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Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets
policy makers, and scholars – engage in frank and meaningful dialogue with guest speakers on tough issues. What are the continuing obstacles to innovation in South Asia? How can businesses best navigate government bureaucracy in India?... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
circumstances," said Howson. "In China, regulators and shareholders are one and the same, but they're slowly separating. There's still some confusion of roles as to how privatized firms are supposed to act." "It's important to have a good joint... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
whether individuals could make a difference in laggard companies. She said one effective strategy for individuals is to back initiatives inside the company—everything from guest speakers to building prototype products—which raise the general education level. No View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
success. You try to enshrine your success. You build up bureaucratic processes to make sure you do things the same way next time," he said, adding that bureaucracy is the enemy of small companies that need to change quickly. Small... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
overcome the different bureaucracies we find in different countries," said Krone. "This sort of business has to be reconstructed in Europe according to the development of the markets and the new economy. "If we're not... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
School in the fall of 2008, he had been a US Army captain serving in Iraq, but it wasn't until his second year at HBS that a chance conversation directed him to a Veterans Administration program that ultimately paid for his MBA. Motivated by his personal inability to... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
board bureaucracy in China. Dissent is more likely to occur when the board chair who appointed the independent director has left the board. Dissent also tends to occur at the end of board "games," defined as a 60-day window... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Anthony Tan
trying to do and I don’t blame them,” Tan told the FT. Unlike many startups, Grab Taxi faced a raft of local issues, both logistical and political, that made his effort even more difficult. Dealing with unions, government View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
solid reputation for cutting through bureaucracy and red tape, and for getting things done,” Albright observes. “She is a dependable, no-nonsense person with excellent ideas, great determination, and incredible follow-through. Bonnie was... View Details
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
and people in the bureaucracy and government sometimes look askance at the private sector, believing them to be pursuing purely private gain." Nilekani is intent on keeping the UIDAI organization lean and mean, taking in only about... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
especially true if groupthink may in some ways be a means to a worthy end. In Moses' case, he would brook no contrary ideas in amassing the power needed to fight bureaucracy and red tape while he built parks and bridges that were the envy... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
transforming the company's long-standing bureaucracy into an integrated global network, starting with a "values jam" involving 300,000 employees over a 96-hour period. His article in the May/June 2006 edition of Foreign Affairs, The... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
board chairperson, who is at the center of the board bureaucracy in China. Dissent is more likely to occur when the chairperson who appointed the independent director has left the board. Dissent also tends to occur at the end of board... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
plus side of the ledger, tariff rates declined, leading to more competition and forcing Greek companies to compete internationally. Reducing bureaucracy also helped: time to export decreased from 20 to 16 days, according to the World... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
with Azure, acquiring LinkedIn in social media and Activision/Blizzard in gaming, and investing in OpenAI to gain control of ChatGPT. Equally important, he transformed the Microsoft culture from an arrogant bureaucracy into an empowered... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
India's economic prospects looked bright for a developing country—it had a well-trained government bureaucracy bequeathed by the British, a secure legal system, national railroads, and more advanced industry than, for example, China. Why... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
how it has emboldened them to consider stating a business, which they could never have dreamed of,” he says, adding that I Create has been awarded the “best partner” award by NFTE two years in a row. But the organization still faces challenges, including View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
System for Growth by Christina Wallace (MBA 2010) and David Kidder Currency Most established companies face a key survival challenge. Operational efficiency and outdated bureaucracy are at war with new growth. Legacy companies are skilled... View Details
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
for firm and board characteristics, we find that independent directors' dissent is associated with breakdown of social ties between the independent director and the board chairperson, who locates at the center of the board bureaucracy in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
business in India during the decades of the 1970s and 1980s. Bajaj Auto, the leading two-wheeler manufacturer in India, for a long period could do little to fight a slow-moving bureaucracy in a highly regulated country deeply suspicious... View Details