Publications

08 Oct 2019
News

Study: Northeast clean energy plans inadequate to meet climate goals

October 2022
Article

Underestimating Counterparts' Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations

By: Hanne K. Collins, Charles A. Dorison, Francesca Gino and Julia A. Minson

Given the many contexts in which people have difficulty engaging with views that disagree with their own— from political discussions to workplace conflicts—it is critical to understand how conflictual conversations can be improved. Whereas previous work has focused on... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Conflict and Resolution; Values and Beliefs; Learning; Perception

spring 1992
Article

On the Goals of Successful Family Companies

By: J. A. Davis and R. Tagiuri

Keywords: Family Business; Success

spring 1971
Article

A Model for Integrating Sampling Objectives in Auditing

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Yuri Ijiri

Keywords: Integration

March 1981 (Revised February 1983)
Background Note

Goals and Tools of U.S. Government Policy Toward American Banks Abroad

31 May 2018
News

Starbucks’ racial bias training has another goal

November 22, 2023
Article

Unifying Your Company Around a Moral Goal

By: Ranjay Gulati

In turbulent times, companies need a reliable anchor to guide decision-making. When organizations become moral communities, underpinned by purpose, they provide that stability for stakeholders as well as a reassuring sense of hope, solidarity, agency, and meaning.... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Corporate Strategy; Leadership

2018
Conference Presentation

Learning to Recognize Objects Provides Category-orthogonal Features for Social Inference and Moral Judgment

By: J. De Freitas, A. Hafri, G. A. Alvarez and D. L. K. Yamins

2012
Working Paper

Defense Acquisition Reform, 1960–2009: An Elusive Goal

By: J. Ronald Fox, David Allen, Thomas Lassman, Walton Moody and Philip Shiman

2012
Book

Defense Acquisition Reform, 1960-2009: An Elusive Goal

By: J. Ronald Fox, David Allen, Walton Moody and Philip Shiman

05 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals

Read Part 1 of Military Transition and the JD/MBA How to Think About the JD/MBA The military is an extremely hierarchical environment where professional credibility is literally worn on a person’s chest and... View Details

2018
Article

Cracking the Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing

By: Julie Battilana

While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, today companies are increasingly expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social... View Details

Keywords: Hybrid Organizations; Hybrid Organizing; Multiple Goals; Social Enterprise; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture

Article

On the Objective Function for the Sequential P-Model of Chance-Constrained Programming

By: Robert S. Kaplan and John Soden

10 Sep 2020
News

Using Systems Thinking to Stay on Goal

05 Dec 2019
News

How Artificial Intelligence Can Set Meaningful Sales Goals

2007
Chapter

Collaborative R&D in Management: The Practical Experience of Fenix and TruePoint in Bridging the Divide Between Scientific and Managerial Goals

By: Michael Beer and Niclas Adler

The gap between theory and practice has been of concern to both practitioners and academics, yet other than pleas to close the gap with more accessible writing by academics and more interest in research by practitioners few systematic efforts have been made to close... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Knowledge Management; Management; Goals and Objectives; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Improvement; Practice; Research and Development; Social and Collaborative Networks; Theory; Value; United States

2020
Working Paper

Iterative Coordination and Innovation

By: Sourobh Ghosh and Andy Wu

Agile management practices from the software industry continue to transform the way organizations innovate across industries, yet they remain understudied in the organizations literature. We investigate the widespread Agile practice of iterative coordination: frequent... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Goals; Specialization; Coordination; Field Experiment; Software Development; Organizations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Goals and Objectives; Integration; Software

22 Apr 2020
News

New committee to advise Bacow on sustainability goals

2019
Working Paper

Golden Opportunity? Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

By: Kristin Sippl

While much is known about voluntary sustainability standards' contributions to certain issues in certain sectors, less is known about their contributions to the realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper helps balance the... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability Standards; Gold; Certification; Eco-labeling; International Law; Extractive Industries; Fair Trade; United Nations; Sustainable Development; Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Adoption; Governance; Global Range; Luxury; Mining Industry