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- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
companies will be explicit about their cooperation and under scrutiny from investors, regulators, and their own legal experts. “Similar to airlines cooperating by purchasing jets together in View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
country innovated in ways to minimize physical contact during the test procedure, such as drive-through and phone booth testing facilities, which protected both medical staff and other patients. These sites... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
the concept that results are the most important factor in evaluating performance, if someone leaves early or comes in late in order to take care of a family matter, it's a non-issue—as long as that person is... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
silently shift in response to actions taken, even though no overt negotiation takes place. Of course, if costly misunderstandings are to be avoided, it's normally in the parties' best interests to make their expectations explicit View Details
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
president of Morehouse. He had gone on from there to Crozer Theological Seminary, then elected to go north to Boston University to get his PhD, a very famous school at that time as well. He had married Coretta Scott and had a daughter.... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
If a chatbot can Slack convincingly in the boss’s voice, will employees follow orders once they realize the CEO is actually a machine? A novel two-part study finds that an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot trained to write like a... View Details
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
going it alone even more than the returns to partnering with local firms. The reasons are that the forces of globalization—particularly reduced trade costs leading to more fragmented production processes—are making it more and more... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
very moment, say Leonard and Swap, to wait, step back, and mull things over — or as they put it, "incubate." "A group that is hotly pursuing a tempting solution may need to be interrupted... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
operations. We finance these industries with private capital, set national and local regulations, encourage competition and discourage cartels in order to lower prices View Details
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
announcements by companies taking advantage of the U.S. economic slowdown to get rid of hiring mistakes, redundancies from previous mergers, stockpiled talent, and excess employees resulting from failed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
divisions of Big 5 professional service firms to separate themselves from their auditing colleagues in order to enable consultants to take equity positions in their clients' firms. Ilyas Naibov-Aylisli... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
COVID-19 will have on high-tech startups and entrepreneurs? Maria Roche: [Similarly,] COVID-19 may induce individuals who are most sensitive to labor market conditions to start new ventures in order to avoid... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
reviewed the past few years of dot.com madness, chaotic markets, and companies thrown asunder. Stevenson said that business is changing in fundamental ways and business leaders better start changing too.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
carry out their responsibility to represent the best interests of investors, who will?—James Heskett But Dr. Leslie Levy suggests that before we jump to conclusions, perhaps more information is needed. In particular, we should isolate the returns to various types of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
Everyone talks about how quickly business changes, yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. We take a behind-the-scenes look at five cases that are at least twenty years old, are still regularly taught... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
the media if the board didn't intervene. While it was clear who we could turn to for legal advice, and we had our own business sense to apply to the strategic and tactical implications of the situation, we... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
Programmers contribute to free software and open source projects for many reasons—some for the fun of it, some to improve their skills, others for a paycheck. Many people have wondered why these people give their work away. The truth is... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
issues. In short, it posits that when hired managers, or "agents," are faced with a conflict between their organization's best interests and their personal best interests, the agents will choose the latter. Therefore, the owners... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
customize products and respond to customers. Regional managers take responsibility for sales, product development, distribution, and manufacturing. As a consequence, the spans... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons