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- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
tipped not only toward opposing a proposal, but also toward using attack tactics that tip still more people. Anxiety then builds like an infection. People use fear-mongering strategies with voices that are... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
depends, to a surprising extent, on capable leaders. If boards of directors of public, anonymously-owned companies didn't believe that leadership mattered so much, they wouldn't pay such huge salaries to their CEOs. (By the way, I don't think they are worth that much,... View Details
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
whether common sense based on accumulated experience can be of any help to decision-makers forced to predict the future in complex situations. Watts questions much of the recent work that purports to identify causes and effects in complex, unique situations involving... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
could fully understand the true risk involved at any single point of failure." Technology can help you cope with this complexity, but the high hopes some companies placed in supply chain management software have been dashed,... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
as Miller Lite’s virtual tip jar for bartenders or Yum Brands $1,000 bonuses to its Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC general managers during mandated restaurant closures and emergency medical relief fund for employees diagnosed with... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
count on for positive commentary," Cohen says. The evidence made it clear that firms can't cast calls forever. If they do, analysts eventually drop coverage-the tipping point seems to be four calls in a row.... View Details
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
big-picture question for me is in how we interact with other people," she says. "It's hard to come up with any business transaction you can do alone." The Tipping Point Of Animacy Specifically, Looser is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
trip, recently talked to Professor Kerr about his research and his observations in China. Mike Roberts: Tell us about your impressions of China. Bill Kerr: My central observation from our trip is that China is at a tipping View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
had to prove itself in practice. He set a timetable: the microenterprises must reach the tipping point by September 20, 2018, which meant the microenterprise would have become a platform to which all... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
European Investment Bank.) When the researchers compared green bonds with other bonds issued by the same municipality, they found a slightly lower yield of 6 basis points (.06 percent) for self-identified green bonds, and up to 20 basis... View Details
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
Movie buffs may recall that "plastics" was the whispered tip to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate; if the movie were remade today, "Web services" might replace that advice. An overflow audience already seemed to know... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
the ones that scare me." These comments raise the question of how much theory tells us about selecting for harder to measure characteristics such as possible behaviors under fire and motives as opposed to skills and past accomplishments. A second group View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
work life. Assume that we are slowly progressing toward a tipping point at which sitting female CEOs will pave the way for other women, just as their male counterparts have done for men. The result may be an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
make decisions. But it's not all about a cost/benefit comparison...It's change and it's new and you can't know everything about that. It's the future, so at some point you do rely on something beyond analysis," in her experience on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
Here's a tip for companies looking to woo customers away from the competition: Besides advertising fair prices for your products, try advertising fair wages for your employees. Recent research from Harvard Business School indicates that... View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
country,” says Lal. “If you look at successful implementations, they all started with, ‘What problem can I solve?’ If you don’t identify the right problem, the rest of it will not go anywhere.” Lal researched successful mobile money programs, and a few that flopped, to... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
problem. Some have suggested taxing ecommerce to blunt its growth, but it is likely too late to change behaviors that have been engrained over the last decade. An abandoned escalator in an abandoned shopping mall. ©iStock.com/Versionphotography Q: One major retailing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
reliance on non-renewable or non-recyclable resources a sustainable economy will not emerge until graduate schools research and teach how to identify and manage the existential risks referred to above.” Nick C teed up the appropriate question for us when he said, “Not... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details