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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
to organizations seeking to improve creativity and innovation. Researchers and businesses want to know what factors facilitate or inhibit creativity in a variety of organizational settings. Individual Creativity in the Workplace identifies those factors, including what... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
look at net worth and compare minorities to majority populations, particularly historically disadvantaged minorities, there's also income gaps, but the wealth gap is just really huge. And how is it that people create wealth? Certainly,... View Details
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Shah, M.D.e, Thomas W. Feeley, M.D.f, Neema Navai, M.D. Objectives: Patients undergoing radical cystectomy represent a particularly resource-intensive patient population. Time-driven activity based costing (TDABC) assigns time to events and then costs are based on the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
implications for public policy. As for jobs and what has come to be known as outsourcing, Gaurav Goel commented, "Low-cost labor is not the deciding factor in the success of outsourcing (vs.) people with the right attitude ."... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
Gerald Chertavian and Brian Trelstad This course looks at social entrepreneurship through the lens of traditional entrepreneurship, but asks how people motivated by disrupting entrenched and often... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It
leaders that instead of wasting their time wondering why things are the way they are, they should simply accept their world as given. But even in situations where things are beyond our control and adapting is the only viable option—that is, even for those whom you... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
particularly women and people of color, that have been excluded from the traditional working paradigm to thrive,” Leahy shares. The company also prioritizes using its platform to support underserved communities and elevate Black-owned... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
best managers who send a clear message from the top that the company is serious about seeking frank feedback to make organizational changes. Then managers should interview people in all parts of the company who know what is and isn’t... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
integrated mill left the market, the price of angle iron collapsed. Once again, the minimills had to move up to the next tier of the industry in order to survive. And so on. At each stage of the minimills' climb up-market, an asymmetry of View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
Although CEOs hold positions of power, many can feel powerless in certain ways—particularly when it comes to influencing the behaviors and performance of their employees. Yet perhaps they aren’t taking the time to understand what drives and View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
late William H. Meckling note these issues: The cost of delegating decision rights to those who have the relevant information but whose motivations and goals don't align with those of the company. The cost of accurately transferring the... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
different from managing their work. Leading is fundamentally about identifying where the group needs to go (developing a compelling vision for the future), strategizing how to get there, and getting people to change in order to get there.... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
sticking to principles every day, considering all the hard work involved. "He told me he thought it had 'a negative net present value.'" “It's a travesty that somehow our society has gotten to a point where people have the view that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
will be engaged in every item of behavior that takes place at work. Likewise, all the other people engaged with the focal organization—its customers, its shareholders and creditors, its suppliers, its neighbors and its regulators—will... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
at MIT during the late 1970s. "I began to ask myself why I didn't feel more satisfied even though I'd reached these goals and experienced these milestones after graduation. I also began to read more theoretical work on motivation and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
your workforce to tap into their intrinsic motivation rather than coming up with complicated schemes for paying them based on certain performance measures,” Pany says. “People are social creatures. Support them so that View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
2015 Modern China Studies Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make
What if businesses could learn from their worst mistakes without actually making them? How might the same progress and innovation occur, without firms incurring the costs associated with such errors? The results of a recent study about close calls in health care... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
creativity increases dishonesty. We propose that a creative personality and creativity primes promote individuals' motivation to think outside the box and that this increased motivation leads to unethical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
including simulations, the kinds of tests used at HubSpot, or interviewing techniques. Many sales organizations could emulate the practice used by investment banks and consulting firms when hiring MBAs: the summer job is, in effect, an extended observation—by multiple... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel