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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
or goods made in response to requests from nonprofits. The level of engagement and resources is relatively low, infrequent, simple, and nonstrategic. It is basically a check-writing relationship. The giver... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
was to improve corporate governance and restore the faith of investors, but many in the business world spoke out against SOX, viewing it as a politically motivated overcorrection that would lead to a loss of... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
York Times Magazine in which Friedman opposed corporate philanthropy, arguing that corporations should let individual investors choose how to spend or give away their money. One can argue that both of these... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
likely to hear, "That's not my job," in a company where responsibility is not only accepted by individuals but also shared and delegated. Solid teamwork also becomes critical. In this more complex... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
equal sway in the media. “The solution can't be mandated solely by an organization.” As the authors suggest, the first two presentations, bias and underrepresentation, have tended to invite straightforward View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
all their attention on running the factory, while leaving IT concerns to others. Now, he affirmed, "IT is not something you can use as support to help get the 'real work' done; instead, it has become... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
options to their employees, ranging from indexed bond funds to microcap equity funds. Second, sources providing advice and information about mutual-fund investment results proliferated, with companies like... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
have to have the market with you." Timing is everything, said Kapoor. The first time he sold Snapfish it was the right market but the wrong timing, and his investors didn't make any money. "We... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
feasible or desirable to think about changing firms themselves. Can firms create shared value? Can industries regulate themselves? What are the responsibilities of managers? Does "purpose" matter?... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
is in the container. Likewise, responsible manufacturers don't have to worry about competitors cheating by putting bogus ingredients into their products. So the agency's work for consumer protection also... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
In recent years, business schools and investors alike have been paying more attention to social entrepreneurs, those who create ventures with the primary goal of achieving positive social change. But most... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Sep 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation
strategy is an aligned combination of set-up moves that occur away from the table, deal design moves, and tactics at the table, all designed to overcome the barriers you've identified. The best response... View Details
- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
Strategist? Published: July 16, 2012 Corporate strategy has become the bailiwick of consultants and business analysts, so much so that it is no longer a top-of-mind responsibility for many senior executives. Professor Cynthia A.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
Additionally, the need to balance creative thinking with accountability and responsibility was emphasized. This was a novel twist to the usually laudatory treatment that... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 09 Feb 2012
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing
the viewers' emotional response with the help of eye-tracking technology combined with facial expression analysis software. Evoking surprise proved to be the most effective way of capturing attention, while... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
go off on your own and create something different. With consensus decision making and shared responsibility for everything, nobody feels responsible. In our book, we discuss how Japanese companies need to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
Summing Up What Will Capitalism Require of Us in the Future? If one were to sum up the ideas in response to this month's column, it could be: Capitalism as we know it is here... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
silently shift in response to actions taken, even though no overt negotiation takes place. Of course, if costly misunderstandings are to be avoided, it's normally in the... View Details
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
Why? Because his answers went straight to a central repository where they were aggregated with other customers' responses and used to measure overall market—not... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
choosing not to target firms that generate employment, for example, may erode investor confidence if they are found more likely to have accounting problems, leading View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding