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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
in 2016, with Gastfriend as CEO and his father as chief medical officer. A 2014 study estimated that 12.5 million Americans had substance use disorders, and that number was rising, largely due to opioid use. In addition to the human toll,... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
top-management counsel, hiring the most qualified staff, and an apprenticeship process that built excellence. For example, Marvin Bower, founder of McKinsey, preached that partners had to focus on serving the right senior clients on their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
documents to businesses around the world for nearly 30 years. “We have a natural tendency as humans to neglect low-probability events, even if the impact is very high,” he says. “The most basic analogy is the difficulty some people have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
economic troubles correlating with ethical and spiritual lapses, including Zimbabwe, where prolonged violations of human rights and citizen participation have rendered the masses economically impotent.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
lot since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. At sort of its most basic level, how has this crisis changed how we communicate? Rachel: Well, this is an important time for human connection, a great opportunity for leaders to innovate in... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
managerial attention—if that—is focused on the problems of employee capability and motivation. Somewhere between theory and practice, precious human capital is being misused, wasted, or lost. Having studied more than twenty companies in... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Why You Are Unhappy at Work
jobs for the right mix of organizational support and responsibility. Why Can't Organizations Engage Their Employees? Who is responsible for generating employee engagement? asks James Heskett The employee or the employee's managers? What's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
which English is spreading is unprecedented and staggering” A: Lingua francas have existed for centuries. English has become the global business language mostly in the last 30 years. Linguists believe it's the fastest spreading language in View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
the founding CEO of Palm and the cofounder of Handspring, ushering in two of the tech ages biggest leaps—handheld computing, and the smart phone. So, she's essentially been famously successful by being right about the future. We sat down... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
When No News Isn’t Good News
happen,” she observes. “When you’re doing something for the first time and are unsure if you’re on the right track, resist the tendency to put your head down and just keep going.” The sooner you open a dialogue with your supervisor or... View Details
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The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
The Ownership Project More Research Projects The Ownership Project explores how structuring ownership of key elements in the economy can help businesses and communities address pressing societal challenges and support human values in the... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
with economies of scale in merchandising, marketing, and distribution. To ensure standardization, Wal-Mart sets the span of control for store managers at the "narrow" end of the scale. Although they nominally control their stores, Wal-Mart site managers have... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
stadiums, are borne by national and local governments. In terms of human capital costs, FIFA itself employs only 400 people, according to the organization's website. Even if each of its 209 country members employs another 50, that adds up... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the Marshall Plan was not only right at the human level, it was a smart economic strategy. Are we not missing that consciousness right now? Jon Canas (AMP 86, 1981) Eustis, FL... View Details
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Ai Weiwei Strength 2019 | About
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2009). Ai Weiwei has received numerous awards and honors, including the lifetime achievement award from the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards in 2008, and he was made Honorary Academician at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 2011. His... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
reduce human disease and suffering influences his work as a health care economist and researcher. “I imagine a world where we have treatments, ideally cures, for diseases where right now we have nothing,” he... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
Humans can be self-destructive. We overindulge in food and fail to make time to exercise, and we delay saving for retirement. Associate Professor John Beshears, whose research focuses on behavioral economics, has identified hope: The idea... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
availability, having the right product in the right place at the right time with the right label and of course with the View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
and the actions a platform will take to enforce those policies—works but is difficult to achieve. If users trust the platform to know the right thing to do and then it consistently does the right thing, then... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
capital. These rights are free from the burdens of ownership. Shareholders thus become temporary, while the corporation is permanent—controlled not by shareholders, but by the board of directors. Under a legal doctrine known as the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans