Problem Solving - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

problems valuing the business, which seemed at times to resemble more of a holding company or conglomerate than anything else, nor that most consumers barely knew that Unilever as such existed. There was, in fact, coherence to Unilever... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

the market. Second, we consider multi-homing. We find that the incumbent dominates the market and earns higher profit under multi-homing than under single-homing. Multi-homing solves the market failure resulting from asymmetric... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

denying responsibility for failures, and attributing the problem to others or to "the system." We would prefer to move on to something more pleasant. Rigorous analysis of failure requires that people, at least temporarily, put... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

within Brazil’s borders. Challenges to solving social problems It won’t be easy to replicate successes like FOSS, says Nagle, who points to a number of likely complications. Take the question of free... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

05 Feb 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

compensation data could lead to a different method in solving certain situations such as pay discrepancy " As Ali put it, "Why companies find it so difficult to talk salary when our government is so open on what each employee is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

every problem they solved correctly. The participants graded their own papers and reported their own performance, meaning they had both an opportunity and an incentive to cheat. Unbeknownst to the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

at the art, and then try to make connections to some tricky problem that you're trying to solve in your work. It’s also very useful to stimulate your thinking by talking to other people—brainstorming or... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

performance only when participants shared personal experiences prior to the task. The effects of metacognitive CQ in enhancing collaboration were mediated by affect-based trust. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications for understanding and promoting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

strategy and operations (or tactics) are both important but they are different. The normal course of events is for companies to focus on day-to-day operations and short-term problem solving. Management meetings focus on fighting fires and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Oct 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

proposition included Fernando De LaTorre, who commented, “I found (it) hard to work for trust as a goal. I think you work and live your values, and trust will stay in the culture.” Alan Arnett said that “trust comes when you learn to make progress and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

only if their protégé scored in the top quartile and decided to choose the high-stakes competition over the lesser guaranteed payment. Significantly, the protégés were told that they had sponsors before choosing whether to take the guaranteed 50 cents per View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

we can open the spigot and then those ideas would flow out. Our results suggested that there is.” Women-led inventions benefit everyone Although women often invent products or solve problems for their own... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

industry's biggest challenges: targeting customers who are likely to be interested in what is being sold and measuring the effectiveness of an ad campaign. Improved technology promises to solve the age-old View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

revolutionizing of material things, is greatly needed. The business group largely controls these mechanisms and is therefore in a strategic position to solve these problems. Our objective therefore, should be the multiplication of men who... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

supply chain problem space to include, among other things, the assignment of roles and decision rights among the coordinating partners, the selection of partners, the design of incentives, and the design of processes to monitor... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

and Stanford University's Debra E. Meyerson propose a new approach to viewing and solving the women-in-leadership shortfall. Traditionally, three goals for fixing the problem have been considered: fix the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

gets people to take risks, try new things, and envision something better. In the end, participants leave with the skills to identify, frame, and solve complex business problems and the confidence to make... View Details