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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
challenge after another. "Take India, for example," she says. "How do you get people who use twigs to brush their teeth to trade up to something as alien as toothpaste?" (The answer, she explains, is through grassroots education and... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- Web
Introduction - The Worker - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Affirming the role of the employee, then, became part of a growing trend in management as a way to inspire collaboration and reduce alienation experienced in the repetitive nature of standardized working conditions. Elton Mayo, professor... View Details
- 26 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
“Uncertainty Makes It More Interesting.”
he reported directly to the CEO.” More importantly, he got the exclusive rights to one of 3G’s investments: ownership of the Tim Hortons chain in Mexico. With the capital raised, the plan was “to build aggressively” in an alien... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
be contempt for the whole category. Scorn the non-buyer. Trump alienated the marginal customer. He forgets that today’s brand rejecter may be tomorrow’s opportunity, but not if the marketing campaign has cruelly cut the market into... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Deighton
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
shed employees, assets, and noncore businesses. Often, these measures lead to the loss of valuable resources, alienation of key customers, and erosion of capabilities for the longer term. This makes the firm less competitive and probably... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
decision-making. “If you are able to achieve it, consensus works best because there are no losers, and people don’t feel alienated from the organization,” Whitehead explained. But he acknowledged that consensus isn’t always realistic, as... View Details
- 14 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant
underestimated a relentless backlash that unwound the deal. While politics and steel are not alien to each other, there is nothing in Tata-Corus like the level of political concern in the CNOOC-Unocal situation. Second, TCL acquired... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
against an attractive but relatively unknown candidate. The alternative of crafting a distinct, positive image takes longer and becomes more difficult as the day of judgment approaches. Policy differences grow fuzzier as both candidates try not to View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
Meow Wolf is headed that way, too. A wildly popular arts and entertainment company with more than 2 million visitors a year, across three locations, Meow Wolf started in 2008 as decidedly offline. The founders were a group of artists who felt View Details
- 11 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers
alienated from the organization and may leave. The lack of policies to support employees' personal lives in this new model, such as high-quality on-site day care, also has negative consequences. Remote workers who may have been willing to... View Details
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
the risk of alienating employees and potential recruits who don’t hold the same beliefs. Activism can present an even more significant risk in terms of how customers will respond. Lessons for managers The results suggest that CEOs must... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
articles from the Wall Street Journal and The Economist they learn about "decision rights" and alienability and how these institutional devices solve the control problems in a capitalist society. The second portion of the course,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
becoming increasingly aware that the viability of your business depends on dealing with climate change issues. But in the United States it can be politically risky for a CEO of a major company to take a public position on climate change that could View Details
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
fail, further alienating the public. Reversing this loss of trust will require a concerted effort to develop a new generation of responsible leaders. No longer can leaders be chosen strictly for their abilities. In the future they must... View Details
- Blog
Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
flow of the cases, the carefully selected people in your cohort, the diverse population of backgrounds, professions, and regions shaping the discussion. Be open to connecting: "networking" in virtual programs takes a level of willingness and intent, it is somehow View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
their own risks like the risks of not acting, of failed initiatives, or of alienating shareholders focused on short-term results? Bower and Paine: Those are very different risks. The risk of not acting when the threat is a weakened dam is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
and insightful, it needs to be rolled out through student organizations (clubs, the Greek system, etc.) and funded by nonprofits or grants. Another choice would be a freemium model, but that will be difficult to do without alienating the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
watched quietly as the finalists defended earth from pixelated aliens on their television screens. “‘Fweep, fweep, fweep,’ went the lasers. ’Krch, krch, krch,’ went the doomed invaders,” the Associated Press reported from one of the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
reason–people tend to form brand preferences when they’re young. Young consumers who are alienated by a perception of corporate support for Trump might be lost for a lifetime, not just an administration. “A company that is seen as... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
Kinney expressed the view that the Government’s recent success in employing hackers to break the phone’s code “relieves Apple of a somewhat alienating position. The time that it took to do it (and one might add the cost of more than $1.3... View Details