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- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
would avoid a "one size fits all" approach to the practice of making compensation known. These are the views put forth by participants in this month's discussion of transparency in compensation. Disclosing pay ranges vs.... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World
isn't really a valid excuse. Even small businesses need to make sure their data is secure and not left open to hacks. It’s just part of doing business responsibly these days. Instead of building their tech stack from scratch, small... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?
Every month, another leader creates an onslaught of media coverage for being dishonest. Have we lost sight of the importance of leaders with integrity? Why do failed leaders get so much more attention than those who are View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
fewer jobs. Luca doesn’t see the study results as a definitive case for or against minimum wage increases. Instead, the findings help us understand how the minimum wage affects markets—in other words, which types of businesses are affected View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
out why a handful of organizations are able to achieve true excellence. One of several things they all do is hire for attitude and train for skills. By "attitude," they typically mean the ability... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
- 23 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Could Bring Globalization Down?
it was in 1915 that globalization, like the Lusitania, could be sunk." What do you mean by "sinking globalization"? A: I mean that we could just as easily find ourselves swept into economic... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
Summing Up What Are the Antidotes to Too Much Focus? Individuals and organizations suffer from too much focus much of the time. That was the sense of the majority of responses to this month's column. Respondents didn't stop there. They described why it happens and what... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jul 2008
- What Do You Think?
Are Followers About to Get Their Due?
followership? Why isn't followership addressed by business school curricula along with leadership? Does it belong in a course of study? Or does this just run the risk of deteriorating into a discussion of how to manipulate your boss? What... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
is crucial to online success. A recent research paper offers insights that carry unexpected implications for advertisers or anyone else trying to capture that attention. The Empirical Economics of Online Attention was written by Andre... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It
What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer is not entirely clear, I argue in this essay that any effort aimed at restoring... View Details
Salter, Malcolm S. "The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-062, March 2024.
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
The dirty little secret of advertising agencies is that much of their work is pure guesswork. Companies spread out their advertising budgets across channels—a little bit of TV, some print media, a few billboards—and wait for customers to roll in. In very few cases,... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
from foreign countries, raise their hand. "What do you associate with it?" The yellow border, answers one. Others note the stunning photography, detailed maps, and magazines piled up all around the house. A few minutes later... View Details
- 05 Jul 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Are Middle Managers Falling Down Most Often on Employee Inclusion?
“Organizations know how to hire people with diverse backgrounds; they don’t seem to be doing a very good job of retaining them.” Whether based largely on conviction or the acceptance of research on the business value of a diverse... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
into the issue, however, Kerr found that wasn't necessarily the case. Collaborating with William Lincoln of the University of Michigan and Prachi Mishra of the International Monetary Fund, Kerr tapped into a database of lobbying activities kept View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
all we’re told is ‘that’s not good enough’ then we’re going to give up.” Bazerman’s book closes that gap by drawing lessons from philosophy, yes, but also from behavioral economics, psychology, and negotiation theory to show how we can... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
'positive responses' instead of finding out how we can do things better by listening and responding to 'negative responses.'" Others were not so sure. Tema Frank said she is not convinced that our ability to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jan 2024
- Op-Ed
Why Boeing’s Problems with the 737 MAX Began More Than 25 Years Ago
discovered on other MAX 9s, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded the planes and opened an investigation into whether MAX is safe to fly, accompanied by a stern warning, saying, “This incident should have never happened, and... View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
Pressure to not compete against men, rather than an innate preference for cooperation over competition, may keep women from earning what they're worth in the workplace, according to preliminary findings by three Harvard researchers. In... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 15 Nov 2022
- Book
Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work
earning billions, kept churning out its pills. By now, this story is a familiar one. But what is less well known is that the company had help not only from management consultant McKinsey & Company, which sold advice to Purdue on how... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds