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23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

kitchen; Howard Schultz's early office was the prep room for his first café; and Michael Dell began assembling PCs in his college dorm room. How did they go from these beginnings to creating global organizations that became View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

table, or creating a favorable environment. Such efforts to create the right climate for entrepreneurship are likely to have several dimensions. Ensuring that creative ideas can move easily from universities View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

momentum until the deal was virtually closed. Neither side did its due diligence on their mutual perceptions of the real underlying social contract—partly because of the cultural chasms dividing old-line industrial Japan, View Details

Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius

01 Aug 2008
What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

Yet others viewed it as a means of getting more for less out of people, something to be tried when other approaches don't work. Howard Esbin likens it to "strategic scenario planning or futurism. The more one is able to ask 'what if' View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

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... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

How can the equity swap help alleviate the common mismatch between pension assets and liabilities that companies often carry? A: If the pension fund holds equities, then these assets have a "risk mismatch" with the corresponding... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

opportunities in industry and services. "It is difficult to imagine how that will continue there has to be some solution and that solution has to be governmental."... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

sorting process in industry were generally more sympathetic to business school admissions offices and the Herculean task they face in taking values into consideration in admissions. As Linda Abraham said,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

don't think about much, because it is not obvious on the outside. Clearly, stores must learn to use their data in creative ways. Q: Overall, did you find that these programs were worthwhile? How can retailers make rewards programs more... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

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