Tools - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

be achieved if the Argentine society underwent a cultural transformation, setting solidarity as a core shared value. Its association with the prestigious newspaper La Nación served as a valuable tool in attaining such an objective; it was... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

trillion-dollar plans to attempt to mitigate carbon. Businesses, homeowners, and local governments must focus on what can be done today to address these direct threats to people and property. There are three major tools in the “what to do... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

conflicts single-handedly, arbitrating disputes as they arose. “These ad hoc interventions allowed him to temporarily relieve tensions and provided fixes to immediate issues,” the researchers explain in the paper. “However, they did not equip staff members with the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

by two common forces. First, there must be an advantage to connecting two different places—Christopher Columbus's desire to link European markets to Chinese silks, say, or Silicon Valley's desire for cheaper programming talent in India. Second, a global company needs... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

06 Nov 2012
Op-Ed

Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities

The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

(personal and individual) biases and all becomes 'rational' again for management purposes." Ron Palmer observed that the discussion "adds weight to the ideas that we need new and better tools for managing complexity ." Tony... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

the trial runs. Technology: Use necessary technological tools to support assigned roles in crisis management, ensuring seamless operation and coordination, such as different modes of communication and documentation on and off the primary... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

breeze about a trendy new third-party tool over a game of Super Smash Bros. in the breakroom. “In most software hackathons, the formal competition aspect is really just a façade to put everyone in a time-bound and high-energy environment.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

returns. Digital advertising provides marketers with renewed opportunity to measure advertising effectiveness. Economists draw on both existing theories of advertising and the tools of econometrics to test and evaluate advertising... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

21 May 2018
HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

make some of the building tools themselves because commercial ones aren’t precise enough. Every watch is hand assembled, twice, in the German workshop. When the first assembly is complete (and working fine), the watch is taken apart,... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

29 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

from ordinances regulating limos and taxis. The company even allegedly built a digital tool that would alert staff when code enforcers were on the way.) Kanter says the same disrespect shown for authorities on the outside seemed to seep... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

22 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

spend more than $800 billion annually on those efforts. Sales compensation plans are at the center of all this activity, the primary tool managers use to motivate and incentivize salespeople. Sales reps feed on two forms of compensation:... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

to several of the responses. As Carl X. Parks put it, "Organizations can utilize tools from Google's best practices to enhance or redevelop their own (where applicable). But as a whole, this may not always be directly transferable to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

companies a clear view of risks to and opportunities in their own strategy. Second, One Report speaks with one voice to all stakeholders, who can even engage with the company via Web 2.0 tools and technologies. One Report is thus an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Jul 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?

Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

boundaries and property rights in a technical system. Bottlenecks are points of value creation and capture in any complex man-made system. The tools a firm can use to manage bottlenecks are first, an understanding of the modular structure... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

these efforts. Executives too often rely on intuition, imperfect assumptions, or their own experiences to make decisions without scrutinizing the data, Luca says. While data has gained prominence in many organizations, numbers can only take a business so far if... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

30 May 2019
What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

internet and the next generation of the World Wide Web. In this management world of the future, “everyone has a voice, the tools of creativity are widely distributed, capability counts for more than credentials and titles, commitment is... View Details