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- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
swathe of the American public, and that his gradual decline in the polls shows few signs of abating. In some industries Trump’s broad-based unpopularity leaves companies that are seen as supporting him vulnerable to boycotts. Beyond the... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
why we shouldn’t do that.” While the call for waiting periods is bound to receive some pushback, the researchers are encouraged by the broad support waiting periods receive. The American Medical Association supports waiting periods for gun purchases, and View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
accurate" color. 4 Most of the consumers polled in the survey already use the Web to purchase nonapparel products that are not dependent on color. However, the respondents indicated that they rarely purchase apparel online,... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Scriplogix also polled conference attendees about their views of what the future held and the impediments, if any, to fashioning curricula which could help students best address this future. Concurrently, Herzlinger and conference... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
Prize winner perhaps most famous for his climate-change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, "Fox News has consistently delivered false and misleading information to its viewers about the climate crisis." Indeed, polls have shown... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
organization around it. Blogging, today, is increasingly common. In an informal poll in the School's General Management Program, which brings in executives from around the world, about 20 percent said they write a regular blog. Q: Care to... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
and Jones—suave, dispassionate, and an accountant by background—had been named in several polls as the most outstanding CEO in America as well as a true business statesman in his efforts to build bridges between government and business.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
Matter Even When They Shouldn't: Bandwagon Effects in Two-Round Elections By: Pons, Vincent, and Clémence Tricaud Abstract—To predict others’ behavior and make their own choices, voters and candidates can rely on information provided by View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
and negative economic growth are experienced, with losses having more than twice as much impact on individual happiness as compared to equivalent gains. We use Gallup World Poll data drawn from 151 countries, Behavioral Risk Factor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
crossing cultural borders. Two of the seventeen case sequences she has developed for the course so far — "Siam Cement Group: Corporate Philosophy" and "The Haier Group" — take place in Thailand and China, respectively. Named Asia's most ethical... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
the DA. In designing the DA career conference initiative, Harris and her team polled DA faculty representing all promotion tracks and length of service. They also captured best practices from across other NAH divisions and other peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
the technology, industrial, and health care categories. Q: Do investors expect the same results from social purpose companies? A: Investors' Circle polled its membership about their return expectations as part of a member survey being... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
(January 2012) Abstract Back in the 1990s, business school professors at an Academy of Management conference debated the propriety of teaching distributive bargaining to their students. The particulars of that exchange are lost in the mists of time, but at the end of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic growth (from 1960 to 2005) in the rich half of nations has not brought happiness gains above those that were already in place once the 1960s standard of living had been achieved. However in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
so the happiness gains that they experience, whilst not permanent, can still be relatively long-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic growth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
complex processes that often don't exist? (The respondents to a poll of 1200 HR managers indicated that 60 percent did not have a CEO succession plan in place.) Are CEOs reluctant to initiate plans that require substantial effort and... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
growing number of elections, and that is a cause for concern.” Fewer voters means less people having a stake in what government does, eroding trust of the governed—particularly by younger, poorer, and less educated citizens, who tend to stay home from the View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
outsourcing and movement of labor, with its social welfare offerings. Reforms implemented during the past two decades drove down unemployment, promoted new company formation, and put the country at or near the top of international polls... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
top players' market share declined more than 10 percent. Not surprisingly, many executives' faith in CRM has waned. In a 2001 Bain & Co. survey of the 25 most popular management tools, CRM was ranked near the bottom. In a follow-up study, 20 percent of the 451... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? We find that measures of subjective well-being are more than twice as sensitive to negative as compared to positive economic growth. We use Gallup World Poll data from over... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman