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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
surveyed approved of some inequality, but their ideal was far more equal than the current level. Why then, given the consensus on this more equal America, are Americans not clamoring for wealth redistribution? First, the expansion of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
with them quickly. If you take the time to do the nemawashi process, the implementation of subsequent action is lightning fast. It wasn’t consensus decision-making so much as consensus-building, because at the end of the day, I had to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
displaying characteristics (such as consensual decision-making and greater risk aversion) more associated with women's management styles. Admittedly, acknowledging gender-based organizational distinctions risks endorsing stereotypes that... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
master plan” that would simplify the task of wiring the country for wind-power transmission, Skelly believes that consensus on renewable energy is growing, albeit “in a fragmented, state-by-state way.” In Texas, for example, he says there... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
consumer-driven health-care reform. Wrapping up the conference, representatives from each of several breakout meetings summarized their take on the implementation of a consumer-driven health-care system. The consensus seemed to be built... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
first agree on the outlines of a new Mexico so they can unite against the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which has controlled the country for the last 68 years. Only then will there be a strong enough social consensus to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
you're able to work out some consensus with other people, whereas in business you don't usually need a majority in order to get things accomplished. You spend a lot of time on children's issues. Why? I really like young people. Here in... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
young alumni whose stories follow: the chance to make good on making a difference. Andrew Murphy: At the World Wildlife Fund, building consensus at the intersection of conservation issues and global markets: “In places with sensitive... View Details
- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
school deans, corporate recruiters, and executives, who broadly agreed that business schools faced significant challenges in educating leaders for 21st century global commerce. The second attracted more than 100 HBS faculty, who came to a clear View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
school deans, corporate recruiters, and executives, who broadly agreed that business schools faced significant challenges in educating leaders for 21st-century global commerce. The second attracted more than 100 HBS faculty, who came to a clear View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
size of California. Do other Arctic countries like Canada, Russia, or Norway have stronger cultural or nationalist feelings about the North? If so, is the United States at a disadvantage in trying to forge domestic political consensus... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
none of us knew where we were. The sandwich shop was a confusing mess. The consensus seemed to be that the bank manager was right. Michael Flynn was right, and the notion that profit was hard to define was firmly dropped. I felt stupid. I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
ethical obligation. Business school deans in the early 1930s were determined to finally reach a working consensus about what constituted a professional business education, and to mobilize their institutions on behalf of a nation whose... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
students how to think beyond information silos and to be more self-aware as leaders. It’s the “know how” that’s most valued in the business world, Datar and Garvin found in their research. How to bridge the “knowing-doing” gap became a focal point of discussion. By the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
useful when collecting information on a problem, Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein and his fellow researchers found, but it can be detrimental in solving the problem, leading people to a consensus before all the solutions are explored.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
there’s a fairly broad consensus that people can become pessimistic about the economy and that this can do real damage. The pessimism may be rational; individuals, in their daily lives, may see economic problems that even economists don’t... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
weigh a strong, clear opinion to the board versus the spectrum of opinions. “It is hard to obtain approval for something if you have as many doubts as reasons to do something,” he said. It is valuable for the board to understand that the process to View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
are very good at thinking through and dissecting elements of the financial crisis, and there is incredible consensus about elements that contributed to it and some frustration with the bite of the regulatory tools we do have,” she says.... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
again,” says Kempczinski. “That sort of approach doesn’t work.” But with about 2,000 US owner-operators, consensus was impossible. Unveiling the plan at the end of February in a warehouse in Chicago’s West Loop that had been transformed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
there’s already a consensus in the country about how to tackle the challenges. So America is at a crossroads. We can revitalize the economy, or we can sit back and wait. Waiting will only raise the cost and difficulty of addressing some... View Details