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- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Putting the Project Puzzle Together
McFarlan: Fifty percent of all capital investment today is being done in IT projects. The way this money is spent deeply impacts the organization's future. It is because of the size of investment as a percentage of capital expenditure that aligning the IT project... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
achieve personal growth and success, details strategies for embracing struggle, and offers tools and practices to help implement them. Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership... View Details
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
protect local businesses from the crushing competition of "big-box" stores. But it turns out such rules often backfire, according to research by Raffaella Sadun, an assistant professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business... View Details
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
programs with mental health, companies can both address stigmas and provide coping strategies to address issues before they become chronic problems. Johnson & Johnson has created a culture in which employees are welcome to use the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
1990s, NASA had implemented a program called "Faster, Better, Cheaper," (FBC) which involved making fundamental changes to the way the organization developed unmanned spacecraft. It was a massive organizational transformation... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at traditional strategy-consulting firms,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
of implementing such a broad definition, support the idea of sustainability as the integration—and intersection—of social, environmental, and economic responsibilities that are borne by managers. In for-profit organizations these... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
added Suraj Srinivasan, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Pursuing a digital strategy is an especially valuable source of differentiated value creation by PE funds.” Yet digital... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Spring 2018 Journal of Cold War Studies The Enemy of My Enemy: The Soviet Union, East Germany, and the Iranian Tudeh Party's Support for Ayatollah Khomeini By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article examines the strategy of the Iranian... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
today's managers are trying to implement third-generation strategies through second-generation organizations with first-generation management. In an earlier study we analyzed the evolution of CEO Jack... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
improve these skills. Constructing a unique dataset consisting of weekly attendance records for 1,179 students, we find that approximately 25% of learners stop attending these programs in the first 10 weeks and that average attendance rates deteriorate by 20% in that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
Manufacturers generally classify products in terms of broad product lines, developing a single marketing strategy and production plan for each line. That makes sense for marketing, but it's a mistake for production. Different SKUs... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
scope of his thinking: You can’t talk about success and strategy without also understanding purpose, they said. Gulati was skeptical. But he decided to explore it, and in conversations with leaders like Blackrock CEO Larry Fink and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
One problem was that Rakuten offered little initial training or support to workers, who were expected to pay for their own English classes and learn the language during off-hours. Neeley, who drafted some best practices that the company began to View Details
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Funa Maduka
want to be loaded down with new policy ideas, but wanted to learn how to implement them, how to incent others to follow." "The section experience is management in a microcosm," says Funa. "You're in a classroom with... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
the School, I think I might have failed at Kohl's. I learned how to devise and implement a strategy and, most important, about the importance of working well with people. What was your View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
organizational contexts and provides practical strategies for changing your decision-making processes and improving these processes so that they become part of your permanent behavior. Throughout, you'll find numerous hands-on decision... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
corresponding example of actual implementation. But we’re pluralistic, not rigidly prescriptive. We don’t say that every school must pursue every goal. Using the wide range of examples that we provide, they will all have to figure out their own View Details
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
strategies adopted to date. What we are experiencing in California and elsewhere may be a massive "on-the-job training" exercise that will lead to better-informed efforts to implement deregulation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
pursued an aggressive strategy of prosecutions and publicity against salary lenders. But they eventually realized that working people could not do without a source of quick cash in times of personal crisis, and their goals changed from... View Details