Health And Wellness - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 May 2002
Op-Ed

A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures

If companies and regulators are ever to learn from the collapse of Enron—and prevent similar corporate debacles in the future—they must look more closely at the relationship between auditors, managers and... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting

18 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon

revenue from the shipping fees because these are orders that qualify for free shipping." As one might expect, customers who visited the seller's website more frequently, as well as more recently, exhibited the highest demand View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

28 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

Mintzberg argued that strategic planning techniques (such as scenario planning) do not work well for organizations because they typically fail to engage business managers and remain detached from everyday... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

Dávila, now on the faculty of Stanford Business School. Some thirty case studies are also available in a version of the book geared toward students as well as managers who want to tap more extensively into examples of best practice. Q:... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

particularly oversight of the CEO, as well as engaging in the strategy and the direction of the company-is difficult." For directors like this one, the central issue was how much directors could be expected... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

08 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

better, the system would work well with alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power, unlike the existing energy system, which has a tough time with renewables. Potentially, customers would be... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

As a professor of decision making and negotiation, I often receive unsolicited phone calls from relatives, friends, and acquaintances seeking my advice on consumer matters such as negotiating for a house,... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

25 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

Companies all over the world have striven for transparency in the workplace, literally tearing down walls in an effort to let managers and employees observe each other. Take, for example, one of the 14 key principles of The Toyota Way,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

the low productivity increases associated with certain industries, like hospitality, retail, and increasingly education and health care. AIM questioned whether productivity... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

Silicon Valley is the poster child for capitalism, the synergistic geography where smart private money supports cool ideas, creates jobs, boosts national productivity, and provides a handsome return for investors. Less View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

26 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

centers correlated with whether a song achieved eventual commercial success. The OneRepublic song Apologize performed especially well in both the brain scans and the market. "Importantly, Berns View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

managing customer relationships in the business-to-business environment into four distinct phases: defining and building a portfolio of customers the firm wants to serve, crafting and implementing... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

02 Dec 2002
What Do You Think?

How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

and option values) as well as the importance of retaining rare top management talent. All of this raises some interesting questions. Who is served by cutbacks in stock option availability? Will the cutbacks... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

processes through which my colleagues in the Social Enterprise group at HBS develop and share the intellectual capital that we are continually generating. My current work involves e-philanthropy as well as... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

05 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis

difficult decisions over what investments to keep and what investments to cut. How they made those choices and what effect they had on business and national recovery in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking

14 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

big-brand retailer seems to have survived and even thrived in the apocalyptic retail landscape. What's its secret? Research Papers Executive Education in the Digital Vortex: The Disruption of the Supply LandscapeThe impact of customer... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

suspicious. Q: What countries and corrupt activities have you studied? Have you been particularly surprised by anything you have learned? What trends are you seeing? A: My research does not have a geographic focus, although the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell

06 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

It is fascinating to observe pundit after pundit come down strongly on the side of expensing stock options in the reported financial statements, as if that were the silver bullet for combating corporate malfeasance and resolving all our... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

a permanent reality in corporate boardrooms—whether or not executives have a deep-seated passion for the social issues involved. Expectations are changing, agreed panelists. Oil corporations, for example, are well versed in the standard... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

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

administrations. The biggest factor influencing world trade leadership is the relative health of the economies of the US and China. As Thomas Christensen put it in his book, The China Challenge, “before we... View Details