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- 16 Nov 2010
- News
Under Attack, Fed Officials Defend Buying of Bonds
A Sense of Urgency
Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his... View DetailsThe Academy of Fisticuffs
The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the eighteenth century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the nineteenth, they paradoxically... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
FT business books of the month: January edition
- February 2007 (Revised March 2012)
- Compilation
John D. Rockefeller and the Creation of Standard Oil
By: Nancy F. Koehn and Katherine Miller
Reconstructs the entrepreneurial journey of John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil and one of the most famous business figures in history. Traces his early career as a retailer in Cleveland through his decision to enter the oil industry in the early 1860s to his... View Details
- October 2018
- Case
Zenefits Board of Directors (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
In early 2018, the time seemed right for Zenefits investor and director Lars Dalgaard to reflect on whether Zenefits had the right board of directors to shepherd the company through its next stages of growth. For the company whose name combined the words “benefits,”... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Business Model; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Leadership; Risk Management; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; California
- 17 Jul 2017
- News
‘The Wisdom of Finance’, by Mihir Desai
- 23 Jul 2020
- News
The Long Game of Coronavirus Research
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
largest, most professionally managed global companies find it hard to predict the success of product launches, and can stumble badly. One estimate is that 90 percent of new fragrance launches fail. Getting... View Details
- June 2018
- Article
Personal and Social Usage: The Origins of Active Customers and Ways to Keep Them Engaged
By: Clarence Lee, Elie Ofek and Thomas Steenburgh
We study how digital service firms can develop an active customer base, focusing on two questions. First, how does the way that customers use the service postadoption to meet their own needs (personal usage) and to interact with one another (social usage) vary across... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
The Nobel Prize and the Making of a Heritage Brand
- July 1976
- Article
Effects of Externally-Imposed Deadlines on Subsequent Intrinsic Motivation
By: T. M. Amabile, W. DeJong and M. R. Lepper
Studied the effects of externally imposed deadlines on individuals' task performance and their subsequent interest in the task. In 1 deadline condition, 20 male undergraduates were given an explicit time limit for solving a series of initially interesting word games.... View Details
- 14 Sep 2017
- News
The Future of Retail Is Stores That Aren’t Stores
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
reminder of management's failure to translate its words into action. In the years that followed, Champion's management orchestrated one of the most effective organization... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- August 2005 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Young Minister Confronts the Challenges of Montgomery
By: William W. George, Rick Buhrman and Andrew N. McLean
As the Montgomery Bus Boycott starts, the young Martin Luther King Jr. faces challenges to his leadership goals, strategic vision, and personal and family safety. Makes extensive use of King's own words and writings and builds a portrait of a young, talented, and... View Details
- March 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Blogging at BzzAgent
BzzAgent is a word-of-mouth marketing firm. The founder, Dave Balter, sees blogs as an important way to communicate BzzAgent's unique positioning: transparency. He sees the firm's blog--the BeeLog--as a way for the firm to participate in conversations with clients,... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Beyond Agency Theory: The Hidden and Heretofore Inaccessible Power of Integrity (PDF file of Keynote Slides)
By: Michael C. Jensen and Werner Erhard
There is far too much concern today about the conflicts of interest between people; for example, conflicts of interest between agents and owners—historically a favorite topic of Jensen—and not enough attention paid to the damage caused by an individual's conflict of... View Details