Communication Intention and Meaning - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

mean that Portugal produced 70,000 gallons of wine and 50,000 yards of cloth, whereas England produced 46,667 gallons of wine and 45,000 yards of cloth. However, if each... View Details

Keywords: Re: David A. Moss

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

the biggest entertainment hits were green-lighted based on a gut feeling and little "hard" data. Third, being able to make friends in high places is a valuable characteristic; with that I mean... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

poverty in developing nations has to be dealt with much differently than in economies of plenty, that what works in a developed nation may be irrelevant to a nation of mass poverty. In a developed economy, the bias is toward greater income View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

programs on preparing teams to function in a VUCA world, with rapidly changing customer, competitor, and stakeholder needs. Ideally, this means moving on from a fear of VUCA to embracing what I call... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

responsibility, would add little to the candidate's development. Instead she was given a general management assignment—and the team got a signal from the CEO about his commitment to diversity. His behavior communicated a sense of... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

bottom-up strategic initiatives, but also injects meaning into individual effort. It means articulating company values that not only align organizational effort with the overall enterprise objectives, but... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

07 Jun 2004
What Do You Think?

How Important are Big Ideas?

shareholders) and treat them well; don’t worry about gurus ... ." While big ideas may have originated, according to at least one study, primarily from the U.S. in recent decades, what does this mean for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

actually had no intention of being a civil rights leader. His desire was to be a great minister, and he had been extremely well schooled, certainly for an African American in those days. He'd gone to... View Details

20 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

Japan's economic recovery. "It is clear that something is wrong in Japan from an economic point of view," Porter stated, as a means of setting the stage. "The persistent depression, recession, View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

27 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?

innovation, and just by ordinary people in their everyday work lives or their everyday lives in their communities and societies.” Amabile’s paper cites research showing that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Apr 2011
What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

for just other private organizations, but for public entities all over the world. Clearly, the community of interest (and self-interest) extended far beyond Lehman Brothers and the US Government. Now we have... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

31 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

of business research in the forthcoming book How Will You Measure Your Life? Coauthored with James Allworth and Karen Dillon, the book explains how well-tested academic theories can help us find meaning... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

realizing that the demand isn't there. And if things go well, you can't expand capacity, which means there is limited upside potential," he continues. "As a result, companies can't take a portfolio... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

state pharmaceutical licensing exam, opened a drugstore with her husband in Stockton in 1915. Following his death, she became the sole proprietor and later opened two additional drugstores in town. Gleason emerged as a stalwart defender... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

determinants of intermedia substitutability and complementarity. The first, audience addressability, is the ability of a selected medium to reach an advertiser's target audience efficiently. The second determinant, audience control,... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

well-grooved process to deal with copyright and trademarked content that could be applied to user-generated content, where you would give notice, require a timely response, and pursue legal View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

age: dot-coms, dot-com enablers, and wanna-dots. That's kind of a joke, because many of the pure dot-coms are dead. The dot-com enablers, which are the technology and service firms themselves, are the... View Details