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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
their families, neighborhoods, or social clubs. “The same trend showing up in the workplace is worrisome because it means we have even fewer opportunities to interact across partisan lines,” she says. “It could accelerate the growing nature of View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
hidden nature of language struggles. These problems created an "us and them" class of native and nonnative English speakers, which sometimes led to resentment and distrust among nonnative speakers toward the native speakers.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
one continual change initiative. Maybe it's a relief to know that only a few of these efforts will actually be carried through to completion, but that knowledge doesn't do much for morale. Change fatigue is rampant, and it's exacerbated by a natural tendency to View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
truth. It turns business decisions into elaborate exercises in gaming. It sets colleague against colleague, creating distrust and ill will. And it distorts incentives, motivating people to act in ways that run counter to the best... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- Sep 2017
- Report
Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America
At a time of high dissatisfaction and distrust with the U.S. political system, Michael E. Porter and co-author Katherine M. Gehl use the lens of industry competition to determine why politics in America fails to deliver results for the... View Details
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Europe’s green transition | Institute for Business in Global Society
4:01 Why no company can fight climate change alone Play Leading with transparency in a distrustful era video Play Video duration: 6:29 Leading with transparency in a distrustful era Play ‘Everything is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
colleges to develop programs to meet specific needs. There is still some distrust on both sides: Higher education institutions see their mission as instilling skills for lifelong learning, not to pursue a good salary, and businesses can... View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
and is working through the details of a partnership with GoFundMe to help facilitate donations for businesses. Other platforms such as Uber are working on similar initiatives. Distrust of government aid The survey data also shed light on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
Martin lays out a litany of misery: two economic collapses in 10 years (following 70 years of relative stability), the public’s growing distrust of business, an unending line of execs paraded on perp walks, and decreasing rather than... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
concerns that environmental initiatives are too expensive, she offers the case on the private equity firm KKR. "Through its Green Portfolio Program, KKR achieved $160 million per year in cost savings," she says. “At the moment both political parties View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
The newly hired president and CEO of a local medical center faces a daunting task: Under intense public scrutiny, he must save a complex, rapidly failing organization whose culture is marred by indecision and distrust — and do so in an... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
to appeal to young would-be smokers. But corporate distrust runs so deep for some consumers that constructive dialogue is virtually impossible; consider vaccination skeptics who criticize Big Pharma’s influence, despite considerable... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
increased scope for markets, and distrust of markets generally. Our results suggest that while the public is potentially receptive to compensating kidney donors, among those who oppose it, general disapproval towards certain kinds of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
the entrepreneurial organizations could be explained in part by a distrust of established medical institutions on the part of minorities. The profiles of organizations receiving the cadavers also showed marked contrasts. Perhaps not... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
Latin America, they're concerned that economic progress may not be fast enough nor redistribution of income sufficient to forestall more Chavez-type leaders. Many distrust government. The U.S. business community despairs of America's... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
a Denver-based co-creation of Mala Gaonkar (MBA 1996) and the former front man of the Talking Heads, David Byrne, that promises a mind-bending experience steeped in neuroscience. (Side effects, it warns, “may include a distrust of your... View Details
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
productive partnership: Business leaders tend to give themselves more credit for being informed about education than superintendents do. Rivkin notes that in the survey of superintendents, the qualitative comments section also showed a clear undercurrent of View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
rich” and a highly visible wealth gap could mean for political stability. In Latin America, they’re concerned that economic progress may not be fast enough nor redistribution of income sufficient to forestall more Chavez-type leaders. Many View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
US has the will and capability to coordinate and support major cross-industrial efforts to foster and, if necessary, regulate AI.” Today, this is being done in a highly fragmented way in the US by competing commercial organizations, many of whose employees appear to... View Details