of disparate or competing silos cooperate around a common set of goals, they... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

4+2 = Sustained Business Success

work with. Promote cooperation and the exchange of information across the whole company. Put your best people closest to the action. Establish systems for the seamless sharing of knowledge. Secondary Management Practices Talent Winners... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

underlying principles: Businesses try to learn from noisy signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

private organizations, however, the quasi-government agencies did not face the problems likely to be faced by a private agency in conducting the investment promotion tasks that are more like typical government tasks, such as servicing investors and View Details

Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint

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The Ecosystem of Shared Value

By: Mark R. Kramer and Marc W. Pfitzer

Governments, NGOs, companies, and community members must all be involved in programs to create shared value, yet they work more often in opposition than in alignment. A movement known as collective impact has facilitated successful collaborations in the social sector,... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Cooperation

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