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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
to several common organizational problems. For example, they examine how a majority group's perception that a minority group or individual is performing poorly can mushroom into a self-fulfilling cycle of negativity. Discouraged at being... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
pay for poor performance wasn’t just an AIG phenomenon. On Wall Street, it was endemic. Bankers gave themselves nearly $20 billion in 2008 bonuses, even as the economy was spiraling downward and the government was spending billions on... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
serious time crunch while, at the same time, their organizations are becoming more global and complex. And these pressures, coupled with internal pressures to succeed, are leaving these executives feeling like they are getting in their... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
the community -- its outside stakeholders. You can have responsibility at the top of the company, but if it doesn't permeate the entire organization the stakeholders can't count on it. What about bottom-line responsibility to shareholders? Any senior manager today has... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies are women, such an opportunity is indeed rare for female executives, most of whom have always worked in male-dominated workplaces. "While they're able to perform very well in predominantly male... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Education Leadership Project (PELP), a collaborative effort with the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) that employs management concepts and entrepreneurial strategies to improve student performance in large school districts. But... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
(or maybe the Big 2, after Chrysler’s merger with Daimler) continue to dominate the U.S. market, they are beset by falling sales, staggering financial obligations, and the relentless pressure of globalization and foreign competition. GM,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Smarty Jones. “They didn’t want him bred to more than 110 mares in a season and neither did we,” says Clay, who remains committed to smaller bookings. But he cites increasing pressure from the large-book trend as one of Three Chimneys’... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
sorrows.” Retired since 2013, Quainton now serves as a mentor, helping new ministers find their vocation and calling. “That’s a major satisfaction for me,” he says. “They don’t have any private sector experience and can have trouble relating to the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
activity-based costing (TDABC), a model that identifies the time of people and equipment used to perform a service and their cost. TDABC relies on accurate mapping of all the processes patients go through in the course of a visit to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
ask questions or to appear vulnerable, and pressuring coworkers to prove themselves through acts of physical bravery. The goal of this company’s training was to enhance employee safety and reliability in a very hazardous workplace. We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
you can’t pronounce . Part of the strategy revolution was the coming of what I’ll call Greater Taylorism, the corporation’s application of sharp-penciled analytics, this time not to the performance of an individual worker — how fast a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
Extrusion Technology, however, Molded Dimensions has experienced a new level of competitive pressure from Asia, particularly China. “If the widget is the size of a softball or smaller, you can ship it from China for less than we can make... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
corporate gamesmanship and dizzying sums associated with M&A; activity, for the business scholar, such deals are often more interesting as windows inside organizations, revealing how they adapt and perform in times of dramatic change.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
the label itself; on the rock and pop sides, producers are usually independent. Meanwhile, the label begins to create a marketing "image" for the performer or group. Posters, CD cover designs, concert ads, music videos, and other forms of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
has become lower.” It’s not just institutional investors who have turned to real estate. “Whether you are an individual investor or a hedge fund, having another asset class whose performance is not tied to stocks and bonds is very... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
again, psychotic. This time, thinking I was the pope. Hanna: I wondered, that might have been a different experience, given that you were at a big Fortune 500 company. Before you were in a pretty high pressure place-- Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
only ended up with a greener product, we also had one that was cheaper and performed better." He notes that in Europe his company now markets an aerosol product propelled by ordinary compressed air. Johnson's environmental activism... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
rising leaders in 120 companies and how they dealt with them. The challenges included handling rising pressure and recovering from mistakes; dealing with office villains; taking uncomfortable risks; and knowing when it’s time to find... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
resilience while changing your relationship to stress, and shares a roadmap for sustainable performance in the face of ongoing change. How to Wash a Chicken: Mastering the Business Presentation by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) Page Two This is... View Details