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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
Although 40 percent of WPP's business still comes from the United States—a reflection of the continuing dominance of this country's multinationals and financial services firms—Sorrell's frequent visits to what he calls "faster growing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
taxpayers on the hook when things went bad. The upshot is that the nation’s largest financial institutions now live in a “heads I win, tails you lose” world of moral hazard. No wonder calls to end too big to fail have hit a fever pitch. At present, there are two View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
televisions. But Koç expanded the scope of the brand to include white goods also. That’s an attempt to break into markets that are firmly dominated by companies that have good reputations. Why would a Turkish business (Yildiz Holding) buy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
from these temporal inconsistencies, positing that the "should" self dominates during the prediction and recollection phases but that the "want" self is dominant during the critical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
York City, a nonprofit composed of some of the city’s largest private firms.) As a result, she is always on the lookout for sectors that the city ought to dominate but doesn’t. Eight years ago, the sector in Gotsch’s sights was fintech—a... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
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- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/picking_green_techs_winners_and_losers/ The New Psychology of Strategic Leadership Author:G. Gavetti Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2011) Abstract In this article, it is argued that today's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Multimedia Development | Information Technology
variations on the traditional HBS case study. These products contain powerful videos, graphics, and interactive elements that enable faculty and students to dive deeper into the challenges dominating the world today. The impact of the... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- News
Remembering William Wilder
Gundy, becoming executive vice president/EVP in 1961 at the age of 38, and six years later president and chief executive. Under his leadership, the firm played a dominant role in financing Canada’s big energy companies and their projects.... View Details
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
run on Microsoft’s Windows platform, was the dominant web browser in the 1990s until squashed by Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer. In February 2015 there was the launch of Meerkat, an app that lets users broadcast live streaming video... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction
time tweaking corporate America with this campaign, the scenario they describe is, in reality, impossible. First, let's understand why the plurality standard dominates director voting. Corporations' internal affairs, including the... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey
- 20 May 2019
- Blog Post
Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics
degree, Kenya dove into career research, confident that there was a cosmetics firm out there that would appreciate her ability to conduct R&D – a foot in the door that could lead to more advanced executive positions. She learned that two major firms View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- Web
Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity
Courtney McCluney Courtney L. McCluney is an assistant professor in organizational behavior at the ILR School at Cornell. Dr. McCluney’s research investigates marginalization, or practices within organizations, institutions, and society that maintain inequality between... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Carol Fishman Cohen (MBA 1985) On Getting Back into the Workforce
mom, work dominates my life now. I'm an empty-nester, so I have a lot of freedom to calibrate my schedule according to work priorities. I look at work/life balance over the course of a lifetime and not in the day-to-day or even the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
learn how to navigate a business world dominated by new technology. Thanks to even newer technologies that enable us to stream, store, and access everything digital, we now have at our disposal a new arsenal of techniques and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
are dominated by white men (approximately 85 percent, a number that has remained consistent for decades). "Since May 2016, the share of Americans who say race relations are getting worse increased from 38 percent to 44 percent."... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
great online giants. “Alibaba's only limits are those imposed by the speed at which these enterprises continue to grow” Still largely unknown in the West, Alibaba dominates China's Internet and logistics space with over 600 million... View Details
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
developing countries like China and India as they are in developed countries in Europe. What we didn't find was anti-American sentiment that colored judgments about U.S.-based global brands. Since American companies dominate the... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Mercadal “We use a detailed dataset on electricity transactions to investigate the impact of market-based deregulation in the context of the United States electricity sector. We find that the increase in markups dominates despite modest... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
dominant cultural traits and prevailing operating climate.” Anna Johnson recommended: “We need to flip the switch on dissent, delay, and accountability by enabling leadership to take a long view. Want to do better? Try asking your people... View Details