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The Growing Strategic Importance of End-of-Life Product Management

Requiring manufacturers to manage the their products when they become waste is an innovative form of regulation, one that has been adopted by countries in Asia, Europe, and North America on a variety of products that range from vehicles to appliances to batteries.... View Details

Keywords: Product; Environmental Sustainability; Cost Management; Wastes and Waste Processing; Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Manufacturing Industry; Asia; Europe; North and Central America

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26 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress

pressure, alcoholism, mental illness. Even so, the connections between job pressures and health—and what management can do to address the problem—have been little studied. “We have not placed a lot of emphasis on the role of workplace... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

12 Aug 2011
Working Paper Summaries

From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management

Keywords: by Anette Mikes

2002
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Production Systems: Handbook of Operations Management

By: L. Gaio, Francesca Gino and E. Zaninotto

Keywords: Production; System; Books; Operations; Management

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2002
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Research on Interactions among Management Decisions

By: Jan W. Rivkin

Keywords: Decisions; Management Systems; Research

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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

responsibilities—but management tends to lack a strategic response. This is because few employers calculate or track the economics of providing support to caregiving employees. Our research shows that employers who make the right... View Details

01 Feb 2022
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Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

02 Nov 2006
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Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel

2012
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Zhejiang Semir Garment Co., Ltd.

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Jie Jiao and Yuren Fang

With the rapid growth of China's economy and China's increasing integration into the global economy in the past two decades, China's leisure clothing and garment enterprises achieved a rapid rise and became an important competitive force confronting the foreign brands... View Details

Keywords: Business Model Innovation; Competitive Strategy; Management Controls; China; China

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2010
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Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability: A New Framework

By: Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie

This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of... View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Economy; Financial Condition; Central Banking; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Measurement and Metrics; System Shocks

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January–February 2019
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Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance

By: Claudine Gartenberg, Andrea Prat and George Serafeim

We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not related to financial performance. However, high... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Purpose; Purpose; Employee Motivation; Belief Systems; Corporate Performance; Human Capital; Middle Management; Culture; Corporate Culture; Meaning; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Employees; Perception; Values and Beliefs; Performance Effectiveness

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03 Dec 2014
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Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

month's question elicited responses across the spectrum of recommended ways of managing them. At one extreme was Sherpa, who said, "Any sort of 'brilliant jerk" is simply another form of psychopath. Psychopaths have no place in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

August 1989
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Organizational Frame-Bending: Principles for Managing Reorientations

By: D. Nadler and Michael Tushman

Keywords: Organizations; Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment

By: Raffaella Sadun, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh

Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital behavior and performance. We open the “black box” of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains. Benchmarking the merger's... View Details

Keywords: Performance Improvement; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Industry

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

I led on family business management in Santiago in 1999. I've worked with their family business system ever since. Nelson, then CEO of RBS and also leader of his family branch, attended the seminar to... View Details

1998
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Competitive Policy Shocks and Strategic Management

By: P. Ghemawat, R. E. Kennedy and Tarun Khanna

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; System Shocks; Globalization

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11 Jul 2005
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The New International Style of Management

characterizes the U.S. model of management as focused on immediate outcomes and results and generally accustomed to having its way. But it has an added feature that enables it to remain powerful even as it is transformed. "When it's... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons