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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
financial and strategic decision making. But along the way, I also noted another important aspect of this leadership task, a related line of effort that seemed to go largely unnoticed and unstudied by observers but that was just as vital... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Martha Lagace: What is missing in leadership models today? Michael Beer: Most formal leadership models do not incorporate institution-building in their definition of leadership. Leadership is thought of as a means for activating change, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
judging from per capita declines in both natural and unnatural deaths worldwide. While the problem of nuclear weapons proliferation remains with us, the 21st century challenges relate to such things as space exploration and the... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
should your employees be to helping each other? Are they sharing responsibility for your company's success? (7) What strategic uncertainties keep you awake at night? How are you riveting everyone's attention on those uncertainties? These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
employees sit through training and attest that they understand the rules, but failing to assess the effectiveness of their compliance programs, or doing so with faulty metrics. The authors explain how we reached this sorry state—and how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
innovation, by encouraging workers to cultivate their individual strengths and to speak up when they have ideas for improvements. And they can develop and empower their employees to solve problems instead of turning automatically to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
its government relations and operations. Similarly, the employment Tata Consultancy Services brought to Uruguay enabled the company to receive fast-tracked visas for employees traveling from India. At home,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care—including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger—believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing decisions... View Details
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
continuously inspire the passion and confidence for every employee to perform their role at the expected level or better?" (from Barry Cohen), "Will the world be a better place if I do my job well?" (from Mo Bjornestad),... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
victim. Therefore, they felt that layoffs were not as difficult as firing someone, where the decision involves a verdict on a person with whom you've worked, often quite closely. “No matter how dire the company's economic state or how poorly the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
related future transactions—or even the current transaction—without the platform’s involvement and without paying any fees the platform may charge. This technical note assesses which marketplaces are most vulnerable to disintermediation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
collaboration rather than command and control as their basis for interaction.. “Over the long term, organizations filled with empowered employees who collaborate to serve customers will consistently outperform hierarchical organizations”... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
is Ciba Vision. Established in the early 1980s as a unit of the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis), the Atlanta-based Ciba Vision sells contact lenses and related eye-care products to optometrists and consumers. Although... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
Measurement, Causes, and Consequences By: Comin, Diego A., and Marti Mestieri Abstract—This chapter discusses different approaches pursued to explore three broad questions related to technology diffusion: what general patterns... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
partaking of many in strategy making. The paper contributes to theory by relating the current findings to the literature on the connection between commitment and performance and on the strategic management literature that focuses on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
powerful in explaining quarterly sales growth, revenue surprises, and earnings surprises, generating average excess returns at announcement of 3.4%. However, surprisingly, our post-quarter measure is related negatively to announcement... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
hired—and receive health insurance? Some would counter that such personal information is, in a sense, already available, pointing to the fact that many companies require physicals for their employees as part of the hiring process. And if... View Details
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
immigration say many companies hire additional native employees along with the hiring of immigrants. For example, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has said in congressional testimony related to H-1B that the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is inversely View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
PublicationsThe Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne