Essentialism - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2021
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Fueling the Faculty Pipeline

globalization.” He is impressed by the discussions he’s witnessed as a class visitor. “There is a lot more nuance in today’s classroom,” he says, adding that he believes the softer skills are essential to building a successful career.... View Details

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Continuity of Strategic Direction - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

“Reinvention” and frequent shifts in direction are costly and confuse the customer, the industry, and the organization. Continuity of strategy is essential to creating and sustaining competitive advantage. This means: Understanding the... View Details

13 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: Dec. 13

PublicationsAdding Bricks to Clicks: Predicting the Patterns of Cross-Channel Elasticities over Time Authors:Jill Avery, Thomas J. Steenburgh, John Deighton, and Mary Caravella Publication:Journal of Marketing (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we propose a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2007
Article

Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders

By: Joseph L. Bower

This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning

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2004
Working Paper

Regulation and Reaction: The Other Side of Free Banking in Antebellum New York

By: David A. Moss and Sarah Brennan

Free banking, which first appeared in the United States in the late 1830s, comprised two essential features: general incorporation for banks and rigorous security requirements for note issue. Because the general incorporation feature is what allowed free entry, it has... View Details

Keywords: History; Law; Competition; Financial Liquidity; Money; Market Entry and Exit; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

deployment of IT in health care. IT is an essential tool to enable a VBHC system but is not itself a solution to low-value care. Government can have a major impact on stimulating health information technology innovation that will finally... View Details

04 Jun 2020
Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

not in the room. The more trust that accumulates between us, the better this works. How do you build up stores of this essential leadership capital? Here’s the basic formula: people tend to trust you when they think they are interacting... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Dec 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

mind in the face of the debate over immigration and outsourcing, essentially trade in labor. And it is prompted by a new book, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, by Gregory Clark that identifies what he calls... View Details

Keywords: by by Jim Heskett

01 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bundle?

says. All kinds of products are sold in bundles. Microsoft Office is sold as a bundle of computer software, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Cable companies offer their channels in bundle packages. Even a music CD is essentially a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

that will be a self-sustaining symbiotic fish and produce system. Barakat Bundle Karima Ladhani Mitul Daiyan Shane Robinson Jyoti Ramakrishna Nayab Ahmad Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up A conditional newborn essentials kit that reduces... View Details

05 Jun 2023
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Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?

decisions that impact vast members of the population, it may be time to start informed discussions on reasonable control measures.” Francois Fouche Goosen put it bluntly this way: “One can only regulate if you can convince all participants to buy in It is View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

want to do it well. You can command how your people spend their time, even where they direct their attention, but you cannot decree what's essential for good work—you must win their commitment by winning over their heads and hearts. When... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

boatloads of money until they finally drove the last of the integrated mills out of the market—and then the price of rebar dropped 20 percent, because rebar had essentially become a commodity market. The minimills' reward for victory was... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

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Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

is used in health care delivery organizations around the world. Length: 28 min. January 2018 Presentation The Value-Based Health Care Agenda The Value-Based Health Care Agenda by Michael E. Porter In this video Professor Porter teaches the View Details

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

athletics or music, becoming an authentic leader requires years of practice in challenging situations. Authentic leaders match their behavior to their context, an essential part of emotional intelligence (EQ). They do not burst out with... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

leadership versus transactional leadership. We also wondered to what extent there were different insights depending on the unit of analysis with which one began. We knew it was essential to also invite people who were reflective,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

case traces the evolution of the firm as it reinvents itself in response to the transformation of the CRO sector from a small, secondary cluster of firms into a major player with essential capabilities for global drug development. The... View Details

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

borrowing to the way preschoolers play. “Put aside your differences, and, like kids, find something that works,” he says. 3. Know when to ignore the data At a time when data analytics seem to be essential for decision-making, McDonald... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

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