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  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

losses, improve his finance department with the help of a Wall Street private equity firm, and make it a matter of policy to pay closer attention to managing the balance sheet. Makihara then turned his View Details
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

strategy that was explicitly based on the perceived strengths and weaknesses of its competitor, Ford.2 In the 1930s, Chester Barnard, a top executive with AT&T, argued that managers should pay especially close View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 15 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

that business disruptions are not just potential threats, but common occurrences that demand immediate attention from CEOs, C-suite teams, and boards. It's time for leaders to take stock of their companies’ operational resilience—their... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
  • 23 Mar 2020
  • News

Signal Boost

that women and children would be hurt in traffic by exiting from the left side. Lara, then a manager of product strategy for Chrysler and the mother of an infant daughter, spoke up. “First of all, we park in parking lots, not traffic.... View Details

    John Stuart

    Having started in the cereal business as a sweeper at Quaker Oats, Stuart always paid attention to details and to the efficiency with which his father managed the company. His first major task at Quaker Oats... View Details
    Keywords: Food & Tobacco
    • 01 Dec 2012
    • News

    Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources

    Henderson What would you do if you had the Dalai Lama's complete attention for 10 minutes? That's the situation Professor Rebecca Henderson faced in front of 1,000 people during a panel discussion with the religious leader, part of his... View Details
    Keywords: Dalai Lama

      James O. McKinsey

      McKinsey founded the largest management consulting firm in the world. His greatest contribution was focusing attention on budgeting as a major instrument of management. He asserted the need for continued... View Details
      Keywords: Services
      • 18 Jun 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: June 18

      may compete in the intraorganizational marketplace for influential ideas and the attention of decision makers. Specifically, as risk management becomes more tool-driven and toolmaking may become more... View Details
      Keywords: Anna Secino
      • 19 Nov 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

      chain management and advanced planning and scheduling software embed more advanced algorithms than their predecessors and offer the possibility of optimizing decisions across an entire supply chain, as opposed to within single firms. 52... View Details
      Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
      • 14 Sep 2021
      • Blog Post

      How to Support Your Employees' Career Development

      like and focus on that.” This important step of pinpointing strengths can be achieved through assessments, but also through conversations with attentive managers. “Without any formal diagnostics, managers... View Details
      • 01 Sep 2007
      • News

      To The Rescue

      Each day, the chaos that is one sliver of modern India arrives in the form of 13,000 phone calls to the tranquil 37-acre campus of the Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) outside Hyderabad in the southern state of Andhra... View Details
      Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information
      • 26 Mar 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

      new study of physician offices transitioning to electronic health records (EHRs) used in managing patient care. In general, larger offices in the study that employed EHRs recorded productivity gains, but certain types of smaller practices... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
      • 18 May 2021
      • Book

      Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

      Starting a job can feel like stepping onto a movie set without a script. Everyone knows the plot; the challenge is figuring out the role. Managers often know what they want from top performers but rarely explain it. That perspective... View Details
      Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
      • 05 Jul 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: July 5

      attention would carry over to other new product endeavors. Students are presented with a number of new product concepts and the findings from both qualitative and quantitative market research. This allows for a rich discussion of how... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 04 Oct 2024
      • In Practice

      Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

      inability to do so for just as long. How can someone overcome that cultural inheritance? It starts with managing one’s time at work. Technology allows work to encroach relentlessly on employees’ personal lives. If a person fails to put... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 01 Apr 1998
      • News

      Short Takes

      Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments," the authors assert that increasing flexibility during the product development cycle can enable a firm to adjust to unanticipated circumstances so opportunely and cost... View Details
      Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
      • 07 Feb 2005
      • What Do You Think?

      If You Blink, Will You Miss?

      blink. As Skip Corsini put it, "I believe a person with the attention span of a hummingbird who really knows his or her business is better prepared to deal with the world as it has become than someone who has to have every single... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 01 Dec 2017
      • News

      2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers

      scale. Offerings such as MOOCs (massive open online courses) have wide reach but relatively low engagement, while approaches that offer faculty interaction result in high engagement but don’t scale. The answer may lie in shifting View Details
      Keywords: Amy McIntosh (MBA 1984) , associate vice chancellor for academic strategy, The City University of New York
      • 28 Oct 2001
      • What Do You Think?

      What Can We Expect in the Other War?

      dealing with the personal concerns of employees? Will more attention have to be given to "community building?" Will, in fact, the war on terrorism prompt managers to engage in behaviors necessary... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 06 Sep 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

      All good managers understand the importance of making sure that every member of a team feels personally motivated and necessary throughout the workday, lest their work should stagnate and suffer. But what's the key to igniting creativity,... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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