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- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
In the high-tech industry, it's common practice for a governing body to develop technical standards for any given technology. The goal is to promote widespread adoption and compatibility among various devices. The Bluetooth standard lets... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
missions, NASA missed the opportunity to identify problems (and solutions) that might have helped avoid later failures. The final set of problems that conspired against the success of FBC in the Mars program was a lack of coordination... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
estimated likelihood that they will flee and then offering incentives to a core group of customers at the top of the churn ranking. Gupta says these traditional methods are flawed. The two steps are not set up to maximize bottom-line... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
competitive uncertainty. In this paper we explore how a firm's conceptualization of products in this context, reflected in its introduction of product features, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We hypothesize first, that prior industry experience shapes a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
and a set of human values that everyone could connect with. People around the world value trust, want meaning out of work, and want to do good and well. In the example of Standard Chartered Bank, people from a diverse View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
all via clear and transparent communication Embracing a program that is Unrelenting and iterative Setting Concentrated and focused steps to serve as a guiding set of goals... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
U.K. government borrowed from the SBA’s contracting efforts, setting an even higher small business contracting goal than ours here in the United States (25 percent versus our 23 percent) and achieving it in... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
can be low growth and declining margins. The key challenge in aligning marketing activities with corporate strategy is to develop a set of metrics to be used by top executives and the board that measure the impact of marketing activities... View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
they have the same goal of allowing participants to evaluate what's important to them both personally and professionally and creating a "life plan" for getting where they want to go. Some MBA students, most of whom are in their 20s, have... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
urban and rural, the new urbanization does not upend China’s longstanding duality between those categories. The central goals of the new urbanization are to manage urbanization so as to generate domestic demand and reorganize agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
measurement and control systems to implement strategy. Modules 1–4 set out the foundations for strategy implementation. Modules 5–9 teach quantitative tools for performance measurement and control. Modules 10–15 illustrate the use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
intermediation and may have slowed employment gains in trade and services. Development lending goals were met, but these had no impact on the real economy. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
S. Paine When Unilever CEO Paul Polman announced the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) in November 2010, commentators took notice. The plan set ambitious goals, to be sure, but more than that, the nature of the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
of control), (iii) increase DM total and performance-based pay. The results are generally consistent with the explanation that firms redesign their organizations through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
- 31 Oct 2006
- HBS Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
course Leadership and Corporate Accountability, Paine notes that she often looks for opportunities to bring a global perspective to the classroom. "Masako found this particular situation," she says of Sumida. "The case was very appealing because the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
else first. And for anyone prone to setting overly ambitious exercise goals in 2021, Beshears’ findings lend support for some familiar advice: Squeeze in exercise when it fits. Busy people can’t assume that... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
information between inside and outside, they are seldom mere passive messengers carrying out the instructions of their principals. According to this negotiator: The traditional model [of the process] is that the leadership sets the goals,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
which actions support progress—such as setting clear goals, providing sufficient time and resources, and offering recognition—and which have the opposite effect. Even small wins can boost inner work life tremendously. On the flip side,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
solo. He found it in a unique set of data: leases for oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Firms competing to drill in the region have historically bid on 5,000-acre tracts, submitting sealed bids with lease rights awarded to the... View Details