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  • 02 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Corporate Strategy

more powerful than 1,000 words (or even twenty-five ad hoc performance measures). The financial and customer objectives describe the outcomes the organization wants to achieve; objectives in the internal and learning and growth... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jan 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

needs. These reside deep within the organization, and therefore must be developed and leveraged through processes completely foreign to the vertical, control-based management approaches that proved all powerful in earlier times. This, in... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

  Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth By: Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan Abstract—At the time of the American Revolution, China was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Mar 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

Columbus Dispatch titled, “Trade With Red China.” Rather than advocate a position, the ad laid out the pros and cons of establishing a trade relationship between the United States and a largely isolated but feared China. Nevertheless, it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 03 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

might arise: I believe the tendency is to make across-the-board cuts, without reflecting on the company's business strategy and its relationship to the larger environment. Some companies will end up making very poor decisions that will... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

forthcoming NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015 Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and Kerr, William R. Abstract—The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through input-output and geographic networks can be a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

already-low cost of digital communications declines toward zero, the Web's radical interactivity presents new challenges to marketers, who must now learn how to build and sustain intimate customer relationships on a far larger scale than... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • November 2008 (Revised January 2011)
  • Exercise

Breaking Through Action Plan

By: David A. Thomas and Karen J. Watai
The "Breaking Through Action Plan" is a developmental tool based on the book, Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America by David A. Thomas and John J. Gabarro. The Action Plan was originally designed as part of a facilitated session but... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Power and Influence; Trust
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  • 26 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

agreement with each party as well as the value of having that person or group onboard. 3. Identify key relationships among the parties: who influences whom, who tends to defer to whom, who owes something to whom, and so on. 4. Focus on... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 18 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity

acknowledged its pedophilia scandals, it would have protected victims and its moral authority. Had President Bill Clinton admitted his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, the scandal would have subsided, enabling him to focus on his... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Education
  • 17 Jul 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

of powerful CEOs making up Trump’s Strategy and Policy Forum. Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein even created a Twitter account in order to issue his first tweet objecting to the President’s decision. A responsibility to be heard Immelt’s... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 16 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

international equity markets. The average slope coefficient on the ERP is a highly significant 1.05. In contrast, factor-model-based proxies fail to exhibit predictive power worldwide. Integrating the model with a dynamic information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

to the researchers, successful digital economists share three broad skill sets: the ability to assess and interpret empirical relationships and work with data; the ability to understand and design markets and incentives, taking into... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education
  • 05 Mar 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?

announcements by companies taking advantage of the U.S. economic slowdown to get rid of hiring mistakes, redundancies from previous mergers, stockpiled talent, and excess employees resulting from failed forecasts. The second is a book, Design Rules: The View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

2017 New York: Scribner Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times By: Koehn, Nancy F. Abstract—An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights that will be of interest to a wide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

economic theory with field experiments. "Field experiments give you scientific rigor while being close to practice," says. "Unless you really have a bulletproof argument that you can't poke holes in, it's hard to change prior beliefs." Case in point is her research on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

his senior managers, he will be more willing to decentralize decision-making. For example, there might be a lower concern about the fact that managers will use their power to pursue their personal interests instead of those of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

compare each other, both the similarities and differences, especially of their business systems. So we set about using the convening power of the School to bring together the best scholars in business and economic history in both... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • July – August 2010
  • Column

Powerlessness Corrupts

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
Powerlessness damages organizations--especially in the middle ranks, says HBR columnist Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Hemmed in by rules and treated as unimportant, people get even with management by overcontrolling their own turf. Kanter urges leaders to give employees... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Opportunities; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence
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  • 31 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

powerful than the normal academic method of doing research that I will never do that again." Whether it's called crowdsourcing or open innovation, the growth of methods for yoking together groups of experts in various fields to work... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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