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  • 31 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

champion the project or serve as an information-gathering ambassador for it. James rarely recognized good work and, when he did, it was in a private—rather than public—setting. Over time, negative spirals... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

authentic—because they are—and have proven very good at garnering more fans. For instance, the Facebook pages for both Nutella and Coca-Cola were created, unsolicited, by actual fans. In both cases, the companies have encouraged these... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 30 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

activities that seem repugnant strike me as very similar to other activities that are not repugnant. The standard economist argument, which is a good one, is, "That could be a problem, but we can write laws against it. We're going to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jul 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

and limit ‘globalization’ to commercial terms To me, ‘globalization’ means increasing knowledge of how other people in the world live and think.” Doug Kinsey set forth a view shared more or less by many discussants when he said, “Sure, we’ve benefitted from... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 31 Jul 2017
  • HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

business is doing,” says Schlesinger. (An electronic point-of-sale register, purchased through a Vietnamese connection and installed in 2014, is rarely used, the case notes.) Furthermore, Than is more interested in protecting his cash... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
  • 30 Apr 2020
  • Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy
  • 25 May 2011
  • HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

benefits including health insurance, performance bonuses, and paid vacation—all relatively rare in the industry. Blueprint For Transformation The QuikTrip (QT) case, taught in the MBA course Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains, offers... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

disruptive innovation has gained considerable currency among practitioners despite widespread misunderstanding of its core principles. Similarly, foundational research on disruption has elicited frequent citation and vibrant debate in academic circles, but subsequent... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

Achiever, fills the senior executive ranks. These leaders rarely fail to achieve their goals and often exceed sales quotas, create generous profits, and are frequent stars at merit-award dinners. The Achiever, to use Peter Drucker's... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
  • 30 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

enough to make sound decisions, Eisenmann says. But deciding when to pull the plug is rarely easy. Here’s why: Failure happens slowly. A struggling business might limp along for months or even years, sometimes with small bursts of hope... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 13 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

“Crises offer rare opportunities to make major changes in an organization because they lessen the resistance that exists in good times.” "Leaders must be willing to ask for help," he continues.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

give the right holder a last-mover advantage. As we discuss in the paper, that conveys a lot of benefits: It allows the right holder to move in and take good deals if they become available to third parties. And if, as is often the case,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 22 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

How are they going to use it? What safeguards will patients in this new Amazon/One Medical health care have on how their data will be used? I would like regulators to think about and wrestle with that issue. “Amazon is good at selling... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health
  • 26 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

will get a bonus or greater respect from my peers or simply the confirmation that I am a good employee—so I will make choices to exhibit high levels of effort.” In some cases, tournament incentives are structured in such a way that when... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
  • 08 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

While some lessons can be learned by watching—a parent’s reaction after touching a hot stove can be a good lesson for a youngster on dangers in the kitchen—other lessons are harder to learn through observation alone. No matter how many... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 01 Oct 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

"fail to consider or know how to recognize what is outside their industry that is impacting their business (such as) customers who are buying their goods but don't fit the target profile, or alternative (product) uses Focus has a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Mar 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

hesitant. Yet sometimes, this is necessary. But when? You should fire your CEO under two of these three conditions: (1) there is a weak and unfixable fit between the CEO's skills and the needs of the company, (2) the CEO disrespects the core values of the company, and... View Details
  • 19 May 2021
  • Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

apprenticeships, internships, or work-based learning. That figure pales in comparison to other OECD countries like Germany or Switzerland, where 40-70 percent of students split their time between traditional school settings and learning in a workplace. Technical and... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
  • 05 Sep 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

they do not have a good hiring strategy. For decades, there have been books and articles about building engineering teams. The infamous book The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks should be on every software engineer and tech startup... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

able to realize the sales before the end of the quarter and thus fulfill their budget goal and make their bonuses. But the high cost of assembling the goods at a distant location—it required not only the rental of the warehouse but also... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
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