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20 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

keep in mind when implementing supply chain strategies or approaches. This course, Managing the Supply Chain: The General Manager's Perspective, is about these principles and perspectives. And it's aimed at the general manager because it's the GM's View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

behavioral issues. Say you work at an insurance agency. Your job is to devise protection, and you've discovered, as many insurers do, that catastrophic reinsurance is expensive. Meanwhile, your boss has been hounding you for months to... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

02 Apr 2014
What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

question for the month is that the leadership stars of today-Jobs, Bezos, Gates, etc.-should not cause us to change our time-honored ideas about great leadership. Among the notions advanced were that they: (1) are special, (2) are entrepreneurs View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

no one passes up the opportunity; 91 percent of those accepted started class this fall, a yield unmatched by any rival. HBS MBAs are in high demand in the job market. So where's the rub? “Conventional MBA programs train the wrong people... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

as returns to investors. So the question becomes, what is the board's responsibility in that context? Q: The survey that you summarize in the book's first chapter shows that directors are really wrestling with that question. A: In 2009,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

Professor Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback write in the new preface to their book Being the Boss: The Three Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, first published in 2011 and reissued this spring, “Leadership has always been hard, and in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

resolved it. Since past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior, the board should ask candidates what concrete steps they took in their prior job to ensure that senior and lower-level managers were conducting the business with... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (in this study, by the store managers), leads to lower employee turnover. On one hand, a centralized model of hiring can allow a company to ensure enough resources and efforts are invested into... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

boards, saying boards aren't doing enough. But the reality is that in general boards have gotten a better handle on their companies now than they did when I first started looking at them twenty years ago. If you look at the typical board... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

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