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- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
in diverse markets proved a significant challenge. Still, supreme overconfidence and perverse financial incentives led to a gladiator culture in which executives proposed—and risk managers and the board of directors approved—a growing number of risky gambles with high... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
people who should not be admitted, and rejecting people who should not be rejected.” Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals paints a picture of businesses repeatedly promoting or hiring... View Details
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
achievement; but it's hard to credit that given the enormous inflation of top executive compensation packages in America in the last decade. Many American firms, especially most of the large ones, are more dependent on capital markets for... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
would be very surprised if China's doesn't appreciate over time. Another thing you want to look at is inflation. If a country has a higher inflation rate than its trading partners, you should expect that its... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
against inflated home prices and requiring minimal evidence of ability to repay from borrowers. Politicians on both sides have been equally culpable in defining the American Dream in material terms, in encouraging Americans to live beyond... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
four years came along. It brought tax cuts and higher growth. The unemployment rate fell. Wages, particularly for low-income workers, increased. But contrary to Phillips curve thinking, inflation remained the same or even declined. Even... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
over organizations. That power was fueled by both a talent shortage and the ability of tech-aided talent to become more effective working remotely. Technology will continue to enhance remote work. But will the talent shortage continue? Will View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
With the global economy still reeling from inflation and supply-chain disruptions, the Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens to further destabilize the world’s fragile recovery from COVID-19. The impact on multinational companies,... View Details
- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
character of the game. If a batter is good enough, he will find a way to hit around a shift. It’s up to each batter to earn his own hits. That idea is basically inflating batting averages artificially. Separately, the more balanced... View Details
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
features another common sales incentive--a "president's club" membership for those employees who sell more software than 90 percent of their peers in a given year. The software firm uses a "commission accelerator" program over the course of each financial quarter,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
willing to go above and beyond in their roles. All this while inflation spirals. Abdelal, who is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at HBS, and DeLong make the case that the remedy is understanding the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
Corporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives' time, forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings and tense negotiations. It encourages managers to lie and cheat, lowballing targets and View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
With the demise of Circuit City in 2009 one would have reckoned that Best Buy's best days were ahead. Instead, Best Buy is working fiercely to reinvent itself: its comparable store sales have barely kept up with inflation since 2008, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2021
- What Do You Think?
Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/golero) Uncertainty about the future is always on the minds of leaders. Concern about change defines their primary role. It’s up to others to manage, set and meet goals, etc. Recent polls have shown that many leaders are most uncertain about... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
What’s next in finance? Is bitcoin an inflation shield? What’s your favorite weightlifting exercise? Lauren Cohen, the L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently answered these and other... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Christopher T. Stanton Abstract—Small business owners and others in self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about earnings in entrepreneurship, this option increases the expected... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
A year ago, most experts thought the US economy was thundering headlong toward recession, as the Federal Reserve moved at a historic pace to slow inflation by bridling interest rates. Yet, despite recent tremors in the stock market, no... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
markets have evolved to the point that joint partners aren't as necessary." Panelists said China's entry into the World Trade Organization created somewhat inflated expectations for the region as a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor), was aimed at simplifying multicomponent test systems. Typically, silicon wafers moving through production are fed into the test system, which sends electrical impulses into each wafer and compares the actual readout with... View Details