Writing - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

easier to achieve in a for-profit organization than in a comparable nonprofit," he writes in a recent working paper, "Philanthropic Social Capital Markets and Performance-Driven Philanthropy," and the most important reason is capital. "It... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

Why would a business school professor want to write a case study about a string quartet? The answer was easy for Robert Austin, a scholar with research expertise in the management of innovation. While attending an academic workshop near... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

talent to draw from, write the authors of a recent working paper titled Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups. This has important implications, says Shai Bernstein, an associate professor of business... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

course-development project in 1997. Writing cases on firms in China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, and Russia, she focused on businesses indigenous to each culture as well as multinationals moving between cultures. In addition, she... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

Design and Identity Change at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Both the design and identity of the FBI changed greatly in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, write Ranjay Gulati, Ryan Raffaelli, and Jan Rivkin. Their... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

reviews throughout the years indicated that overall product quality remained consistent post-merger. "Though goods become more similar, they do not consistently increase or decrease in quality level," Sheen writes in the paper,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

06 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

for nonprofit organizations and city planners, the researchers hope their study will provide a jumping-off point for broader discussion about the importance of location to organizational behavior. "The English language is expressive in this regard," they... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

patients finds the reality is much more complicated when it comes to languishing hospital bills. Canceling overdue medical debt on average does little or nothing to improve credit access, existing bill payment rates, or even mental health, researchers View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

15 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 15

than 350 interviews in 20 countries to identify the leadership practices and operating methods of major companies seeking profitable growth through innovation that benefits society. For example, when the tsunami and earthquake struck India in 2006, IBM did not just... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

attempts at managing these ”strategic paradoxes” fail because they’re not managed carefully and consistently. (It’s easy to write a great purpose statement or to dream up a new business model but way more difficult to follow through when... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

be able to relate to this as well. Put us in the context for this case. The protagonist it sounds like might be China itself? Bill: Well since my area is China, it's China in part. But I'm writing a book looking at the future of... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

writing some 75 comments have been submitted. Finally, I thought you would be interested in learning the most popular WK articles since we set up shop. You can see the results here. Thank you to our more than 2 million annual visitors who... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

reduced tax evasion and, in connection with other reforms, brought about high and sustainable economic growth. And the situation kept evolving throughout the course of writing the case; in 2006, the Slovaks elected a new government. In... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

host of social and political issues, from labor practices to environmental policies. In this context, hard charging and “command and control” are perhaps overly blunt instruments. I write and teach about individual leaders concerned with... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

02 Aug 2021
What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

believes that “all-remote scales even better than the traditional model the benefits of all-remote: writing down your processes, stimulating cross-company informal communication, they get more pronounced at scale.” Carmichael’s comment... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 May 2019
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud

the cost-plus contracts granted by approximately 14 percent in the eight quarters following the allegation, suggesting that fraud allegations have a significant impact on contract design, but not dollar volume,” write Heese and Perez... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Service; Construction

16 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

e-mail data that is sitting on almost every company's servers, and it is inexpensive to extract," says Stuart. "All it involves is someone to write a relatively simple set of scripts. It's a surprisingly small favor to supply... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

sellers, leaving people of color out of a crucial means of wealth building. The national dearth of minority loan officers is considerable. In 2019, just 15 percent of mortgage loan officers were minorities, compared to 39 percent of the total US population, View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

24 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 24

an IT functional manager, (2) recrafting the cases from multiple industries to include one industry, (3) integrating the key characters of monomyth hero's journey, and (4) writing the case dialogue for the protagonist, Jim Barton, hero's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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