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- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
unionized while others do not? “It turns out there was something that happened in the 1930s that set the rank of unionization in place across states in the United States, and that rank has stayed roughly the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
East Asia MBA Market Update
showing commitment to the region and local knowledge. Malaysia Malaysia aims to become a developed economy by 2020 and as a result it has been undergone major reforms to be more business friendly and encourage increased foreign direct investment. The World Bank View Details
- Article
Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India
By: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani
We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions.... View Details
- 21 Jun 2012 - 24 Jun 2012
- Conference Presentation
Visual Attention to Power Posers: People Avert their Gaze from Nonverbal Displays of Power
By: Elizabeth Baily Wolf
Existing literature suggests that people visually attend more to powerful/high-status people. However, previous studies manipulated target power/status via the target’s role (e.g., CEO or judge vs. mechanic or fry cook) or clothing (e.g., business suit vs. sweat suit).... View Details
- September 2006 (Revised April 2007)
- Supplement
Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (B)
By: Boris Groysberg, Christopher Marquis and Ayesha Kanji
Supplements the (A) case. The (B) case presents the final outcome of the events. Reveals how Keller is able to turn around perceptions about him and forge relationships with key decision makers. Includes reflections and lessons learned from all parties and Keller's... View Details
- November 2006 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
CNN and the Cable News Wars
Set in 1996, when ABC, NBC and Microsoft, and Fox all announced that they will challenge Cable News Network's near monopoly position in the 24-hour cable news channel market. The focus is on the interaction of the strategies likely to be adopted by each player given... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Resource Allocation; Monopoly; Rank and Position; Reputation; Adoption; Competition
Gil Addo
The Huffington Post named RubiconMD one of the “Five Companies Defining the Future of Healthcare” and, in 2020, AllianceBernstein ranked RubiconMD number 12 on its list of the top 25 private companies disrupting healthcare. The company... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- February 1995 (Revised October 2006)
- Case
Brainard, Bennis & Farrell (A)
By: John J. Gabarro and Andrew P. Burtis
A law firm must decide how to split partnership profits among the partners. Issues of seniority versus performance, performance evaluation, and lack of consensus of values dominate the discussions. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
beneficial effects in performance.” To study the issue, the authors analyzed more than 450,000 survey responses from employees at hundreds of large US companies. They looked specifically at companies whose employees ranked them highly... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
Raymond V. Gilmartin
Company’s corporate culture. Recognizing Gilmartin’s leadership in creating a positive working environment, Fortune ranked Merck & Company as one of the top 10 best companies to work for. View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- Portrait Project
Zubby Achara
rank were all that was left. However, I didn’t care much for these things. I didn’t love my job. I didn’t want a wife and was on the fence about children – truths that could pluck me from the top of Nigerian society and throw me into the... View Details
- January 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Crisis at the 11th Hour
A successful lawyer describes an important decision she had to make as a young attorney about whether to disclose information in a contract. View Details
Walter C. Teagle
Teagle rose threw the ranks of Standard Oil after joining in 1901, making a name for himself through his managing of the company’s international operations after the anti-trust breakup in the early 1910s. Throughout his term as president... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
James L. Kraft
large part to Kraft’s efforts. In 1928, his company employed 10,000 people and sold a million pounds of cheese a day. Today, the firm ranks first in the United States in cheese and dairy products and second in salad dressings. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact
of hundreds of managers around the world, Amabile found “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation. Her book, The Progress Principle, details the research and addresses important questions about how our inner... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
Article In the past several weeks we have been treated to vastly restated earnings, the conviction of an entire accounting firm, and the baiting by congressional committees of witnesses drawn from the ranks of corporate managers. We are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- September 2006 (Revised April 2007)
- Supplement
Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (C)
By: Boris Groysberg, Christopher Marquis and Ayesha Kanji
Supplements the (A) case. The (C) case includes Keller's actual 2006 mid-year and self evaluations. View Details
- 28 Feb 2022
- News
Equal Partner
Aditya was acutely aware of the inequalities that plague the venture capital world, including the less than 3 percent of VC money that goes to all-women founding teams (a number that is even smaller for women of color) and the dearth of women and all people of color in... View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
way to measure the sometimes subjective qualities of what makes a company socially responsible. For that, the researchers relied on survey measures from the World Competitiveness Yearbook, published by IMD business school in Switzerland, which View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding