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- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
To some degree, this has exacerbated the challenge to those responsible for staffing these activities by creating more frequent peaks and valleys in demands for talent. Are there lessons for human resource... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
enjoyable it is, it’s a separate issue.” Overcoming the initial hurdles that stand in the way of a good habit often requires people to challenge seemingly innocuous behaviors, says Beshears, who has been studying how people make financial... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
employees. And several identified personally with the phenomenon. Desirable qualities of imposters were described in different ways. Julie Cohen said, “The balance of competency and occasional self-doubt... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
Disney, and Iridium, and Boston's Central Artery Project (the "Big Dig") in the public sector, are examples of some recent efforts that went bankrupt or had to be restructured. The managerial View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
challenging economic environments. However, they are entrepreneurs. So this is all they can do. They are not going back; they are not bunkering down and closing the shutters View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
At the HBS Executive Education program Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations (BCAO), executives charged with leading and building operations and manufacturing strategies enhance their... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
Summing Up "What we are looking at is a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about which corporate structures work," commented Daniel Hayes in response to the recent piece on the future bounds of the organization. Raman... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
poor can pay for what they need, and scale is not a challenge but a friend. In 2003 it had over one million clients, said Chu. Microfinance was not the purview only of ACCION, however. In 1992, Bolivia's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
its administrative heritage; also, the "fit" or alignment among important organization design elements such as structure, business systems, staffing, rewards, and tasks.1 In other words, the View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
different eras; I’ve created several of those, with protagonists confronting new and different challenges at each moment.) Still, I’m willing to take on a new novelist, and... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
right things. If they wanted to, they could then benchmark themselves against other firms of similar sizes and industries in a very pragmatic way. Q: How are you going to take these learnings further? What's next for you? A: We need to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
the Asia-Pacific region. Poised to enter the World Trade Organization, China is sowing the seeds of entrepreneurship in its state-owned enterprises; the Japanese government is challenging its own telecom monopolies; View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
As waves of globalization wash across the business world, tremendous new opportunities for financing and investment present themselves to savvy enterprises. In a new casebook, HBS professor Mihir A. Desai discusses the numerous View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
Many institutions promote and even mandate moral behavior and values among their members, but how they do it differs greatly. Some organizations such as religious groups may proscribe very specifically what... View Details
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
in the tax burden on foreign profits. It's also possible that the entire corporate tax system should be rethought, given a variety of very serious problems associated with it—including the gap between profits reported to capital markets... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
share (both volume and value) through the rough waves of the Italian economy. Facing The Future How Mutti will fare globally is up for debate. Its products are sold in 25 countries, including Russia, Australia, View Details