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    How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management

    High-performing knowledge workers often question whether managers actually contribute much, especially in a technical environment. Until recently, that was the case at Google, a company filled with self-starters who viewed management as more destructive than beneficial... View Details
    • 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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    • 20 Mar 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

    CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and community development nonprofit organization. Harvey explains that exorbitant housing costs encourage young, professional workers to look elsewhere for jobs, threatening the... View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate
    • July 2024 (Revised October 2024)
    • Case

    Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and GM

    By: Willy Shih
    New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production processes American automakers used at the... View Details
    Keywords: Culture Change; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Joint Ventures; Transformation; Selection and Staffing; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Labor Unions; Management Systems; Performance Improvement; Production; Labor and Management Relations; Auto Industry; Japan; United States
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    • 19 Jan 2021
    • Blog Post

    2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)

    Thales in the civil radar division. I am leading the Bid & Project Management Office that helps run operations and improve competitiveness. It allows me to interact with a wide range of people (from the entry-level workers to General... View Details
    • 25 Feb 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Fostering Organizational Learning: The Impact of Work Design on Workarounds, Errors, and Speaking Up About Internal Supply Chain Problems

    Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker
    • 11 Jul 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Non-competes Push Talent Away

    patterns of hundreds of thousands of inventors over two decades. (They considered only inventors who held multiple patents.) "Patenting inventors represent an important category of skilled workers involving the sorts of trade secrets... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
    • 25 Feb 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

    “occupational sorting,” with men choosing careers that pay higher wages than women do, labor economists say. For example, women represent only 26 percent of US workers employed in computer and math jobs, according to the Department of... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 28 Aug 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

    the world's most dominant retailers. Could Brandless change the way consumers bought the essential items that filled their pantries and medicine cabinets? Industry pundits had long predicted both the death of brands and the death of brick... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 23 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

    workers; transportation subsidies might not matter to remote employees. Shrewd organizations tailor benefits to workers’ roles and demographics. An essential frontline urban worker needs different support... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 03 Aug 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: August 3

    historical account of their humble origins, lack of resources, and determined struggle against the odds. We identify two essential dimensions of an underdog biography: external disadvantage, and passion and determination. We demonstrate... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

    equally; in such a model, the wage received by each worker will not depend directly on her own outside option but rather on the distribution of outside options among her colleagues. We estimate a wage-posting model, and compare... View Details
    • 14 Jan 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: January 14

    Education Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning By: Avery, Jill Abstract—Many marketing educators use the case method to help their students strengthen their decision-making skills. Rigorous class participation is View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

    the labor market. An essential first step is to build connections with school systems and other skills providers, Fuller says. Such partnerships offer a way to contribute to curriculum development so schools prepare View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
    • 09 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 9

    communication and engagement practices, can encourage frontline workers to conduct problem solving. We test our hypotheses in the health care context, in which the use of incident reporting systems to highlight operational failures is... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 31 Jan 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

    come from different sources, or they must share decision-making with employees—or both. Workers increasingly resist one-way, top-down communication and commands; they expect to be heard and to help develop their organizations’ plans and... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
    • 27 Jul 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: July 27

    candidates, candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    focuses on the care of all of these children with cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, intensivists all of whom are supported by specialized nurses, perfusionists, respiratory therapists, social workers and others who have... View Details
    • 10 Sep 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: September 10

    Approaches and Evidence By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Japan - Global

    end of the assembly line inoperable and had to be towed away for repairs. Toyota hired mostly former GM workers, including well-known plant militants and activists. It taught workers TPS, but more importantly it installed a culture that... View Details