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- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
expanding into high-wage economies in Europe and North America; (2) the company was expanding its presence in China—a country where front-line employees were not used to exercising decision-making authority; and (3) newcomers in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
strategies adopted to date. What we are experiencing in California and elsewhere may be a massive "on-the-job training" exercise that will lead to better-informed efforts to implement deregulation in the future. What do you... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
numbers, a way of mobilizing support and negotiating from a position of greater influence. [ ] Few organizations decide issues by vote, but every senior leader understands the risks of acting in opposition to many voices speaking in unison. Do You Use Your Network to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
for ad revenue. Instead, the research findings contradict this notion, offering validation that the press is keeping vigilant watch and is exercising the fundamental rights assigned to them by the US Constitution. “I was surprised to see... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
motivations for prosocial behavior, such as volunteering and charitable giving. These insights are important not only for nonprofits trying to motivate donors to give, but also for almost any company that wants to convince consumers the value of a particular retirement... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
power newly entrusted in corporations to address one of the greatest societal challenges of our time. As Americans march in the streets before the UN Conference, and as the global climate approaches tipping points beyond which lies unchartered territory, an enormous... View Details
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking inventors from historical U.S. patents to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940 and to regional economic aggregates. We provide a theoretical framework... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
businesses." The predominant view was that the practice at present has many limitations. Ann Romaine-Adelstein commented, "I doubt we can predict with validity from a scan yet who will work hard, be innovative or exercise great... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 May 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?
funeral.'" How should we measure "leadership industry" results? What do you think? Original Article Leadership is under fire around the world, in business, government, and other institutions. Followers appear to be View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
315-067 Responsibilities to Employees This note provides a framework to conceptualize managers' responsibilities to employees in relation to economic, legal, and ethical considerations. It also frames the central ethical challenge for managers as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
together value chain participation strategies in a setting where they can also learn about industrial biotechnology, including some cutting edge methods in directed evolution. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/614001 Harvard Business School Case 914-006... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
flow of success and safeguard a sphere of autonomy in which they can think and live for themselves. This quest for autonomy should not be mistaken for an exercise in selfishness or a romantic rejection of society or the system.... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
solely financial or technological, but "very personal — it depends on you and what you bring to the opportunity." The cases and exercises then marched through "the parameters of a well-designed, de novo business," she... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
Leaders of publicly held companies are required to exercise their best judgment in pursuit of the interests of the business, and this gives them enormous flexibility to make whatever choice they see fit. This a test that cannot be... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
capable of countering the power of the executive and exercising better governance in companies even as large as Chrysler. Another phenomenon may provide a different kind of response to the challenge. Flush with more cash than good ideas,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
employees have an honest discussion of their mutual expectations, they added. This is "very difficult to do." Going forward, Beer suggested that managers recognize pay-for-performance not just in instrumental terms—as a carrot, perhaps—but as a larger View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
team. Incorporate unanticipated, random complications and consider scheduling exercises during peak and non-peak business hours. Ensure the dissemination of clear crisis management procedures to provide structured and effective responses... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
obtaining full disclosure, and in general exercising oversight in such relationships. Coase's ideas were thought to be so valuable that they earned him the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1991. One of the most important phenomena of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial, and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical fiscal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
"Our process is a structural mechanism that alleviates the problem by getting information into the open and helping managers discuss the undiscussable." But "getting in shape" involves several demanding exercises... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross