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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
setting priorities for free time, to make sure important personal relationships and beloved activities don’t slip through the cracks. "It’s hard to do, because jobs are infringing," he said. Butler... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
personal models of success, the first step in the process is introspection, followed by a creative and savvy approach to one's actual next career move. In the May program, participants spent time in intensive groups. Dr. Timothy Butler,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
a two-sided, many-to-one matching with contracts model in which agents with unit demand match to branches that may have multiple slots available to accept contracts. Each slot has its own linear priority order over contracts; a branch... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
Harvard Business School.] The CEO is undoubtedly the most powerful person in any organization. Yet any CEO who tries to use this power to unilaterally issue orders or summarily reject proposals that have come up through the organization... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
we've noted, a good number of them were ready to bolt. Gooding made it a priority to assemble a high-quality senior team and, further, to personally invest the time and energy in creating healthy... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
associates and partners to their firms. How new fee structures have shifted firms’ priorities The prioritization of growth has also led to record increases in the use of performance-based fees tied to client-achieved outcomes. While... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
limitations and constraints others have accepted, and set out to create new realities. This book is motivated by a simple observation: Leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, problem solving, business growth-and even View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
be able to give a kidney to the person you want to give to," Roth says. Historically, those incompatible donors would be sent home, and their sick loved ones would wait for a deceased donor. But a few years ago Roth started studying... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
your investor is a former operator, especially at an early stage company, odds are they have built/tested many MVPs. Engage them in the MVP discussion. Review product priorities and test plans. Again, their objectivity and experience... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
communities we see a vast degree of openness in which everybody can participate, but also the practice of broadcasting your work to everybody else. People continually broadcast their problems, others broadcast solutions, and the person... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
interviewed were struck by Gerstner's interest and active involvement in the development of high-potential minority and female senior managers and junior executives; he took a personal interest in how they were being mentored and what... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
Kristin S. Rhyne, MBA '99, would have loved to have the problems of reconciling employee priorities and juggling financial plans. Late last May, a year after incorporating Polished, she was still struggling to open its first unit. The... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
sector tends to be mired in a process that often results in various degrees of chaos. Supported by a broad mix of foundations, corporations, and individuals, the philanthropic capital markets depend mostly on a hodgepodge of personal... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
emerged. Some (relatively rich) emerging countries now exploit the economic advantage of relatively low labor costs to move quickly into the manufacture of high-tech products, such as wireless phones, microprocessors, personal computers,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
learning of the entrepreneur and building the business, but it's controversial because some people say Acumen should be measuring outcomes. Ultimately, it does want a sense of those outcomes—but building the organization is the high View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
it's unlikely you've ever put them together just like this, with this same person acting and reacting in quite the same way. Negotiation is a particularly high-stakes form of communication, one that requires the lightning-quick, informed... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
smartphones for the masses to similar other innovative technologies for rural households." Heaven forbid, Kapil Kumar Sopory even suggested that the problem is us. "Each one (of us) has his limited priorities and remains content... View Details
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
marketing function and the C-suite. Reasons for this are varied, but may include CEO and board priorities taken up by other issues or too much delegation of responsibility to the chief marketing officer. When a firm's marketing activities... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
not have to travel far to make deals, change jobs, or find professional partners. John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins is fond of saying that the Valley is a place where you can change your job without changing your parking spot. Shared values also bind longtime Silicon... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
percent) and men (45 percent), as well as US (45 percent) and non-US (42 percent) respondents. Social media topped the list of technology adoption priorities across the board. "It was almost as if the respondents had one voice," Groysberg... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel