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- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
and defuse causes of the recent Great Recession without understanding the system itself), and a tendency to discount the future (ignoring long-term effects on global warming in making short-term decisions). Possible antidotes start with a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
economic significance. China is reluctant to be badgered by Western companies or Western governments into changing its rules and regulations. The Chinese do not yet understand international public relations and have perhaps too short-term... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
effectiveness of the export-oriented approach not supported by the evidence presented at the outset of the document, why are countries not quickly abandoning the export-oriented approach? One candidate to answer this question is the View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
enough data and information to do so. Plans, and the corresponding KPIs and other metrics that will empower your team to execute them, should be adjusted to address the company’s immediate needs and short-term goals, and communicated... View Details
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
researchers focused on one aspect of the problem they could measure: lost income due to reduced hours and turnover. To do so, they used a 2014 survey of some 7,000 doctors that asked questions about burnout and short-term career plans to... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
Dave Cote and his team brought to managing their company during the Great Recession. The shift to managing companies for short-term financial interests has been an increasing trend among US businesses, leading to a focus on actions that... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
obligations?" The traditional free-market answer to that question is that your obligation is to increase profits for your shareholders, period. If that means undermining accounting standards in order to achieve short-term gains, then... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
thing or two about efficiency. But it's one thing to make yourself more efficient, quite another to make a team more efficient, and still another when that team's membership is in constant flux. With short-term teams assembled on the fly... View Details
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
bias toward short-term results, as well as any hubris on their part, and to discover blind spots, top management should cultivate and rely on its strategy team, including employees, board members and consultants, to reduce the chance of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
priorities of shareholder management are clear: shareholders have the loudest voice and the greatest influence. Some may argue that this notion became distorted by an element of agency theory that advocated outsized incentives for managers who maximized results—both... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
be divided into strategic and operational activities. Strategic activities include, among others, long-term capacity planning and network configuration of warehouses, distributors, and retail stores. Examples of operational activities include View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- What Do You Think?
What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?
helps avert surprises, or worse, lawsuits, when poorly-performing employees are fired. Opponents claim that it hurts such things as teamwork and innovation. What little research there is on forced ranking systems suggests that they produce a View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
you’re focused on is maximizing short-term value, we tell a family or founder-owner, go hire a banker and sell to private equity. That will maximize your dollars today,” she says. “But if you really care about where your company ends up,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
team forever. 3. Long-term need vs. short-term fix Another common mistake is hiring a full-time expert in an area that only needs occasional work—for example, performance engineering. Certainly, if you’re building a complex distributed... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
request. The following day, Zuckerberg personally met with employees and posted a promise to audit and restrict access to user information by the developers of apps. He also agreed to testify before a United States congressional committee in coming days. View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
same as being wrong, but key lessons have been learned, and the enabling infrastructure (and expertise, frankly) is very, very different than it was before. Oh, and if Version 2.0 is wrong, humanity is basically toast. Current business leaders need to drop the View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
Putting together the money for everything from a short-term emergency to retirement is hard enough, a challenge that low- and moderate-income families endure every day. Yet as HBS professor Peter Tufano describes, new and old products... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
short-term investors: A market of buy-and-hold investors wouldn't be very useful. However, a market composed of mostly short-termers presents its own problems, and today they have too much impact on the... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
short-term price volatility of U.S. Treasury bonds has been about 5.5 percent per year in real terms—that is, after correcting for inflation. This volatility is certainly small when we compare it to the volatility of stock returns, which... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen