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03 Jun 2002
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

is described in a new book by Will Hutton, titled The World We're In (Little, Brown, 2002), from which excerpts (emailed to me by a U.K. manager) were published in England's Guardian newspaper last month. First, work less but work... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

researchers measured changes in people’s attitudes before, during, and after protests on a variety of topics, including environmental protection, gender equality, gun control, immigration, national and international politics, and racial issues. In a working paper View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s Men and Women of the Corporation, published 41 years ago this year, has inspired and informed a generation of scholars studying gender, status, and power. The book is full of insights and concepts that have become... View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

08 Sep 2011
What Do You Think?

What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

years from now? What is Apple's post-Jobs future? What do you think? Jim Heskett's latest book,The Culture Cycle, was published in September. Original Article Discussions of management succession have been triggered once again in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

02 Sep 2010
What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

severance package of the CEO." To the extent possible, these actions would presumably be carried out quietly. While maintaining that the CEO should go, others recommended a more quiet approach, neither imposing a firing for cause nor View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

States Interests and Revolution in Latin America, published in 1970, Lodge argued that "development equals change of a systemic nature because it involves reallocation of power." This volume inspired the U.S. Congress to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

wagon, so what?" Fumbling the Future was published in 1988, and the impact of this book reverberated throughout Xerox, stimulating many responses. As the story was recounted in the business and financial press, PARC's technological... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

Published since 1979 by the World Economic Forum, the Global Competitiveness Report ranks seventy-five countries and measures the comparative strengths and weaknesses of their economies. At a press conference announcing publication of the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

permission from Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy by Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana, and Dominique Méda and translated by Miranda Richmond Mouillot, published by the University of Chicago Press. © 2022 by the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Market Research Meets the “People Factor”

results will actually be used. This study is described in Zaltman and Deshpandé's essay "The Use of Market Research: An Exploratory Study of Manager and Researcher Perspectives," which appears in the recently published book,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

health care by employers will result in a more cost-effective and efficient system. Participants submitted papers that were read in advance of the conference. These papers will be edited by Herzlinger and published later this year in a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712447-PDF-ENG Caijing Magazine (A) Karthik Ramanna and G.A. DonovanHarvard Business School Case 112-028 In late 2009, Wang Boming, publisher of Caijing Magazine, widely regarded as China's most... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF),... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

02 Apr 2019
Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

long-work-hours culture was detrimental to both women and men, but women paid a higher price,” says the article, Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense against the 24/7 Work Culture, View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service

08 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

favor of the client, criminal cases in which advisors were found guilty, and any firing for cause. The findings are contained in the forthcoming paper The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct, scheduled to be published in the Journal... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

03 Apr 2006
What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

powerful as, and less responsible than, the countries in which they operated. Now the focus of interest seems to be different, if one believes the author of a book published several months ago, End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers

jointly decide to donate their bodies to science after they die. In Individuals' Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii, published online by the Public Library of Science, the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

a home, and achieve some level of success, security, and happiness. But how does this vision change in parts of the world where property rights, if they are present at all, are threatened by weak law enforcement, corruption, crime, and arbitrary government policy? In a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

productivity. During an editor's tenure, his current university colleagues publish about 100% more papers in the editor's journal, compared to years when he was not editor. In contrast to editorial nepotism, such "inside"... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

a viable business model. In building this model, Bezos has revolutionized many aspects of the book-selling and distribution process, and with his introduction of the Kindle, he has become an even more influential figure in the overall View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

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