by Michael Beer - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 May 2021
News

As Workers Head Back to the Office, These Are the Talks Business Leaders Need to Have Now

01 Jan 2008
News

Lifetime Achievement Award in Economic Development, U.S. Department of Commerce

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Creativity Maze

wished. Creative people are rarely superstars like Michael Jordan. Indeed, most of the creative work done in the business world today gets done by people whose names will never be recorded in history books.... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa Amabile

02 Mar 2020
What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

report to you succeed, I think it’s pretty hard to lead with anything other than humility and vulnerability.” Dfallah said, “I believe candor, humility and trust are core values for visionary companies ” Michael H. added, “For several... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

manager’s back to get the CTO’s opinions on their work or they try to undermine a decision made by the new head of a department by complaining to the CEO. Even finding time to just chat with the founder is a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

29 Jul 2015
News

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

07 May 2008
News

Harvard Business School Hosts Business and Human Rights Conference

30 May 2018
News

The corporate sustainability Twitterati 2018

04 Apr 2016
News

Businesses Pledge Millions to Boost Baltimore Economy

02 Jul 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

decision-making and even to the future and viability of capitalism. One debate concerned the primacy of profit as a goal. Deaver Brown led this argument by saying, "Profit is the only legitimate goal of a corporation ," pointing... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Oct 2017
News

Handgun Waiting Periods Actually Do Save Lives

08 Feb 2017
News

In Trump’s America, the Price of Speech and Silence

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

August 2004 (Revised July 2005)
Case

Allianz (D1): The Turnaround

By: Joseph L. Bower, Anders Sjoman and Sonja Ellingson Hout

Examines the acquisition of Dresdner Bank by Allianz--the deal of the year in 2002. Examines some of the challenges posed by the turnaround of Dresdner as seen by Michael Diekmann, the new CEO of Allianz. In working with Dresdner, Allianz needed to figure out what it... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Financial Institutions; Investment Banking; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges

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Educators

Purchase

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson as well as Ryan Holiday’s instant classic The Obstacle is the Way. I have also been ramping... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

handed the business plan for Internet Wicket Ale Inc. (IWA), an interactive, on-line marketing company being formed to sell premium beers made by microbreweries over the Internet. According to the president... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

17 Sep 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills

indicators of negotiators' social motives. Francesca Gino, Michael I. Norton, and colleagues. Picking Up An Opponent's 'tell' How to Spot a Liar Key linguistic cues can help reveal dishonesty during business negotiations, whether it's a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2019
News

Plan a Careful Budget, Then Get Ready to Splurge

01 Jun 2016
What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

Yet a third view is that the odds of success in achieving important change are enhanced by coordinated efforts to alter, as Michael Beer puts it, “the organization model”... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

Michael Beer and his coauthors at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, the executives underscored the importance of higher-ambition goals, including engaging with and developing employee and customer... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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