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- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
how it can help us understand difference. Frei: I recommend that you bring together a group of people who are having challenges or feeling frustrated, center on them, and then ask them: What have you experienced or observed that is... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the autumn of 2001 to 74 foundation executives, CEOs, and expert observers of philanthropy. View All Related Resources Corporate Philanthropy Corporations can use their charitable efforts to improve their competitive context--the quality... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers
websites of hundreds of online retailers to track how they change over time. “What is distinguishing about our paper is that we observe prices not only at the border, but we can also see the impact in retail prices,” Cavallo says.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
2016.) “We tend to study innovation in terms of inputs like R&D spending or outcomes like patents,” says Gross, “but creativity is really about what happens in between. It’s really about this process of exploring new and untested ideas.” Peering inside that black... View Details
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
assuming all members of the team are pulling in the same direction. But what if they aren't? Can being exposed to intercultural conflicts and tensions have an impact even on observers who are not directly involved in these disharmonies?... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
fact the product of a sharp intellect and dozens of lessons learned over the course of a long career. "He's a street-smart guy, and he has this observational power. He had in mind designing the perfect company, which included the... View Details
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
Embodiments Of Ethnography Another way designers can gain fresh insights into their products is by observing consumers whose physical impediments make using them difficult. Engineers with Ford wore bodysuits that mimicked the vision and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
until they hit the right formula. In reality, that’s problematic, says Chung. “If you want to know if a compensation plan is working or not, you need to change the compensation plan and observe and measure the change in productivity,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Dissertation Summary
From a contractual viewpoint, the employment relations observed in the early 1960s in large unionized manufacturing firms in the U.S. and Japan represented two contrasting cases. Employment relations in the U.S. were based largely on explicit, elaborate, and... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- HBS Seminar
John Paul MacDuffie, Wharton
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
according to Forrester Research, a consulting firm specializing in e-commerce. Industry observers are shy to predict just what the future of advertising will look like, but they agree that the pace and enormity of changes that have come... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
3,000 pages of transcripts, it remains as the largest in-depth study of leaders ever conducted, based on first-person interviews. Having examined the literature containing more than 1,000 studies of leaders, most of which employed third-person approaches of View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
share that enthusiasm with a group that is also unlikely to fit the traditional insurance mold: people in their 20s, 30s, and even 40s. Terry, who worked in product management at Liberty Mutual for a dozen years, observes that life used... View Details
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
six stages provide leaders with a comprehensive, proven system for managing the development, planning, implementation, review, and adaptation of their strategies. We believe that our 18 years of observation and work with enterprises in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
it works." On the other hand, Kamal Gupta cited problems regarding pay transparency in observing that, "Indian law had mandated public sharing of employee compensation for all those drawing above a certain limit employees... View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
“They wanted both, but by structuring the standard task contract in a certain way, they are less likely to observe employee-initiated innovation.” Aligning incentives with expectations So, can companies motivate employees to focus on key... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 19 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control
awards. But a few savvy customers quickly noted that Unilever also markets skin-lightening cream (Fair & Lovely) and diet aids (Slim Fast.) They quickly spread their observations across the Web. Adding insult to injury, a company... View Details
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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni
as dozens of observers looked on. As outrage about his death rips across the city, General Mills’ CEO Jeff Harmening must decide what to say and do about this wrenching event in his company’s hometown. By exploring with Jeff how he... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
negotiation of safe paths through the complexities of official regulations and government. The easiest way to understand the Unilever organization, observed an article in the U.S. business magazine Fortune in 1947, was "to think of... View Details