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- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory Authors:Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan David MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract Designers often seek modular architectures to better accommodate expected changes and to enable parallel development. However, we lack a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
factor by noting connections such as directors who come from the same city or attended the same school. But that fails to capture the richness of social relations that transcend such formal connections. Researchers found that the social... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
distributed today that it’s relatively easy to access them no matter where you’re located." In Thomas Kermorgant’s words, "Outstanding companies create the concepts that are then formalized and spread by gurus. Outstanding... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
important, companies must contend with a lack of formal institutions regarding the "rules of the game." This means that company success may rely on local leaders and community agents who have the social capital to bring people... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
the size and formality of the venue and level of hierarchy present, also matter, as does the degree of demographic similarity between the speaker and the intended target of his or her communication. Q: Why are we so hesitant to take the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
stimulated efforts to ensure that frontline workers (remote or not) have at least one sponsor and advocate. Formal training may or may not be an objective. The primary role of a sponsor is to provide “voice,” a sense of inclusion, and the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
generated, and forty of them had been launched as formal experiments. Once an idea was given a green light, the actual experiment had to be designed. The I&D Team wanted to perform as many tests as possible, so it strove to plan each... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
portion of their award winning investor relations program, and had previously been used only to enhance communications. The case allows a discussion of the relative merit of more formally including this information in BP's planning and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
now formally elected as head of state, considers an economic strategy to meet Rwanda's current challenges and increase the country's prosperity over the next decade. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
social programs or services, but with limited formal mechanisms for central control and few prescribed interactions between local sites and the center. Tight affiliates are quite similar to business franchises, where the central... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
firing the worst offenders and beefing up formal channels for complaint. Will that be enough to create positive work environments? I’m also concerned about lingering micro-insults that arrive in a less overtly sexual guise, often shrugged... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
at least ten years for the accumulation of sufficient experience), simulations (speeding up the process a bit), and formal education. But most importantly of all, they involve the employment of "knowledge coaches" capable of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
been accounted for, suggesting that a variety of formal and informal mechanisms tie the fortunes of group affiliates together. Although Khanna says there is still much to learn about business groups and how they affect economic... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
longer-term perspective. Authority versus Persuasion Published: August 5, 2009 In directing employees, managers often face a choice between invoking authority and persuasion. In particular, since a firm's formal and relational contracts... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
calculated so that directional recommendations can be made. 'What if' analysis or simulations: A small number of marketing plans are considered by simulating their effects on sales and profit. The best plan can then be chosen from this set. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
across the sands of the Sahara, it is formally located in Tunisia, or Algeria, or Libya, depending on to whom you talk or which way the winds are blowing. It is an ancient place, Partenia, a remnant of a world that hardly anyone can even... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
took her almost a decade of strategizing, networking, and developing tools. Here's how the chief risk director did it: First, she asked for more power. She demanded—and received—an unprecedented degree of formal authority, becoming a... View Details
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
performance, most investors have found it easier to vote "with their feet" by selling shares, rather than making formal complaints. Large shareholders, however, have stronger incentives to monitor management. The conventional... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
1993). He briefly considered the possibility of asking an established venture capital firm to run the program jointly with Xerox but decided that the involvement of another party would introduce a formality that might hurt the fledgling... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
cup of Starbucks coffee. A systematic getting-acquainted process began formally in 1991, when Starbucks was a young, $20 million coffee retailer and CARE was a well-known, forty-five-year old international relief and development... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin