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- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
recipients' actual trustworthiness. This lax approach gives rise to adverse selection: the sites that seek and obtain trust certifications are actually less trustworthy than others. Using an original dataset on web site safety, I demonstrate that sites certified View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
communications." It's difficult enough to usher in a new set of attitudes when they're consistent with the core of the culture, notes John P. Kotter, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership at... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
Summing Up What Role Will Management Play in Saving US Health Care? The verdict is in, according to respondents of this month's column: Problems confronting health care in the US are much larger and broader than those that can be solved View Details
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
anything, can we learn from solutions implemented by other countries? For example, should Americans have a public option? What else? What do you think? To read more: N. Gregory Mankiw, "The Pitfalls of the Public Option," The... View Details
- January 1976 (Revised June 1984)
- Case
Megalith, Inc. -- Hay Associates (A)
By: John P. Kotter
In 1969, Megalith centralized its financial and control functions. John Boyd, senior vice president for finance, hired four brilliant young managers to "bring the group out of the stone age." By 1975, this management team had created a near-perfect finance office of... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Problems and Challenges
Kotter, John P. "Megalith, Inc. -- Hay Associates (A)." Harvard Business School Case 476-107, January 1976. (Revised June 1984.)
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
two-week spectacle that captures the attention of people around the world. With the Games of the XXX Olympiad off and running in London, three Harvard Business School professors offer their insights. Stephen A. Greyser, Richard P. Chapman... View Details
- 19 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Company Loyalty
advises Donald P. Rogers, professor of international business at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. John Chappelear, a professional coach and trainer, says, "Clarify your expectations, and make... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson
- September 1993 (Revised October 1993)
- Supplement
First National City Bank Operating Group (C)
By: John P. Kotter and Andrew P. Burtis
Provides a short summary of John Reed's succession at City Bank from Executive Vice President in 1976 to CEO in 1984. View Details
Kotter, John P., and Andrew P. Burtis. "First National City Bank Operating Group (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 494-035, September 1993. (Revised October 1993.)
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
Balanced Scorecard Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts, with strategy execution lost along the way. A new book by Balanced Scorecard creators Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton aims to make... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
retrenchment; think growth. Key concepts include: Companies that survive the financial crisis by identifying and exploiting innovation will serve as economic growth engines in the future—and will be the industry leaders of tomorrow. This... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
the new Dean, George P. Baker. He then turned his energies to teaching and launching the Central American Institute of Business Administration (INCAE), a project driven by the missionary idealism of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
attention paid to this kind of research by corporate leaders? And what does it say about the true nature of effective leadership? If the essence of leadership is, as my colleague John View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
By: Buciuni, Giulio, and Gary P. Pisano Abstract— It is widely presumed that in today's globalized economy, the value of geographic clustering of manufacturing industries is no longer valuable. Manufacturing is represented as a highly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
new book, Obliquity, by British economist John Kay. You might guess that Kay thinks profit as a "direct goal" is overrated, otherwise he wouldn't have much substance for a book on the subject. Kay... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
management look like to you?" What do you think? To Read More: Gary Hamel, The Future of Management (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007) John Thornhill, "France's favourite Englishman," Financial Times, February... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
people who are, as John Kotter has said, able to produce "extremely useful change." Recently this discussion has centered around the ability of a leader to discourage subordinates who always say... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
selective anecdotal evidence to pose a question. After all, John Doerr is a graduate of Harvard Business School. But think about it. The Silicon Valley and its neighbor to the north Seattle have influenced management and the conduct of... View Details
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
Enough: True Measures of Money, Business and Life (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009) Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (New Haven: Yale University Press,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett