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  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

Excessive bureaucracy was the biggest source of perceived risk in South Asia. There were regional differences also in how leaders in different regions responded to the same risk. In both regions business leaders reported having to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Feb 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

especially true if groupthink may in some ways be a means to a worthy end. In Moses' case, he would brook no contrary ideas in amassing the power needed to fight bureaucracy and red tape while he built parks and bridges that were the envy... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

board chairperson, who is at the center of the board bureaucracy in China. Dissent is more likely to occur when the chairperson who appointed the independent director has left the board. Dissent also tends to occur at the end of board... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

Petrom's legacy as a state-owned company, such as lack of investment, aged assets, operational inefficiency, and bureaucracy while successfully managing the triangular partnership between the acquirer OMV, acquiree OMV Petrom, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

India's economic prospects looked bright for a developing country—it had a well-trained government bureaucracy bequeathed by the British, a secure legal system, national railroads, and more advanced industry than, for example, China. Why... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

for firm and board characteristics, we find that independent directors' dissent is associated with breakdown of social ties between the independent director and the board chairperson, who locates at the center of the board bureaucracy in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

after paying a two-times premium for Sirtris with his desire to retain Christoph Westphal, Sirtris's co-founder and CEO, and other key individuals at the company. His desire to protect Sirtris from GSK's size and bureaucracy occurs in a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Jan 2021
  • Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

entrepreneurship in the private and public sectors just like we have bureaucracy in the private and public spaces. Big companies, too, struggle to find ways to be new, novel, and innovative. I think we overestimate some of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

bureaucracy can be wildly at odds with what entrepreneurs and their backers really need. Economists have also focused on a second problem, delineated in the theory of regulatory capture. These writings suggest that private- and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 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
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

known of what influences auditors' ability to identify and report dangerous, illegal, and unethical behavior at factories. Drawing on insights from the literature on street-level bureaucracy and on regulatory and audit design, we theorize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

the need to recoup shareholder value after paying a two-times premium for Sirtris with his desire to retain Christoph Westphal, Sirtris's co-founder and CEO, and other key individuals at the company. His desire to protect Sirtris from GSK's size and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

communism as a result of too many layers of bureaucracy and not enough market (true enough). But I then tell students that I made a mistake and that this chart actually represents the managerial organizations of one of the most successful... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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